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What’s Up: March 2026 Skywatching Tips

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Artifacts From NASA’s Webb, Parker Solar Probe on View at Smithsonian

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Citizen Science: Extra Data Stream Added to the Daily Minor Planet

Located in a dark grey, high ceiling airplane-like hangar. A line of bright windows lines the upper part of the hangar, just below the ceiling. In the center of the image a large white and black Space Shuttle takes up most of the image, with three large conical engines in a triangular pattern on its back, with “United States” and a large American flag on its side. Hanging from the ceiling in front of the Space Shuttle is a model of the spacecraft Parker Solar Probe which has a large grey shield at its front that is curved at two ends and flat on the other two, with antenna pointing out from each of the four ends of the shield. Behind the shield a mix of shining metallic materials, and a blue square solar array with silver lines running through it. On the floor in the bottom left corner, a large metallic framework nearly 30 feet wide holds a black carbon fiber structure above it with a series of hexagonal frames on the structure. Above two of the hexagonal frames, two large hexagonal mirrors face upward, one shining in gold, and the other in silver. Above the hexagonal frame and mirrors, three large arms made of the same black carbon material rest over the top, holding a different silver circular mirror that is designed to fold out in front of the hexagonal frame, but is currently stowed. The large open room hangar has many additional smaller bright silver and gold satellites of varying size also hanging from the ceiling in the background.

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Extra Extra! Extra Data Stream Added to the Daily Minor Planet!

Artifacts From NASA’s Webb, Parker Solar Probe on View at Smithsonian

March 2026 Satellite Puzzler

Developing Robust Electronics That Can Withstand Harsh Conditions on Cold Planetary Bodies

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Joining other historic NASA missions like Apollo, Voyager, and the Discovery Space Shuttle, Webb’s Optical Telescope Element Pathfinder has made its way to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Smithsonian museum for permanent display.

The Pathfinder is the largest intact mirror support structure of its kind, comprised of exotic lightweight materials invented for the purpose of seeing near to the very limits of the observable universe.

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IMAP

Launched September 24, 2025, IMAP will help researchers better understand the boundary of the heliosphere, a huge bubble created by the Sun surrounding and protecting our solar system.

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Artist's concept of Pandora viewing a transiting exoplanet

Pandora

Pandora is a small satellite designed to characterize exoplanet atmospheres and their host stars. It is slated to observe at least 20 different planets during its one year of science operations.

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Dragonfly

Dragonfly, the first-of-its-kind rotorcraft to explore another world, will fly to various locations on Saturn’s moon Titan and investigate the moon’s habitability.

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What’s Up: March 2026 Skywatching Tips

A total lunar eclipse blood moon takes centre stage, Venus and Saturn cozy up for a conjunction, and we celebrate the vernal equinox.

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A black and white photograph of an unnamed lunar crater captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) on August 30, 2023. The image shows dramatic contrast between light and shadow as early morning sunlight illuminates only the western wall of the crater, which appears bright white against the dark lunar landscape. The interior of the crater remains in complete shadow, creating a striking bowl-shaped void. The surrounding lunar surface displays the characteristic rough, textured terrain of the Moon with various small craters and ridges visible. This high-resolution image demonstrates LROC's capability to capture detailed topographical features, part of LRO's mission to map the lunar surface for future exploration efforts.

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March: Good Morning, Moon. The image was taken by LROC (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera)

NASA Science 2026 artwork commemorating America's 250th Anniversary. The illustration uses blue tones with warm pastel accents showing humanity's space exploration journey. An open history book at the bottom emits light, with Earth emerging above it. A pathway extends from the book past the Moon, Mars, and Saturn into deep space, featuring spacecraft including NISAR, ISS, Parker Solar Probe, LRO, MRO, Dragonfly, NEO Surveyor, Webb, and Roman Space Telescope. An Artemis astronaut and robotic rover appear on opposite pages of the book, with the astronaut stepping onto the cosmic path—symbolizing how scientific discovery leads the way for human exploration in our journey beyond Earth.

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Learn about those of the NASA corps who make “space sailing” their career profession.

Enhanced satellite image from NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) showing a massive nor'easter over the Atlantic Ocean on February 14, 2024. The storm appears as a dramatic spiral structure with vibrant false-color representation: bright yellow and orange areas in the center indicate thick, high-altitude ice clouds, while green and teal regions around the edges represent warmer cloud formations. The image displays the classic counterclockwise rotation of the storm system extending from eastern Canada southward toward the Caribbean. Thin black outlines show coastlines of North America. The visualization was captured by the VIIRS instrument, highlighting different cloud types and temperatures through color enhancement. This powerful storm system began in the Southwestern United States on February 10, eventually developing into a nor'easter that caused significant disruptions across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states.

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Lunar Melt

Do NASA Citizen Science and discover the secrets of the universe, search for life elsewhere, and protect and improve life on Earth and in space!

When big asteroids hit the Moon, they can melt the rock they hit and leave a crater. This melted rock flows away from the new crater, picking up and moving chunks of rock, much like a river or beach waves can move sand, pebbles, and even big rocks. The size and placement of these now-frozen flows and the rocks they carried can tell scientists about how much rock was melted, its temperature, and how easily it flowed.

The Lunar Melt project invites you to look at images of the Moon’s surface from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and mark the sizes and locations of impact craters and boulders around them. Your marks will help reveal the rock fragments in melted rock flows, the directions and timing of the flows, and potentially help us harness these flows to better understand the Moon’s interior.

Black and white image shows now-frozen grey lobes of flow that came from the lower right. Sunlight boulders moved by the flow appear as irregular white lumps.

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Most Notable 2026 Astronomical Events

This year will be busy for avid skywatchers, with some incredible opportunities to view meteor showers, planets, and the Moon in the night sky.

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A horizontal panoramic composition displays four distinct phases of the Moon arranged linearly against a stark, solid black background. Starting from the far left, a Full Moon is shown in complete illumination, revealing the intricate textures of its craters and dark volcanic plains. Moving to the right, the Third Quarter phase appears half-lit on the left side, followed by a New Moon depicted as a faint, dark silhouette barely distinguishable from the void. The sequence concludes on the far right with a First Quarter moon, illuminated on its right half. The progression highlights the stark play of light and shadow across the lunar topography, illustrating a simplified version of the lunar cycle.

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Division Highlight: Biological & Physical Sciences

Revolutionary research in extraordinary places
BPS research contributes to breakthroughs that advance national priorities and maintain U.S. leadership in science and technology.

Studying the fundamental effects of space stressors (such as radiation and microgravity) on biological and physical phenomena promotes mission success and benefits life on Earth.

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NASA Science 2026 artwork commemorating America's 250th Anniversary. The illustration uses blue tones with warm pastel accents showing humanity's space exploration journey. An open history book at the bottom emits light, with Earth emerging above it. A pathway extends from the book past the Moon, Mars, and Saturn into deep space, featuring spacecraft including NISAR, ISS, Parker Solar Probe, LRO, MRO, Dragonfly, NEO Surveyor, Webb, and Roman Space Telescope. An Artemis astronaut and robotic rover appear on opposite pages of the book, with the astronaut stepping onto the cosmic path—symbolizing how scientific discovery leads the way for human exploration in our journey beyond Earth.

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