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Auroras
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Auroras, often called the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), are colorful, dynamic, and often visually delicate displays of an intricate dance of particles and magnetism between the Sun and Earth called “space weather.” When energetic particles…

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Amendment 111: F.5 FINESST SMD’s Graduate Student Research opportunity: Updated Text and Charts and Reviewers Sought
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F.5 Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) solicits proposals for graduate student-designed and performed research projects relevant to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. The pdf file with the name that begins “F.5 Future Investigators in NASA…

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6 NASA Experiments on Materials, Benefitting Space and Earth
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Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals? This research could lead to next-generation technology that both enables deep-space exploration and benefits humanity.   Here are six studies scientists have conducted on…

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Amendment 110: Due Dates Delayed and Other Changes to E.9 Space Biology and E.12 Physical Sciences.
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The research emphases of E.9 Space Biology: Research Studies falls under two broad categories: Precision Health and Space Crops. For Precision Health-focused studies, investigators may propose to use any non-primate animal model system, and any appropriate cell/tissue culture/microphysiological system/organoid or…

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An Introduction to NASA Citizen Science for Service Members, Veterans and their Families
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Join us for a special presentation of Do NASA Science LIVE on January 29, 2025 at 7 p.m.  EST! NASA Citizen Science, SciStarter, The Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Association for the Advancement of Participatory Sciences invite you to…

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Amendment 107: F.5 FINESST Graduate Student Research Opportunity: Due Date Delay and Other Important Updates
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F.5 Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) solicits proposals for graduate student-designed and performed research projects relevant to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. The most important change made by Amendment 107 is that the proposal due…

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NASA Scientists, Engineers Receive Presidential Early Career Awards 
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President Biden has named 19 researchers who contribute to NASA’s mission as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). These recipients are among nearly 400 federally funded researchers receiving the honor.   Established in 1996 by…

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Amendment 99: F.12 Artemis IV Deployed Instruments Program Step-2 proposal due date deferred to March 7, 2025.
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In November 2024 NASA released F.12 Artemis IV Deployed Instruments Program, that solicits proposals for instruments to be deployed on the surface of the Moon during the second crewed lunar south polar landing. ROSES-2024 Amendment 99 delays the due date…

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Amendment 90: F.12 Artemis IV Deployed Instruments Program Step-2 proposal due date to deferred to February 28, 2025.
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In November 2024 NASA released F.12 Artemis IV Deployed Instruments Program, that solicits proposals for instruments to be deployed on the surface of the Moon during the second crewed lunar south polar landing. ROSES-2024 Amendment 90 delays the due date…

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F.5 FINESST: SMD’s Graduate Student Research Clarifications and Corrections
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F.5 Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) solicits proposals for graduate student-designed and performed research projects relevant to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. F.5 FINESST has been updated in several ways: Text in Sections 2.3 and…

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