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A student takes notes in Arctic Alaska.
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Testing on the Tundra: NASA Snow Program Heads North

by J. Besl 27 July 202122 October 2021

With infrastructure, experience, and a slice of the world’s largest snow biomes, Alaska is an essential research destination for NASA’s multiyear SnowEx campaign.

A close-up view of the grid of hexagonal golden mirrors that make up the primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope.
Posted inFeatures

Overture to Exoplanets

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 26 July 202126 April 2022

The curtain is about to rise on the James Webb Space Telescope. Let’s see what’s in store for its opening act.

A photograph of a plane flying over mountain glaciers in Alaska
Posted inEditors' Vox

Wheels Down for NASA’s Operation IceBridge

by J. A. MacGregor, L.N. Boisvert and B. Medley 25 June 202129 September 2021

Over a 13-year period, almost a thousand flights surveyed land and sea ice across the Arctic, Antarctic, and Alaska, providing unique insights into how the polar regions are changing.

A new population of highly energetic ions has been discovered at midlatitudes within the inner edge of Jupiter’s relativistic electron belt.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Juno Detects Jupiter’s Highest-Energy Ions

by Morgan Rehnberg 17 June 202127 January 2022

Trapped ions discovered at midlatitudes can have energies exceeding 100 megaelectron volts per nucleon. Their detection adds to our understanding of the powerful radiation environment around Jupiter.

Illustration of the Wind spacecraft in front of the magnetosphere that surrounds Earth.
Posted inEditors' Vox

Wind: Discoveries and Impacts of a Venerable Spacecraft

by L.B. Wilson III 18 May 202127 January 2022

Wind has been one of the most robust, diverse, long-lasting, and impactful heliophysics missions ever to have been carried out.

Illustration of MAIA instrument’s multiangle views over the globe
Posted inNews

Using Satellite Data to Map Air Pollution and Improve Health

by Jackie Rocheleau 15 April 20211 November 2021

NASA scientists will be teaming up with epidemiologists in the agency’s first health-focused mission. With satellite data, they’ll find out how air pollution affects health in cities around the world.

Polar projections of the UV aurora showing four phases of a Jovian dawn storm
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Dawn Storms at Jupiter

by M. Hudson 16 March 202127 January 2022

Juno spacecraft observations provide the first global description of dawn storms in Jupiter’s aurorae, from their initiation to their end.

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

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.

Plot showing measured magnetic field on Juno as a function of frequency and time on 29 May 2019
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Radio on Jupiter, Brought to You by Ganymede

by A. 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.

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.

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