23 Min Read The Marshall Star for May 1, 2024 Marshall Prepares for Strategic Facilities Updates  NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is getting ready for the next big step in the evolution of its main campus....

Smog over a deep mountain valley.Credit: NOAA NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected BAE Systems (formerly known as Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation) of Boulder, Colorado, to develop an instrument to monitor air quality and provide information about the impact of air pollutants on...

Earth (ESD) Earth and Climate Explore Climate Change Science in Action Multimedia Data More For Researchers 4 min read Two Small NASA Satellites Will Measure Soil Moisture, Volcanic Gases NASA engineers Austin Tanner (left) and Manuel Vega stand beside SNoOPI, short for Signals of Opportunity...

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artist’s depiction of ScienceCraft, which integrates the science instrument with the spacecraft by printing a quantum dot spectrometer directly on the solar sail to form a monolithic, lightweight structure.Mahmooda Sultana Mahmooda Sultana NASA Goddard Space Flight...

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artist concept of novel approach proposed by a 2024 NIAC Phase II awardee for possible future missions depicting lunar surface with planet Earth on the horizon.Credit: Ethan Schaler Ethan Schaler NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory We want to build the first lunar...

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artist’s depiction of Radioisotope Thermoradiative Cell Power GeneratorStephen Polly Stephen Polly Rochester Institute of Technology In this project we will continue our Phase I efforts to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of a revolutionary power source...