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- Sols 4304-4006: 12 Years, 42 Drill Holes, and Now… 1 Million ChemCam Shots!on 13 September 2024 at 9:24 pm
Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 13, 2024 Today, I need to talk about ChemCam, our laser and imaging instrument on the top of Curiosity’s mast. It one of the instruments in the “head” that gives Curiosity that cute look as if it were looking around tilting its head down to the rocks at the rover’s
- NASA Ames Selects Aeronautics and Exploration Support Contractorby Roxana Bardan on 13 September 2024 at 7:59 pm
NASA has awarded the NASA Academic Mission Services 2 (NAMS-2) contract to Crown Consulting Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, to provide the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, aeronautics and exploration technology research and development support. NAMS-2 is a single award hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum potential value of $121 million.
- Waxing Gibbous Moon over Minnesotaby Monika Luabeya on 13 September 2024 at 6:29 pm
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped this picture of the Moon as the station orbited 265 miles above the U.S. state of Minnesota on Dec. 17, 2021. Astronauts aboard the orbital lab take images using handheld digital cameras, usually through windows in the station’s cupola, for Crew Earth Observations. Crew members have produced
- NASA’s Lunar Challenge Participants to Showcase Innovations During Awardsby Jessica Taveau on 13 September 2024 at 5:52 pm
Editor’s note: This media advisory was updated Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, with a correct phone number for the media contact at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. NASA‘s Watts on the Moon Challenge, designed to advance the nation’s lunar exploration goals under the Artemis campaign by challenging United States innovators to develop breakthrough power transmission and energy
- Sols 4302-4303: West Side of Upper Gediz Vallis, From Tungsten Hills to the Next Rocky Waypointon 13 September 2024 at 5:38 pm
Earth planning date: Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024 The rover is on its way from the Tungsten Hills site to the next priority site for Gediz Vallis channel exploration, in which we plan to get in close enough for arm science to one of the numerous large dark-toned “float” blocks in the channel and also to
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- Don’t miss Saturn at opposition by Mark Armstrong on 2 September 2024 at 11:14 am
Ringed-world Saturn comes to opposition on 8 September, offering its best observing circumstances for the year.
- Observe Mercury at its morning bestby Mark Armstrong on 27 August 2024 at 5:59 pm
The elusive, innermost planet pulls to maximum elongation from the Sun to put on its best showing of the year in the pre-dawn sky.
- Open clusters Messier 29 and 39: Cygnus’ star citiesby Mark Armstrong on 26 August 2024 at 9:55 am
Amid all the wonderful nebulae that Cygnus has to offer lie Messier 29 and 39, two fine open clusters which are both easily visible through a pair of binoculars against a marvellous Milky Way backdrop as they ride high on late summer nights.
- Moon pesters the Pleiadesby Mark Armstrong on 23 August 2024 at 9:48 am
Some of the most spectacular observing events tale place when the Moon’s around, most gloriously when it lines us perfectly over the Sun, producing a total eclipse of the Sun.
- The brilliant Wild Duck Clusterby Steve Kelly on 21 August 2024 at 9:43 am
The Wild Duck Cluster in Scutum, known also Messier 11 and NGC 6705, is a deep-sky showpiece of the summer sky as one of the most spectacular open clusters in the heavens.