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Shadowed crater on the Moon.

Metamorphosis of Moon’s Water Ice Explained

06.19.2013
Using data gathered by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists have explained how energetic particles penetrating lunar soil can create molecular hydrogen from water ice.
Artist's rendition of the Maven satellite orbiting Mars

NASA Invites Public to Send Names And Messages to Mars

05.01.2013
Members of the public are invited to enter a haiku contest and to submit their names to be carried aboard the MAVEN spacecraft, which will orbit Mars.
The Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) instrument, shown here at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md

Final MAVEN Instrument Integrated into Spacecraft

04.03.2013
The Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer, which will measure the composition of Mars' upper atmosphere, has been integrated into NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft.
Artist's rendition of the Maven satellite orbiting Mars

Measuring Mars: The MAVEN Magnetometer

03.26.2013
The Goddard-built MAVEN magnetometer will be a sensitive tool investigating what remains of the Red Planet’s magnetic "shield" and interactions with solar wind.
This is a view from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft across the north rim of Cabeus crater. The leaping dust behavior may be observed on the moon in places like this where sunlit areas are close to shaded regions.

Leaping Lunar Dust

03.15.2013
Scientists with the Dynamic Response of the Environment At the Moon (DREAM) team find that electrically charged dust can bounce back and forth between sunlit areas around a shadowed lunar crater.
Shiny spacecraft tended to by technicians in paper suits in a clean room.

Particles and Fields Package Integrated onto MAVEN

03.14.2013
The six-instrument Particles and Fields Package that will characterize the solar wind and ionosphere of Mars has been integrated onto NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. Goddard built the package's magnetometer.
In the Multipurpose Test Facility clean room at Lockheed Martin, technicians installed the orbiter’s two solar arrays prior to a modal test.

NASA's MAVEN Mission Begins Environmental Testing

02.08.2013
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is assembled and is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colo.
Photo of the scientists.

NASA scientists build first-ever wide-field X-ray imager

02.07.2013
Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide-field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange."
Image of the Grand Canyon/

Goddard Interns Experience Mars on Earth

11.14.2012
In the Grand Canyon and other Arizona sites, students find the best places to investigate Mars hands-on.
MAVEN Structure

Next Mars Mission Enters Final Phase Before Launch

09.11.2012
NASA's Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission has passed a critical milestone, Key Decision Point-D or KDP-D, and will proceed to system delivery, integration and test, and launch.
This is a view of the moon transiting, or passing in front of, the Sun as seen from the STEREO-B spacecraft on Feb. 25, 2007.

Electric Moon Jolts the Solar Wind

05.30.2012
A powerful combination of spacecraft observations and computer simulations is revealing that the moon really does have a far-reaching, invisible influence – on the solar wind.
A technician works on the MAVEN magnetometers.

NASA Goddard Delivers Magnetometers for NASA's Next Mission to Mars

05.21.2012
The pair of flux gate magnetometers will measure the magnetic field at the location of the MAVEN spacecraft, helping to determine how the solar wind interacts with the atmosphere of Mars.
MAVEN's hydrazine propellant tank.

Images Show Integration of MAVEN Propellant Tank

04.16.2012
MAVEN's large hydrazine propellant tank has been installed in the core structure of the spacecraft.
Student with a radio controlled airplane

'Honeycombs' and Hexacopters Help Tell Story of Mars

02.16.2012
Interns from NASA Goddard's Lunar and Planetary Sciences Academy use remote-controlled drones to probe the secret of how soaring, six-sided stone columns formed from a sea of molten Mars rock.
South Pole of asteroid Vesta

Vesta Likely Cold and Dark Enough for Ice

01.25.2012
Half of asteroid Vesta is likely so cold and receives so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for billions of years, the first models of Vesta's average global temperatures and illumination show.
image of coronal mass ejection from the sun

Solar Storms Could 'Sandblast' the Moon

12.07.2011
New computer simulations reveal that a typical two-day solar storm could strip hundreds of tons of material from the surface of the moon.

Asteroids, Mars and Drought Among NASA News Highlights at AGU

12.01.2011
NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the 2011 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Complete list of NASA-related AGU news briefings
This artist's concept shows the MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars.

New NASA Missions to Investigate How Mars Turned Hostile

11.18.2011
Two new NASA missions, one that will roam the surface and another that will orbit the planet and dip briefly into its upper atmosphere, will try to discover what transformed Mars into it's current uninhabitable state.
A picturesque lake reflects a beautiful green aurora in North Pole, Alaska.

New FASTSAT Discoveries Paint Detailed View of Region Near Earth

11.14.2011
Auroras are but one part of a complex system of magnetic fields and charged particles surrounding Earth. Instruments on FASTSAT are beginning to paint a picture of how the different components act in concert.
Image of the Moon, the ionsphere and the Sun illuminating everything from behind.

Dust is the Key to the Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere

11.14.2011
For 40 years, scientists have wondered how a moon without air could have an electrically charged layer called an ionosphere. The answer? The moon, like Pig-Pen in Charlie Brown, is shrouded in a layer of dust.
The core structure of the MAVEN spacecraft under construction at Lockheed Martin

MAVEN Mission Primary Structure Complete

09.26.2011
Lockheed Martin completed building the primary structure of the MAVEN spacecraft at its Space Systems Company facility near Denver.
The Juno spacecraft, folded up and awaiting encapsulation in the rocket fairing. The 13-foot-long magnetometer boom, wrapped in bright thermal blankets, is in the foreground atop a stack of folded solar arrays. One of the twin magnetometers is mounted in the middle of the boom, and the other is mounted at the outermost end. Next to each magnetometer sensor is a pair of rectangular hoods, or light baffles, peeking out from under the thermal blankets.

Juno to Show Jupiter's Magnetic Field in High-Def

08.01.2011
Jupiter is endowed with the biggest, brawniest magnetic field of any planet in the solar system. The Juno spacecraft's magnetometer, designed and built at Goddard, will figure out how the mighty engine, or dynamo, that powers this field works.
Plume of material from impact

Waiter, There's Metal in My Moon Water

02.17.2011
Water ice recently discovered in dust at the bottom of a crater near the moon's south pole is accompanied by metallic elements like mercury, magnesium, calcium, and even a bit of silver. Now you can add sodium to the mix.
The Juno spacecraft passes in front of Jupiter in this artist's depiction.

NASA Goddard Delivers Magnetometers for Juno Mission

10.27.2010
Designed and built by a team of scientists, engineers and technicians from Code 695 and elsewhere at Goddard, Juno's magnetometers will measure Jupiter's magnetic field with extraordinary precision to give a detailed picture of the field around the planet as well as deep within.
A sodium tail from Mercury's atmosphere

Extreme Effects: 7 Things You Didn't Know About Mercury

09.01.2010
Barrages of intense sunlight, powerful solar wind, and high-speed micrometeoroids mean that Mercury's exosphere is always hopping.
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