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NASA’s LEXI Will Provide X-Ray Vision of Earth’s Magnetosphere

NASA’s next mission to the Moon will carry an instrument called LEXI (the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager), which will provide the first-ever global view of the magnetic environment that shields Earth from solar radiation. This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14739.Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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NASA’s LEXI will provide X-ray vision of Earth’s magnetosphere

In this visualization, the LEXI instrument is shown onboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which will deliver 10 Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) payloads to the moon. Credit: Firefly Aerospace A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of […]

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Gibbon dances provide model to investigate the use of gestural signals in primates

A northern white-cheeked gibbon at Mulhouse Zoo (left) and a female yellow-cheeked gibbon with young at Amsterdam Zoo (right). Credit: Miriam Lindenmeier (left); HHU/Kai R. Caspar (right) Female crested gibbons display jerky, almost geometric patterns of movement. Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Oslo in Norway and Paris have studied these conspicuous movements, which […]

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NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-8 Return, Splashdown

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 7:05 a.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 13, for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to undock from the International Space Station. Pending weather conditions, the earliest splashdown time is targeted for 3:38 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14, at one of the multiple zones available off the coast of Florida. NASA […]