3 February 2024Juno Second Close Io FlybyScott Bolton
Juno completes a second close Io encounter, extending measurements of volcanism and tidal heating.
Historical records for United States of America in 2024, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Juno completes a second close Io encounter, extending measurements of volcanism and tidal heating.
Sheppard announces two newly confirmed irregular moons of Neptune, raising the known total to sixteen.
Welcomes Sweden joining NATO.
Delivers his third State of the Union address.
Levi announces DESI first-year cosmology results measuring expansion across 11 billion years and revealing subtle differences that could indicate evolving dark energy.
House passes long-delayed military aid for Ukraine.
A software-memory workaround restores usable Voyager 1 engineering data after five months of troubleshooting.
Signs a major aid package after congressional approval.
Signs legislation restricting Russian enriched-uranium imports.
Visits Kyiv as the United States resumes major aid.
Announces restrictions on asylum at the southern border.
Marks the eightieth anniversary of D-Day in Normandy.
Signs a bilateral security agreement with Ukraine.
Voyager 1 resumes returning usable science data from all four instruments that were then operating.
Debates Donald Trump in Atlanta.
Hosts NATO leaders in Washington.
Ends his campaign for reelection.
Endorses Kamala Harris for president.
Announces a major prisoner exchange with Russia.
Addresses the Democratic National Convention.
Engineers switch Voyager 1 to a different thruster set to mitigate clogged propellant inlet tubes.
Engineers switch off Voyager 2's plasma science instrument to conserve the spacecraft's declining power.
NASA launches Europa Clipper toward Jupiter to investigate whether Europa has conditions suitable for life.
NASA launches Europa Clipper toward the Jovian system.
Wolff uses Hubble observations with Webb data to show that Vega's broad debris disk is unexpectedly smooth.
Authorizes limited Ukrainian use of long-range U.S. weapons inside Russia.
Pardons his son Hunter Biden.
Receives part of the chemistry prize for computational protein design.
Shares the chemistry prize for predicting protein structures.
Shares the medicine prize for discovering microRNA and its role in gene regulation.
Shares the medicine prize for discovering microRNA and its role in gene regulation.
Shares the physics prize for foundational work enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks.
Commutes most federal death sentences.
Juno flyby data indicate Io's volcanic heat is not concentrated in a single shallow global magma ocean.
The Dark Energy Survey publishes its final baryon acoustic oscillation distance measurement, adding an independent geometric probe of late-time expansion and dark energy.
Directs Juror Number Two, a courtroom drama released in the 2020s.:wq
Directs Mufasa: The Lion King, expanding the story world of Disney's photorealistic Lion King films.
Brozovic helps determine orbital solutions for newly confirmed irregular moons of Neptune.
Jacobson contributes orbital calculations used to confirm the paths of newly announced Neptunian moons.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational discoveries and inventions enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
Sheppard traces the brighter newly confirmed Neptunian moon back to an object first observed near Neptune in 2003.
Sheppard confirms the extremely faint irregular moon provisionally designated S/2021 N1 in orbit around Neptune.
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