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Satellite Events for Tonight

Australia’s Cloudy Beauty

Reported by NASA

Valley fog gathered in the Victorian Alps while an arch-shaped cloud drifted across Port Phillip Bay....
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 12 May 2026 04:01 +0000

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4886-4892: Ingenuity and Perseverance, Curiosity Style

Reported by NASA

Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator Earth planning date: Friday, May 8, 2026 While we know the monikers Ingenuity and Perseverance are attached to our sister helicopter and rover on the Mars 2020 mission, those characteristics ...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 12 May 2026 01:38 +0000

NASA’s Curiosity Takes Close Look at Rock That Got Stuck on Drill

Reported by NASA

Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of a rock nicknamed “Atacama” on May 6, 2026, the 4,877th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The rock had gotten stuck to the drill on the end of Curiosi...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 12 May 2026 00:09 +0000

May 2026 Satellite Puzzler

Reported by NASA

Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting....
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 11 May 2026 22:11 +0000

How 'Snowball Earth' Was A Tug-Of-War

Reported by Universe Today

A new study by planetary scientists at Harvard offers an explanation for one of Earth’s great climate puzzles: how the Sturtian glaciation, an ancient ice age when the planet was nearly entirely frozen, could have lasted 56 million years. A large igneous...
  • By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
  • On: Mon, 11 May 2026 22:00 +0000

Nicholas Houghton: Engineering Crew Safety for NASA’s Artemis Missions

Reported by NASA

Nicholas Houghton always dreamed of working at NASA and one day becoming an astronaut. Today, he helps design systems that keep crews safe during missions aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, including the successful Artemis II mission around the Moon. After ...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 11 May 2026 20:51 +0000