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Last Call for New Astronauts

The application deadline to join our next class of NASA astronauts is Tuesday, April 16. Our astronauts will push the boundaries of exploration on assignments to the International Space Station, Artemis missions to the Moon, and beyond.

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The Health of Earth's Climate

Science-quality data from the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite is now available, providing first-of-its-kind measurements of ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate.

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NASA’s PACE satellite’s Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) detects light across a hyperspectral range, which gives scientists new information to differentiate communities of phytoplankton – a unique ability of NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite. This first image released from OCI identifies two different communities of these microscopic marine organisms in the ocean off the coast of South Africa on Feb. 28, 2024. The central panel of this image shows Synechococcus in pink and picoeukaryotes in green. The left panel of this image shows a natural color view of the ocean, and the right panel displays the concentration of chlorophyll-a, a photosynthetic pigment used to identify the presence of phytoplankton.

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will launch aboard Boeing's first crewed Starliner spacecraft mission to the International Space Station no earlier than Monday, May 6.

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A portion of the open cluster NGC 6530 appears as a roiling wall of smoke studded with stars in this Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 6530 is a collection of several thousand stars lying around 4,350 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The cluster is set within the larger Lagoon Nebula, a gigantic interstellar cloud of gas and dust.

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Mars Sample Return

On Monday, April 15, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson shared the agency’s path forward on the Mars Sample Return program, including seeking innovative designs to return valuable samples from Mars to Earth.

Twelve orbits a day provide NASA Mars Global Surveyor MOC wide angle cameras a global napshot of weather patterns across the planet. Here, bluish-white water ice clouds hang above the Tharsis volcanoes.

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NASA’s VIPER Gets Its Head and Neck

A team of engineers lifts the mast into place atop of NASA’s VIPER robotic Moon rover in a clean room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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Earth Information Center

For more than 50 years, NASA satellites have provided data on Earth's land, water, air, temperature, and climate. NASA's Earth Information Center allows visitors to see how our planet is changing in six key areas: sea level rise and coastal impacts, health and air quality, wildfires, greenhouse gases, sustainable energy, and agriculture.

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A black swallowtail butterfly enjoys a snack from a blooming lantana plant at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida.

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