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Lunar Robots: NASA Spotlights Moon Base at 2026 FIRST Robotics Competition

- NASA showcased a Moon Base model and robotics technologies at the 2026 FIRST Robotics World Championship in Houston, engaging over 51,000 students, parents, and mentors. - Agency emphasized Phase 1: rapid robotic/uncrewed missions and an accelerated CLPS cadence targeting up to 30 lunar landings by 2027 to deliver science and tech payloads. - Exhibits highlighted ARMADAS modular assembly, CADRE cooperative rovers, and SkyFall Mars helicopter concepts. - NASA sponsored 160+ FIRST teams, mentored dozens, and operated a Mobile Machine Shop that completed 600+ repairs.

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- A study published June 5 (Science Advances) combines two decades of NASA MODIS satellite data, ocean surveys, and genetic markers in Prochlorococcus to map phytoplankton nutrient stress globally. - Warming sea-surface temperatures increase stratification, reduce upwelling, and limit surface nutrients, with strongest stress in subtropical gyres and the South

Fighting Fire With Fire

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- NASA’s Aqua/MODIS imagery captured smoke from numerous fires in Australia’s Northern Territory on May 28, 2026. - Many detected fires are deliberate prescribed burns, typically lit in mornings to manage savanna fuel loads. - Indigenous practices and modern programs (e.g., WALFA, Arnhem Land Fire Abatement)

NASA-Funded Study Shows Wildfire Smoke’s Hidden Ozone Toll

NASA-Funded Study Shows Wildfire Smoke’s Hidden Ozone Toll

- A NASA-supported study found that over the past decade wildfires have increased ground-level ozone (smog) across much of the contiguous U.S., worsening air quality far from fires. - Nationally, fires offset nearly four years of ozone-control gains; in the Midwest wildfires erased about 5.3 years of progress