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  39. <h1 class="display-48 margin-bottom-2">Sols 4166-4167: A Garden Full of Rocks</h1>
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  47. <div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">This image was taken by Left Navigation Camera onboard NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4164 (2024-04-23 16:43:09 UTC).</div>
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  52. <p>Earth planning date: Wednesday April 24, 2024</p>
  53. <p>Here on Earth (in Toronto, specifically), it’s a very typical April which can’t quite make up its mind about whether or not it wants to be spring. On Mars (in Gale Crater), we’re well into spring, and Curiosity is enjoying the (relatively) warmer weather. As the days get longer and the weather gets warmer, I find myself with lots of energy, itching to get outside and play in my garden. Curiosity seems to feel similar – we’ve been flush with power recently, and today’s touch-and-go plan is no exception. This means lots of opportunity for Curiosity to play in its own kind of garden – albeit one a bit less green than my own.</p>
  54. <p>The first sol of the plan starts with contact science on ‘Twin Peaks,’ which is a small, darker block on top of a lighter block (which you can see the edge of in the image above). This is followed by a two hour long science block packed full of ChemCam and Mastcam observations. ChemCam is starting up close with LIBS on ‘Gilber Lake’ (in the centre of the image above) followed by two long distance mosaics of our long-time companions, the upper Gediz Vallis Ridge and Kukenan. Mastcam has its own mosaic of Pinnacle Ridge and then turns its sights to two closer blocks – ‘Hawk’s Head Notch’ and ‘Cleaver Notch.’ We’re then back for more contact science – this time with MAHLI – before driving on towards Pinnacle Ridge. It’s a geology-heavy sol, but the atmosphere and environment science theme group (ENV) will sneak in to take a tau measurement at the end of the sol to keep an eye on the changing atmospheric dust.</p>
  55. <p>As is often the case in these kinds of plans, the second sol is a bit more sedate, but Curiosity will still manage to squeeze in nearly an hour and a half of science. Most of this is given over to environmental monitoring. Because we don’t need to be in a certain location to check out dust and clouds, we can let the geology and minerology science theme group (GEO) have their fun before the drive and save our observations for the ‘untargeted’ portion of the plan. On the dusty side of things, we have another tau as well as a line of sight scan towards the crater rim. A long dust devil movie will look out for dust lifting in the middle distance, and a deck monitoring observation will check out how dust grains on the rover’s deck might have moved. We’re also looking north above the horizon for clouds. GEO isn’t entirely left out of this sol though – they’ll wrap up the plan with a ChemCam AEGIS observation.</p>
  56. <p>Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University</p>
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  209. <span>Mars</span><br />
  210. <svg viewBox="0 0 32 32" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><circle class="color-nasa-red" cx="16" cy="16" r="16"></circle><path d="M8 16.956h12.604l-3.844 4.106 1.252 1.338L24 16l-5.988-6.4-1.252 1.338 3.844 4.106H8v1.912z" class="color-spacesuit-white"></path></svg><br />
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  215. <figure class="hds-media-background  "><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1536" height="864" src="https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/272_MarsInSight_poster-jpg.webp?w=1536" class="attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536" alt="" style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/272_MarsInSight_poster-jpg.webp 1920w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/272_MarsInSight_poster-jpg.webp?resize=300,169 300w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/272_MarsInSight_poster-jpg.webp?resize=768,432 768w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/272_MarsInSight_poster-jpg.webp?resize=1024,576 1024w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/272_MarsInSight_poster-jpg.webp?resize=1536,864 1536w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/272_MarsInSight_poster-jpg.webp?resize=400,225 400w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/272_MarsInSight_poster-jpg.webp?resize=600,338 600w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/272_MarsInSight_poster-jpg.webp?resize=900,506 900w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/272_MarsInSight_poster-jpg.webp?resize=1200,675 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px" /></figure>
  216. </p></div>
  217. <p> </a><br />
  218. <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/mars/resources/" class="mobile:grid-col-12 tablet:grid-col-6 desktop:grid-col-3 topic-card margin-bottom-4 desktop:margin-bottom-0" rel="noopener"></p>
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  222. <p class="hds-topic-card-heading heading-29 color-spacesuit-white line-height-sm margin-top-0 margin-bottom-1">
  223. <span>All Mars Resources</span><br />
  224. <svg viewBox="0 0 32 32" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><circle class="color-nasa-red" cx="16" cy="16" r="16"></circle><path d="M8 16.956h12.604l-3.844 4.106 1.252 1.338L24 16l-5.988-6.4-1.252 1.338 3.844 4.106H8v1.912z" class="color-spacesuit-white"></path></svg>
  225. </p>
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  227. </p></div>
  228. <figure class="hds-media-background  "><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1200" height="1122" src="https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/27262-pia25681-web.webp?w=1200" class="attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536" alt="" style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/27262-pia25681-web.webp 1200w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/27262-pia25681-web.webp?resize=300,281 300w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/27262-pia25681-web.webp?resize=768,718 768w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/27262-pia25681-web.webp?resize=1024,957 1024w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/27262-pia25681-web.webp?resize=400,374 400w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/27262-pia25681-web.webp?resize=600,561 600w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/27262-pia25681-web.webp?resize=900,842 900w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></figure>
  229. </p></div>
  230. <p> </a><br />
  231. <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-science/programs/mars-exploration/rover-basics/" class="mobile:grid-col-12 tablet:grid-col-6 desktop:grid-col-3 topic-card margin-bottom-4 desktop:margin-bottom-0" rel="noopener"></p>
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  236. <span>Rover Basics</span><br />
  237. <svg viewBox="0 0 32 32" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><circle class="color-nasa-red" cx="16" cy="16" r="16"></circle><path d="M8 16.956h12.604l-3.844 4.106 1.252 1.338L24 16l-5.988-6.4-1.252 1.338 3.844 4.106H8v1.912z" class="color-spacesuit-white"></path></svg>
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  241. <figure class="hds-media-background  "><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1118" height="1536" src="https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mars-perseverance-si1-0045-0670932474-015ecm-n0031416srlc07021-000085j-e1708128527756.png?w=1118" class="attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536" alt="" style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mars-perseverance-si1-0045-0670932474-015ecm-n0031416srlc07021-000085j-e1708128527756.png 1200w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mars-perseverance-si1-0045-0670932474-015ecm-n0031416srlc07021-000085j-e1708128527756.png?resize=218,300 218w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mars-perseverance-si1-0045-0670932474-015ecm-n0031416srlc07021-000085j-e1708128527756.png?resize=768,1055 768w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mars-perseverance-si1-0045-0670932474-015ecm-n0031416srlc07021-000085j-e1708128527756.png?resize=746,1024 746w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mars-perseverance-si1-0045-0670932474-015ecm-n0031416srlc07021-000085j-e1708128527756.png?resize=1118,1536 1118w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mars-perseverance-si1-0045-0670932474-015ecm-n0031416srlc07021-000085j-e1708128527756.png?resize=291,400 291w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mars-perseverance-si1-0045-0670932474-015ecm-n0031416srlc07021-000085j-e1708128527756.png?resize=437,600 437w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mars-perseverance-si1-0045-0670932474-015ecm-n0031416srlc07021-000085j-e1708128527756.png?resize=655,900 655w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mars-perseverance-si1-0045-0670932474-015ecm-n0031416srlc07021-000085j-e1708128527756.png?resize=874,1200 874w" sizes="(max-width: 1118px) 100vw, 1118px" /></figure>
  242. </p></div>
  243. <p> </a><br />
  244. <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-science/programs/mars-exploration/science-goals/" class="mobile:grid-col-12 tablet:grid-col-6 desktop:grid-col-3 topic-card margin-bottom-4 desktop:margin-bottom-0" rel="noopener"></p>
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  249. <span>Mars Exploration Science Goals</span><br />
  250. <svg viewBox="0 0 32 32" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><circle class="color-nasa-red" cx="16" cy="16" r="16"></circle><path d="M8 16.956h12.604l-3.844 4.106 1.252 1.338L24 16l-5.988-6.4-1.252 1.338 3.844 4.106H8v1.912z" class="color-spacesuit-white"></path></svg>
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  254. <figure class="hds-media-background  "><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1536" height="864" src="https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Color-enhanced_view_of_Jezero_crater_on_Mars.jpeg?w=1536" class="attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536" alt="" style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Color-enhanced_view_of_Jezero_crater_on_Mars.jpeg 1600w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Color-enhanced_view_of_Jezero_crater_on_Mars.jpeg?resize=300,169 300w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Color-enhanced_view_of_Jezero_crater_on_Mars.jpeg?resize=768,432 768w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Color-enhanced_view_of_Jezero_crater_on_Mars.jpeg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Color-enhanced_view_of_Jezero_crater_on_Mars.jpeg?resize=1536,864 1536w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Color-enhanced_view_of_Jezero_crater_on_Mars.jpeg?resize=400,225 400w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Color-enhanced_view_of_Jezero_crater_on_Mars.jpeg?resize=600,338 600w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Color-enhanced_view_of_Jezero_crater_on_Mars.jpeg?resize=900,506 900w, https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Color-enhanced_view_of_Jezero_crater_on_Mars.jpeg?resize=1200,675 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px" /></figure>
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  266. <title>The Marshall Star for April 24, 2024</title>
  267. <link>https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/marshall/the-marshall-star-for-april-24-2024/</link>
  269. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee Mohon]]></dc:creator>
  270. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
  271. <category><![CDATA[Marshall Space Flight Center]]></category>
  272. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.nasa.gov/?p=652923</guid>
  273.  
  274. <description><![CDATA[NASA Announces 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge Winners NASA announced the winners of the 30th&#160;Human Exploration Rover Challenge&#160;(HERC) April 22, with Parish Episcopal School, from Dallas, winning first place in the high school division, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville,capturing the college/university title. The annual engineering competition – one of NASA’s longest standing challenges [&#8230;]]]></description>
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  280. <div class="label color-spacesuit-white margin-bottom-2">29 Min Read</div>
  281. <h1 class="heading-41 line-height-md color-spacesuit-white-important">
  282. The Marshall Star for April 24, 2024 </h1>
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  287. <figure class="hds-media-background  "><img decoding="async" width="1536" height="1152" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?w=1536" class="attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536" alt="" style="transform: scale(1.3); transform-origin: 0% 54%; object-position: 0% 54%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg 1598w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=768,576 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=1024,768 1024w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=1536,1152 1536w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=400,300 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=600,450 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=900,675 900w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=1200,900 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px" loading="eager" /></figure> </div>
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  294. <div><figcaption>Students from Universidad Católica Boliviana prepare to traverse the course at the 2024 Human Exploration Rover Challenge at the U.S. Space &amp; Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.</figcaption></div>
  295. </div>
  296. <div class="hds-credits color-spacesuit-white-important">
  297. <span>Credits: </span>
  298. <span>Credits: NASA/Taylor Goodwin</span>
  299. </div>
  300. </figcaption>
  301. </div>
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  304.  
  305.  
  306. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>NASA Announces 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge Winners</strong></h2>
  307.  
  308.  
  309.  
  310. <p>NASA announced the winners of the 30th&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nasa.gov/roverchallenge/home/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Human Exploration Rover Challenge</a>&nbsp;(HERC) April 22, with Parish Episcopal School, from Dallas, winning first place in the high school division, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville,capturing the college/university title.</p>
  311.  
  312.  
  313.  
