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In the early 1930s, astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky studied the Coma Cluster—shown here in an image obtained by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory—and discovered a puzzling inconsistency that led him to theorize the presence of dark matter. Photo Credit: NASA

Missions Focus on Dark Matter, Dark Energy

July 21, 2023 // by Kevin Wilcox

New telescopes designed to address pressing mysteries in astrophysics.

Within days of the launch, Landsat 1 acquired an image of an astounding 81,000-acre fire burning in isolated, central Alaska. For the first time ever, scientists and resource management officials were able to see the full extent of damage from a fire in a single image while it was still burning. Photo Credit: NASA/USGS

This Month in NASA History: A Closer Look at Earth

July 14, 2023 // by Kevin Wilcox

Landsat 1 demonstrated the value of multispectral scanner technology.

A high-resolution free-air gravity map based on GRAIL data, overlaid on terrain based on LRO altimeter (LOLA) and camera (LROC) data. The view is south-up, with the south pole near the horizon in the upper left and the crescent Earth in the distance. The terminator crosses the eastern rim of the Schrödinger basin. Gravity is painted onto the areas that are in or near the night side. Red corresponds to mass excesses and blue to mass deficits. Credit: NASA

Podcast Episode 112: TechLeap Nighttime Precision Landing Challenge

July 12, 2023 // by INSIGHT Staff

NASA TechLeap Nighttime Precision Landing Challenge Manager Greg Peters discusses the lunar landing challenge.

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Engineers install multilayer insulation (MLI) on the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) instrument inside Kennedy Space Center’s Space Station Processing Facility on Oct. 20, 2022. Photo Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

June 2023 INSIGHT Now Available

June 30, 2023 // by INSIGHT Staff

Don’t miss the latest issue of INSIGHT, APPEL Knowledge Services’ online publication featuring our new podcast episodes, columns, articles, lessons learned and more. We invite you to read it today on our website.

Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Improved Operations and Backlog Management of NANADARTS at GRC

June 29, 2023 // by INSIGHT Staff

Increased awareness and improved processes helped to quickly eliminate a massive backlog of NANADARTS documents.

An image of Raven Zero Pressure Balloon being inflated.The Exo-Atmospheric Aerobrake was tested during the August 2019 flight campaign. Photo Credit: NASA

Podcast Episode 111: Flight Opportunities

June 28, 2023 // by INSIGHT Staff

NASA Flight Opportunities Program Manager Danielle McCulloch discusses rapid demonstration of technologies and capabilities for NASA missions and commercial spaceflight.

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The rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in unprecedented detail. Massive stars race through their lifecycles, and only some of them go through a brief Wolf-Rayet phase before going supernova. Photo Credit: NASA

Webb’s First Year of Impressive Science

June 23, 2023 // by Kevin Wilcox

Space telescope reveals key details of early galaxies, exoplanets.

$More than 5,000 exoplanets have been identified, representing only a small fraction of total number and displaying the great diversity in the universe. Illustration Credit: Artist’s illustration/NASA/JPL-Caltech$

Worlds Around Small Star Come into Focus

June 20, 2023 // by Kevin Wilcox

Technology builds understanding of Crater constellation.

Test of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) technical capability Level 2 (TCL2) at Reno-Stead Airport, Nevada. During the test, five drones simultaneously crossed paths, separated by altitude. Two drones flew beyond visual line-of-sight and three flew within line-of-sight of their operators. Engineers Priya Venkatesan and Joey Mercer review flight paths using the UAS traffic management research platform at flight operations mission control at NASA’s UTM TCL2 test. Credit: NASA

Podcast Episode 110: APPEL Knowledge Services

June 14, 2023 // by INSIGHT Staff

NASA Chief Knowledge Officer and APPEL Knowledge Services Director Tiffany Smith discusses knowledge sharing and learning and development.

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