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NASA satellite captures mysterious human voices echoing through space

In 1996, a NASA satellite studying Earth’s magnetic field captured an extraordinary phenomenon: distorted human voices ...

NASA’s GNEISS Mission Will Map Electric Currents Behind the Aurora

NASA’s GNEISS mission will launch twin rockets from Alaska in 2026 to map the electric currents driving auroras. Using multiple sub-payloads and radio signals, scientists will reconstruct electron ...
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NASA Loses Contact with Spacecraft That's Been Orbiting Mars for Over a Decade

The spacecraft is used to explore how Mars' upper atmosphere and ionosphere interact with the Sun and the solar wind NASA announced that they have lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile ...
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NASA evaluation lauds quality of PlanetiQ radio occultation data

NASA’s assessment of PlanetiQ datasets lauded the precision of PlanetiQ’s total electron content observations as “best-in-class,” citing high signal-to-noise ratio and deep penetration in the lower ...
AOL

UC Berkeley and NASA prepare twin satellites — could rewrite what we know about Mars

The quiet hours before a rocket launch always carry a sense of hope, especially when a mission aims to answer old questions about a distant world. That feeling is strong as NASA gets ready to send a ...

NASA: Jupiter is smaller, more 'squashed'. What that means

New data from NASA's Juno orbiter, launched in 2011 in Florida, reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller than astronomers previously believed.
Boston College

BC/ISR Studies Earth’s Comm-Disrupting Ionosphere

BC/ISR scientists Keith Groves and Teddy Surco spent part of their summer on a small island in the middle of the Pacific to use NASA rockets for studies of structures in the Earth’s atmosphere that ...