Four dedicated explorers—Jason Lee, Stephanie Navarro, Shareef Al Romaithi, and Piyumi Wijesekara—just returned from a 45-day simulated journey to Mars, testing the boundaries of human endurance and teamwork within NASA’s HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog) habitat at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Their groundbreaking work on HERA’s Campaign 7 Mission 2 contributes to NASA’s efforts to study how future astronauts may react to isolation and confinement during deep-space journeys.
“There was this gigantic river system”: Researchers find ancient lost world deep beneath Antarctic ice.
Tesla’s new patent reveals an advanced sanitization system for Robotaxis, ensuring clean interiors using sensors, UV light, and HVAC methods.
“Every mission is contributing back to the other missions and future missions in terms of new tools and techniques to develop,” said Dr. Fred Calef III. “It’s not just you working on something. It’s being able to share data between people… getting a higher order of science.”
As NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to explore the surface of Mars, an open-source, online mapping software known as Multi-Mission Geographic Information System (MMGIS) has been instrumental in determining the best routes for the car-sized rover and landing sites for its Ingenuity helicopter prior to the latter’s “retirement” but is also available for the public to follow the mission, as well. This software holds the potential to help both scientists and the public explore Mars in new and exciting ways for years to come.
“Maps and images are a common language between different people — scientists, engineers, and management,” said Dr. Nathan Williams, who is a mapping specialist at NASA JPL and was a key player in selecting Jezero Crater as the landing site for the Perseverance rover. “They help make sure everyone’s on the same page moving forward, in a united front to achieve the best science that we can.”
Officially licensed in 2022, MMGIS combines orbital and surface images that allows users to follow the paths of Perseverance and its sister rover, Curiosity, which touched down in Gale Crater in 2012. What makes MMGIS unique is its user-friendly interface, enabling members of the public to explore Mars without needing advanced data analysis experience, instead only needing minor programming knowledge to both download and operate the software. Through this, NASA hopes to enable the public to contribute to the goal of exploring Mars in new and exciting ways. Some of the key features of MMGIS is 2D and 3D data maps, customized layouts, detailed route maps of the rovers, and it’s completely free to both download and use.
This prospective, multimodal neuroimaging study systematically assessed both intracerebellar pathology and cerebrocerebellar connectivity alterations in a genetically stratified cohort of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis:
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The quest to understand the enigma of photosynthesis, how water is involved, and its critical role on Earth has taken a significant leap forward.
A recent breakthrough in visual technology has resulted in the capture of high-resolution images beyond any achieved before, shedding never-before-seen light on this essential life process.
Our story begins within the walls of a renowned institution, Umeå University, where diligent researchers embarked on a fascinating journey to understand the positions of hydrogen atoms and water molecules in photosynthesis.
Rather than living longer, otherwise healthy people who took daily multivitamins were slightly more likely (4%) than non-users to die in the study period, according to researchers.
Researchers reported nearly 165,000 deaths occurring during the follow-up period of the study, out of the initial group of 390,000 participants.
Cisco has patched an NX-OS zero-day exploited in April attacks to install previously unknown malware as root on vulnerable switches.
Cybersecurity firm Sygnia, who reported the incidents to Cisco, linked the attacks to a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor it tracks as Velvet Ant.
“Sygnia detected this exploitation during a larger forensic investigation into the China-nexus cyberespionage group we are tracking as Velvet Ant,” Amnon Kushnir, Director of Incident Response at Sygnia, told BleepingComputer.
