#NASA
Descent of the Phoenix
Credits: MRO-HiRISE, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography
SpaceX - Axiom Ax-2 return from the ISS
Crew Dragon C212.2 Freedom
Weather permitting.
Undock: Tue May 30 at ~15:05 UTC.
Splashdown: Wed May 31 at ~03:09 UTC.
SpaceX undocking webcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j_cDYAfk1U
SpaceX webpage:
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=ax-2
Nasa busca incrementar cardápio de astronautas com produção alimentar no espaço
Zonnestelselfoto van de dag: Odyssey over Mars South Pole Artist Concept. Credits: NASA/JPL #sterrenkunde #astronomie #nasa #zonnestelsel #ruimte #universum #heelal #wetenschap
Unfortunately I can't, "Get my ass to Mars." like Quaid told me. However, I can get my name to Mars. Here's a link to the #NASA program to send your name to #Mars.
https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/future
#SciFi #TotalRecall #PhilipKDick
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
@driftglass
#Perseverance #Rover #IngenuityMarsHelicopter
#PerseveranceRoverMission
#SpaceExploration #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
#Science
Vida em Marte: especialista em células-tronco fala sobre passar um ano ‘quase lá’
#Nasa #MissãoAnálogaAMarte #Marte #CélulasTronco #CiênciaEEspaço
Humanity Officially Has a Viable Defence Against Killer Asteroids
“This means that we could change an asteroid's path with less warning time”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qwjx/nasa-dart-success-asteroid-defence
Cassini Foto van de dag: Tethys and Darker Dione. Credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute #saturnus #cassini #huygens #sterrenkunde #astronomie #nasa
"James Hansen Warns of a Short-Term Climate Shock Bringing 2 Degrees of Warming by 2050"
#NASA #Climate #ClimateChange #Study
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26052023/james-hansen-climate-change-2-degrees-2050/
Ad astra per aspera ✨
Join us this #MemorialDay in remembering and honoring all those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country.
#NASA
HiRISE Mars Foto van de dag: The Dark Side of Dust Avalanches. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona #mars #hirise #sterrenkunde #astronomie #nasa #ruimtevaart
Das neue #SLS Space Launch System der #NASA, das Astronauten zum Mond bringen soll, liegt schon jetzt weit über dem Budget und ebenso weit hinter dem ursprünglichen Zeitplan. https://winfuture.de/news,136492.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
Télescope spatial James-Webb
Le scientifique québécois René Doyon reçoit une prestigieuse médaille de la NASA
https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2023/05/26/rene-doyon-recoit-une-prestigieuse-medaille-de-la-nasa/
#NASA #TSJW #Webb #UdeM
De Zon van vandaag. Met dank aan de NASA/SDO, AIA, EVE & HMI science teams #nasa #sdo #aia304 #sterrenkunde #astronomie
Shadow of a Martian Robot
Credits: MarsExploration Rover Mission, #JPL, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography
Ракета для місії NASA Artemis коштуватиме на $6 млрд дорожче, ніж планувалося https://root-nation.com/ua/news-ua/it-news-ua/ua-nasa-artemis-rocket-will-cost-6-billion-more/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #НовиниIT #NASA #Космос #Новини
Report: Assessments of Major NASA Projects (GAO 2021)
https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2023/05/29/report-assessments-of-major-nasa-projects-gao-2021/
#HumanSpaceflight #IndustryReports #SpaceEconomy #Earth #NASA #Progress #SolarSystem
Sharing with my son’s permission - he built a Lego shuttle (from instructions) so he designed a launchpad complete with three retractable arms (that in fact can be retracted). Though it is all history now, at ten he knows the full launch procedure and timing for when each arm retracts, when the boosters detach etc. #lego #nasa #parenting
Here is my take on the dust devil @kevinmgill discovered hiding in a NAVCAM image. The image is roughly undistorted but precisely leveled 🤓 . A context map with a possible location follows.
Processed, undistorted, leveled NAVCAM_LEFT
Sol: 806, RMC: 39.1170, LMST: 11:33:49
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00806/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NLG_0806_0738489221_747ECM_N0391170NCAM00519_00_2I3J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space #TheStraightHorizonPolice
Io Aurora
Credits: Galileo Project, University Of Arizona (PIRL), #JPL, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography
Huge dust devil swirling around at the edge of Belva crater. Seen on Sol 806 by the Perseverance Rover with the left navigation camera.
h/t to @kevinmgill for spotting this!
