High-End Computing Request Submissions Open till July 20
All of NASA’s mission directorates are gathering requests for High-End Computing (HEC) time at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility to begin on Oct. 1, 2025. The deadline to submit a request is July 20, 2025. Read the HEC submissions announcement for more information.
New Tool Simplifies Earth Science Data Visualization
NASA’s vast stores of Earth science data unlock important insights about our planet, but the volume and complexity of the information can make visualizing the data a challenge. NASA’s new open-source, web-based TiTiler-CMR tool gives scientists a fast, flexible, and efficient way to generate Earth science data visualizations.
Created by the Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, TiTiler-CMR enables dynamic, on-demand generation of visual imagery from NASA’s Earth science datasets. The tool pulls information directly from the agency’s Common Metadata Repository (CMR) without the need for pre-processing or redundant infrastructure.
To learn more about TiTiler-CMR, read the Earthdata article about the tool's release.
PSI Releases 3 New Datasets for Physical Science Discovery
In June, NASA’s Physical Sciences Informatics (PSI) data repository published three new datasets related to microgravity physical sciences experiments, as well as additional data for an investigation published last fall:
- PSI-179: The Aerosol Sampling Experiment (ASE), which studies air quality on the International Space Station to improve crew health and hardware longevity.
- PSI-160: The Ring-Sheared Drop-Interfacial Bioprocessing of Pharmaceuticals (RSD-IBP-I) experiment, which studies insulin solutions that could be used to help treat amyloid neurodegenerative diseases.
- PSI-182: A NASA-funded study that investigates the structure of colloidal gels, titled “Aging of colloidal gels in microgravity.”
- Additional microgravity video data from PSI-4: the Flow Boiling & Condensation Experiment Flow Boiling Module (FBCE FBM), which studies how water boils in space (main dataset published in October 2024).
To explore all openly available PSI datasets, visit the PSI repository.
Minor Planet Center Adds Option to List Objects With Dual Status Designation
The NASA-funded Minor Planet Center, housed at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, now allows users to view a list of dual status designations. Objects with dual status designations were given a minor planet designation and number upon discovery, but were later classified as comets and given a comet designation as well.
As of June 2025, the Minor Planet Center records nine objects with dual status in its database. Learn more about this update in the Minor Planet Center’s May 2025 newsletter.
SEDAC Datasets Now Available Again Through Earthdata Search
NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project has published data sets previously held by the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), managed by Columbia University’s Center for Integrated Earth System Information (CIESIN).
Over 350 curated datasets with human impact and socioeconomic data collections have been migrated to the Earthdata Cloud and are now publicly available through Earthdata Search. For more information, read the Earthdata announcement about the return of SEDAC data.
Open Science Data Repository Releases 7 New Biology Datasets to Advance Life in Space
In the month of June, NASA’s BPS (Biological and Physical Sciences) Open Science Data Repository team curated and released seven datasets, bringing the repository’s total available number of spaceflight and spaceflight relevant datasets to 555. These studies provide crucial insights for sustaining human life on long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as improving human health on Earth. Click on the datasets below to learn more about each one:
- OSD-835: This study looked at how simulated space radiation and lack of physical activity (mimicking microgravity) affect brain and blood chemistry in rats, especially related to behavior and metabolism.
- OSD-836: Researchers tested how exposure to radiation—like what astronauts might face—impacts rat behavior and blood chemistry, both with and without simulated weightlessness.
- OSD-837: This complex study exposed rats to a sequence of radiation beams like those in space, while also simulating weightlessness, to see how both factors together influence behavior and metabolism.
- OSD-701: Scientists studied how increased humidity changes the behavior of fungi living in dust collected from the ISS, which could help understand how microbes adapt and survive in space habitats.
- OSD-867: This study explored how being in space changes which genes are turned on or off in human stem cells, helping us understand how spaceflight might affect cell function and tissue repair.
- OSD-855: As part of a public science challenge, this study tested how seeds from common vegetables grow after being exposed to spaceflight conditions, helping assess the viability of space agriculture.
- OSD-728: Researchers simulated space-like gravity conditions to see how E. coli bacteria adapt their cell membranes to stress, which is key for understanding bacterial survival and behavior in space.