  314. <p>The annual engineering competition – one of NASA’s longest standing challenges – held its concluding event April 19 and April 20, at the U.S. Space &amp; Rocket Center in Huntsville, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.&nbsp;The complete list of 2024 award winners is provided below:</p>
  315.  
  316.  
  317. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg"><img decoding="async" width="1598" height="1199" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?w=1598" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="" style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 47% 82%; object-position: 47% 82%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg 1598w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=768,576 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=1024,768 1024w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=1536,1152 1536w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=400,300 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=600,450 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=900,675 900w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/herc2024.jpg?resize=1200,900 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1598px) 100vw, 1598px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">Students from Universidad Católica Boliviana prepare to traverse the course at the 2024 Human Exploration Rover Challenge at the U.S. Space &amp; Rocket Center in Huntsville, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.</div><div class="hds-credits">Credits: NASA/Taylor Goodwin</div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  318.  
  319.  
  320. <p><strong>High School Division</strong>&nbsp;</p>
  321.  
  322.  
  323.  
  324. <ul>
  325. <li>First Place:&nbsp;Parish Episcopal School, Dallas</li>
  326.  
  327.  
  328.  
  329. <li>Second Place: Academy of Arts, Careers and Technology, Reno, Nevada</li>
  330.  
  331.  
  332.  
  333. <li>Third Place: Escambia High School, Pensacola, Florida</li>
  334. </ul>
  335.  
  336.  
  337.  
  338. <p><strong>College/University Division</strong>&nbsp;</p>
  339.  
  340.  
  341.  
  342. <ul>
  343. <li>First Place:&nbsp;University of Alabama in Huntsville</li>
  344.  
  345.  
  346.  
  347. <li>Second Place: Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic</li>
  348.  
  349.  
  350.  
  351. <li>Third Place: Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina</li>
  352. </ul>
  353.  
  354.  
  355.  
  356. <p><strong>Ingenuity Award</strong>&nbsp;</p>
  357.  
  358.  
  359.  
  360. <ul>
  361. <li>University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida</li>
  362. </ul>
  363.  
  364.  
  365.  
  366. <p><strong>Phoenix Award</strong>&nbsp;</p>
  367.  
  368.  
  369.  
  370. <ul>
  371. <li>High School Division: East Central High School, Moss Point, Mississippi</li>
  372.  
  373.  
  374.  
  375. <li>College/University Division: North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota</li>
  376. </ul>
  377.  
  378.  
  379.  
  380. <p><strong>Task Challenge Award</strong>&nbsp;</p>
  381.  
  382.  
  383.  
  384. <ul>
  385. <li>High School Division: Erie High School, Erie, Colorado</li>
  386.  
  387.  
  388.  
  389. <li>College/University Division: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota</li>
  390. </ul>
  391.  
  392.  
  393.  
  394. <p><strong>Project Review Award</strong>&nbsp;</p>
  395.  
  396.  
  397.  
  398. <ul>
  399. <li>High School Division: Parish Episcopal School, Dallas</li>
  400.  
  401.  
  402.  
  403. <li>College/University Division: University of Alabama in Huntsville</li>
  404. </ul>
  405.  
  406.  
  407.  
  408. <p><strong>Featherweight Award</strong>&nbsp;</p>
  409.  
  410.  
  411.  
  412. <ul>
  413. <li>Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island</li>
  414. </ul>
  415.  
  416.  
  417.  
  418. <p><strong>Safety Award</strong>&nbsp;</p>
  419.  
  420.  
  421.  
  422. <ul>
  423. <li>High School Division:&nbsp;NPS International School, Singapore</li>
  424.  
  425.  
  426.  
  427. <li>College/University Division: Instituto Especializado de Estudios Superiores Loyola, San Cristobal, Dominican Republic</li>
  428. </ul>
  429.  
  430.  
  431.  
  432. <p><strong>Crash and Burn Award</strong>&nbsp;</p>
  433.  
  434.  
  435.  
  436. <ul>
  437. <li>KIET Group of Institutions, Delhi-NCR, India</li>
  438. </ul>
  439.  
  440.  
  441.  
  442. <p><strong>Jeff Norris and Joe Sexton Memorial Pit Crew Award</strong>&nbsp;</p>
  443.  
  444.  
  445.  
  446. <ul>
  447. <li>High School Division:&nbsp;Erie High School, Erie, Colorado</li>
  448.  
  449.  
  450.  
  451. <li>College/University Division: Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina</li>
  452. </ul>
  453.  
  454.  
  455.  
  456. <p><strong>Team Spirit Award</strong>&nbsp;</p>
  457.  
  458.  
  459.  
  460. <ul>
  461. <li>Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic</li>
  462. </ul>
  463.  
  464.  
  465.  
  466. <p><strong>Most Improved Performance Award</strong></p>
  467.  
  468.  
  469.  
  470. <ul>
  471. <li>High School Division:&nbsp;Jesco von Puttkamer School, Leipzig, Germany</li>
  472.  
  473.  
  474.  
  475. <li>College/University Division:&nbsp;Universidad Católica Boliviana – San Pablo, La Paz, Bolivia</li>
  476. </ul>
  477.  
  478.  
  479.  
  480. <p><strong>Social Media Award</strong>&nbsp;</p>
  481.  
  482.  
  483.  
  484. <ul>
  485. <li>High School Division:&nbsp;Bledsoe County High School, Pikeville, Tennessee</li>
  486.  
  487.  
  488.  
  489. <li>College/University Division<strong>:&nbsp;</strong>Universidad de Piura, Peru</li>
  490. </ul>
  491.  
  492.  
  493.  
  494. <p><strong>STEM Engagement Award</strong>&nbsp;</p>
  495.  
  496.  
  497.  
  498. <ul>
  499. <li>High School Division:&nbsp;Princess Margaret Secondary School, Surrey, British Columbia</li>
  500.  
  501.  
  502.  
  503. <li>College/University Division: Trine University, Angola, Indiana</li>
  504. </ul>
  505.  
  506.  
  507.  
  508. <p><strong>Artemis Educator Award</strong></p>
  509.  
  510.  
  511.  
  512. <ul>
  513. <li>Sadif Safarov from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey</li>
  514. </ul>
  515.  
  516.  
  517.  
  518. <p><strong>Rookie of the Year</strong></p>
  519.  
  520.  
  521.  
  522. <ul>
  523. <li>Kanakia International School, Mumbai, India</li>
  524. </ul>
  525.  
  526.  
  527.  
  528. <p>More than 600 students with 72 teams from around the world participated as HERC celebrated its 30th anniversary as a NASA competition. Participating&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nasa.gov/stem/roverchallenge/teams/index.html">teams</a>&nbsp;represented 42 colleges and&nbsp;universities and 30 high schools from 24 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and 13 other nations from around the world. Teams were awarded points based on navigating a half-mile obstacle course, conducting mission-specific task challenges, and completing multiple safety and design reviews with NASA engineers.&nbsp;</p>
  529.  
  530.  
  531.  
  532. <p>“This student design challenge encourages the next generation of scientists and engineers to engage in the design process by providing innovative concepts and unique perspectives,” said Vemitra Alexander, HERC activity lead for NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement at Marshall. “While celebrating the 30th anniversary of the challenge, HERC also continues NASA’s legacy of providing valuable experiences to students who may be responsible for planning future space missions including crewed missions to other worlds.”</p>
  533.  
  534.  
  535.  
  536. <p>HERC is one of NASA’s eight&nbsp;<a href="https://stem.nasa.gov/artemis/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Artemis Student Challenges</a>&nbsp;reflecting the goals of the Artemis program, which seeks to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon while establishing a long-term presence for science and exploration. NASA uses such challenges to encourage students to pursue degrees and careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.&nbsp;</p>
  537.  
  538.  
  539.  
  540. <p>HERC is managed by NASA’s Southeast Regional&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nasa.gov/stem" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Office of STEM Engagement</a>&nbsp;at Marshall. Since its inception in 1994, more than 15,000 students have participated in HERC – with many former students now working at NASA, or within the aerospace industry.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL1hWO-zxpM" rel="noopener">Watch</a> a video recap of the competition.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
  541.  
  542.  
  543.  
  544. <p><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DmL1hWO-zxpM&amp;data=05%7C02%7Clee.a.mohon%40nasa.gov%7Cebad6ea4d3d24acb121208dc649fd38b%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C638495884802982026%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=VGFKT6UIQ%2B1v%2Bo8jnLNtBEzsdE5NXoMMmyz4ZK5ytag%3D&amp;reserved=0" rel="noopener">Watch</a> a video recap of the competition.  </p>
  545.  
  546.  
  547.  
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  549.  
  550.  
  551.  
  552. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Take 5 with Julie Clift Edstrom</strong></h2>
  553.  
  554.  
  555.  
  556. <p><em>By Wayne Smith</em></p>
  557.  
  558.  
  559.  
  560. <p>From helping coordinate NASA speaking requests for the total solar eclipse to supporting Student Launch and the Human Exploration Rover Challenge, April has been a busy month for Julie Clift Edstrom. But those activities have also served as a powerful reminder of why she loves her role at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center.</p>
  561.  
  562.  
  563. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/julie-edstrom.jpg"><img decoding="async" width="1639" height="2048" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/julie-edstrom.jpg?w=1639" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="Julie Clift Edstrom" style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 51% 23%; object-position: 51% 23%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/julie-edstrom.jpg 4198w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/julie-edstrom.jpg?resize=240,300 240w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/julie-edstrom.jpg?resize=768,960 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/julie-edstrom.jpg?resize=819,1024 819w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/julie-edstrom.jpg?resize=1229,1536 1229w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/julie-edstrom.jpg?resize=1639,2048 1639w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/julie-edstrom.jpg?resize=320,400 320w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/julie-edstrom.jpg?resize=480,600 480w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/julie-edstrom.jpg?resize=720,900 720w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/julie-edstrom.jpg?resize=960,1200 960w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/julie-edstrom.jpg?resize=1600,2000 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 1639px) 100vw, 1639px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">Julie Clift Edstrom is an education specialist supporting Next Gen STEM and Space Grant in NASA’s Southeast Regional Office of STEM Engagement at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where she leads the Artemis Student Challenges.</div><div class="hds-credits">NASA</div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  564.  
  565.  
  566. <p>Edstrom is an education specialist supporting Next Gen STEM and Space Grant in NASA’s Southeast Regional Office of STEM Engagement at Marshall, where she leads the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/join-artemis/">Artemis Student Challenges</a> for middle school, high school, and college students. NASA’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nasa.gov/stem" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Office of STEM Engagement</a>&nbsp;uses challenges and competitions to further the agency’s goal of encouraging students to pursue degrees and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.&nbsp;There are eight Artemis Student Challenges, which include BIG Idea, Lunabotics, First Nations Launch, SUITS, Micro-g NExT, App Development Challenge, Human Exploration Rover Challenge, and Student Launch.</p>
  567.  
  568.  
  569.  
  570. <p>Edstrom managed the Student Launch competition for 10 years and points to that experience as the proudest of her career, particularly the awards ceremony for the 2015 event Marshall hosted at the U.S. Space &amp; Rocket Center in Huntsville.</p>
  571.  
  572.  
  573.  
