NanoSail-D Stories
Curiosity Blog, Sols 5022-5028: Cashing in at Cache Creek
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Written by Lucy Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 25, 2026 Before we landed, the area of Gale crater that we planned to explore was divided up into rectangular parcels with designated…
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Mapping the Gaps in NASA’s Return to the Moon, featuring Richard Spolzino
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“I want to be able to look at a rocket launch and say, ‘I touched a piece of this.’” That’s how Richard Spolzino describes the thing he’s chasing. Not a title, not a specific mission, not even NASA itself, just…
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NASA Campaign Explores Clouds Spawned by Wildfires
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The Wildhorse grass fire in eastern Idaho erupted with a massive pulse of smoke. No one had expected it, but the wildfire had launched what’s known as a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, or pyroCb. It was an elusive weather phenomenon that scientists…
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