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Not long after Perseverance’s percussive drill pulverized the first rock selected for sampling on Mars, the rover successfully gathered a sample from a different rock.

The mercury ions in NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock make it the most stable atomic clock ever flown.

Medical instruments that are 3D printed could help astronauts analyze medical samples in space.

Rather than simply allowing function to dictate design, health, safety, and productivity became important factors for designing space equipment and space age car seats.

A NASA spinoff that was developed to help with rocket wobble has been adapted to control vibration in skyscrapers and now can be used to stabilize platforms in the ocean.

Because whales use sounds to navigate and communicate, the man-made sound coming from ships creates problems for these underwater mammals.

Because whales use sounds to navigate and communicate, the man-made sound coming from ships creates problems for these underwater mammals.

Scientists depend on technologies to help them understand the process that creates the auroras, or northern lights.

NASA is investigating AR and VR technologies as a way to bring new reality to the way NASA does science.

ISRU, or Insitu Resource Utilization, is basically trying to look around at the resources at your exploration site to see what you can do with them.

The goal of this spinoff technology is to reduce the amount of time it takes to detect cancer, allowing for earlier intervention, and therefore, better survival rates.

The Lander Vision System takes pictures during landing and from those pictures matches landmarks to a map that has been made from satellites in orbit around Mars.

Cleaner burning jet fuels can produce fewer ice crystals, reducing aviation impact on the environment.

With a nitrogen-based atmosphere similar to Earth, Titan also boasts rain showers of liquid methane, organic sand dunes, deep impact craters, and icy subsurface oceans.

With LIDAR, researchers can generate precise three-dimensional profiles showing the vertical structure of any cloud in the sky.

Thanks to advancements in aeronautics developed by NASA, today’s aviation industry is better equipped than ever to safely and efficiently transport both people and cargo to their destinations.

This circular-shaped module, which was placed on the Earth-facing side of the station, provides a unique opportunity for photographs and video.

In continuous operation for more than half a century, the aerodynamics affecting hundreds of aircraft and space shuttle models have been tested in NASA’s Transonic Dynamics Tunnel.

Tissue chips behave much like an astronaut’s body in space, rapidly experiencing changes often associated with aging.

Starting with two foundational units, the Power and Propulsion Element and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost, Gateway will be a place for Artemis astronauts to call home.