Month: September 2026

Science & Space — NASA — News, Missions & Technology

Curiosity Blog, Sols 5016–5021: Fantastic Minerals and How To Detect Them

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Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 18, 2026 Curiosity surprised us at the beginning of the week with a change in rock texture — instead of the finely layered bedrock blocks we’ve been seeing in our recent sulfate unit workspaces, suddenly we were looking…

Science — U.S. National Science Foundation

Directorate Profiles: Technical Notes

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The Directorate Profiles from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) provide visualizations on research doctorate recipients from U.S. institutions, by NSF directorate. This reference document provides additional methodology information for the graphics in the 7 profiles, as well as tabular versions of the data used.