  574. <p>“I remember it vividly and it still brings tears to my eyes when I think about it,” said Edstrom, who is from Huntsville. “It was my final year of managing the activity, all the awards had been given, and it was my task to provide closing remarks. As I stood at the podium looking at approximately a thousand people, I was overwhelmed with emotion at the impact this activity had made on so many lives. These students, educators, and mentors had traveled from all over the U.S., had worked so hard, and accomplished so much, and here I stood with the privilege of being able to lead such an activity. How grateful I am to have had that opportunity!”</p>
  575.  
  576.  
  577.  
  578. <p>She also leads a new platform, <a href="https://my.nasa.gov/engages/s/" rel="noopener">NASA Engages</a>, an online tool to connect agency experts to community engagements such as the April 8 total solar eclipse event in Russellville, Arkansas. The NASA Engages tool is composed of agency civil servants and contractors who share NASA missions and content at educational, professional, civic, and other public venues.</p>
  579.  
  580.  
  581.  
  582. <p><strong>Question:</strong> What excites you most about the future of human space exploration, or your NASA work, and your team&#8217;s role in it?</p>
  583.  
  584.  
  585.  
  586. <p><strong>Edstrom:</strong> Our job in the Office of STEM Engagement is directly tied to the future of human space exploration through leading the next generation into our workforce. I can’t tell you the number of students I’ve worked with who are “wow’d” by NASA, have participated in one of our challenges, and/or that I’ve hired through the Pathways program who are now working among us and making a daily impact on space exploration. It’s fun to watch their growth and journey.</p>
  587.  
  588.  
  589.  
  590. <p><strong>Question:</strong> Who or what drives/motivates you?</p>
  591.  
  592.  
  593.  
  594. <p><strong>Edstrom:</strong> There’s certainly a theme here, but it is easy to forget when we are sitting at a computer or participating in meetings. I’ve supported NASA for 21 years thus far, seven as a contractor and 14 as a co-op turned civil servant. My role has been primarily in the areas of education and human resources. The people I serve drives my motivation. Whether it’s helping someone set up their profile in NASA Engages, talking to students about opportunities, or conducting classroom demonstrations, my goal is and has always been to help others achieve their desires. In my newest position, I’ve been able to watch the NASA Engages tool reach close to 19,000 people in less than four months, many of them students.</p>
  595.  
  596.  
  597. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/edstrom-rocket.png"><img decoding="async" width="604" height="264" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/edstrom-rocket.png?w=604" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="Edstrom displays her rocket at the Student Launch competition in 2006, where she earned a Level 1 certification. “Leading Student Launch, I wanted to learn what the student teams were doing as part of the challenge,” she said. “My rocket was nowhere near as sophisticated as theirs, but at least I got the basics.”" style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/edstrom-rocket.png 604w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/edstrom-rocket.png?resize=300,131 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/edstrom-rocket.png?resize=400,175 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/edstrom-rocket.png?resize=600,262 600w" sizes="(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">Edstrom displays her rocket at the Student Launch competition in 2006, where she earned a Level 1 certification. “Leading Student Launch, I wanted to learn what the student teams were doing as part of the challenge,” she said. “My rocket was nowhere near as sophisticated as theirs, but at least I got the basics.”</div><div class="hds-credits">Photo courtesy of Julie Clift Edstrom</div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  598.  
  599.  
  600. <p><strong>Question:</strong> Who or what inspired you to pursue an education/career that led you to NASA and Marshall?</p>
  601.  
  602.  
  603.  
  604. <p><strong>Edstrom:</strong> I ask this question of our NASA experts in NASA Engages and I always share my story as well. When I was infifth grade, I despised those timed multiplication quizzes where you needed to answer 100 questions in one minute. I was horrible at it and remember making a 30 on one test. In sixth grade, Mrs. Kathleen Williams changed that path for me. Later in high school, my art teacher, Mrs. Melissa Hughey, suggested I become a teacher. Therefore, I was a fifth grade math teacher for six years before coming to NASA and am proud to say at least one of my former students works at Marshall.</p>
  605.  
  606.  
  607.  
  608. <p><strong>Question:</strong> What advice do you have for employees early in their NASA career or those in new leadership roles?</p>
  609.  
  610.  
  611.  
  612. <p><strong>Edstrom:</strong> The biggest piece of advice is to build and maintain relationships. Secondly, stay curious and eager to learn, broaden your skills whenever possible, and find ways to give of your time even when it’s not required. Finally, try to make someone’s day a little better. It could be simple eye contact and a smile.</p>
  613.  
  614.  
  615.  
  616. <p><strong>Question:</strong> What do you enjoy doing with your time while away from work?</p>
  617.  
  618.  
  619.  
  620. <p><strong>Edstrom:</strong> I absolutely love seeing the world. Most of the time, I see it from a cruise ship! I also just got married for the first time three years ago, so spending time with my family is definitely important to me.</p>
  621.  
  622.  
  623.  
  624. <p><em>Smith, a Media Fusion employee and the Marshall Star editor, supports the Marshall Office of Communications.</em></p>
  625.  
  626.  
  627.  
  628. <p><strong><strong><a href="#top">› Back to Top</a></strong></strong></p>
  629.  
  630.  
  631.  
  632. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Student Launch Challenge Highlighted on ‘This Week at NASA’</strong></h2>
  633.  
  634.  
  635.  
  636. <p>NASA’s 2024 Student Launch challenge brought students from colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, and informal education groups to launch amateur rockets and payloads April 13 near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The challenge is featured in “This Week @ NASA,” a weekly video program broadcast on NASA-TV and posted online.</p>
  637.  
  638.  
  639.  
  640. <p>Student Launch provides relevant, cost-effective research and development of rocket propulsion systems and reflects the goals of NASA’s Artemis campaign, which seeks to put the first woman and first person of color on the Moon.</p>
  641.  
  642.  
  643.  
  644. <p>Winners of the student launch will be announced June 7 during a virtual awards ceremony once all teams’ flight data has been verified.</p>
  645.  
  646.  
  647.  
  648. <p>Marshall’s Office of STEM Engagement hosts Student Launch to encourage students to pursue careers in STEM through real-world experiences. Student Launch is a part of the agency’s&nbsp;<a href="https://stem.nasa.gov/artemis/" rel="noopener">Artemis Student Challenges</a>&nbsp;– a variety of activities exposing students to the knowledge and technology required to achieve the goals of the Artemis missions.</p>
  649.  
  650.  
  651.  
  652. <p>View this and previous episodes at &#8220;This Week @NASA&#8221; on NASA&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision" rel="noopener">YouTube</a>&nbsp;page.</p>
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  657. <iframe loading="lazy" title="NASA Welcomes New Partners to the Artemis Accords … This Week @NASA – April 19" width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1FwQNtJ2hks?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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  663.  
  664.  
  665.  
  666. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Marshall Research Scientist Enables Large-Scale Open Science </strong></h2>
  667.  
  668.  
  669.  
  670. <p><em>By Jessica Barnett</em>&nbsp;</p>
  671.  
  672.  
  673.  
  674. <p>Most people use tools at work, whether it’s a hammer, a pencil, or a computer. Very few seek a doctorate degree in creating new tools for the job.</p>
  675.  
  676.  
  677.  
  678. <p>Using that degree to make it easier for people around the world to access and use the vast amounts of data gathered by NASA? Well, that might just be unheard of if you didn’t know someone like Rahul Ramachandran, a senior research scientist in the Earth Science branch at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.</p>
  679.  
  680.  
  681. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/msfc-202200452.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="2048" height="1366" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/msfc-202200452.jpg?w=2048" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="Rahul Ramachandran" style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/msfc-202200452.jpg 3599w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/msfc-202200452.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/msfc-202200452.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/msfc-202200452.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/msfc-202200452.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/msfc-202200452.jpg?resize=2048,1366 2048w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/msfc-202200452.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/msfc-202200452.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/msfc-202200452.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/msfc-202200452.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/msfc-202200452.jpg?resize=2000,1334 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">Rahul Ramachandran is a senior research scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.</div><div class="hds-credits">NASA</div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  682.  
  683.  
  684. <p>“My undergrad was in mechanical engineering. I wanted to do industrial engineering, so I came to the U.S. for that, but I didn’t like the field that much,” Ramachandran explained. “It was by chance somebody suggested meteorology.”</p>
  685.  
  686.  
  687.  
  688. <p>That led him to learn about atmospheric science as well, but it was the 1990s and the technology of the time was very limiting. So, Ramachandran set out to learn more about computers and how to better analyze data.</p>
  689.  
  690.  
  691.  
  692. <p>“The limitations effectively prompted me to get a degree in computer science,” he said. “I now had science, engineering, and computer science in my background. Then, over the years, I got more and more interested in the tools and capabilities that can help not only manage data but also how you extract knowledge from these large datasets.”</p>
  693.  
  694.  
  695.  
  696. <p>Fast forward to today, and Ramachandran is an award-winning scientist helping to ensure the vast amounts of data collected by NASA are accessible and searchable for scientists around the world.</p>
  697.  
  698.  
  699.  
  700. <p>“I never would have thought that I could ever get a job working at an agency like NASA,” he said. “You get to work with some of the smartest people in the world, and you get to work on really hard problems. I think that’s what makes it so intellectually stimulating.”</p>
  701.  
  702.  
  703.  
  704. <p>Over the course of his career, he has worked on many different projects focused on scientific data management, designed frameworks for large scale scientific analysis, and developed machine learning applications. Recently, he worked with team members at IBM Research to create a geospatial AI foundation model that could turn NASA satellite data into maps of natural disasters or other environmental changes. He also established the Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (<a href="https://impact.earthdata.nasa.gov/" rel="noopener">IMPACT</a>) at NASA, which supports NASA’s <a href="https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/esds" rel="noopener">Earth Science Data Systems Program</a> by collaborating with other agencies and partners to boost the scientific benefits of data collected by NASA’s missions and experiments.</p>
  705.  
  706.  
  707.  
  708. <p>Ramachandran received the 2023 Greg Leptoukh Lecture award for his accomplishments, an honor he attributes in large part to the many collaborators and mentors he’s had over the years.</p>
  709.  
  710.  
  711.  
  712. <p>During his presentation, Ramachandran spoke about the ways in which artificial intelligence can help NASA continue to adapt and support open science.</p>
  713.  
  714.  
  715.  
  716. <p>“We’ve seen what people can do with ChatGPT, which is built on a language foundation model, but there are AI foundation models for science that can be adapted into analyzing scientific data so we can augment what we are doing now in a much more efficient manner,” he said. “It requires a bit of a change in people’s mindset. How do we rethink our processes? How do we rethink a strategy for managing data? How will people search and analyze data information differently? All those things have to be thought of with a different perspective now.”</p>
  717.  
  718.  
  719.  
  720. <p>Such work will have benefits not only for NASA but for those who use the data collected by the agency. Ramachandran said he recently got an email from someone in Africa who was able to use NASA’s data and the geospatial AI foundation model for detecting locust breeding grounds on the continent.</p>
  721.  
  722.  
  723.  
  724. <p>“NASA has produced valuable science data that we make available to the community to use,” Ramachandran said. “I think the future would be that we not only provide the data, but we also provide these AI models that allow the science community to use the data effectively, whether it’s doing basic research or building applications like the locust breeding ground prediction.”</p>
  725.  
  726.  
  727.  
  728. <p>As that future nears, Ramachandran and his team will be ready to help others in the science community find the data they need to learn and build the tools they’ll use for years to come.</p>
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  731.  
