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NASA JPL boss quits

8 May 2025 grant 0

The Register reports on the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory suddenly stepping down for “personal reasons”:

During the November 2024 staff cuts, Leshin

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Scientific illustration: A crew in special suits executes s mechanical procedure with a large robot arm under an even larger painting of a mission emblem on the side of a space ship emblazoned with the NASA logo.

Science Art: MRO Fairing Installation, 2005.

5 May 2025 grant 0

On a fiberglass sailboat, “fairing” is a thin coat of epoxy meant to smooth out all tiny bumps and creases that sanding can’t catch in order to make the hull move through… Read the rest “Science Art: MRO Fairing Installation, 2005.”

Scientific illustration of the surface of the Earth; a colorful satellite picture of stark-white Iceland in the blue-green North Atlantic.

Science Art: Iceland’s Coast Shows Hints of Spring, March 2024

28 April 2025 grant 0

A photo from the NASA PACE Ocean Sciences gallery.

The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission is a satellite observatory created by Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) which… Read the rest “Science Art: Iceland’s Coast Shows Hints of Spring, March 2024”

Too much space junk.

14 April 2025 grant 0

The European Space Agency has an unfortunate report about future satellites. They’re much closer to running out of room because, as Science Alert puts it, there’s just too… Read the rest “Too much space junk.”

Far side of the moon’s fiery past.

21 March 2025 grant 0

Space reveals that the far side of the moon was once a vast, glowing ocean of magma, according to samples retrieved by a Chinese lunar lander:

The Chang’e 6 mission launched in early

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Scientific illustration of vast, mighty Olympus Mons stretching for miles and miles across the red-brown surface of Mars, as seen by a stereoscopic camera but rendered in 2D. www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54371099685/sizes/o/ Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

Science Art: Mars, Olympus Mons near the terminator, Andrea Luck, 2025

18 March 2025 grant 0

This is the largest volcano in our solar system, as far as anybody knows — the mighty Olympus Mons, as snapped by the ESA Mars Express mission’s HRSC, or High-Resolution Stereo… Read the rest “Science Art: Mars, Olympus Mons near the terminator, Andrea Luck, 2025”

So just how much life are we already spreading into space?

20 February 2025 grant 0

Mashable wants to know (along with NASA researchers) just what kind of critters are sticking to the International Space Station or surrounding it like an invisible cloud of living things… Read the rest “So just how much life are we already spreading into space?”

NASA Mars rover spots “possibilities for microbial habitability.”

16 February 2025 grant 0

Mashable carries news from NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has found traces that ancient ripples left on primordial lake beds, which prove that far from being an ice-covered badland,… Read the rest “NASA Mars rover spots “possibilities for microbial habitability.””

Asteroid Bennu rich in ancient life-sustaining stuff.

30 January 2025 grant 0

IFL Science reports on the 121-gram sample that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe collected from Asteroid Bennu — a handful of dirt that shows a wealth of chemicals necessary to form… Read the rest “Asteroid Bennu rich in ancient life-sustaining stuff.”

Mars lander following its nose

27 December 2024 grant 0

Advances in Space Research has a novel idea for a Martian lander. Instead of mapping out the likeliest landing spot from way down here on Earth well ahead of time, a lander could be equipped… Read the rest “Mars lander following its nose”

Scientific illustration in the form of an amplified photograph. The frame is filled mostly - but not entirely - with the red surface of Mars, a corner of deep space visible to the top left. In the center, barely visible, is a gleaming steel circle, a tiny droplet of metal descending to the rust-colored surface.

Science Art: Mars – Jezero Crater – NASA’s Perseverance Landing, Feb 18,2021

1 December 2024 grant 0

This is a piece of art, or scientific illustration, I found on the Flickr account of Andrea Luck, though the full credit is NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß/AndreaLuck. Schmauß apparently… Read the rest “Science Art: Mars – Jezero Crater – NASA’s Perseverance Landing, Feb 18,2021”

Daddy-daughter alien decoding.

27 October 2024 grant 0

The European Space Agency reports on the team who successfully decoded an “alien” transmission actually sent by a probe orbiting Mars as part of a multidisciplinary project… Read the rest “Daddy-daughter alien decoding.”

Scientific illustration of the Europa Clipper project, a satellite with long, rectangular solar-dell "wings" over the cris-crossed icy surface of Europa, the frozen moon of Jupiter.

Science Art: Europa Clipper, Artist’s Concept, by NASA/JPL-Caltech

7 October 2024 grant 0

This is an artist’s concept of a space probe orbiting Europa, the icy moon of Jupiter that might just hide life in the oceans miles below its frozen surface.

You can read more about the… Read the rest “Science Art: Europa Clipper, Artist’s Concept, by NASA/JPL-Caltech”

Scientific illustration of astronauts inside a replica of the International Space Station, a hexagonal window looking down on the Earth.

Science Art: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 at NASM (NHQ202303280029), 2023

23 September 2024 grant 0

As the image description tells it:

NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, left, Jessica Watkins, center, and Robert Hines, right, are seen in the in the One World Connected gallery looking at

… Read the rest “Science Art: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 at NASM (NHQ202303280029), 2023”

SONG: Oceans Under Mars

24 August 2024 grant 0

SONG: “Oceans Under Mars”. (WAV version here.)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: PhysOrg, 12 Aug 2024, “Scientists find oceans of water on Mars. It’s just too deep to tap.… Read the rest “SONG: Oceans Under Mars”

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