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Goddard interns visited the Wallops Flight Facility on Thursday, July 18, 2024.
They explored launch sites, visited the range control center, gained knowledge of the launch operations, learned about the various types of rockets and missions conducted at Wallops, and viewed the research facilities dedicated to scientific balloons. (Photo Credit: NASA/Valerie Chu)
Alt: Interns walk toward two large green signs at the Wallops Flight Facility. They are standing on grass, with an empty road and scaffolding behind them. The sign on the left reads, “International Space Station, On-Ramp.” The sign on the right reads, “Moon Ahead.”
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A United Launch Alliance Delta II rockets lifts off on it's 153rd mission since being introduced in 1989, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The workhorse lifted NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Satellite into orbit to study the Earth's soil moisture every 2-3 days over the next three years.
A young visitor at the clean room on the Building 29 tour during the Explore@NASA Goddard event on May 14, 2011.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Bill Hrybyk
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Surveyor 1, the first of the Surveyor missions to make a successful soft landing, proved the validity of the spacecraft's design and landing technique. In addition to transmitting more than 11,000 pictures, Surveyor sent information on the bearing strength of the lunar soil, the radar reflectivity and temperature. via NASA ift.tt/1I9sRr5
Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge is the premier national science competition for students in grades 5 through 8. The Young Scientist Challenge is designed to encourage the exploration of science among America’s youth and to promote the importance of science communication. In 1999, Discovery Communications, LLC, launched the competition to nurture the next generation of American scientists at a critical age when interest in science begins to decline. Over the past nine years, more than 540,000 middle school students have been nominated to participate in the competition, and winners have gone on to speak in front of members of Congress, work with the nation’s top scientists, and pursue academic careers in the sciences.
A NASA F-15D flies chase for the G-III Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) project. The ACTE experimental flight research project is a joint effort between NASA and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to determine if advanced flexible trailing-edge wing flaps can both improve aircraft aerodynamic efficiency and reduce airport-area noise. via NASA ift.tt/1AZlddP
March 2007 - NASA Administrator Michael Griffin listens to a question from the audience during his recent lecture at Purdue University.
I liked Griffin before, but I was really impressed with him after listening to him speak a few times and interact with students. That guy has a tough job...and he has to deal with a lot of crap from people who are at the unfortunate end of some tough decisions...but (IMAO) the intelligence and common-sense that he clearly displays inspires confidence in his plan for NASA.
On April 17, 2012 the space shuttle Discovery hitched a ride on the back of a 747 jumbo jet especially designed as a space shuttle transport. It landed at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC, and the process to deliver Discovery to its new home at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center got under way. Through the eyes of a veteran NASA tour guide and aficionado, DJ Emmanuel, we get a behind-the-scenes view of what it was like to be there on such an historic and exciting day!
Credit : GSFC/Produced by Victoria Weeks/Additional footage by Robert Andreoli
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Ultraviolet astronomy photos taken with telescope on moon, Apollo 16.
Disclaimer: I am not endorsed by NASA, I have done this out of intrest for the Apollo Program in my free time.
File information:
This set includes Apollo 16 UVC scans from NASA converted to JPGs by Thomas.
This set also includes unconverted scans from NASA, with a RAW prefix and .raw extension. The latter can not be read by conventional image software. For more information on how it was scanned, see NSSDC link below.
To get the RAW files, see 'Download options' window and click on 'SHOW ALL'
Why, and story:
The Apollo 16 UVC experiment photos are not all readily available on the internet. Original files have been received by NASA by asking here:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/datasetDisplay.do?id=ASUV-00017
At this website you can read how the raw files were decoded into image files viewable by modern operating systems: www3.telus.net/summa/faruv/explain.htm
Usefull Information:
The Revised S201 catalog of far-ultraviolet objects inspects some images in detail. A great source of information.
The west side of the NASA HQ building carries one of the few remaining official "worm" logos still in active use to identify a NASA facility.