  732. <p><em>Barnett, a Media Fusion employee, supports the Marshall Office of Communications.</em></p>
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  740. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>PMPO Team Members Discuss NASA Science Missions at Huntsville Comic &amp; Pop Culture Expo</strong></h2>
  741.  
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  743.  
  744. <p>Team Members from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/planetarymissions/">Planetary Mission Program Office</a> (PMPO) participated in a panel discussion April 13 at the Huntsville Comic &amp; Pop Culture Expo at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville.</p>
  745.  
  746.  
  747. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo2.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="2048" height="1449" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo2.png?w=2048" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="Members of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s Planetary Mission Program Office participate in a panel April 13 at the Huntsville Comic &amp; Pop Culture Expo at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville." style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo2.png 2420w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo2.png?resize=300,212 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo2.png?resize=768,543 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo2.png?resize=1024,724 1024w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo2.png?resize=1536,1087 1536w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo2.png?resize=2048,1449 2048w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo2.png?resize=400,283 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo2.png?resize=600,424 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo2.png?resize=900,637 900w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo2.png?resize=1200,849 1200w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo2.png?resize=2000,1415 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">Members of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s Planetary Mission Program Office participate in a panel April 13 at the Huntsville Comic &amp; Pop Culture Expo at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville. </div><div class="hds-credits">NASA/Daniel Horton</div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  748.  
  749.  
  750. <p>Approximately 150 people attended the panel, which featured PMPO team members talking about the different missions they manage at NASA.</p>
  751.  
  752.  
  753.  
  754. <p>“I was really encouraged by the turnout and the enthusiasm of the crowd,” said Brian Mulac, deputy manager of the Planetary Missions Program Office. “They asked some great questions and it was a good opportunity to highlight some of our exciting missions to the community.”</p>
  755.  
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  757. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo3.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="2048" height="1152" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo3.jpg?w=2048" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="From left, Scott Bellamy, Brad Zavodsky, Solveig Irvine, and Brian Mulac pose for a selfie after speaking during a NASA science panel at the Huntsville Comic &amp; Pop Culture Expo on April 13. The group discussed the upcoming science missions managed by the Planetary Missions Program Office." style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo3.jpg 3840w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo3.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo3.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo3.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo3.jpg?resize=1536,864 1536w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo3.jpg?resize=2048,1152 2048w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo3.jpg?resize=400,225 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo3.jpg?resize=600,338 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo3.jpg?resize=900,506 900w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo3.jpg?resize=1200,675 1200w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pmpoexpo3.jpg?resize=2000,1125 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">From left, Scott Bellamy, Brad Zavodsky, Solveig Irvine, and Brian Mulac pose for a selfie after speaking during a NASA science panel at the Huntsville Comic &amp; Pop Culture Expo on April 13. The group discussed the upcoming science missions managed by the Planetary Missions Program Office. </div><div class="hds-credits">NASA/Solveig Irvine</div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  758.  
  759.  
  760. <p>Mission Manager Solveig Irvine agreed. “I loved being able to share the excitement of sample return with the local community,” Irvine said. “Living and working in Huntsville we all feel a special bond with our local science community, and being able to sit and talk with the local audience about our missions was an amazing experience.”</p>
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  767.  
  768. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Mission Success is in Our Hands: Matthew Pruitt</strong></h2>
  769.  
  770.  
  771.  
  772. <p><em>By Wayne Smith</em></p>
  773.  
  774.  
  775.  
  776. <p><em>Mission Success is in Our Hands is a safety initiative collaboration between NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Jacobs. As part of the initiative, eight Marshall team members are featured in testimonial banners placed around the center. This is the sixth in a Marshall Star series profiling team members featured in the testimonial banners. The Mission Success team also awards the Golden Eagle Award on a quarterly basis to Marshall and contractor personnel who are nominated by their peers or management. Candidates for this award have made significant, identifiable contributions that exceed normal job expectations to advance flight safety and mission assurance. Nominations are open now to team members on Inside Marshall.</em></p>
  777.  
  778.  
  779. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/matt-horizontal-min.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1920" height="1080" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/matt-horizontal-min.jpg?w=1920" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="Matthew Pruitt is the schedule functional lead for NASA’s Human Landing System Program." style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/matt-horizontal-min.jpg 1920w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/matt-horizontal-min.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/matt-horizontal-min.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/matt-horizontal-min.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/matt-horizontal-min.jpg?resize=1536,864 1536w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/matt-horizontal-min.jpg?resize=400,225 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/matt-horizontal-min.jpg?resize=600,338 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/matt-horizontal-min.jpg?resize=900,506 900w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/matt-horizontal-min.jpg?resize=1200,675 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">Matthew Pruitt is the schedule functional lead for NASA’s Human Landing System Program. </div><div class="hds-credits">NASA/Charles Beason</div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  780.  
  781.  
  782. <p>Matthew Pruitt is the schedule functional lead for the Human Landing System (HLS) Program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. His key responsibilities include leading the HLS Schedule team in weaving together many schedule threads from contractor and government teams into one cogent story and communicating that story within HLS, to peer programs, and to the Moon to Mars enterprise.</p>
  783.  
  784.  
  785.  
  786. <p>Pruitt has worked at Marshall for 15 years, including three years as a co-op student. He’s also been a test engineer for life support systems, manufacturing engineer for the Marshall machine shop, design engineer, and most recently lead systems engineer for the Near Earth Asteroid Scout mission.</p>
  787.  
  788.  
  789.  
  790. <p>A native of Huntsville, Pruitt earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Auburn University.</p>
  791.  
  792.  
  793.  
  794. <p><strong>Question:</strong> How does your work support the safety and success of NASA and Marshall missions?</p>
  795.  
  796.  
  797.  
  798. <p><strong>Pruitt:</strong> My team’s work supports mission safety and success by making sure the hundreds of different efforts required to place crew safely back on the Moon work in concert, both within HLS and between us and the other programs of the Artemis campaign. The clearest example of this is our safety reviews: in partnership with HLS Safety and Mission Assurance, we help ensure that our data product readiness supports our safety review schedules, ultimately leading to a certified vehicle.</p>
  799.  
  800.  
  801.  
  802. <p><strong>Question:</strong> Our initiative campaign is &#8220;Mission Success is in Our Hands.&#8221; What does that mean to you?</p>
  803.  
  804.  
  805.  
  806. <p><strong>Pruitt:</strong> To me, “Mission Success is in Our Hands” means that each of us at NASA has our own role to play in ensuring the agency accomplishes its mission. Our commitment and diligence as a workforce are what power our achievements – and many hands make light work!</p>
  807.  
  808.  
  809.  
  810. <p><strong>Question:</strong> Do you have a story or personal experience you can share that might help others understand the significance of mission assurance or flight safety? What did you learn from it?</p>
  811.  
  812.  
  813.  
  814. <p><strong>Pruitt:</strong> During Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) Scout’s integrated spacecraft environmental testing, our team needed to transport the spacecraft from our assembly facility to one of the test labs. To shorten setup time at the test lab, we modified our procedure to allow installation of a cable on the spacecraft prior to transport, rather than after arrival at the test lab. While this change was reviewed by the appropriate parties, our documentation ultimately proved insufficient to catch a risk to the spacecraft from transporting it in this way. A component on the spacecraft was damaged as a result, and the project lost over a month devising and implementing software updates to circumvent the damage.</p>
  815.  
  816.  
  817.  
  818. <p>The event and its aftermath taught me two things. First, it reinforced for me the importance of our test review process. In several instances earlier in my career, I found myself reflecting on the tedium of test reviews – but the value of ensuring everyone on the team has the complete picture of what is being done during a test cannot be overstated. You never know whose insights might save the project time or cost in preventing a mishap.</p>
  819.  
  820.  
  821.  
  822. <p>Second, it taught me that with a determined, collaborative team, anything is possible. We conceived a new method of operating the spacecraft, captured the changes in a software update, tested and deployed the update, replanned the subsequent environmental test to accommodate the new operating method, and executed the test, all in the span of two months. It was a herculean effort, shouldered by a team that believed in the mission and wanted it to succeed.</p>
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  825.  
  826. <p><strong>Question:</strong> How can we work together better to achieve mission success?</p>
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  830. <p><strong>Pruitt:</strong> Mission success is best achieved with a healthy team; astonishing things can be accomplished by even a small group of people, if the right practices are in place. I’ve found the most important are to respect your fellow teammates, value their contributions, and listen to what they have to say. While those practices must start with team leadership, all members have a share in creating and sustaining the right team environment.</p>
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  833.  
  834. <p><strong>Question:</strong> Do you have anything else you’d like to share?</p>
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  838. <p><strong>Pruitt:</strong> I traveled with my family to see the April 8 total solar eclipse in Russellville, Arkansas, and that experience reminded me anew of why NASA is so important. Our agency has the fundamental role of bringing the wonder and beauty of the cosmos to the public. Seeing that firsthand deepened my resolve to help deliver on all of NASA’s inspiring goals, from returning crew to the Moon, or returning samples from Mars, to deepening our understanding of our universe. I couldn’t be prouder to work at this agency.</p>
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  842. <p><em>Smith, a Media Fusion employee and the Marshall Star editor, supports the Marshall Office of Communications.</em></p>
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  850. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>AI for Earth: How NASA’s Artificial Intelligence and Open Science Efforts Combat Climate Change</strong></h2>
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  852.  
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  854. <p>As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these events, but also empowering outside researchers to do the same. The artificial intelligence (AI) efforts spearheaded by the agency offer a powerful tool to accomplish these goals.</p>
  855.  
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  857.  
  858. <p>In 2023, NASA teamed up with IBM Research to create an AI geospatial foundation model. Trained on vast amounts of NASA’s widely used <a href="https://hls.gsfc.nasa.gov/" rel="noopener">Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2</a>&nbsp;data, the model provides a base for a variety of AI-powered studies to tackle environmental challenges. In keeping with open science principles,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/impact-ibm-hls-foundation-model" rel="noopener">the foundation model</a> is freely available for anyone to access.</p>
  859.  
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  861. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1-europe-at-night-1041.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1041" height="693" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1-europe-at-night-1041.jpg?w=1041" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="Lights brighten the night sky in this image of Europe" style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1-europe-at-night-1041.jpg 1041w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1-europe-at-night-1041.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1-europe-at-night-1041.jpg?resize=768,511 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1-europe-at-night-1041.jpg?resize=1024,682 1024w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1-europe-at-night-1041.jpg?resize=400,266 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1-europe-at-night-1041.jpg?resize=600,399 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1-europe-at-night-1041.jpg?resize=900,599 900w" sizes="(max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">Lights brighten the night sky in this image of Europe, including Poland, taken from the International Space Station.</div><div class="hds-credits">NASA</div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  862.  
  863.  
  864. <p>Foundation models serve as a baseline from which scientists can develop a diverse set of applications, enabling powerful and efficient solutions. “Foundation models only know what things are represented in the data,” explained Manil Maskey, the data science lead at NASA’s Office of the Chief Science Data Officer. “It’s like a Swiss Army Knife – it can be used for multiple different things.”</p>
  865.  
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  867.  
  868. <p>Once a foundation model is created, it can be trained on a small amount of data to perform a specific task. To date, the Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concept Team (IMPACT) along with collaborators have demonstrated the geospatial foundation model’s capabilities by fine-tuning it to detect burn scars, to delineate flood water, and to classify crop and other land use categories.</p>
  869.  
  870.  
  871.  
