Nasa earth observatory articles
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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft resumes sending data to Earth from interstellar space after 5-month outage
Cheers and applause erupted this weekend when NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft sent back the first usable data from interstellar space after a five-month communication gap. Engineers with Voyager's flight team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have been troubleshooting an issue since November, when the spacecraft, more than 15.1 billion miles from Earth, began sending back nonsense computer code. On Saturday, after 45 hours of waiting to find out if their plan to send the...
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NASA's James Webb captures 'sharpest' images of the Horsehead Nebula that sits 1,300 light-years away from Earth
NASA's high definition, James Webb Space Telescope has just captured the most detailed images yet of the Horsehead Nebula's billowing 'mane'
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Earth Day 2024: Why was Earth Day created, and how to celebrate it this year
For more than 50 years, Americans have united on one day in April to recognize the need to protect the environment and demand accountability...