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Holiday Asteroid Imaged with NASA Radar

By Charles Blue | National Radio Astronomy Observatory, DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dwayne Brown / JoAnna Wendel | NASA, Ricardo Correa | Arecibo Observatory on Dec 21, 2018 Featured, Science/Education

The December 2018 close approach by the large, near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 has provided astronomers an outstanding opportunity to obtain detailed radar images of the surface and shape of the object and to improve the understanding of its orbit. The asteroid will fly safely past Earth on Saturday, Dec. 22, at a distance of about […]

NASA Brings Mars Landing, First in Six Years, to Viewers Everywhere Nov. 26

By Arielle Samuelson / Jia-Rui Cook | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dwayne Brown / JoAnna Wendel | NASA on Nov 14, 2018 Featured, Science/Education

NASA’s Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet at approximately 3 p.m. EST Nov. 26, and viewers everywhere can watch coverage of the event live on NASA Television, the agency’s website and social media platforms. Launched on May 5, InSight marks NASA’s first […]