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Satellite Events for Tonight

APOD: 2026 November 10 – Saturn Behind the Moon

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APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 November 10 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating unive...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 05:05 +0000

Autumn Mornings Bring Valley Fog

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Low clouds trace the branching valleys of the Appalachian Plateau and the Cumberland River, then burn off by afternoon....
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 05:00 +0000

Curiosity Blog, Sols 5056-5062: Charging Back Up!

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By Remington Free, Operations Systems Engineer, NASA-JPL Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 30, 2026 Today’s plan covered 3 sols, 5060, 5061, and 5062, as we take a few recharging sols before getting back to our normal drilling activities. As you may know...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 01:07 +0000

Curiosity Blog, Sols 5050-5055: It’s Nazca, Our 49th Drill Hole

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Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 23, 2026 As regular readers of this blog will know, we returned to the area where we found disc shaped inclusions in the rocks, ...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 01:05 +0000

Rubies on Mars?

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Written by Roger C. Wiens, SuperCam Principal Investigator for NASA’s Perseverance rover at Purdue University Nov. 4, 2026 Exploration on Mars turns up the unexpected. Perseverance is equipped with a fantastic set of instruments for studying the rock rec...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 09 Nov 2026 22:27 +0000

Newest Sample, Oldest Rock?

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Written by Tasha Coelho, Mastcam-Z Student Collaborator at Arizona State University Nov. 1, 2026 Perseverance’s most recent abrasion “Pumbe” bears a striking resemblance to an earlier abrasion, “Badger Peak.” That’s no coincidence. As previousl...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 09 Nov 2026 22:25 +0000