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß
#NASA #Perseverance #DustDevil #Mars2020 #Soloarrocks
Craters, mountains, and hills that we know of so far, as seen in the postcard from Mars, above.
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
A postcard from Mars.
Geography lesson follows 🙂
Processed, rotated for straight horizon MCZ_LEFT, FL: 34mm
Sol: 805, RMC: 39.1170, LMST: 11:55:32
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00805/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_0805_0738401772_785EBY_N0391170ZCAM08826_0340LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
The weather in Jezero, Mars, according to the MEDA instrument onboard #Perseverance.
Report Sol: 805
The low highs 🙂 that dominated the weather earlier this month appear to have given way to normal temperatures this past week. Max temperatures reached as high as -18.2°C while lows stayed above -78°C during the nights.
Cost Overruns and Delays: NASA's Artemis Moon Rocket Will Cost $6B More, Take Longer - "An independent report looking into the development of NASA's new moon rocket has ... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/05/28/031221/cost-overruns-and-delays-nasas-artemis-moon-rocket-will-cost-6b-more-take-longer?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #nasa
What happened to Ingenuity?
Mars Guy Episode 112
https://youtu.be/gQ3TrmOe_sw
#Marshelicopter #Ingenuity #PerseveranceRover #Mars #Nasa #Space #Science #JPL
10 frame RMI mosaic
#CuriosityRover #Marsrover #Mars #NASA #Space #Science #JPL #LANL #Caltech #OddRocks
Odd rocks of Gale crater. Sol 3841 ChemCam Remote Micro Imager.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL
#CuriosityRover #Marsrover #Mars #NASA #Space #Science #JPL #LANL #Caltech #OddRocks
Mars - Frost in Utopia Planitia
Full size image: https://flic.kr/p/2oDimoo
I'm pretty sure this is the only hashtag #frostodon from the surface of another planet (so far) 😂
Mission #NASA #VIKING LANDER 2
Instrument: CAMERA 1
SOL 960 / 1979-05-18 local time 12:50
Raw data processed from: https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/
#Mars #HopeProbe #Space #Spacetodon #Astrodon #Solarocks #Astronomy
Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/AndreaLuck
Of course. What else would you expect on Mars?
Animated zoom.
Processed, cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 806, RMC: 39.1170, LMST: 10:17:47
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00806/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_0806_0738484529_738EBY_N0391170ZCAM03670_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
Recent observations suggest our solar system has a second Kuiper Belt -- a group of objects orbiting in the cold, dim reaches far beyond Pluto.
NASA's New Horizons probe will pass through it over the next decade!
https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/second-kuiper-belt-new-horizons-headed/ #space #NASA #nature
After just over a week in space, @Axiom_Space's #Ax2 astronauts are set to return to Earth on Tuesday, May 30. Here’s how to watch live coverage, from closing of the hatches to splashdown: https://go.nasa.gov/43vWzp6
#NASA
Two @NASA_Astronauts will do a pair of spacewalks on June 9 and June 15 to install new solar arrays on the @Space_Station. We’ll stream them live.
Join us for a preview on June 1: https://go.nasa.gov/3MGCCFj
#NASA
Ask Ethan: What is the Universe expanding into?
It's been 100 years since we discovered that the Universe was expanding. But if it's expanding, then what is it expanding into?
#News #Space #Astronomy #NASA #JWST
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/what-universe-expanding-into/
We completed a joint checkpoint review with @BoeingSpace ahead of the first #Starliner flight to carry astronauts, set for no earlier than July 21. Teams will provide updates leading up to the inaugural Crew Flight Test to and from the @Space_Station: https://go.nasa.gov/3MZR1xG
#NASA
Thought for the weekend:
Our eyes are narrowly adapted to conditions on Earth. To see reality as it truly is, we have to use instruments that go far beyond the limits of human vision.
