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Could a jumping robot explore Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus? 🪐 The LEAP robot is a bold mission concept that could hop across ice, jump through tall plumes and sample the subsurface ocean. See how LEAP could explore some of the most extreme terrain in the solar system:
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Not science fiction, science fact! 🔬 Researchers are exploring an idea to use engineered bacteria to clean Martian water, turning contaminants into consumables. This concept could one day help us produce valuable resources for explorers on the Red Planet. Explore more:
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Attention middle & high schoolers! The 5th NASA TechRise Student Challenge is now open. Submit an idea for a chance to fly your experiment on a NASA-sponsored suborbital spacecraft with Virgin Galactic or a high-altitude balloon with World View. Learn more:
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"We put the [Navigation Doppler Lidar for Precise Velocity and Range Sensing] as a tech demo and as a test, we weren't planning to use it... for the actual mission... but now we are. So, basically, it is the primary system to help provide the velocity and altitude information." — Space Tech Mission Directorate Deputy Associate Administrator Prasun Desai
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Launching no earlier than Feb. 26 on Intuitive Machines second mission to the Moon, our Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 will extract and analyze lunar soil to help us better understand subsurface resources in preparation for future #Artemis missions:
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Jason Frieman is an electrical engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center working on the most fuel efficient rocket engine we've ever built. This electric propulsion system brings science fiction space travel to life and could bridge the gap to get us to Mars:
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Could magnets help astronauts breathe on Mars? 🧲 Living and working on Mars will require innovative technologies to produce oxygen for future explorers. That's why researchers, working with NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program, are developing a powerful new idea using swirling fluids and strong magnets to produce breathable air. Learn more:
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Venus is hot enough to melt a spacecraft, but a new mission concept might one day helps us bring a piece of it back to Earth using: 🎈 A high-flying, fuel-making balloon 🛩️ A solar-powered airplane 🚀 And rockets Learn how NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program could unlock a new chapter in planetary exploration using proven technology in a bold, new way:
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“…a lot of people told me that I couldn’t do it. Well, watch me, I can.” NASA's Glenn Research Center's Lauren Ameen develops technology to keep rocket fuel cold for long-duration missions – one of the most enabling capabilities to get astronauts to the Moon and Mars:
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Meeting Sally Ride as a young girl inspired Lindsay Kaldon to join the U.S. Air Force with the hope of someday becoming an astronaut. Now at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Lindsay works on a novel nuclear fission system that could power #Artemis habitats and rovers on the Moon:
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Tiny technology for big discoveries ✨ Scientists working with NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program hope to transform how we explore deep space by using powerful lasers to push a swarm of tiny autonomous probes. See how a swarm of tiny spacecraft may one day help us study distant worlds:
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