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Members of the Perseverance Mars rover team working in the time of COVID-19, either at home (some with family members) or masked in the Mars mission control room
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A Bad Time for Mars Time

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 17 February 20215 January 2022

Thanks to COVID-19, mission control for the Perseverance Mars rover will look emptier than previous missions, and fewer scientists and engineers will follow the rover’s schedule.

Illustration of the spacecraft of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission in space in front of reconnecting magnetic field lines
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Spacecraft Reveal New Details of Magnetic Reconnection

by Morgan Rehnberg 15 February 202118 July 2023

Energetic electrons are accelerated directly by magnetic reconnections and can act as tracers of large-scale magnetic field conditions.

Plot showing measured magnetic field on Juno as a function of frequency and time on 29 May 2019
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Radio on Jupiter, Brought to You by Ganymede

by Andrew Yau 25 January 202127 January 2022

Another first from NASA’s Juno spacecraft: the detection of Jupiter radio emissions influenced by the moon Ganymede, over a range of about 250 kilometers in the polar region of Jupiter.

Iceberg that has broken off from the Antarctic ice sheet
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Gravity Data Reveal Unexpected Antarctic Ice Variations

by S. Melchor 7 December 20206 September 2022

A new analysis of long-term satellite records shows the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is unexpectedly dependent on fluctuations in weather. This study may improve models of how much sea levels will rise.

Researchers conduct magnetic measurements of a meteorite at the Smithsonian Museum Support Center.
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Measuring Massive Magnetic Meteorites

by Andrew J. Wight 4 November 202015 November 2022

A new tool to measure the magnetic signatures of big meteorites could not only aid NASA’s mission to Psyche; it could also help solve mysteries about how magnetic fields formed in our early solar system.

Image of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons flyby in July 2015
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Final Frontier? The Evolution of Planetary Science Missions

by K. Broendel 12 October 20204 October 2021

Planetary scientist Fran Bagenal explains how each NASA mission builds on previous discoveries and encourages scientists to take on difficult challenges to learn more about our home in the universe.

A 2D drawing of Jupiter’s magnetosphere in the noon-midnight meridional plane
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A Whistle Here, There, and Everywhere on the Giant Planet

by Andrew Yau 27 August 202010 March 2022

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.

Nancy Grace Roman stands in front of a scale model of the Hubble Space Telescope
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New Space Telescope Named for Nancy Roman, Astronomy Pioneer

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 21 May 202026 January 2022

Nancy Grace Roman’s namesake telescope will search for distant worlds and the earliest galaxies.

A pink and green nebula with bright blue stars
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Five Spitzer Discoveries About Solar Systems Near and Far

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 30 January 202010 January 2023

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.

The Curiosity rover sits on the surface of Mars on 12 May 2019.
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Curiosity Rover Reveals Oxygen Mystery in Martian Atmosphere

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 25 November 201924 April 2024

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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