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Students Become FjordPhyto Volunteers and Discover that Antarctica Is Much Colder Than Texas
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New radar mission for Europe
The upcoming Copernicus Radar Observation System for Europe in L-band (ROSE-L) will provide continuous day-and-night all-weather…
Perseverance is Keeping Track of the Big Picture While it’s Exploring Mars
It’s always a real benefit to have scientists on the ground, able to use the wealth…
A new spin on Betelgeuse’s boiling surface
A direct comparison of a computer simulation of a nonrotating red supergiant with ALMA observations of…
New Look at NASA Boeing Sustainable Experimental Airliner
As NASA and Boeing enter the early stages of producing the X-66, the first X-plane specifically…
Icy first light of shoebox-sized PRETTY CubeSat
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Now You Can See Exactly Where Hubble and JWST are Pointed
Hubble and JWST are busily scanning the sky, sending home enormous amounts of data. They shift…
Jet in Jupiter’s atmosphere found to fluctuate in roughly four-year periods
The steady velocity field and the background radial component of the magnetic field at 0.9 RJ…