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Portal origin URL: Chandra Rewinds Story of Great Eruption of the 1840sPortal origin nid: 489186Published: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 - 13:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A new time-lapse sequence shows Eta Carinae as it changes over time from 1999 to 2020.Portal image: The Eta Carinae star...
Portal origin URL: First Long-Duration Lidar Satellite Mission CALIPSO EndsPortal origin nid: 489165Published: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 - 12:15Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: CALIPSO, a lidar satellite that advanced the world’s understanding of climate, weather and air quality, ended its scientific mission August 1 after 17 years of...
Portal origin URL: Arctic Sea Ice 6th Lowest on Record; Antarctic Sees Record Low GrowthPortal origin nid: 489173Published: Monday, September 25, 2023 - 15:44Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent on September 19, 2023, making it the 6th lowest year in the satellite recordPortal image: A lone...
Portal origin URL: NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean RoomPortal origin nid: 489167Published: Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 17:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer)...
Portal origin URL: Hubble Peers at Peculiar Galactic Pair Portal origin nid: 489094Published: Friday, September 22, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This image taken using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) shows Arp 107, a celestial object that includes a pair of galaxies in the midst of a...
Portal origin URL: NASA Invites Public to Share Excitement of Asteroid Sample ReturnPortal origin nid: 489097Published: Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 13:38Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA is inviting the public to take part in virtual activities ahead of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and...
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Lunar Explorer Instrument for space biology Applications (LEIA)
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An autonomous microfluidic culturing system with CubeSat heritage teams up with two state-of-the-art radiation detectors to measure how biology responds to the radiation and reduced gravity environment on the lunar surface.
A LEIA card stack: a fluidic card with microwells for yeast growth, sandwiched by...
This tiny white dot was the first comet discovered by then-teenager Quanzhi Ye in 2005, looking at images from the LASCO C3 telescope on the joint ESA-NASA SOHO spacecraft. Credit: ESA/NASA/NRL. Image processing by Karl Battams.
In 2005, high school student Quanzhi Ye reported the discovery of a tiny "sungrazing" comet via the NASA-funded Sungrazer Citizen Science Project. It was the...
Portal origin URL: Venus on Earth: NASA’s VERITAS Science Team Studies Volcanic IcelandPortal origin nid: 489066Published: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 14:15Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The JPL-led international team used the island as a stand-in for Venus to test radar technologies that will help uncover the planet’s ground truth.Portal...
Portal origin URL: Water-Watching Satellite Monitors Warming Ocean off California CoastPortal origin nid: 489065Published: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 13:16Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission is able to measure ocean features, like El Niño, closer to a coastline than previous space-based...