Cosmic Map

"Launched in March, NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors. While not visible to the human eye, these 102 infrared wavelengths of light are prevalent in the cosmos, and observing the entire sky this way enables scientists to answer big questions, including how a dramatic event that occurred in the first billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang influenced the 3D distribution of hundreds of millions of galaxies in our universe."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-spherex-observatory-completes-first-cosmic-map-like-no-other/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=spherex20251218

Mars Rover

"After nearly five years on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover’s durability and gathering new science findings on the way to a new region nicknamed “Lac de Charmes,” where it will be searching for rocks to sample in the coming year."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-ready-to-roll-for-miles-in-years-ahead/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=perseverance20251217

Kilonova

"So far, only one kilonova has been unambiguously confirmed to date, a historic event known as GW170817, which took place in 2017."

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/possible-superkilonova-exploded-not-once-but-twice?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Future Commercial Spaceflight

"The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASA’s twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar odyssey are helping to ready a towering commercial spacecraft for a journey to the Moon."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-jpl-shakes-things-up-testing-future-commercial-lunar-spacecraft/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=firefly20251216

Rover Operation

"NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Wednesday inaugurated its Rover Operations Center (ROC), a center of excellence for current and future surface missions to the Moon and Mars."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-jpl-unveils-rover-operations-center-for-moon-mars-missions/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=roc20251210

Mars Dust Storms

"Scientists have theorized for decades that there could be lightning on Mars. And now, NASA’s Perseverance rover has finally gathered direct evidence of electrical sparks in Martian dust storms and dust devils."https://earthsky.org/space/lightning-on-mars-dust-storms-dust-devils-perseverance-rover/?mc_cid=24eba3abfd&mc_eid=7fad6b6067

NASA sensor

"Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the skies to help geoscientists map rocks hosting lithium and other critical minerals on Earth’s surface some 60,000 feet below."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/new-nasa-sensor-goes-hunting-for-critical-minerals/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=aviris520251209