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Odysseus’ landing captured a leg, as it performed its primary task, absorbing first contact with the lunar surface. With the lander’s liquid methane and liquid oxygen engine still throttling, it provided stability. Credit: Intuitive MachinesA historic delivery to the Moon’s South Pole…A record-breaking scientific balloon flight…And an asteroid mission’s close pass of the Sun…A few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr6TuFP3iKkNew NASA Tech, Science Operated on the MoonFor…

It seems almost too comical to be true, but this is the world we live in. One year after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon that ignited a national frenzy, the military has spotted another balloon in American skies.Dave Bautista Opens Up About His Relationship With Denis VilleneuveOfficials are tracking a high-altitude balloon flying over the Western U.S., CBS News reported on Friday afternoon. Earlier in the day, the balloon was allegedly flying over Colorado and sparked concern among military officials. The…

A single pancake may capture where you poke a straw into it, but it takes a whole stack to record the straw’s direction. Similarly, Kobe University researchers could accurately image a gamma-ray-emitting pulsar (the sky’s lighthouses) with a stack of radioactivity-sensitive films on a balloon. To be able to tell the orientation of the dangling gondola relative to the stars, they added a star camera and a device to timestamp the gamma-rays’ impacts. Credit: Kobe UniversityA pancake stack of radioactivity-sensitive films…

It's been crazy cold this week, even down where I live in Louisiana, thanks to an outbreak of a polar vortex. This frigid air is bad for all kinds of things, including football helmets, apparently. But it's actually a great time to demonstrate one of the basic ideas in science: the ideal gas law.You probably have some balloons somewhere around the house, maybe left over from New Year's. Try this out: Blow up a balloon and tie it off real tight. Got it? Now put on the warmest jacket you have and take the balloon outside.…

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A new NASA experiment will take to the skies on a balloon, scanning the space between the stars of our galaxy and listening for cosmic ingredients to understand how the Milky Way evolved over time.First Full-Color Images From Webb Space TelescopeGUSTO, or Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory, is launching no earlier than Thursday from the largest ice shelf in Antarctica known as the Ross Ice Shelf, according to NASA. From there, the telescope will float 120,000 feet over Antarctica while…

NASA never fails to amaze with its groundbreaking projects. Currently, NASA scientists and Engineers are gearing up for an extraordinary NASA experiment named GUSTO (Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory) in Antarctica. According to NASA, this innovative project involves a balloon-borne telescope set to launch "no earlier than December 21” as per NASA. Yes, you read that right, it is a balloon-borne telescope. While it will be no match for the James Webb Space Telescope, It will still be a big…

NASA is preparing to begin an experiment named GUSTO — short for Galactic / Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory — to gather data that will be used to create a 3D map of a portion of the Milky Way Galaxy. The GUSTO experiment involves a telescope that will float 120,000 feet over Antarctica on a high-altitude balloon for at least 55 days, soaking up high-frequency radio waves percolating through the cosmic interstellar medium — a term that refers to the gases, dust, radiation, and other materials that…

In search of cleaner fuel for aviation… A scientific balloon campaign in Antarctica… And a key engine test for NASA’s Artemis Moon rocket… A few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2qb4wQlvqA Exploring the Effects of Sustainable Aviation Fuel NASA and Boeing partnered recently to conduct a contrail research campaign. During the campaign, NASA’s DC-8 flying science laboratory measured emissions and contrail ice formation from a Boeing ecoDemonstrator aircraft, as the…

The Chinese spy balloon captured images and video surveillance using American technology, U.S. officials reported on Thursday. The balloon, which was shot down off the coast of South Carolina earlier this year, likely didn’t transmit the information back to the Chinese government based on a preliminary investigation, although the investigation is still ongoing.Are Big Consumer Facing Tech Companies Redeemable? In February, the Chinese government denied the balloon was intended for surveillance, claiming instead that it…