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Showcasing our new
Earth Information Center.

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In search of an atmosphere around
a rocky exoplanet.

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And getting ready for
an important delivery.

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A few of the stories to tell you about 
This Week at NASA!

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On June 21, we hosted a ribbon cutting
ceremony at our headquarters in Washington

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to showcase NASA’s new 
Earth Information Center.

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The center is part physical space 
and part virtual experience.

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It shows how data from Earth-monitoring
satellites and instruments

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that we make available to 
researchers and others

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can help improve life on Earth in the face
of disasters, environmental challenges,

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and climate change.

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NASA created the Earth Information Center
with several partner agencies.

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Learn more at climate.nasa.gov.

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An international team of researchers has
used our James Webb Space Telescope

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to calculate the amount of heat energy
coming from the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c.

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The result suggests that if there is an 
atmosphere around the rocky exoplanet,

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it is extremely thin.

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This result marks another step in
determining whether planets orbiting

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small red dwarfs like the host star 
in the TRAPPIST system

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can sustain atmospheres needed to
support life as we know it.

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A new curation facility at our Johnson
Space Center will eventually house

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the sample material from asteroid Bennu
that is being returned to Earth

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by our OSIRIS-REx mission.

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The new facility will enable researchers
to preserve, protect, handle,

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and examine the rock and dust 
samples - or regolith.

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The samples could provide insight into
what role ancient asteroids like Bennu

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may have played in the formation of
planets and other processes

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that may have ultimately led to 
life on Earth.

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The O-REx return capsule is scheduled to
land in the Utah desert in late September.

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On June 18, we marked the 40-year 
anniversary of the late Sally Ride

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becoming the first American 
woman in space.

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Ride journeyed to orbit on that date in 
1983 aboard space shuttle Challenger

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on STS-7 as part of NASA’s first 
five-person crew.

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The six-day mission also featured the 
first release and retrieval of a satellite

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using the Canadian robotic arm, 
and the launches of two other satellites.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA.