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NASA astronaut Kate Rubins places a sample marker in the soil before collecting a sample during a nighttime...
Directors Colloquium: Science Seminar by John Coates, Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of...
In this photo, science tubes containing bacterial cells are being prepped for cleaning as part of the Dynamics of...
Dara Entekhabi, SMAP science team lead, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, center, speaks during a briefing...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – During a news conference at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – A Delta II rocket lifts off Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base,...
Dara Entekhabi, SMAP science team lead, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speaks during a briefing about the...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – During a news conference at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations (GMRO) Lab at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations (GMRO) Lab at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations (GMRO) Lab at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...
Max Dunsker speaks about the DEVELOP Kansas Agriculture and Food Security Project, which modeled soil drydown...
A technology demonstration instrument aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has operated on the Moon as...
Christine Bonniksen, SMAP program executive with the Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Science Division, NASA...
Christine Bonniksen, SMAP program executive with the Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Science Division, NASA...
The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, scheduled for launch on Jan. 29, will measure the moisture in...
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, presents NASA's Group Achievement Award to (L-R) Frank Culbertson,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A robot dumps its load of simulated Martian soil in a collector in the Caterpillar Mining...
Marci Garcia, a research associate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), examines some of the science...
University students prepare their team's remote controlled or autonomous excavator, called a lunabot, to maneuver in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The University of North Dakota's robotic miner digs in the simulated Martian soil in the...
Twin mining robots from the University of Iowa dig in a supersized sandbox filled with BP-1, or simulated Martian...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – During a news conference at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Team members check their robot before the start of a mining session in simulated Martian soil...