On April 10, 2022, NASA chartered an Independent Review Board to review the overall architecture and technical concept for NASA's Geospace Dynamics Constellation, or GDC – a mission to study how the giant magnetic bubble around Earth, the magnetosphere, interacts with Earth's upper atmosphere.
On July 9, 2022, InSight was generating an average of 399 watt-hours of energy per Martian day, or sol. The tau, or level of dust cover in the atmosphere, was estimated at 1.02 (typical tau levels outside of dust season range from 0.6-0.7).
Artificial intelligence (AI) has led Abel Lawrence Peirson to all kinds of interesting places. He's used AI techniques to examine brain activity in flies and other neuroscience applications. With the help of AI, he's even trained a neural network to create internet memes, displaying phrases on images in a way that looks like a human …
After rigorous review, NASA's Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) mission – a mission to study electrical currents in Earth's upper atmosphere – passed a key developmental milestone, pushing the mission from the design phase to the construction phase.
On July 2, 2022, InSight was generating an average of 400 watt-hours of energy per Martian day, or sol. The tau, or level of dust cover in the atmosphere, was estimated at 1.02 (typical tau levels outside of dust season range from 0.6-0.7).
From May 6 to June 16, NASA's Lucy mission team carried out a multi-stage effort intended to further deploy the spacecraft's unlatched solar array. The team commanded the spacecraft to operate the array's deployment motor for limited periods of time, allowing them to closely monitor the response of the spacecraft. As a result of this …
NASA's Psyche mission team continues to assess ongoing issues with the spacecraft's flight software. The team is evaluating its ability to meet a schedule to launch in 2022 – the current launch period is Sept. 20 to Oct. 11. If it is determined that launch in 2022 is not possible, a full range of actions …
More information about InSight's power level will be available here in the weeks ahead. On June 19, 2022, InSight was generating an average of 410 watt-hours of energy per Martian day, or sol. The tau, or level of dust cover in the atmosphere, was estimated at 1.12 (typical tau levels outside of dust season range …
Have questions about solar flares? Find answers here! What is a solar flare? A solar flare is an intense burst of radiation, or light, on the Sun. Flares are our solar system's most powerful explosive events – the most powerful flares have the energy equivalent of a billion hydrogen bombs, enough energy to power the …
UPDATE AS OF JUNE 20, 2022: The Lucy team executed another deployment attempt on June 16. Although there was still no latch, the attempt reeled in additional lanyard and further stabilized the array. Future opportunities still exist to repeat the deployment commands if necessary. ————————- UPDATE AS OF JUNE 14, 2022: The Lucy team executed …
