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Quirimbas Islands

Skirting the coastline of Mozambique, these 32 small islands are home to a diversity of corals and sea turtles.

NASA-ISRO Earth Science Instruments Get Send-Off Before Moving to India

Dignitaries from the U.S. and Indian space agencies, along with members of the media, were invited to see NISAR’s science payload in a Jet Propulsion Laboratory clean room. NISAR Media Day Video File It’s nearly time for the scientific heart…

Space Station Science Highlights: Week of January 30, 2023

Lee esta historia en español aquí. Crew members aboard the International Space Station conducted scientific investigations during the week of Jan 30 that included examining how fuel temperature affects material flammability, evaluating 3D printing of knee cartilage tissue, and observing…

Is Polar Ice Melting? We Asked a NASA Scientist: Episode 36

Is polar ice melting? The simple and straightforward answer is yes. It is, in fact, melting. But it’s a bit more complicated than that. You can think of ice sheets or Antarctica and Greenland as a bathtub full of water.…

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In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

A Weekly Summary of Top Content from Marshall, January 30 – February 3, 2023

NASA’s X-57 Maxwell is Major Step Closer to Flight Readiness

NASA’s X-57 Maxwell all-electric aircraft reached another milestone toward its first flight with the successful thermal testing of its cruise motor controllers. Thermal testing is important because it validates the design, operability, and workmanship quality of the controllers – critical…

Scientists Track Tropical Landslide Creeping Below an African City

A large, slow-moving landslide is accelerating in eastern Congo, putting a community at risk. New research exposes geologic hazards amid unprecedented urban sprawl. Creeping from just a finger’s width up to a few feet per year, slow-moving landslides occur…