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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.

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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.

Students discuss the design of the International Satellite Program in Research and Education Satellite-1.
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Training and Diversifying Space Project Principal Investigators

by D. N. Baker and B. Jakosky 15 November 20193 November 2022

NASA and its partner organizations are working on several fronts to remove barriers to entry into space mission leadership positions.

An image of a solar flare in extreme ultraviolet
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Virtual Super Instrument Enhances Solar Spacecraft

Nola Taylor Redd, Science Writer by Nola Taylor Tillman 1 November 201921 February 2023

The same algorithms that help control self-driving cars and speech-to-text functionality have helped build a virtual instrument to study the Sun.

False-color composite image of the landscape near Noatak, Alaska, showing 3 of 425 spectral bands of NASA’s AVRIS-NG
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Watching Earth’s Interconnected Systems at Work

by F. D. Schneider, A. Ferraz and D. Schimel 31 October 201931 March 2023

Surface Biology and Geology, a new NASA Earth observation effort, is developing a path forward for monitoring the Earth system from space.

Maps showing flooding near Houston after Hurricane Harvey in 2017
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Future Remote Sensing Mission Holds Promise for Flood Monitoring

by Valeriy Ivanov 28 October 20191 December 2022

The 2021 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will measure water surface elevation, slopes, and inundations of rivers as narrow as 50 meters.

Bullet-shaped spaceship lands on Mars
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Modern Planet Protection Rules Recommended and Welcomed

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 22 October 201918 January 2022

Protocols for the Moon and Mars, human exploration, ocean worlds, and the private sector are all due for a major overhaul.

An illustration of the Sun within the heliosheath encountering the interstellar medium
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What Inflates the Solar Bubble? Voyagers Count What’s Missing

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 17 October 201916 November 2021

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.

Observed ion energy and time-of-flight spectra in Jupiter's northern and southern hemisphere
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First Inside Look at Hot and Cold Ions in Jupiter’s Ionosphere

by A. Yau 23 September 201911 August 2022

The first in-situ ion observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal the surprising, simultaneous presence of cold protons and hot oxygen and sulfur ions in the high-latitude ionosphere of Jupiter.

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