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 Featured NASA’s Fermi Mission Sees No Gamma Rays from Nearby Supernova5 min readNASA’s Fermi Mission Sees No Gamma Rays from Nearby Supernovaarticle3 days ago This 2024 Earth Day poster is an ocean themed vertical 15x30 illustration created from NASA satellite cloud imagery overlaid on ocean data. The white cloud imagery wraps around shapes, defining three whales and a school of fish. Swirly cloud patterns, called Von Kármán Vortices, create the feeling of movement in the composition. The focal point is a cyclone in the upper third of the poster. At the center flies the recently launched PACE satellite. The ocean imagery – composed of blues, aquas, and greens – is filled with subtle color changes and undulating patterns created by churning sediment, organic matter and phytoplankton.4 min readThe Ocean Touches Everything: Celebrate Earth Day with NASAarticle7 days ago The April 8 Total Solar Eclipse: Through the Eyes of NASA7 min readThe April 8 Total Solar Eclipse: Through the Eyes of NASAarticle7 days ago
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			1 hour ago AI for Earth: How NASA’s Artificial Intelligence and Open Science Efforts Combat Climate Change

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			17 hours ago The Kibo laboratory module from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (comprised of a pressurized module and exposed facility, a logistics module, a remote manipulator system and an inter-orbit communication system unit) was pictured as the International Space Station orbited over the southern Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand.

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 Special Report: X-59 Makes its Public Debut Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to gather data that could revolutionize air travel, paving the way for a new generation of commercial aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound. Read the Feature                                    about Special Report: X-59 Makes its Public Debut
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 Home of NASA’s High-Risk Flight Research NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, dates to 1946 when a 13-person detail from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics arrived at the Muroc Army Airfield in California’s Mojave Desert. Their quest: To fly faster than the speed of sound. The X-1 was the first of many flight research efforts that would define our culture of research and discovery. Today, we continue those efforts, to advance NASA’s mission to explore the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all. Learn More About Armstrong's History
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 Armstrong's history dates back to 1946
 
 NASA Armstrong is chartered to research, develop, verify, and transfer advanced aeronautics, space, and related technologies, and conduct atmospheric Earth and space science flight operations. The center is named in honor of Neil A. Armstrong, a former research test pilot at the center and the first man to step on the moon during the historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969. Learn More About Our History about Armstrong's history dates back to 1946
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