  872. <p><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/marshall/the-marshall-star-for-february-28-2024/#hds-sidebar-nav-2">Maskey</a> is the senior research scientist and project manager for the IMPACT project in the Earth Science branch at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.</p>
  873.  
  874.  
  875.  
  876. <p>Because of the computational resources required to create the initial foundation model, a partnership was necessary for success. In this case, NASA brought the data and scientific knowledge, while IBM brought the computing power and AI algorithm optimization expertise. The team’s shared commitment to making their research accessible through open science principles ensures that their model can be useful to as many researchers as possible.</p>
  877.  
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  879.  
  880. <p>“To build a foundation model at scale, we realized early on that it&#8217;s not feasible for one institution to build it,” Maskey said. “Everything we have done on our foundation models has been open to the public, all the way from pre-training data, code, best practices, model weights, fine-tuning training data, and publications. There’s transparency, so researchers can trace why certain things were used in terms of data or model architecture.”</p>
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  883. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tumbesperu-oli2-20240314.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1536" height="1024" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tumbesperu-oli2-20240314.png?w=1536" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="Rectangular ponds for shrimp farming line the coast of northern Peru in this image captured on March 14, 2024, by the OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) on Landsat 9." style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tumbesperu-oli2-20240314.png 1536w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tumbesperu-oli2-20240314.png?resize=300,200 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tumbesperu-oli2-20240314.png?resize=768,512 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tumbesperu-oli2-20240314.png?resize=1024,683 1024w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tumbesperu-oli2-20240314.png?resize=400,267 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tumbesperu-oli2-20240314.png?resize=600,400 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tumbesperu-oli2-20240314.png?resize=900,600 900w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tumbesperu-oli2-20240314.png?resize=1200,800 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0"> Rectangular ponds for shrimp farming line the coast of northern Peru in this image captured on March 14, 2024, by the OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) on Landsat 9. </div><div class="hds-credits">NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin</div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  884.  
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  886. <p>Following on from the success of their geospatial foundation model, NASA and IBM Research are continuing their partnership to create a new, similar model for weather and climate studies. They are collaborating with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), NVIDIA, and several universities to bring this model to life.</p>
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  890. <p>This time, the main dataset will be the&nbsp;<a href="https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/reanalysis/MERRA-2/" rel="noopener">Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)</a>, a huge collection of atmospheric reanalysis data that spans from 1980 to the present day. Like the geospatial foundation model, the weather and climate model is being developed with an open science approach, and will be available to the public in the near future.</p>
  891.  
  892.  
  893.  
  894. <p>Covering all aspects of Earth science would take several foundation models trained on different types of datasets. However, Maskey believes those future models might someday be combined into one comprehensive model, leading to a “digital twin” of the Earth that would provide unparalleled analysis and predictions for all kinds of climate and environmental events.</p>
  895.  
  896.  
  897.  
  898. <p>Whatever innovations the future holds, NASA and IBM’s geospatial and climate foundation models will enable leaps in Earth science like never before. Though powerful AI tools will enhance researchers’ work, the team’s dedication to open science supercharges the possibilities for discovery by allowing anyone to put those tools into practice and pave the way for groundbreaking research to help better care for the planet.</p>
  899.  
  900.  
  901.  
  902. <p><a href="https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/open-science/" rel="noopener">Read</a> more about open science at NASA.</p>
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  909.  
  910. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Work Underway on Large Cargo Landers for NASA’s Artemis Moon Missions</strong></h2>
  911.  
  912.  
  913.  
  914. <p>Under NASA’s <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis/">Artemis</a> campaign, the agency and its partners will send large pieces of equipment to the lunar surface to enable long-term scientific exploration of the Moon for the benefit of all. NASA’s human landing system providers, SpaceX and Blue Origin, are beginning development of lunar landers for large cargo deliveries to support these needs.</p>
  915.  
  916.  
  917. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hls-large-cargo-landers-240419.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="2048" height="587" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hls-large-cargo-landers-240419.jpg?w=2048" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="Early conceptual renderings of cargo variants of human lunar landing systems from NASA’s providers SpaceX, left, and Blue Origin, right. Both industry teams have been given authority to begin design work to provide large cargo landers capable of delivering up to 15 metric tons of cargo, such as a pressurized rover, to the Moon’s surface." style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hls-large-cargo-landers-240419.jpg 4259w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hls-large-cargo-landers-240419.jpg?resize=300,86 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hls-large-cargo-landers-240419.jpg?resize=768,220 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hls-large-cargo-landers-240419.jpg?resize=1024,294 1024w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hls-large-cargo-landers-240419.jpg?resize=1536,440 1536w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hls-large-cargo-landers-240419.jpg?resize=2048,587 2048w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hls-large-cargo-landers-240419.jpg?resize=400,115 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hls-large-cargo-landers-240419.jpg?resize=600,172 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hls-large-cargo-landers-240419.jpg?resize=900,258 900w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hls-large-cargo-landers-240419.jpg?resize=1200,344 1200w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hls-large-cargo-landers-240419.jpg?resize=2000,573 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">Early conceptual renderings of cargo variants of human lunar landing systems from NASA’s providers SpaceX, left, and Blue Origin, right. Both industry teams have been given authority to begin design work to provide large cargo landers capable of delivering up to 15 metric tons of cargo, such as a pressurized rover, to the Moon’s surface.</div><div class="hds-credits"><em>SpaceX and Blue Origin</em></div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  918.  
  919.  
  920. <p>NASA has contracted SpaceX and Blue Origin to provide landing systems to take astronauts to the Moon’s surface from lunar orbit, beginning with Artemis III. The agency has asked the two companies to develop cargo versions of their human lunar landers as an option under their existing contracts. These cargo variants are expected to land approximately 26,000 – 33,000 pounds of payload on the lunar surface and be in service no earlier than the Artemis VII mission.</p>
  921.  
  922.  
  923.  
  924. <p>“It’s essential that NASA has the capability to land not just astronauts, but large pieces of equipment, such as pressurized rovers, on the Moon for maximum return on science and exploration activities,” said Lisa Watson-Morgan, Human Landing System Program manager at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. “Beginning this work now allows SpaceX and Blue Origin to leverage their respective human lander designs to provide cargo variants that NASA will need in the future.”</p>
  925.  
  926.  
  927.  
  928. <p>NASA expects the cargo versions of the companies’ landers to be modified versions of the human landing systems currently being developed for Artemis III, IV, and V. Modifications will include adjustments for payload interfaces and deployment mechanisms, and the cargo variants will not have human life support systems.</p>
  929.  
  930.  
  931.  
  932. <p>This initial work allows the companies to proceed with development for their cargo landers through a preliminary design review, the step that establishes the basis for proceeding with detailed design. SpaceX is conducting its work under the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/nextstep-h-human-landing-system/">NextSTEP Appendix H</a>&nbsp;contract, and Blue Origin is conducting its work under&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-blue-origin-as-second-artemis-lunar-lander-provider/">NextSTEP Appendix P</a>. NASA officially exercised the options under those contracts in November 2023 to begin work on the large cargo landers.</p>
  933.  
  934.  
  935.  
  936. <p>With Artemis, NASA will explore more of the Moon than ever before, learn how to live and work away from home, and prepare for future human missions to the Red Planet. Artemis requires the best of international space agencies, private industry, and academia to establish the infrastructure for long-term scientific research and exploration. NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, exploration ground systems, and Orion spacecraft, along with the human landing system, next-generation spacesuits and rovers, and Gateway lunar space station are the agency’s foundation for human exploration deep space.</p>
  937.  
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  941.  
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  943.  
  944. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Juno Gives Aerial Views of Mountain, Lava Lake on Io</strong></h2>
  945.  
  946.  
  947.  
  948. <p>Scientists on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have transformed data collected during two recent flybys of Io into animations that highlight two of the Jovian moon’s most dramatic features: a mountain and an almost glass-smooth lake of cooling lava. Other recent science results from the solar-powered spacecraft include updates on Jupiter’s polar cyclones and water abundance.</p>
  949.  
  950.  
  951.  
  952. <p>The new findings were announced April 16 by Juno’s principal investigator Scott Bolton during a news conference at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly in Vienna.</p>
  953.  
  954.  
  955. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="2048" height="2048" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg?w=2048" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="The JunoCam instrument on NASA’s Juno captured this view of Jupiter’s moon Io — with the first-ever image of its south polar region — during the spacecraft’s 60th flyby of Jupiter on April 9." style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg 2296w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg?resize=768,768 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg?resize=1024,1024 1024w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg?resize=1536,1536 1536w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg?resize=2048,2048 2048w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg?resize=50,50 50w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg?resize=400,400 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg?resize=600,600 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg?resize=900,900 900w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg?resize=1200,1200 1200w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e1-pia25697-pj60-io-junocam.jpeg?resize=2000,2000 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">The JunoCam instrument on NASA’s Juno captured this view of Jupiter’s moon Io – with the first-ever image of its south polar region during the spacecraft’s 60th flyby of Jupiter on April 9. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS. Image processing: Gerald Eichstädt/Thomas Thomopoulos</div><div class="hds-credits">Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS. Image processing: Gerald Eichstädt/Thomas Thomopoulos (CC BY).</div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  956.  
  957.  
  958. <p>Juno made extremely close flybys of Io in December 2023 and February 2024, getting within about 930 miles of the surface, obtaining the first close-up images of the moon’s northern latitudes.</p>
  959.  
  960.  
  961.  
  962. <p>“Io is simply littered with volcanoes, and we caught a few of them in action,” said Bolton. “We also got some great close-ups and other data on a 200-kilometer-long (127-mile-long) lava lake called Loki Patera. There is amazing detail showing these crazy islands embedded in the middle of a potentially magma lake rimmed with hot lava. The specular reflection our instruments recorded of the lake suggests parts of Io’s surface are as smooth as glass, reminiscent of volcanically created&nbsp;<a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92338/going-going-gone-summer-clears-ice-from-krasnoye-lake" rel="noopener">obsidian glass</a>&nbsp;on Earth.”</p>
  963.  
  964.  
  965.  
  966. <p>Maps generated with data collected by Juno’s Microwave Radiometer (<a href="https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/instrument/Microwave+Radiometer?subselect=Mission:Juno:" rel="noopener">MWR</a>) instrument reveal Io not only has a surface that is relatively smooth compared to Jupiter’s other&nbsp;<a href="https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/moons/" rel="noopener">Galilean moons</a>, but also has poles that are colder than middle latitudes.</p>
  967.  
  968.  
  969.  
  970. <p>During&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-juno-mission-expands-into-the-future" rel="noopener">Juno’s extended mission</a>, the spacecraft flies closer to the north pole of Jupiter with each pass. This changing orientation allows the MWR instrument to improve its resolution of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia24237-all-eight-northern-circumpolar-cyclones-in-2020" rel="noopener">Jupiter’s northern polar cyclones</a>. The data allows multiwavelength comparisons of the poles, revealing that not all polar cyclones are created equal.</p>
  971.  
  972.  
  973.  
  974. <p>“Perhaps most striking example of this disparity can be found with the central cyclone at Jupiter’s north pole,” said Steve Levin, Juno’s project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “It is clearly visible in both infrared and visible light images, but its microwave signature is nowhere near as strong as other nearby storms. This tells us that its subsurface structure must be very different from these other cyclones. The MWR team continues to collect more and better microwave data with every orbit, so we anticipate developing a more detailed 3D map of these intriguing polar storms.”</p>
  975.  
