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A Most Unusual Lake
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Lake Unter-See in Antarctica, sealed beneath thick ice, contains unusually high levels of dissolved oxygen and cone-shaped microbial reefs resembling some of Earth’s oldest fossils.

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March 2026 Satellite Puzzler
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Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.

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NASA’s Dragonfly Mission Begins Rotorcraft Integration, Testing Stage
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NASA Dragonfly’s integration and testing – the activities involved in assembling the mission’s rotorcraft lander and testing it for the rigors of launch and extreme conditions of space – is officially underway in clean rooms and control rooms at the…

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More Spacewalk Preps, Advanced Research as Cargo Craft Readies for Departure
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The Expedition 74 crew continued its spacewalk preparations on Tuesday while keeping up vascular health research and artificial intelligence studies. Mission managers have also given the go for the departure of a U.S. cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station…

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Webinar 3/25: NASA CSDA Vendor Focus – Satellogic
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Join us March 25 at 2:00 p.m. EDT to learn more about the data offered by CSDA program vendor Satellogic.

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Celebrating NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s 20th Anniversary: Crater Near Sirenum Fossae
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures a detailed view of a relatively fresh crater in this image released on June 3, 2015. The crater has a sharp rim and well-preserved ejecta. The steep inner slopes are carved by gullies and…

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NASA Discovers Crash of Extreme Stars in Unexpected Site
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A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an environment like this before…

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Developing Robust Electronics That Can Withstand Harsh Conditions on Cold Planetary Bodies 
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A NASA-sponsored team has developed electronics that can operate reliably in the harsh radiation and temperature conditions found on distant planetary bodies like Europa, an ocean world orbiting Jupiter. Not only could this new technology enable autonomous sensors and robotic…

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Shades of a Lunar Eclipse
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A series of nighttime satellite images revealed how moonlight reaching Earth varied throughout a total lunar eclipse.

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NASA’s Van Allen Probe A to Re-Enter Atmosphere 
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NASA’s Van Allen Probe A is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere almost 14 years after launch. From 2012 to 2019, the spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, flew through the Van Allen belts, rings of charged particles trapped by Earth’s magnetic field, to understand how particles were…

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