The MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle) team recently completed wind tunnel testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in a facility that has been a critical part of NASA missions going all the way back to the Apollo program.
Space Exploration
Sep 25, 2023
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Humans have contended with dust storms for thousands of years, ever since early civilizations appeared in the Middle East and North Africa. But modern desert dust storms are different from their preindustrial counterparts.
Earth Sciences
Sep 18, 2023
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This September, after traveling billions of miles through our solar system, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will cruise past Earth with an extraordinary delivery. As it passes, it will release a mini-fridge size capsule containing ...
Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2023
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Utility companies are generally well-equipped to handle routine blackouts, but often struggle with extreme weather events like hurricanes.
Earth Sciences
Sep 7, 2023
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Storm Idalia strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday as forecasters predicted it would intensify and become "extremely dangerous" before making landfall in the US state of Florida.
Environment
Aug 28, 2023
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Climate change may be impacting our immune systems, a study from the University of Bergen, Norway, shows. This research brings into focus the intricate interplay between environmental factors, microbial communities and their ...
Environment
Aug 22, 2023
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Neil Lynch started his Saturday morning like any other: He stopped his car at Belleair Beach, griped about the hourly parking fee and set off on a 5-mile walk.
Earth Sciences
Aug 16, 2023
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Recently, a study by Associate Prof. Sheng Chen and Prof. Fangli Qiao from the First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources was published in Science China Earth Sciences. The observational data from a coastal ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 16, 2023
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The activity level of six bat species was significantly reduced at solar farm sites, researchers have observed.
Plants & Animals
Aug 8, 2023
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Scientists have wrapped up a major field project high in the Colorado mountains that will eventually help water resource managers to better quantify critical water resources stored in mountain snowpacks.
Earth Sciences
Aug 8, 2023
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