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Spacecraft with large solar panels flies in front of Jupiter
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Clipper Sets Sail for an Ocean Millions of Miles Away

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 11 October 202415 October 2024

Europa Clipper will assess whether Jupiter’s moon has the right ingredients to host life, and could illuminate the mysteries of icy worlds throughout the solar system.

An artist’s depiction of the LCROSS mission, in which a hexagonal spacecraft, seen from behind, ejects a white cylindrical body to land on the Moon’s south pole.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Fifteen Years Later, Scientists Locate a Lunar Impact Site

by Nathaniel Scharping 9 October 202415 October 2024

The impact crater from NASA’s LCROSS mission lies hidden in an eternally dark region of the Moon.

Illustration showing several green lasers reaching from a satellite down to the edge of an ice shelf floating in the water under a dark sky.
Posted inFeatures

Data to Decisions: Changing Priorities for Earth Observations

by Molly E. Brown, Aimee Neeley and Thomas Neumann 5 September 202414 January 2025

NASA is updating how it designs and implements Earth science missions to ensure their data and science reach users and decisionmakers faster and more effectively.

Researcher Matthew R. Siegfried uses a laptop in a frigid, if sunny, Antarctic landscape.
Posted inOpinions

Democratizing Science in the Cloud

by Wilson Sauthoff, Tasha Snow, Joanna D. Millstein, James Colliander and Matthew R. Siegfried 30 August 202419 December 2024

CryoCloud opens scientific research and education to a broader range of cryosphere researchers with a cloud-based interactive computing environment, training, and community support.

A man and a woman are seen from behind; both of them are looking at large screens showing black and white images of a rocky surface.
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A Binary Asteroid System Gets Its Geological Close-Up

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 29 August 202429 August 2024

Researchers are learning more about the geology and evolution of the binary asteroid system Didymos from high-resolution imagery collected by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission.

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Impact of NASA’s GDC Measurements on Predicting Earth’s Upper Atmosphere

by Astrid Maute 14 August 202414 August 2024

A new study finds that assimilating observations of the ionosphere and thermosphere reduces the error in model predictions more than modeling either one individually.

Images of 3 craters.
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Unveiling the Origins of Dome Craters on Ganymede and Callisto

by Kelsi Singer 23 July 202422 July 2024

Large craters with broad central domes are a unique crater morphology on Jupiter’s largest icy moons: Ganymede and Callisto. A new study examines how remnant impact heat may lead to their formation.

Uranus as seen with the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam.
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A Mission to Uranus Requires a Community-Building Effort on Earth

by Erin J. Leonard, Mark Hofstadter, Naomi Rowe-Gurney, Jamie M. Jasinski and David Atkinson 23 July 202423 July 2024

Planning the first mission to Uranus since the 1980s offers an opportunity to build a diverse, interdisciplinary team that spans generations.

2017 NASA astronaut candidates and their field instructors hike as a team. at Meteor Crater in Arizona.
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The Art of Doing Fieldwork on the Moon

Mark Betancourt, Freelance Journalist by Mark Betancourt 23 May 202412 August 2024

How ­early-career planetary scientists are preparing to support the astronauts who will return to the lunar surface and beyond.

A global thermal map of Enceladus.
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Strike-Slip Faults Could Drive Enceladus’s Jets

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 29 April 202429 April 2024

The back-and-forth motion could also reshape surface geology at the moon’s south pole.

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