  976.  
  977.  
  978. <p>One of the mission’s primary science goals is to collect data that could help scientists better understand Jupiter’s water abundance. To do this, the Juno science team isn’t hunting for liquid water. Instead, they are looking to quantify the presence of oxygen and hydrogen molecules (the molecules that make up water) in Jupiter’s atmosphere. An accurate estimate is critical to piecing together the puzzle of our solar system’s formation.</p>
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  982. <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  983. <iframe loading="lazy" title="Looking Into Io’s Loki Patera (Artist’s Concept)" width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lg2Szj_OG_Q?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  984. </div><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Created using data collected by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno during flybys in December 2023 and February 2024, this animation is an artist’s concept of a feature on the Jovian moon Io that the mission science team nicknamed Steeple Mountain. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS</figcaption></figure>
  985.  
  986.  
  987.  
  988. <p>Jupiter was likely the first planet to form, and it contains most of the gas and dust that wasn’t incorporated into the Sun. Water abundance also has important implications for the gas giant’s meteorology (including how wind currents flow on Jupiter) and internal structure.</p>
  989.  
  990.  
  991.  
  992. <p>In 1995, NASA’s Galileo probe provided an early dataset on Jupiter’s water abundance during the spacecraft’s 57-minute descent into the Jovian atmosphere. But the data created more questions than answers, indicating the gas giant’s atmosphere was unexpectedly hot and – contrary to what computer models had indicated – bereft of water.</p>
  993.  
  994.  
  995.  
  996. <p>“The probe did amazing science, but its data was so far afield from our models of Jupiter’s water abundance that we considered whether the location it sampled could be an outlier. But before Juno, we couldn’t confirm,” said Bolton. “Now, with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103524000873?via%3Dihub" rel="noopener">recent results made with MWR data</a>, we have nailed down that the water abundance near Jupiter’s equator is roughly three to four times the solar abundance when compared to hydrogen. This definitively demonstrates that the Galileo probe’s entry site was an anomalously dry, desert-like region.”</p>
  997.  
  998.  
  999.  
  1000. <p>The results support the belief that the during formation of our solar system, water-ice material may have been the source of the heavy element enrichment (chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium that were accreted by Jupiter) during the gas giant’s formation and/or evolution. The formation of Jupiter remains puzzling, because Juno results on the core of the gas giant suggest a very low water abundance – a mystery that scientists are still trying to sort out.&nbsp;</p>
  1001.  
  1002.  
  1003.  
  1004. <p>Data during the remainder of Juno’s extended mission may help, both by enabling scientists to compare Jupiter’s water abundance near the polar regions to the equatorial region and by shedding additional light on the structure of the planet’s dilute core.&nbsp;</p>
  1005.  
  1006.  
  1007.  
  1008. <p>During Juno’s most recent flyby of Io, on April 9, the spacecraft came within about 10,250 miles of the moon’s surface. It will execute its 61st flyby of Jupiter on May 12.</p>
  1009.  
  1010.  
  1011.  
  1012. <p>NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech, manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate. The Italian Space Agency (ASI) funded the Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built and operates the spacecraft.</p>
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  1023. <media:title type="plain">Looking Into Io’s Loki Patera (Artist’s Concept)</media:title>
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  1034. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  1038. <description><![CDATA[Please Disgregard. This is a test.]]></description>
  1039. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please Disgregard.  This is a test.</p>
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  1045. <div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth.</div>
  1046. <div class="hds-credits">NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI</div>
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  1056. <title>Tracking Spring Flooding</title>
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  1059. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Monika Luabeya]]></dc:creator>
  1060. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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  1062. <category><![CDATA[Floods]]></category>
  1063. <category><![CDATA[Landsat 9]]></category>
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  1068. <description><![CDATA[Ural River levels peak in this April 13, 2024, enhanced color image from Landsat 9; here, vegetation appears red, while water is blue-green. After heavy rain and rapid snowmelt, rivers in southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan swelled, flooding homes and displacing thousands of people. Landsat 9, the latest satellite in the Landsat series, contributes a [&#8230;]]]></description>
  1069. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/uralriver-flood-oli2-20240413-lrg.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1983" height="1322" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/uralriver-flood-oli2-20240413-lrg.jpg?w=1983" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="An enhanced color image of Orenburg, Russia when the Ural River water levels peaked. Vegetation is a deep red, while water is blue green." style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/uralriver-flood-oli2-20240413-lrg.jpg 1983w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/uralriver-flood-oli2-20240413-lrg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/uralriver-flood-oli2-20240413-lrg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/uralriver-flood-oli2-20240413-lrg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/uralriver-flood-oli2-20240413-lrg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/uralriver-flood-oli2-20240413-lrg.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/uralriver-flood-oli2-20240413-lrg.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/uralriver-flood-oli2-20240413-lrg.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/uralriver-flood-oli2-20240413-lrg.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1983px) 100vw, 1983px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">Rivers swelled in southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan in April 2024 following heavy rain and rapid snowmelt. This image shows Orenburg on April 13, the day river levels peaked. This scene was acquired by the OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 9. </div><div class="hds-credits">NASA/Michala Garrison, USGS</div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  1070.  
  1071.  
  1072. <p>Ural River levels peak in this April 13, 2024, enhanced color image from <a href="https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/landsat-9/landsat-9-overview/" rel="noopener">Landsat 9</a>; here, vegetation appears red, while water is blue-green. After heavy rain and rapid snowmelt, rivers in southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan swelled, flooding homes and displacing thousands of people.</p>
  1073.  
  1074.  
  1075.  
  1076. <p>Landsat 9, the latest satellite in the Landsat series, contributes a critical component to the international strategy for monitoring the health and state of the Earth, allowing more frequent observations. Data from Landsat 9 can be used to inform decisions in key areas like urban expansion, coral reef degradation, and natural disasters.</p>
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  1078.  
  1079.  
  1080. <p><em>Image Credit: NASA/Michala Garrison, USGS</em></p>
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  1086. <item>
  1087. <title>NASA&#8217;s Chandra Releases Doubleheader of Blockbuster Hits</title>
  1088. <link>https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasas-chandra-releases-doubleheader-of-blockbuster-hits/</link>
  1090. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee Mohon]]></dc:creator>
  1091. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
  1092. <category><![CDATA[Chandra X-Ray Observatory]]></category>
  1093. <category><![CDATA[Crab Nebula]]></category>
  1094. <category><![CDATA[Marshall Space Flight Center]]></category>
  1095. <category><![CDATA[Nebulae]]></category>
  1096. <category><![CDATA[Supernovae]]></category>
  1097. <category><![CDATA[The Universe]]></category>
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  1099.  
  1100. <description><![CDATA[New movies of two of the most famous objects in the sky — the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A — are being released from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Each includes X-ray data collected by Chandra over about two decades. They show dramatic changes in the debris and radiation remaining after the explosion of two massive [&#8230;]]]></description>
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  1118. <div>These two movies of the Cassiopeia A and Crab Nebula supernova  remnants show Chandra’s capabilities of documenting changes in astronomical objects over human timeframes. Dramatic changes are apparent in the debris and radiation remaining after the explosion of these two massive stars in our galaxy. Such time-lapse movies would not be possible without Chandra’s archives that serve as public repositories for the data collected over Chandra’s nearly 25 years of operations. </div>
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  1120. </div>
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  1123.  
  1124.  
  1125. <p>New movies of two of the most famous objects in the sky — the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A — are being released from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Each includes X-ray data collected by Chandra over about two decades. They show dramatic changes in the debris and radiation remaining after the explosion of two massive stars in our galaxy.</p>
  1126.  
  1127.  
  1128.  
  1129. <p>The Crab Nebula, the result of a bright supernova explosion seen by Chinese and other astronomers in the year 1054, is 6,500 light-years from Earth. At its center is a neutron star, a super-dense star produced by the supernova. As it rotates at about 30 times per second, its beam of radiation passes over the Earth every orbit, like a cosmic lighthouse.</p>
  1130.  
  1131.  
  1132.  
  1133. <p>As the young pulsar slows down, large amounts of energy are injected into its surroundings. In particular, a high-speed wind of matter and anti-matter particles plows into the surrounding nebula, creating a shock wave that forms the expanding ring seen in the movie. Jets from the poles of the pulsar spew X-ray emitting matter and antimatter particles in a direction perpendicular to the ring.</p>
  1134.  
  1135.  
  1136.  
  1137. <p>Over 22 years, Chandra has taken many observations of the Crab Nebula. With this long runtime, astronomers see clear changes in both the ring and the jets in the new movie. Previous Chandra movies showed images taken from much shorter time periods — a 5-month period <a href="https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2002/0052/" rel="noopener">between 2000 and 2001</a> and over 7 months <a href="https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2011/crab/" rel="noopener">between 2010 and 2011</a> for another. The longer timeframe highlights mesmerizing fluctuations, including whip-like variations in the X-ray jet that are only seen in this much longer movie. A new set of Chandra observations will be conducted later this year to follow changes in the jet since the last Chandra data was obtained in early 2022.</p>
  1138.  
  1139.  
  1140.  
  1141. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Crab Nebula Timelapse</h2>
  1142.  
  1143.  
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  1157. <div> This video begins with a composite version of the Crab Nebula, combining Chandra X-ray data with infrared data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Over 22 years, Chandra has taken many observations of the Crab Nebula. With this long runtime, astronomers see clear changes in both the ring and the jets in the new movie. Previous Chandra movies showed images taken from much shorter time periods — a 5-month period between 2000 and 2001 and over 7 months between 2010 and 2011 for another. The longer timeframe highlights mesmerizing fluctuations, including whip-like variations in the X-ray jet that are only seen in this much longer movie. A new set of Chandra observations will be conducted later this year to follow changes in the jet since the last Chandra data was obtained in early 2022. (Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt, J. Major, A. Jubett, K. Arcand)</div>
  1158. </div>
  1159. </div>
  1160. </div>
  1161. </div>
  1162.  
  1163.  
  1164. <p>The second billing in this doubleheader is just as spectacular. Cassiopeia A (Cas A for short) is the remains of a supernova that is estimated to have exploded about 340 years ago in Earth’s sky. While other Chandra movies of Cas A have previously been released, including one with data extending <a href="https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2019/firstlight/" rel="noopener">from 2000 to 2013</a>, this new movie is substantially longer featuring data from 2000 through to 2019.</p>
  1165.  
  1166.  
  1167.  
  1168. <p>The outer region of Cas A shows the expanding blast wave of the explosion. The blast wave is composed of shock waves, similar to the sonic booms generated by a supersonic aircraft. These expanding shock waves are sites where particles are being accelerated to energies that are higher than the most powerful accelerator on Earth, the Large Hadron Collider. As the blast wave travels outwards it encounters surrounding material and slows down, generating a second shock wave that travels backwards relative to the blast wave, analogous to a traffic jam travelling backwards from the scene of an accident on a highway.</p>
  1169.  
  1170.  
  1171.  
