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The benefits of space station research and development… Refining the architecture for the Mars Sample Return mission… And a solid rocket booster test fire for our Moon mega rocket… a few stories to tell you – This Week at NASA Founded in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that replaced the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). He is in charge of the civil space program, as well as aeronautical and aerospace research. The vision is "To discover and expand knowledge for the benefit of humanity." Its core value is "safety, integrity, teamwork, excellence and inclusion." ” data-gt-translate-attributes=”[{” attribute=””>NASA ! Benefits of Space Station Research and Development The 11th International Space Station Research and Development Conference takes place July 25-28 in Washington. The conference was organized by the American Astr...

New hope boost for humans on Mars: Congress passes first authorization bill in FIVE YEARS that includes funding for Red Planet exploration Congress passes NASA authorization bill that would allocate funds for the Moon to Mars program The program requires first setting up a lunar base and then sending humans to Mars Both missions will use the Space Launch System and the Orion crew capsule By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com Published: 1:07 p.m. EDT, 29 July 2022 | Updated: 4:28pm EDT, 29th July 2022 NASA is one step closer to putting human boots on Mars after Congress passed the first authorization bill for the American space agency in five years, which includes funding for the Artemis mission to not only continue its work to the moon but also soar to the Red Planet. . The 1,054-page document contains the ‘National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act 2022’ which includes the ‘Moon ...

Depiction of Earth, first without an inner core; second, with a growing inner core, about 550 million years ago; third, with the outermost and innermost core, about 450 million years ago. University of Rochester researchers used paleomagnetism to determine these two important dates in the history of the inner core, which they believe restored the planet’s magnetic field just before the explosion of life on Earth. Credit: University of Rochester Illustration / Michael Osadciw New paleomagnetic research shows Earth’s dense core formed 550 million years ago and restored our planet’s magnetic field. The rotating molten iron in Earth’s outer core, which lies about 1,800 miles below our feet, produces our planet’s protective magnetic field, called the magnetosphere. Although this magnetic field is invisible, it is essential for life on Earth’s surface. That’s because the magnetosphere protects the planet from the solar wind—the stream of radiati...

This eight-image mosaic was acquired by Pathfinder July 5, 1997, the second Mars day, or sol, of the mission. The newly deployed Sojourner rover—the first of its kind on the Red Planet—sit on the surface of Mars after descending the Pathfinder path. Credit: NASA/JPL When a daring team of engineers placed the first landers and rovers on the Red Planet a quarter of a century ago, they changed the way the world roamed. One night in July 1997, Jennifer Trosper came home from work at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory holding an image of the Martian surface at her wheel. Earlier in the day, the agency’s Pathfinder mission had landed on Mars encased in a protective air bag and took pictures of the red landscape and debris that left him transfixed. “When I was on the freeway, I had that picture on my steering wheel and kept looking at it,” Trosper recalls. “I probably should have taken a closer look at the road.” ...

This illustration shows the concept of several robots working together to transport rock and soil samples to Earth collected from the surface of Mars by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has completed a system requirements review for the Mars Sample Return Program, which is close to completing the conceptual design phase. During this phase, the program team has evaluated and refined the architecture to return scientifically selected samples, which are currently in the process of being collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover in the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater. The architecture for the campaign, which includes contributions from the European Space Agency (ESA), is expected to reduce the complexity of future missions and increase the likelihood of success. “The conceptual design phase is when every aspect of the mission plan is put under the microscope,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate admini...

The campaign to bring genuine Mars samples to Earth will now include two mini-helicopters. NASA officials involved with the Mars sample return (MSR) effort announced today (July 27) that they plan to redesign the mission, abandoning an earlier draft that required the European Space Agency (ESA) “fetch rover” to land on the mission. own lander. NASA’s Perseverance rover, which is expected to remain active when NASA’s MSR lander lands in 2031, will now be tasked with carrying collected and stored samples onto a Mars climbing vehicle. If that fails, however, two helicopters like the Ingenuity, which landed with Perseverance last year, would be a backup option for retrieving the cache itself. The helicopter will be similar to the Ingenuity in terms of size and mass, but with two key differences, NASA MSR program manager Richard Cook told reporters at a briefing today. “There will be a landing leg that includes, underneath, the mobility wheel,” Cook expl...

The huge Valles Marineris Valley has been revealed in stunning new images taken by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express. The Valley of the Red Planet is 2,485 miles long, over 124 miles wide and over 4 miles deep, making America look pretty dim by comparison. Vallis Marineris stretches from the northern tip of Norway to the southern tip of Sicily. The new image depicts two moats, or chasmas, that make up the western part of Valles Marineris. On the left is the lus Chasma which is 521 miles long and on the right is the Tithonium Chasma which is 500 miles long. The image uses data from the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard Mars Express and is a “true color” image, meaning it shows what the human eye would see if it looked at this region of Mars. Scroll down for the video A tilted perspective view of the Tithonium Chasma (pictured above), which is part of the Martian Valles Marineris valley structure, created from a digital, analog channel and color mode...

Planetary scientists from Rice University, NASA’s Johnson Space Center and the California Institute of Technology have answers to a mystery that has baffled the Mars research community since NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered a mineral called tridymite in Gale Crater in 2016. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this low-angle self-portrait at the location where it drilled rock on July 30, 2015, producing a powder (seen in the foreground) that was later confirmed to contain the rare mineral tridymite. (Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) Tridymite is a very rare form of high-temperature, low-pressure quartz on Earth, and it’s not immediately clear how the concentrated chunks ended up in craters. Gale Crater was chosen as Curiosity’s landing site because of the possibility that it once harbored liquid water, and Curiosity found evidence confirming Gale Crater was a lake as recently as 1 billion years ago. “The discovery of tridymite in mudstone at Ga...

Ius and Tithonium Chasmata on Mars. This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows Ius and Tithonium Chasmata, which are part of the canyon structure of Mars’ Valles Marineris. This image consists of data collected by the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on April 21, 2022. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ONE Mars Mars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. This is a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. Iron oxide is abundant on the surface of Mars, giving it its reddish color and its nickname "Red Planet." The name Mars comes from the Roman god of war. ” data-gt-translate-attributes=”[{” attribute=””>Mars Express’s latest image release takes us over two ruptures in the martian crust that form part of the mighty Valles Marineris canyon system. Valles Marineris cuts across Mars similar to how the Grand Canyon cuts across the United States, except...