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On Wednesday, UC Berkeley College of Engineering announced a new aerospace engineering major, which will be launched in fall 2022.

At the age of 38, she is also one of the youngest principal investigators of any NASA mission.

An interplanetary mission led by the University of California, Berkeley, to put two satellites — dubbed “Blue” and “Gold” — into orbit around Mars has been officially authorized to prepare for launch in October 2024.The announcement last week by NASA

February 10, 2021 New research suggests that particles escaping from Mars’ atmosphere have been accumulating on the surface of the planet’s largest moon Phobos for billions of years. They could provide important new details about the history of both worlds. Mars’ largest moon Phobos, as seen by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft on March 23, 2008. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ University of Arizona. A new study suggests that Mars’ larger moon Phobos orbits through a stream o...

Emirates Mars Mission satellite reaches Mars orbit Robert Lillis/Courtesy The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, reached Mars’ orbit Tuesday morning. The Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley is a partner in the collaboration. Last Updated February 10, 2021 In collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, or SSL, the Emirates Mars Mission entered the planet’s orbit Tuesday morning after being launched last summer. The...

Phobos, one of the Martian moons, may actually hold key information about what Mars was like in the past, according to new research, because it was right in the path of the Martian atmosphere as it escaped out into space.

Could the Surface of Phobos Reveal Secrets of the Martian Past? The Martian moon Phobos orbits through a stream of charged atoms and molecules that flow off the Red Planet’s atmosphere, new research shows. Many of these charged particles, or ions, of oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and argon, have been escaping Mars for billions of years as the planet has been shedding its atmosphere. Some ions, scientists predict, have been smashing into the surface of Phobos and could be preserved in its uppermos...

Press release content from Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Waldrop Leads $75 Million NASA Mission to Investigate Earth’s Atmosphere January 28, 2021 GMT Lara Waldrop, assistant professor of electrical & computer engineering, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - January 28, 2021 - ( Newswire.com ) University of Illinois Electrical & Computer Engineering Assistant Professor  Lara Waldrop  has been selected by NASA to lead the development of a $75 million satelli...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The giant flare, cataloged as GRB 200415A, reached detectors on different NASA spacecraft at different times. Each instrument pair established its possible location in different swaths of the sky, but... view more  Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center and Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona On April 15, 2020, a brief burst of high-energy light swept through the solar system, triggering instruments on several NASA and European spacecraft. Now, mu...

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