  1172. <p>Cas A has been one of the most highly observed targets and publicly released images from the Chandra mission. It was Chandra&#8217;s official first-light image in 1999 after the Space Shuttle Columbia launched into orbit and quickly discovered <a href="https://chandra.si.edu/press/99_releases/press_082699.html" rel="noopener">a point source of X-rays in Cas A’s center</a> for the first time, later confirmed to be a neutron star. Over the years, astronomers have used Chandra to discover evidence for <a href="https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2011/casa/" rel="noopener">“superfluid” inside Cas A’s neutron star</a>, to reveal that the original massive star may have <a href="https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2012/casa/" rel="noopener">turned inside out as it exploded</a> and to take an important step in <a href="https://chandra.si.edu/press/21_releases/press_042121.html" rel="noopener">pinpointing how giant stars explode</a>. Chandra has also <a href="https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2017/casa_life/" rel="noopener">mapped the elements forged inside the star</a>, which are now moving into space to help seed the next generation of stars and planets. More recently, Chandra data was combined with data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to help <a href="https://chandra.si.edu/press/24_releases/press_010824.html" rel="noopener">determine the origin of mysterious structures within the remnant</a>.</p>
  1173.  
  1174.  
  1175.  
  1176. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Cassiopeia A Timelapse</h2>
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  1192. <div>This video begins with a composite version of the Cassiopeia A, combining Chandra X-ray data with infrared data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Cassiopeia A (Cas A for short) is the remains of a supernova that is estimated to have exploded about 340 years ago in Earth’s sky. This new Cas A movie features data from 2000 through to 2019. The images used in the latest Cas A movie have been processed using a state-of-the-art processing technique, led by Yusuke from Rikkyo University in Japan, to fully capitalize on Chandra&#039;s sharp X-ray vision.  (Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major, A. Jubett, K. Arcand)</div>
  1193. </div>
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  1197.  
  1198.  
  1199. <p>The images used in the latest Cas A movie have been processed using a state-of-the-art processing technique, led by Yusuke from Rikkyo University in Japan, to fully capitalize on Chandra&#8217;s sharp X-ray vision. The paper describing their work was published in The Astrophysical Journal and is <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acd9b3" rel="noopener">available online</a>.</p>
  1200.  
  1201.  
  1202.  
  1203. <p>These two movies show Chandra’s capabilities of documenting changes in astronomical objects over human timeframes. Such movies would not be possible without Chandra’s archives that serve as public repositories for the data collected over Chandra’s nearly 25 years of operations.</p>
  1204.  
  1205.  
  1206.  
  1207. <p>NASA&#8217;s Marshall Space Flight Center manages the Chandra program. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory&#8217;s Chandra X-ray Center controls science from Cambridge Massachusetts and flight operations from Burlington, Massachusetts.</p>
  1208.  
  1209.  
  1210.  
  1211. <p><a href="https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2024/timelapse/animations.html" rel="noopener">Read more from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.</a></p>
  1212.  
  1213.  
  1214.  
  1215. <p>For more Chandra images, multimedia and related materials, visit:</p>
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  1217.  
  1218.  
  1219. <p class="has-text-align-center"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission/chandra-x-ray-observatory/">https://www.nasa.gov/mission/chandra-x-ray-observatory/</a></p>
  1220.  
  1221.  
  1222.  
  1223. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">News Media Contact</h2>
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  1225.  
  1226.  
  1227. <p><a href="mailto:mwatzke@cfe.harvard.edu">Megan Watzke</a><br>Chandra X-ray Center<br>Cambridge, Mass.<br>617-496-7998</p>
  1228.  
  1229.  
  1230.  
  1231. <p><a href="mailto:jonathan.e.deal@nasa.gov">Jonathan Deal</a><br>Marshall Space Flight Center<br>Huntsville, Ala.<br>256-544-0034</p>
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  1245. <title>Kiyun Kim: From Intern to Accessibility Advocate</title>
  1246. <link>https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/kiyun-kim-from-intern-to-accessibility-advocate/</link>
  1248. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Madison Olson]]></dc:creator>
  1249. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
  1250. <category><![CDATA[Goddard Space Flight Center]]></category>
  1251. <category><![CDATA[People of Goddard]]></category>
  1252. <category><![CDATA[People of NASA]]></category>
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  1255. <description><![CDATA[Kiyun Kim began at Goddard as a summer intern. Impressed by the center’s community bonds, Kim is now co-chair of a center resource group that champions accessibility and inclusivity. Name: Kiyun KimTitle: Software EngineerOrganization: Ground Software Systems Branch (Code 583) What do you do at Goddard Space Flight Center? I&#8217;m a software engineer on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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  1257. <p><strong>Kiyun Kim began at Goddard as a summer intern. Impressed by the center’s community bonds, Kim is now co-chair of a center resource group that champions accessibility and inclusivity.</strong></p>
  1258.  
  1259.  
  1260.  
  1261. <p><strong>Name</strong>: Kiyun Kim<br><strong>Title</strong>: Software Engineer<br><strong>Organization</strong>: Ground Software Systems Branch (Code 583)</p>
  1262.  
  1263.  
  1264. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kim1-rotated.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1536" height="2048" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kim1-rotated.jpg?w=1536" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt=" Kiyun Kim takes a selfie, smiling, in a car wearing a black, teal and peach floral top. They have shoulder length black hair and wear glasses." style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kim1-rotated.jpg 2208w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kim1-rotated.jpg?resize=225,300 225w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kim1-rotated.jpg?resize=768,1024 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kim1-rotated.jpg?resize=1152,1536 1152w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kim1-rotated.jpg?resize=1536,2048 1536w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kim1-rotated.jpg?resize=300,400 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kim1-rotated.jpg?resize=450,600 450w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kim1-rotated.jpg?resize=675,900 675w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kim1-rotated.jpg?resize=900,1200 900w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kim1-rotated.jpg?resize=1500,2000 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">Kiyun Kim works with aerospace technology software systems at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.</div><div class="hds-credits">Courtesy of Kiyun Kim</div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  1265.  
  1266.  
  1267. <p><strong>What do you do at Goddard Space Flight Center?</strong></p>
  1268.  
  1269.  
  1270.  
  1271. <p>I&#8217;m a software engineer on the ground software systems branch. We do all the software work that stays on the ground and does not go up into space. We do things like software that helps us coordinate stuff on the ground, helps us contact with the satellites, do scheduling, process data, all sorts of things like that. What I do at any given time depends on what project I&#8217;m under.</p>
  1272.  
  1273.  
  1274.  
  1275. <p>The main thing that I&#8217;ve been working on lately is a tool for database checkouts. There are different versions of the database for each satellite and what we want to be able to do is validate those databases and also to look at the changes between databases and compare them to each other.</p>
  1276.  
  1277.  
  1278.  
  1279. <p>In the past, I&#8217;ve also worked on a contact scheduling tool — when you have a bunch of different satellites, they&#8217;re kind of staggered in orbit, so normally, their signals wouldn&#8217;t run into each other, so to speak, when you&#8217;re getting the downlinks from them. But when you have a project that is sharing ground resources with other projects, other organizations, the way that Joint Polar Satellite System is, you sometimes have to work to prevent conflicts between satellites. What we&#8217;re trying to do is maximize the amount of downlinks for each mission in line with what they need.</p>
  1280.  
  1281.  
  1282.  
  1283. <p>Prior to that I was on Goddard Mission Services Evolution Center, or GMSEC. It&#8217;s a framework so that missions can take care of all the communication between all the different parts of their systems. So for example, each mission can use GMSEC and take the built in components that GMSEC offers or build their own components and just plug them into GMSEC and they&#8217;ll all talk to each other using GMSEC.</p>
  1284.  
  1285.  
  1286.  
  1287. <p>Specifically, I worked on the web interface for that and made a countdown clock for it, modeled after the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS).</p>
  1288.  
  1289.  
  1290.  
  1291. <p><strong>What led you to working at NASA?</strong></p>
  1292.  
  1293.  
  1294.  
  1295. <p>I was looking for internships as a college student and my dad found the NASA summer internship program and encouraged me to apply. I got in and I had a really great time.</p>
  1296.  
  1297.  
  1298.  
  1299. <p><strong>What have you enjoyed most about working at NASA?</strong></p>
  1300.  
  1301.  
  1302.  
  1303. <p>One thing that I&#8217;ve really appreciated is the work-life balance aspect, and also the fact that I don&#8217;t have to give up learning new things in order to fulfill my job. Obviously if I have a deadline, I can&#8217;t go to the on-center talks and stuff, but the fact that there are all these talks on different subjects, I really like that I&#8217;m able to just go, and that I&#8217;m supported in doing that.</p>
  1304.  
  1305.  
  1306.  
  1307. <p>I still consider myself early in my career and there&#8217;s so much that I just don&#8217;t know about on center. I know of the kinds of things that I&#8217;ve been working on, obviously, but I don&#8217;t necessarily get exposed to everything else in my day-to-day work. Having the opportunity to see what else is going on on-center is also good for, beyond just sating my curiosity, it&#8217;s also good for helping me figure out what I want to do with my life.</p>
  1308.  
  1309.  
  1310.  
  1311. <p><strong>Is there anything you didn&#8217;t expect when you started as an intern?</strong></p>
  1312.  
  1313.  
  1314.  
  1315. <p>I was surprised by how warm people would be. I remember a very defining experience for me as an intern, was I was walking to get lunch one day from the cafeteria, and I ran into someone who I didn&#8217;t know and she stopped and because she saw my intern badge started talking with me. We ended up talking like out in the hot sun for like an hour. Later she invited me to lunch while I was still an intern, and she came to my intern presentation. She was actually from the Women&#8217;s Employee Resource Group. She wasn&#8217;t explicitly trying to recruit me, but she was just so excited to see a new face and reach out to me and make sure that I felt welcome. That was just like a really defining experience for me and I think it solidified that this was the kind of place I wanted to work at.</p>
  1316.  
  1317.  
  1318. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kim2-e1713968149246.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1536" height="2048" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kim2-e1713968149246.jpg?w=1536" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt=" Kiyun Kim speaks in front of a NASA stage with a presentation behind them. They wear a mask and use a blue cane." style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 40% 44%; object-position: 40% 44%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">Kiyun Kim is one of the co-chairs of the Equal Accessibility Employee Resource Group at Goddard.</div><div class="hds-credits">Courtesy of Kiyun Kim</div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  1319.  
  1320.  
  1321. <p><strong>Are you involved in any groups on campus?</strong></p>
  1322.  
  1323.  
  1324.  
  1325. <p>I&#8217;m one of the co-chairs of the Equal Accessibility Employee Resource Group. I admit that sometimes my own disabilities make it difficult for me to be as active as I would like, but I feel very strongly that the strong ERG presence on center is a blessing. It&#8217;s something that we should nurture.</p>
  1326.  
  1327.  
  1328.  
  1329. <p>The Equal Accessibility Employee Resource Group aims to create awareness around issues that face disabled folks in employment, as well as work to help alleviate some of the barriers that we face on center. It&#8217;s advocacy by and for the group that it represents. Obviously, you don&#8217;t need to be disabled to join and you also don&#8217;t have to disclose if you don&#8217;t want to. I think accessibility is something that we kind of take for granted until it&#8217;s not there for us. A lot of what we&#8217;re trying to do is to just make sure that the concerns of our constituents are bubbled up to leadership and make sure that accessibility is kept in mind as the center moves forward and continues to evolve.</p>
  1330.  
  1331.  
  1332.  
  1333. <p>Diversity in general contributes so much to the workforce. When we, intentionally or not, exclude entire groups of people from being able to work here and to thrive here we actually do lose a lot. Our goal is to prevent that from happening.</p>
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  1336.  
  1337. <p><strong>By Marta Hill</strong></p>
  1338.  
  1339.  
  1340.  