These images merge visible light with infrared & x-rays to show a bigger universe:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/nasas-chandra-webb-combine-for-arresting-views.html #NASA #Space
That #NASA post shows that many of the unexplained delays and/or change of plans can be attributed to the difficulty of coordinating #Perseverance's mission with the requirements imposed by #Ingenuity, especially when it operates in sub-optimal conditions, despite the efforts of both teams to carry out the plans.
It also suggests that an extended mission for the two future Mars Sample Return helicopters (#SRH) will have to be very carefully planned, and possibly include a "mesh network"
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I love these composite images... but is anyone else getting Lisa Frank does space energy from this one?! 😄
#Astronomy #Astrodon #Chandra #NASA #Webb #JWST #Hubble #Space #astrophotography #science
Hot new bombshells enter the villa.
Otherwise invisible to the unaided eye, infrared data from @NASAWebb and x-ray data from @ChandraXray make details in these proper fit cosmic wonders available by mapping the data to colors that humans can perceive:
https://go.nasa.gov/43wTsx9
#NASA
Helicopter update:
Hide and Seek
Written by Travis Brown, Chief Engineer Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at JPL.
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/status/466/hide-and-seek/
#Marshelicopter #Ingenuity #Marsrover #Mars #NASA #Space #Science #JPL #Mars2020 #PerseveranceRover #SamplingMars
Completing a squad of severe weather satellites, testing out a ssssnake-like robot, and sending the second all-private astronaut mission to the @Space_Station—all in a week’s work at NASA. See what we’ve been up to.
#NASA
'We don't know what we don't know!'
A supermassive black hole discovered at the heart of an ancient galaxy is five times larger than expected for the number of stars it contains, astronomers say.
Researchers spotted the immense black hole in a galaxy known as GS-9209 that lies 25bn light-years from Earth, making it one of the most distant to have been observed and recorded.
#News #JWST #Space #Astronomy #NASA
We’re launching solar arrays, small satellites, and a plant experiment to the @Space_Station on the next @SpaceX cargo mission, set for June 3.
Tune in on May 30 at 2pm ET (1800 UTC) for details. #AskNASA your questions and we may answer them on-air. https://go.nasa.gov/430oldn
#NASA
Paula Cain started her career in fashion design—now, she's a thermal blanket technician at @NASAGoddard, making sure our telescopes and spacecraft can run at a steady temperature.
Learn more about her journey in our latest @NASASTEM episode of "Surprisingly STEM!"
#NASA
Our @NASAEarth TROPICS mission is safely in orbit following today's successful launch by @RocketLab. Two small satellites join a pair already in space, where they'll track the formation and evolution of tropical cyclones, including hurricanes. https://go.nasa.gov/3MVXPwa
#NASA
A wonderfully deadpan history of Skylab's near-disastrous launch and rapid rescue, via NASA's History Division: https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4011/part3c.htm #space #NASA
The Sun-blocking "parasol" that rescued the Skylab space station was woven by workers from International Latex Corporation. Here they are at work: Delores Zeroles (front) and Ceal Webb.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/gallery/msfc_iow_14.html #NASA #History
50 years ago today, astronauts moved into the world's first space station. NASA's Skylab had suffered significant damage on launch & required a makeshift sunshade to avoid deadly overheating.
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4011/contents.htm. #Skylab50 #NASA
LIVE: Watch the second pair of shoebox-sized satellites launch to orbit for our storm-tracking TROPICS mission. Liftoff on a @RocketLab Electron rocket is targeted at 11:46pm ET (0346 UTC) at the opening of the launch window. https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1ynKOawjWLnJR
#NASA
Liftoff! Two small satellites are on the way to join two already in orbit for our TROPICS mission. TROPICS will provide near-hourly data that could improve forecasts of tropical cyclones and severe weather.
#NASA
LIVE: Watch the second pair of shoebox-sized satellites launch to orbit for our storm-tracking TROPICS mission. Liftoff on a @RocketLab Electron rocket is targeted at 11:46pm ET (0346 UTC) at the opening of the launch window. https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1ynKOawjWLnJR
#NASA
I mean... this is friggin' glorious.
