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Topic: Microbes
The spacecraft launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy and is scheduled to arrive at the space station around 12:30pm Monday, December 7th, performing the first autonomous docking for SpaceX and remaining at the station for about a month. ![]() SpaceX launched its 21st commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station at 10:17am CT December 6th, 2020, from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (NASA Television) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s 21st SpaceX Cargo Mission carries research for Hearts, Airlocks and Asteroids
The mission represents the first on an upgraded version of the company’s Dragon cargo spacecraft designed to carry more science payloads to and from the space station. Highlights of the payloads on this mission include: ![]() Technicians work on the Nanoracks Bishop Airlock inside the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 29, 2020, preparing the facility for its flight to the International Space Station. The first commercially funded airlock for the space station provides payload hosting, robotics testing, satellite deployment, and more. (NASA/KSC) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover begins Summer Trip
Located on the floor of Gale Crater, Mount Sharp is composed of sedimentary layers that built up over time. Each layer helps tell the story about how Mars changed from being more Earth-like – with lakes, streams and a thicker atmosphere – to the nearly-airless, freezing desert it is today. ![]() Stitched together from 28 images, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this view from “Greenheugh Pediment” on April 9, 2020, the 2,729th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. In the foreground is the pediment’s sandstone cap. At center is the “clay-bearing unit”; the floor of Gale Crater is in the distance. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s Search for Life
Our own planet provides some inspiration. Microbes fill the air with methane; photosynthesizing plants expel oxygen. Perhaps these gases might be found wherever life has taken hold. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA establishes groundwork for exploration of the Moon, Mars in 2018NASA Headquarters
“Our agency’s accomplishments in 2018 are breathtaking. We’ve inspired the world and created incredible new capabilities for our nation,” Bridenstine said. “This year, we landed on Mars for the seventh time, and America remains the only country to have landed on Mars successfully.” ![]() NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate Thomas Zurbuchen, right, join with representatives of nine U.S. companies that are eligible to bid on NASA delivery services to the lunar surface through Commercial Lunar Payload Services contracts Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. (NASA/Bill Ingalls) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA reports Genes in Space-3 identifies Microbes aboard International Space StationWritten by Jenny Howard
The ability to identify microbes in space could aid in the ability to diagnose and treat astronaut ailments in real time, as well as assisting in the identification of DNA-based life on other planets. It could also benefit other experiments aboard the orbiting laboratory. ![]() NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson performed the Genes in Space-3 investigation aboard the space station using the miniPCR and MinION, developed for previously flown investigations. (NASA) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA develops Unit for International Space Station to study Living Things in MicrogravityWritten by Bob Granath
According to Dr. Scott Shipley, project engineer for Spectrum at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, what make this system unique is it will allow scientists to observe how different genes are turned on and off while the organisms grow in space. ![]() Spectrum Project processing inside the Space Station Processing Facility; expected to launch to International Space Station in 2018. (NASA) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover examines Ancient Lake on MarsWritten by Guy Webster
Different conditions favorable for different types of microbes existed simultaneously in the same lake. Previous work had revealed the presence of a lake more than three billion years ago in Mars’ Gale Crater. This study defines the chemical conditions that existed in the lake and uses Curiosity’s powerful payload to determine that the lake was stratified. ![]() This evenly layered rock imaged in 2014 by the Mastcam on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows a pattern typical of a lake-floor sedimentary deposit near where flowing water entered a lake. Shallow and deep parts of an ancient Martian lake left different clues in mudstone formed from lakebed deposits. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s Cassini mission and Hubble Space Telescope provides new details about moons Enceladus and EuropaWritten by Felicia Chou
In the papers, Cassini scientists announce that a form of chemical energy that life can feed on appears to exist on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, and Hubble researchers report additional evidence of plumes erupting from Jupiter’s moon Europa. ![]() This artist’s rendering shows Cassini diving through the Enceladus plume in 2015. New ocean world discoveries from Cassini and Hubble will help inform future exploration and the broader search for life beyond Earth. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA is developing Tech, Robotic Arms to explore Icy, Ocean WorldsWritten by Andrew Good
Since 2015, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has been developing new technologies for use on future missions to ocean worlds. That includes a subsurface probe that could burrow through miles of ice, taking samples along the way; robotic arms that unfold to reach faraway objects; and a projectile launcher for even more distant samples. ![]() A robotic claw, one of several innovative tools developed at JPL for exploring icy, ocean worlds like Europa. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
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