  1341. <p><strong>NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.</strong></p>
  1342.  
  1343.  
  1344. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cwg-banner.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1041" height="320" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cwg-banner.png?w=1041" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="A graphic with a collection of people&#039;s portraits grouped together in front of a soft blue galaxy background. The people come from various races, ethnicities, and genders. A soft yellow star shines in the upper left corner, and the stylized text &quot;Conversations with Goddard&quot; is in white on the far right." style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cwg-banner.png 1041w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cwg-banner.png?resize=300,92 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cwg-banner.png?resize=768,236 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cwg-banner.png?resize=1024,315 1024w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cwg-banner.png?resize=400,123 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cwg-banner.png?resize=600,184 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cwg-banner.png?resize=900,277 900w" sizes="(max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px" /></a></figure></div></div></div>
  1345.  
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  1347. <p><strong><em>Conversations With Goddard&nbsp;</em></strong><em>is a collection of Q&amp;A profiles highlighting the breadth and depth of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s talented and diverse workforce. The Conversations have been published twice a month on average since May 2011. Read past editions on&nbsp;</em><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/people/index.html"><em>Goddard’s “Our People” webpage</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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  1475. <title>NASA Glenn Interactive Exhibit Earns Gold</title>
  1476. <link>https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/nasa-glenn-interactive-exhibit-earns-gold/</link>
  1478. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly M. Matter]]></dc:creator>
  1479. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
  1480. <category><![CDATA[Glenn Research Center]]></category>
  1481. <category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
  1482. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.nasa.gov/?p=648245</guid>
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  1484. <description><![CDATA[The Ohio Museums Association (OMA) presented NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland with two OMA 2023 Visual Communications Awards during its annual meeting in Sandusky, Ohio, on April 14. NASA Glenn and contractor Impact Inc. received the Gold Award (Level 2) and the Best in Show Award for the updated “Science in Space: Interactive International Space [&#8230;]]]></description>
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  1487. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2023-cn-00028.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="2048" height="1536" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2023-cn-00028.jpg?w=2048" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="An exhibit with two touchscreen monitors and colorful video screens that feature animations and read “Combustion Integrated Rack” and “Fluids Integrated Rack” on either side. Text on a sign at the top of the exhibit reads, “Explore Science in Space.” A NASA meatball logo and an image of the International Space Station are also on the sign. Real space station hardware can be seen between the video monitors and on either side of the exhibit." style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2023-cn-00028.jpg 4032w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2023-cn-00028.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2023-cn-00028.jpg?resize=768,576 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2023-cn-00028.jpg?resize=1024,768 1024w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2023-cn-00028.jpg?resize=1536,1152 1536w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2023-cn-00028.jpg?resize=2048,1536 2048w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2023-cn-00028.jpg?resize=400,300 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2023-cn-00028.jpg?resize=600,450 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2023-cn-00028.jpg?resize=900,675 900w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2023-cn-00028.jpg?resize=1200,900 1200w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2023-cn-00028.jpg?resize=2000,1500 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">A new interactive exhibit at the NASA Glenn Visitor Center replicates the Fluids and Combustion Facility on the International Space Station, enabling users to see how microgravity experiments operate. </div><div class="hds-credits"><strong>Credit:</strong> <strong>NASA/Christopher Hartenstine </strong></div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  1488.  
  1489.  
  1490. <p>The Ohio Museums Association (OMA) presented NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland with two OMA 2023 Visual Communications Awards during its annual meeting in Sandusky, Ohio, on April 14. NASA Glenn and contractor Impact Inc. received the Gold Award (Level 2) and the Best in Show Award for the updated “Science in Space: Interactive International Space Station Exhibit” at the NASA Glenn Visitor Center, located in Great Lakes Science Center.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
  1491.  
  1492.  
  1493.  
  1494. <p>The exhibit replicates the Fluids and Combustion Facility (FCF) on the International Space Station, which houses two research facilities — the <a href="https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/space/iss-research/iss-fcf/cir/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Combustion Integrated Rack</a>, or CIR, and the <a href="https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/space/iss-research/iss-fcf/fir/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fluids Integrated Rack</a>, or FIR. Both were developed at NASA Glenn with prime contractor ZIN Technologies and are operated remotely from Glenn’s ISS Payloads Operation Center. The FCF supports physical and biological experiments to advance technology development while bringing many benefits back to Earth.  &nbsp;</p>
  1495.  
  1496.  
  1497.  
  1498. <p>For more information about the exhibit, visit: <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/new-nasa-glenn-exhibit-spotlights-microgravity-research/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/new-nasa-glenn-exhibit-spotlights-microgravity-research/</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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  1574. <title>NASA Participates in NCAA Women’s Championship Game </title>
  1575. <link>https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/nasa-participates-in-ncaa-womens-championship-game/</link>
  1577. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly M. Matter]]></dc:creator>
  1578. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
  1579. <category><![CDATA[Glenn Research Center]]></category>
  1580. <category><![CDATA[AeroSpace Frontiers]]></category>
  1581. <category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
  1582. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.nasa.gov/?p=648350</guid>
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  1584. <description><![CDATA[Just before tipoff at the live national broadcast of the NCAA Women’s Final Four Championship Game on April 7, 31 women scientists, engineers, and leaders from NASA stood at center court inside Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in downtown Cleveland to hold a large American flag during the opening ceremony.  &#160;   &#160; The crowd cheered as  astronaut Jessica [&#8230;]]]></description>
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  1591. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03141.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="2048" height="1365" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03141.jpg?w=2048" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="Several women hold ends of a large American flag on center court inside Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. A woman stands at left singing the National Anthem. Red and blue lights illuminate the stage and stands full of guests. " style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03141.jpg 3600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03141.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03141.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03141.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03141.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03141.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03141.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03141.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03141.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03141.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03141.jpg?resize=2000,1333 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">Women scientists, engineers, and leaders from NASA stand at center court inside Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in downtown Cleveland to hold a large American flag during the NCAA Women’s Championship Game opening ceremony.   </div><div class="hds-credits"><strong>Credit: </strong> <strong>NASA/Jef Janis  </strong></div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  1592.  
  1593.  
  1594. <p>Just before tipoff at the live national broadcast of the NCAA Women’s Final Four Championship Game on April 7, 31 women scientists, engineers, and leaders from NASA stood at center court inside Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in downtown Cleveland to hold a large American flag during the opening ceremony.  &nbsp;</p>
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  1598. <p>  &nbsp;</p>
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  1600.  
  1601. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03144.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="2048" height="1365" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03144.jpg?w=2048" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="Several women line up in two rows while holding the large folded American flag. They walk off the court. The stands are full of guests. " style="transform: scale(1.2); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03144.jpg 3600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03144.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03144.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03144.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03144.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03144.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03144.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03144.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03144.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03144.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/grc-2024-c-03144.jpg?resize=2000,1333 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">Women representing NASA carry a folded American flag off the court after the flag ceremony inside Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in downtown Cleveland.  </div><div class="hds-credits"><strong>Credit: </strong> <strong>NASA/Jef Janis  </strong></div></figcaption></div></div></div>
  1602.  
  1603.  
  1604. <p>The crowd cheered as  <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/people/jessica-watkins/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">astronaut Jessica Watkins</a> and professionals from NASA’s Glenn Research Center, NASA Headquarters, and other field centers opened the flag and waved it during the national anthem. Click <a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fnasaglenn%2Falbums%2F72177720316067593&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cdoreen.b.zudell%40nasa.gov%7Cbb38a1bbd1b94b14abab08dc5987decb%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C638483687286289753%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=VJZ5r7l6Zl5hHUz91DkS0t15cTVSSZ8p6n38jspUdOE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a> to see more images from this exciting outreach experience.  </p>
  1605.  
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  1607. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/53638544279-370243de2d-c.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="600" height="493" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/53638544279-370243de2d-c.jpg?w=600" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="Three rows of women in blue shirts with NASA emblems pose for a photo on center court inside Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. The large Final Four emblem is on the floor in front of them and empty stands can be seen behind them." style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/53638544279-370243de2d-c.jpg 600w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/53638544279-370243de2d-c.jpg?resize=300,247 300w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/53638544279-370243de2d-c.jpg?resize=400,329 400w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0"> NASA participants, along with astronaut Jessica Watkins, pose at center court inside Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in downtown Cleveland prior to the American flag opening ceremony.   </div><div class="hds-credits"><strong>Credit: NASA/Michael Ahn </strong></div></figcaption></div></div></div>
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  1682. <title>NASA Glenn Teams Up with Cleveland Monsters </title>
  1683. <link>https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/nasa-glenn-teams-up-with-cleveland-monsters/</link>
  1685. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly M. Matter]]></dc:creator>
  1686. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
  1687. <category><![CDATA[Glenn Research Center]]></category>
  1688. <category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
  1689. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.nasa.gov/?p=648282</guid>
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  1691. <description><![CDATA[NASA’s Glenn Research Center joined the Cleveland Monsters to celebrate their total solar eclipse-themed game against the Rochester Americans at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland on March 30. NASA Glenn staff were on hand to discuss the total solar eclipse and NASA’s presence at Great Lakes Science Center’s Total Eclipse Fest 2024, April 6-8. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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  1777. <title>NASA Glenn Joins Big Hoopla STEM Challenge</title>
  1778. <link>https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/nasa-glenn-joins-big-hoopla-stem-challenge/</link>
  1780. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly M. Matter]]></dc:creator>
  1781. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
  1782. <category><![CDATA[Glenn Research Center]]></category>
  1783. <category><![CDATA[AeroSpace Frontiers]]></category>
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  1788. <description><![CDATA[NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland joined in the adventure of the Big Hoopla STEM Challenge held at the Dayton Convention Center on March 17. The free family event for kids (K-8) tied together the excitement of college basketball and the power of STEM education. NASA Glenn Deputy Center Director Dawn Schaible participated in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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  1792.  
  1793.  
  1794. <p>NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland joined in the adventure of the Big Hoopla STEM Challenge held at the Dayton Convention Center on March 17. The free family event for kids (K-8) tied together the excitement of college basketball and the power of STEM education. NASA Glenn Deputy Center Director Dawn Schaible participated in the event, stressing NASA’s support for nurturing STEM education and careers. </p>
  1795.  
  1796.  
  1797. <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/dawn2.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="539" height="723" src="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/dawn2.png?w=539" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="NASA Deputy Center Director Dawn Schaible talks into a microphone. Her name is illuminated on a screen above her, and Hoopla STEM Challenge banners can be seen behind her. Two men work sound and video logistics behind her." style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 48% 65%; object-position: 48% 65%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" srcset="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/dawn2.png 539w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/dawn2.png?resize=224,300 224w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/dawn2.png?resize=298,400 298w, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/dawn2.png?resize=447,600 447w" sizes="(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">NASA Glenn Research Center’s Deputy Center Director Dawn Schaible shares her excitement and support for STEM education during the Big Hoopla STEM Challenge.  </div><div class="hds-credits"><strong>Credit: NASA/Scott Broemsen </strong></div></figcaption></div></div></div>
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  1800. <p>Glenn’s Office of STEM Engagement staff engaged over 200 students in hands-on STEM activities during the event. Students learned about the total solar eclipse, how to safely view the eclipse, and received eclipse glasses. They also participated in shape memory alloy demonstrations, experienced flight simulations using 360 Oculus goggles, and learned about solar energy by making ultraviolet bead bracelets. &nbsp;</p>
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