What is it? A composite image of NGC 346 from #Chandra #Webb #Hubble #Spitzer & data from XMM-Newton and ESO Telescope
#Science #NASA #Astrodon #Astronomy #Astrophotography #photography #Space
📷 :https://flic.kr/p/2oCkfE9
:wallaroo_app: Recapture the thrill of NASA’s early days as a Project Mercury space capsule orbits high above the Earth. Created by artist @piraino and inspired by the 1962 postal stamp commemorating John Glenn's successful Mercury mission. #wallpaper #NASA #Space
Subscribe on https://patreon.com/iconfactory or via #WallarooApp in the App Store for new and exclusive wallpapers each week https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wallaroo/id1630565980
If you love #NASA and all things space, you’re gonna love today’s #WallaroApp wallpaper. T-minus 2 hours and counting.
Simply the best. Music legend Tina Turner sparkled across the stage and into millions of hearts as the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll. Her legacy will forever live among the stars.
#NASA
Hakuto-R: NASA findet Bruchstücke der abgestürzten Mondsonde
Ende April hatte Hakuto-R auf dem Mond eine "harte Landung" hingelegt. Nun hat die NASA Satellitenaufnahmen veröffentlicht, die gleich mehrere Trümmer zeigen.
Mars-Rover Perseverance und Helikopter Ingenuity von Lego angekündigt
Mit der Spielzeugversion des NASA-Rovers möchte Lego Kinder ansprechen, die sich für Wissenschaft und Technik begeistern. Dazu gibt es den Helikopter Ingenuity.
How an image comes to be.
Animated transition between raw original and processed image.
MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 800, RMC: 39.1170, LMST: 08:15:41
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00800/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0800_0737944347_784EBY_N0391170ZCAM08821_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
LIVE: Four private astronauts are heading to the @Space_Station for scientific research, student outreach and commercial activities on @Axiom_Space's #Ax2 mission.
Watch with NASA, Axiom Space, and @SpaceX—liftoff is scheduled for 5:37pm ET (2137 UTC). https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OyJAVeXVyMxb
#NASA
Dieses Wochenende rufe ich mal diese interessante Studie in Erinnerung: Für Langzeitmissionen ins #Weltall empfehlen sich Crews, die komplett aus #Frauen bestehen.
Ganz einfach, weil die physiologisch weniger Ressourcen (Sauerstoff, Wasser etc.) benötigen, als #Männer. Und in der #Raumfahrt zählt halt jedes Kilogramm. Auch deshalb so spannend, weil bisher fast nur Männer ins #All geflogen wurden.
#ArtemisProgramm #Astronautin #Astronautinnen #LunarGateway #NASA
The World's Longest Flight Could Soon Just Be 2 Hours (Via Spaceship)
https://www.jacksonprogress-argus.com/arena/thestreet/the-worlds-longest-flight-could-soon-just-be-2-hours-via-spaceship/article_8d2510cf-f384-53e0-8a5f-38bab778f352.html #space #nasa #universe #astronomy #technology #tech #innovation #engineering
#TheDaily about the controversy around the #JWST. Didn't know about the role of #HakeemOluseyi in all of this and applaud his determination. A #MustListen:
The name #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope [...] "was chosen for a #NASA administrator during the 1960s. But when doubts about his background emerged, the #telescope’s name turned into a fight over #homophobia.
[...] The story of an astrophysicist whose quest to end the controversy with indisputable facts only made it worse."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/podcasts/the-daily/james-webb-telescope-nasa.html
A Glowing STEVE and the Milky Way
Credits: #NASA, Krista Trinder
#nature #space #astrophotography
I hate the fact that #NASA now has to choose between two centibillionaires’ rocket companies to send humans to the moon.
We used to have a #spaceProgram. Now we rent rockets by the mission from rich people.
“Bezos' Blue Origin wins NASA contract to build astronaut lunar lander”
#centibillionaire #billionaire
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/d2uf9
Oh Puh-leas, did #NASA really have to throw Bezos and #BlueOrigin a bone, by giving them a $3.4B lunar lander contract when they still have yet to be able to get into space?
Should tell them "come over to sign up for your contract, it's on the ISS"
Gorgeous #Astronomy Image today from #NASA : Hubble Peers into a Glistening Star Cluster https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2023/hubble-peers-into-a-glistening-star-cluster
Artemis-Programm: Blue Origin soll zweite Mondlandefähre entwickeln
Ursprünglich hatte Jeff Bezos Raumfahrtunternehmen bei der NASA gegenüber Elon Musks SpaceX den Kürzeren gezogen. Nun dürfen beide eine Mondlandefähre bauen.
