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NASA establishes coverage for Northern Hemisphere total solar eclipse in August – NASA 0
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- July 29, 2026
On Wednesday, August 12, a total solar eclipse will be visible in parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain and a small corner of Portugal. NASA will broadcast the eclipse live with views from the path and interviews with experts in the field through a variety of platforms. Learn where to watch
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NASA’s ESCAPADE takes a family portrait of Earth and the Moon 0
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- July 24, 2026
On July 3, one of NASA’s two Mars-bound ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft captured photographs of the Earth and Moon in visible and thermal infrared light. At the time, the spacecraft was 584,600 kilometers (363,250 mi) from Earth and 186,100 kilometers (115,600 mi) from the Moon, making the Moon appear relatively
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NASA’s MAVEN illuminates new understanding of auroras on Mars – NASA Science 0
- Goddard Space Flight Center, Mars, Mars Exploration Program, MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN), Missions, NASA Centers & Facilities, NASA Directorates, Planetary Science Division, Planets, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, The Solar System
- July 23, 2026
Scientists on NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission have discovered a key piece of the puzzle in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, discovering that they form similarly to terrestrial auroras.Results published Thursday in Nature Communications show that the same mechanism that circulates and catapults charged particles into Earth’s atmosphere is happening
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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft awakens from hibernation in good health – NASA Science 0

After its longest hibernation period of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting scientific data collected in the distant Kuiper Belt, far beyond Pluto. On June 23, flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed that New Horizons,