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  • Sols 4486-4487: Ankle-Breaking Kind of Terrain!
    Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025  This terrain is a tricky drive, with rocks angled chaotically …
  • Shocking Spherules!
    Written by Alex Jones, Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College London Last week the Perseverance Science Team were astonished by a strange rock comprised of hundreds of millimeter-sized spheres… and the t …
  • CAS Discovery and Foresight
    Convergent Aeronautics Solutions (CAS) Discovery identifies problems worth solving for the benefit of all. We formulate “convergent” problems—across multiple disciplines and sectors—and build foothold …
  • NASA to Launch Three Rockets from Alaska in Single Aurora Experiment
    Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of Eart …
  • NASA Reveals Semifinalists of Power to Explore Challenge
    NASA has selected the 45 semifinalists of the Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes.
  • Making Ripples
    A dolphin swims through the water in the Launch Complex 39 Area turn basin at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 6, 2007. The turn basin was carved out of the Banana River when NASA …
  • NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York
    Students from Richmond Hill, New York,will have the chance to connect with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-r …
  • NASA’s Artemis II Orion Service Module Buttoned Up for Launch
    Technicians with NASA and Lockheed Martin fitted three spacecraft adapter jettison fairing panels onto the service module of the agency’s Orion’s spacecraft. The operation completed on Wednesday, Marc …
  • NASA to Cover Northrop Grumman’s 21st Cargo Space Station Departure
    After delivering more than 8,200 pounds of supplies, scientific investigations, commercial products, hardware, and other cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA and its international partners, North …
  • 3D Printing: Saving Weight and Space at Launch
    Science in Space March 2025 Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is regularly used on the ground to quickly produce a variety of devices. Adapting this process for space could let crew m …