See First Images NASA’s Juno Took As It Sailed by Ganymede
The first two images from NASA Juno’s June 7 flyby of Jupiter’s giant moon Ganymede have been received on Earth. The photos – one from the Jupiter orbiter’s JunoCam imager and the other from its Stellar Reference Unit star camera – show the surface in remarkable detail, including craters, clearly distinct dark and bright terrain, and long structural features possibly linked to tectonic faults.
Marshall Ships Next-Generation Air Filtration Hardware to Wallops for Flight to Space Station
New air filtration technology developed, built, and tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is bound for the International Space Station – where it will demonstrate advanced life support system capabilities that could help future explorers on the Moon and Mars breathe easier. The scrubber is one of two next-generation Environmental Control and Life Support System technologies set to be tested on the space station for one year, helping recycle and regenerate most of the air and water necessary to sustain its crew.
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Gets a Power Boost
The team behind NASA’s InSight Mars lander has come up with an innovative way to boost the spacecraft’s energy at a time when its power levels have been falling. The lander’s robotic arm trickled sand near one solar panel, helping the wind to carry off some of the panel’s dust. The result was a gain of about 30 watt-hours of energy per sol, or Martian day.
Teams Engineer Complex Human Tissues, Win Top Prizes in NASA Challenge
Teams of scientists from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, have won first and second place in NASA’s Vascular Tissue Challenge. Learn more about the prize competition, which aims to accelerate tissue engineering innovations to benefit people on Earth today and space explorers in the future.
New SpaceX Crew Dragon Science Underway during Spacewalk Preps
New experiments delivered to the International Space Station on June 5 aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon resupply ship are already underway. Kidney cells, oral health, and pharmaceuticals were the science highlights June 9. The Expedition 65 crew is also continuing to ramp up for a pair of spacewalks set to begin next week.
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