ROSES-23 Blog
Final Venus Flyby for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Queues Closest Sun Pass
On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist maneuver, passing within 233 miles (376 km) of Venus’ surface. The flyby will adjust Parker’s trajectory into its final orbital configuration, bringing the spacecraft…
Europa Trek: NASA Offers a New Guided Tour of Jupiter’s Ocean Moon
NASA Science Activation's Solar System Treks collaborated with Astrobiology SciComm Guild SMEs to create enhancements to the Europa Trek portal.
Old Data Yields New Secrets as NASA’s DAVINCI Preps for Venus Trip
How NASA's DAVINCI mission to Venus uses old data to reveal new secrets.
Priorities
Within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD), the Exploration Science and Strategy Office (ESSIO) leads NASA’s efforts to achieve our Moon to Mars (M2M) science objectives. These objectives are derived from Astrophysics, Planetary, Heliophysics, Earth, and Biological and Physical Sciences’ Decadal Surveys. For…
How NASA Uses and Improves Solar Power
How Solar Panels Work Silicon is an abundant material used in many technological applications because it is a very good “semiconductor,” or material whose ability to carry electric current can be easily manipulated by adding energy. In typical solar cells,…
Celebrating 10 Years at Mars with NASA’s MAVEN Mission
A decade ago, on Sept. 21, 2014, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmospheric and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft entered orbit around Mars, beginning its ongoing exploration of the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere. The mission has produced a wealth of data about how Mars’…
NASA Discovers a Long-Sought Global Electric Field on Earth
An international team of scientists has successfully measured a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to Earth as its gravity and magnetic fields. Known as the ambipolar electric field, scientists first hypothesized over 60 years ago that it…
STV Precursor Coincident Datasets
Lidar, radar, and stereophotogrammetry provide ways to obtain the primary observable for STV.
Airborne Surface, Cryosphere, Ecosystem, and Nearshore Topography
STV plans to conduct several airborne campaigns for contemporaneous radar, lidar, and stereoimaging data collection.