NASA has selected Blue Origin's National Team as the second Human Landing System lunar lander provider.
Their Blue Moon lander is planned to be used for the Artemis V mission, preceded by an uncrewed demonstration mission.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-blue-origin-as-second-artemis-lunar-lander-provider
#NASA #Artemis #BlueOrigin #NationalTeam #BlueMoon #LunarLander
#NASA is calling for public comments on strengthening its #OpenAccess policy to live up to the Nelson memo.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/05/18/2023-10643/request-for-information-nasa-public-access-plan-for-increasing-access-to-the-results-of
@futurebird@sauropods.win And wow, with Holst's Mars theme as the sound track. That's really something. If that doesn't move you, you haven't got a pulse.
#NASA
#artemis
"Summer Temperatures Arrive Early" by @NASAEarth Observatory - Hot dry #weather arrived in Canada and US PNW, starting fire🔥 season up north early. Not (yet) as bad as June 2021 heat dome. #NASA/#NOAA satellite data shows departure from #climate norms. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/151349/summer-temperatures-arrive-early
If you or a friend are a US citizen in Community College, apply to be a #NASA Aerospace Scholar!
NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars supports community college students who transfer to a 4-yr institution or go to the labor force by engaging them in authentic learning experiences. Applications for Mission 1: Discover are open now.
5 week, self-paced online course featuring subject matter experts who introduce scholars to NASA missions & research #stem #science
"#Artemis2 crew begins 1st moon mission training in 50 years" by @spacedotcom (mirror bot) / @howellspace - After initial publicity tour since April 3 crew announcement, now training on #SLS/#Orion systems and flight scenarios. https://www.space.com/artemis-2-moon-crew-mission-training #Artemis🚀 #NASA🇺🇸 #Moon🌕 #space
Here is a JunoCam image of Io, processed by @kevinmgill.
The image was (probably) taken from an altitude of 54,444 km at 03:33 UTC on May 16 (23:33 EDT May 15).
Credit: NASA/JPL-Credit: Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
See https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing for more images.
#NASA #Juno #Jupiter #Io
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A few images taken yesterday by JunoCam have already been posted at the Juno website.
Here is one, with some simple image enhancements by me.
The image was taken from an altitude of 69819.4 km at 06:31:10 UTC on May 16, 2023.
Keep an eye on https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing for more raw images and those processed by professionals.
Note that data from instruments other than JunoCam are not posted at the site.
#NASA #Juno #Jupiter
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@arstechnica #NASA will retire its new mega-rocket if #SpaceX or #BlueOrigin can safely launch its own powerful rockets https://www.businessinsider.in/nasa-will-retire-its-new-mega-rocket-if-spacex-or-blue-origin-can-safely-launch-its-own-powerful-rockets/articleshow/66673026.cms
That was fast! 5 hours after closest approach to Jupiter at an altitude of 4,200 km, Juno is racing away, back towards its apojove 6.4 million km away. It will be back in 38 days for Perijove 52.
Images will be posted soon by the Juno team and citizen scientists at https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing
#NASA #Juno #Jupiter #Io
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This infrared image of Io is based on data taken on July 5, 2022 by Juno's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument, from a distance of 80,000 km. The bright spots highlight active volcanoes that dot the moon.
JIRAM, developed by the Italians, contains an imager at 3.45 μm and 4.78 μm wavelengths and a spectrometer that covers 2-5 μm wavelengths. Its primary targets are Jupiter's atmosphere and its auroral regions.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia25698-jupiters-moon-io-seen-in-infrared-light
#NASA #Juno #Jupiter #Io
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We shouldn't expect images like this from Juno's close flyby of Io tonight. This image was taken by the Galileo probe on Sept 19, 1997, with its much higher resolution 7" Cassegrain telescope based camera. But the images in Dec 2023 and Feb 2024, from an altitude of 1,500 km, will have even better resolution (0.95 km/pixl) than this (5 km/pixl).
Check out this thread https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/109970779441795420 for a comparison between JunoCam and Galileo's SSI.
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/810/ios-pele-hemisphere-after-pillan-changes/
#NASA #Juno #Jupiter #Io
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