NASA’s Juno spacecraft is “hearing whistles” all over the place on Jupiter, a type of natural plasma waves called whistlers that are sometimes associated with atmospheric lightning.
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New Space Telescope Named for Nancy Roman, Astronomy Pioneer
Nancy Grace Roman’s namesake telescope will search for distant worlds and the earliest galaxies.
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Five Spitzer Discoveries About Solar Systems Near and Far
The powerful infrared space telescope is powering down after 16 years. It has revolutionized our understanding of solar systems, including hidden surprises in our own.
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Curiosity Rover Reveals Oxygen Mystery in Martian Atmosphere
An air-sampling study has captured long-term trends in the concentrations of five key atmospheric gases for the first time.
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Training and Diversifying Space Project Principal Investigators
NASA and its partner organizations are working on several fronts to remove barriers to entry into space mission leadership positions.
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Virtual Super Instrument Enhances Solar Spacecraft
The same algorithms that help control self-driving cars and speech-to-text functionality have helped build a virtual instrument to study the Sun.
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Watching Earth’s Interconnected Systems at Work
Surface Biology and Geology, a new NASA Earth observation effort, is developing a path forward for monitoring the Earth system from space.
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Future Remote Sensing Mission Holds Promise for Flood Monitoring
The 2021 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will measure water surface elevation, slopes, and inundations of rivers as narrow as 50 meters.
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Modern Planet Protection Rules Recommended and Welcomed
Protocols for the Moon and Mars, human exploration, ocean worlds, and the private sector are all due for a major overhaul.
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What Inflates the Solar Bubble? Voyagers Count What’s Missing
The first in situ measurement of the pressure at the edge of the solar system reveals that there’s still a lot we don’t know about what sets the size of the heliosphere.