INSIGHT: October 2024 | APPEL Knowledge Services

NASA’s Glenn Research Center will host the 4th Annual NASA Knowledge Workshop, a hybrid event, with both in-person and virtual attendees, on November 6, 2024. The event will focus on knowledge continuity and succession planning. Credit: NASA

NASA’s GRC to Host Knowledge Workshop

October 31, 2024 // by INSIGHT Staff

Hybrid event will focus on succession and continuity.

This image from June 20, 2013, at 11:15 p.m. EDT shows the bright light of a solar flare on the left side of the sun and an eruption of solar material shooting through the sun’s atmosphere, called a prominence eruption. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Solar Dynamics Observatory

Solar Cycle 25 Reaches Maximum

October 30, 2024 // by Kevin Wilcox

Powerful geomagnetic solar storms mark new phase of 11-year cycle, as Parker Solar Probe comes ever closer to the Sun’s surface.

This view of a valley where water flowed billions of years ago was captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover using the Mastcam-Z instrument. A puzzling rock named “Cheyava Falls” is about 361 feet in front of the rover here and left of center. Credit: NASA

The Long Journey to Understand Mars

October 28, 2024 // by Kevin Wilcox

New research adds clues in the quest to learn what happened to ancient water on the planet and if it ever supported microbial life.

In January 1961, engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center prepared the massive first stage of the Saturn I rocket for checkout. The booster was designed with eight clustered H-1 engines capable of producing as much as 1.5 million pounds of thrust. Credit: NASA

This Month in NASA History: The First Saturn Rocket Launch

October 16, 2024 // by Kevin Wilcox

Saturn I-A was the bold first step in a giant technological leap.