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NASA in Silicon Valley: Chris McKay Talks About Life in Extreme Places
A conversation with Chris McKay, senior scientist at the Planetary Systems Branch of NASA's Ames Research Center who works on projects from Cassini to Curiosity.
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Gravity Assist: Persevering on Mars, with Mitch Schulte
NASA’s upcoming Mars Perseverance rover, scheduled to launch in July, is bringing a set of technologies to explore the Red Planet in new ways. Mitch Schulte of NASA Headquarters discusses this mission and the effort to explore whether...
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Gravity Assist: Talking to Ingenuity and Other Space Robots, with Nacer Chahat
The Ingenuity helicopter made history on April 19, 2021, with the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. How do engineers talk to a helicopter all the way out on Mars? How about other spacecraft? We’ll hear...
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 47, ISS 20 – Space Station Complexity Small Steps, Giant Leaps
International Space Station Flight Director Royce Renfrew discusses the complexity of the orbiting laboratory as NASA counts up to 20 years of continuous human presence in space.
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 19, Magic Inside the Orion Spacesuit Small Steps, Giant Leaps
Orion Spacesuit Engineer Kirstyn Johnson discusses the internal systems of the Orion spacesuit.
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Houston We Have a Podcast: Deep Space Transport
Paul Kessler, aerospace engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, discusses what to consider for designing a vehicle – with humans on board – that will enter deep space and make the long journey to Mars on this fourth...
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NASA's Curious Universe: The Crawlers
A pair of behemoth machines called crawler-transporters have carried the load of taking rockets and spacecraft to the launchpad for more than 50 years at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Gravity Assist: Looking For Life in Ancient Lakes
As the Perseverance Rover flies toward Jezero Crater on Mars, which once hosted water, astrobiologists are interested in places on Earth that are similar to the rover landing site.
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Houston We Have a Podcast: The Next One-Year Missions
Cherie Oubre, Steve Platts, and Nikki Schwanbeck, expert human researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, discuss CIPHER, a complement of research protocols that investigates multiple aspects of the human body over varied durations of...
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Houston We Have a Podcast: Teacher on Board
Ricky Arnold, NASA Astronaut, talks about his time as an educator, his first flight on the Space Shuttle, and his plans to teach from space during his first long-duration flight on the International Space Station starting on March 21,...
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Explore Mars' Jezero Crater with NASA’s Perseverance Rover
This guided tour of Mars' Jezero Crater from NASA’s Perseverance rover provides a glimpse of the Martian landscape from the rover's highest vantage point yet in the “Séítah” region. Perseverance Project Scientist Ken Farley points out...
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NASA Missions Team Up to Study Unique Magnetar Outburst
On April 28, a supermagnetized stellar remnant known as a magnetar blasted out a simultaneous mix of X-ray and radio signals never observed before. The flare-up included the first fast radio burst (FRB) ever seen from within our Milky...
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NASA | Voyager Finds Magnetic Bubbles at Solar System's Edge
The sun's magnetic field spins opposite directions on the north and south poles. These oppositely pointing magnetic fields are separated by a layer of current called the heliospheric current sheet. Due to the tilt of the magnetic axis in...
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NASA | SMAP Radiometer versus Radio Frequency Interference
The microwave radiometer on NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite was designed and built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Along with the microwave radar, data from the radiometer will be used to calculate the water...
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NASA | SDO Catches Surf Waves on the Sun
Scientists have spotted the iconic surfer's wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun. This makes for more than just a nice photo-op: the waves hold clues as to how energy moves through that atmosphere, known as the corona.
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NASA | Science for a Hungry World: Part 2
Episode two reveals why a space-based perspective is crucial to understanding how the food supply is distributed around the world. Satellites can reveal how many fields have been planted and how a crop is growing, providing a way to...
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NASA | Need To Know: Sample Analysis at Mars Findings
There’s big news coming out of the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite (SAM) on NASA’s Curiosity rover. For the first time, organic matter has definitively been detected on Mars. In addition to finding organic compounds in rocks,...
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Can Data from Space Save Dolphins?
The age-old mystery of why otherwise healthy dolphins, whales and porpoises get stranded along coasts worldwide deepens: After a collaboration between NASA scientists and marine biologists, new research suggests space weather is not the...
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NASA | Looking for the Shadows of New Worlds
Astronomers have used many different methods to discover planets beyond the solar system, but the most successful by far is transit photometry, which measures changes in a star's brightness caused by a mini-eclipse. When a planet crosses...
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Cassini's Infrared Saturn
The Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in 2004, beginning an epic thirteen-year tour of the ringed planet and its many moons. Cassini and its companion probe, Huygens, were an international collaboration between NASA and the...
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NASA | Carbon in the Ocean
Jeremy Werdell is studying how microscopic plankton in the oceans are responding to our changing climate. As a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, he knows that Earth's oceans and land cover have been doing us a favor. As...
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Kepler Stares at Neptune
During its K2 campaign, NASA's Kepler spacecraft observed the eighth planet in our solar system, Neptune. Kepler detected small changes in Neptune's brightness caused by the planet's daily rotation, the movement of clouds, and even...
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Happy Lunar New Year From Hubble
Hubble welcomes the Year of the Rat with a view of its own favorite rodents, NGC 4676A and B, and highlights the planetary origins of the Chinese zodiac’s 12-year timetable. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Bradley Hague (GSFC...
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Formation Time of Mega Basins on Mars: Podcast
A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on April 26, 2017.