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Jessica Samuels is the Surface Systems and Mission Manager for the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission.
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Explore exhibits of spacecraft and technology at the Goddard Visitor Center in Greenbelt, MD.

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Kenya's Great Rift Valley on May 30, 2013
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Two Kenyan Lakes Expand, Threatening Both

May 30, 2013 – May 1, 2020

Torrential rains in Kenya's Great Rift Valley have swollen two important lakes and increased concern that they will merge. These images, in which north is to the left, show the southern end of Lake Baringo (left) and the northern end of Lake Bogoria (dark area at upper right). Both have enlarged significantly in recent years, reducing the distance between them. Baringo contains fresh water, whereas Bogoria, a World Heritage site (along with two other lakes in the same system), is alkaline. Merging their waters would threaten their respective wildlife.

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NASA's Big Plans to Explore Asteroids

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It seems like in the beginning of my flight, the space dreams were rare. And now, almost 150 days into it, the Earth dreams are more of the rare ones.

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NASA Astronaut, spent a record-breaking 340 consecutive days on ISS in 2016

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NASA uses robots and robotic technology to explore other planets and objects in our solar system, assist astronauts on the Space Station, study the universe, and much more. Right now there are NASA robots are millions of miles away helping us better understand what’s out there.

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En Route to Jupiter, NASA’s Europa Clipper Captures Images of Stars

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Pioneering spaceflight and innovation

Named for American rocketry pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard, the center was established May 1, 1959, as NASA's first space flight complex.

Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945) is considered the father of modern rocket propulsion. A physicist of great insight, Goddard also had a unique genius for invention. It is in memory of this brilliant scientist that NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was established on May 1, 1959.

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Human space exploration helps to address fundamental questions about our place in the Universe and the history of our solar system.

NASA’s robotics technology has allowed us to send robotic orbiters, landers, and rovers ahead of us to study other planets and identify potential signs for life. On the International Space Station, NASA and their partners have used robotic technology extensively, to lorem and ipsum the dolor sit amets and more.

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A close-up of the head of the rover's remote sensing mast. The mast head contains the SuperCam instrument. (Its lens is in the large circular opening.) In the gray boxes beneath mast head are the two Mastcam-Z imagers. On the exterior sides of those imagers are the rover's two navigation cameras.
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NASA’s EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth’s Electrojets
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Under the nighttime California sky, NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:43…

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Launches to International Space Station
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Four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission launched at 7:03 p.m. EDT Friday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s…

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Risk of Venous Thromboembolism During Spaceflight
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In October 2024, NASA’s Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer (OCHMO) initiated a working group to review the…

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Perseverance, nicknamed Percy, is a car-sized Mars rover designed to explore the crater Jezero on Mars as part of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. It was manufactured by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched on 30 July 2020, at 11:50 UTC. Confirmation that the rover successfully landed on Mars was received on 18 February 2021, at 20:55 UTC. As of 31 August 2021, Perseverance has been active on Mars for 189 sols (194 Earth days) since its landing. Following the rover’s arrival, NASA named the landing site Octavia E. Butler Landing.

This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth.
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NASA’s EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth’s Electrojets
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Under the nighttime California sky, NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14. Taking off from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara, the EZIE mission’s trio of small satellites…

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Risk of Venous Thromboembolism During Spaceflight
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In October 2024, NASA’s Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer (OCHMO) initiated a working group to review the status and progress of research and clinical activities intended to mitigate the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) during spaceflight. The…

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Sols 4479-4480: What IS That Lumpy, Bumpy Rock?
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Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 The days are getting shorter and colder for Curiosity as we head into winter. So our rover is sleeping in a…

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This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth.
NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

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