An Earth Hugger on the Building 28 tour during the Explore@NASA Goddard event on May 14, 2011.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Bill Hrybyk
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Blown by the wind from a massive star, this interstellar apparition has a surprisingly familiar shape. Cataloged as NGC 7635, it is also known simply as The Bubble Nebula. Although it looks delicate, the 7 light-year diameter bubble offers evidence of violent processes at work. Above and left of the Bubble's center is a hot, O-type star, several hundred thousand times more luminous and around 45 times more massive than the Sun. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from that star has blasted out the structure of glowing gas against denser material in a surrounding molecular cloud. The intriguing Bubble Nebula and associated cloud complex lie a mere 7,100 light-years away toward the boastful constellation Cassiopeia. This sharp, tantalizing view of the cosmic bubble is a composite of Hubble Space Telescope image data from 2016, released to celebrate the 26th anniversary of Hubble's launch. via NASA ift.tt/1WK50qB
Discovered on Jan. 1, 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi of Italy, Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt - the strip of solar system real estate between Mars and Jupiter. On March 6, 2015, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will arrive at Ceres, marking the first time that a spacecraft has ever orbited two solar system targets. Dawn previously explored the protoplanet Vesta for 14 months, from 2011 to 2012, capturing detailed images and data about that body. Dawn has entered its approach phase toward Ceres, and the next couple of months promise continually improving views prior to arrival. By the end of January, the spacecraft's images and other data will be the best ever taken of the dwarf planet. This image of Ceres was taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope between December 2003 and January 2004. Hubble images of Vesta and Ceres helped astronomers plan for the Dawn spacecraft’s tour. Astronomers enhanced the sharpness in the image to bring out features on Ceres' surface, including brighter and darker regions that could be asteroid impact features. The observations were made in visible and ultraviolet light. The colors represent the differences between relatively red and blue regions. These differences may simply be due to variation on the surface among different types of material. Ceres' round shape suggests that its interior is layered like those of terrestrial planets such as Earth. Ceres may have a rocky inner core, an icy mantle, and a thin, dusty outer crust inferred from its density and rotation rate of 9 hours. Ceres is approximately 590 miles (950 kilometers) across. Image Credit: NASA/ESA/J. Parker (SWRI), P. Thomas (Cornell U.), L. McFadden (U-Md., College Park), and M. Mutchler and Z. Levay (STScI) via NASA ift.tt/1EPxF6i
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The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NASA's space shuttle fleet began setting records with its first launch on April 12, 1981 and continued to set high marks of achievement and endurance through 30 years of missions. Starting with Columbia and continuing with Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, the spacecraft has carried people into orbit repeatedly, launched, recovered and repaired satellites, conducted cutting-edge research and built the largest structure in space, the International Space Station. The final space shuttle mission, STS-135, ended July 21, 2011 when Atlantis rolled to a stop at its home port, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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NASA #3, an EMD SW1500, sits outside the maintenance shop at Kennedy Space Center. The former Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway EMD SW1500 switcher engine is one of three that serves the 38 mile shortline which runs throughout Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Guest enjoy the festivities of Explore@NASA Goddard at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD on Saturday, May 14, 2011.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Rebecca Roth
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Nasa Hataoka during Wednesday's practice round at the Ricoh Women's British Open Golf Championship 2018.
NASA Wallops Island, VA. This evening was the first of a 5 day widow for a nighttime launch of a Minotaur I Rocket. I had a front row seat about 1.5 miles from the launch pad, unfortunately the weather did not cooperate and the mission was scrubbed for the evening. I was hoping to capture some images as the candle was lit for the 12 minute flight to orbit. This brought back some memories as I used to recover nosecones from launches at this facility many decades ago. On one recovery mission I found the second stage of the rocket, NASA officials were thrilled when I informed them that the intact stage with it's stabilizer fins was aboard the recovery ship.
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TacSat-3 satellite features three revolutionary trials: the Raytheon Company-built Advanced Responsive Tactically Effective Military Imaging Spectrometer hyperspectral imager, the Office of Naval Research's Satellite Communications Package, and the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Avionics Experiment. This trio of payloads will offer real-time imagery (within 10 minutes of collection), sea-based information transmitted from ocean buoys and plug-and-play avionics to assist the warfighter in keeping one step ahead of the adversary.
The PharmaSat experiment, developed by NASA’s Ames Research Center and will measure the influence of microgravity upon yeast resistance to an antifungal agent. PharmaSat focuses on questions key to countermeasure development for long-term space travel and habitation.
Three cubesats will be launched as secondary payloads on the TacSat-3 mission. The satellites, which contain their own power and data systems, are four-inch cubes that weigh 2.2 pounds each. The cubesats are being provided by California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, Calif. and the Hawk Institute for Space Sciences, Pocomoke City, Md. The three satellites are placed in a Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployer (P-POD), the standard deployment system for cubesats. The P-POD was developed by the Aerospace Engineering Department at Cal Poly. During the rocket’s ascent, each cubesat will be deployed separately from the P-POD into space.
N810NA - Convair CV-990A Coronado - ex NASA
at Mojave Airport (MHV) in September 2004
c/n 301029 - built in 1962 for American Airlines -
operated by NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
from 06/1975 - stored MZJ 1983 - 1988 -
re-reg. N810NA in 1988 and preserved as gate guard at MHV since 2008
The aircraft was mainly used as a landing systems research aircraft to test and evaluate brakes and landing gear systems on space shuttles and also conventional aircraft.
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
This view is dominated by the large, bright feature informally named the “heart,” which measures approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) across.
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Spacecraft acquiring this picture used Plutonium (named after Pluto) for its power.
Cassini, a robot spacecraft launched in 1997 by NASA, became close enough in 2002 to resolve many rings and moons of its destination planet: Saturn. At that time, Cassini snapped several images during an engineering test. Several of those images were combined into the contrast-enhanced color composite featured here. Saturn's rings and cloud-tops are visible toward the image bottom, while Titan, its largest moon, is visible as the speck toward the top. When arriving at Saturn in July 2004, the Cassini orbiter began to circle and study the Saturnian system. A highlight was when Cassini launched the Huygens probe that made an unprecedented landing on Titan in 2005, sending back detailed pictures. Now nearing the end of its mission, Cassini is scheduled to embark on a Grand Finale phase in late 2016 where it will repeatedly dive between the giant planet and its innermost rings. via NASA ift.tt/1XoVNCc
A United Launch Alliance Delta II rockets lifts off on it's 153rd mission since being introduced in 1989, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The workhorse lifted NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Satellite into orbit to study the Earth's soil moisture every 2-3 days over the next three years.
Representative Donna Edwards during Explore@NASA Goddard day at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD on Saturday, May 14, 2011.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Pat Izzo
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Edited Aqua MODIS image of the Tokyo area in Honshu after flooding from a typhoon in November of 2019. Color/processing variant.
Image source: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145736/hagibis-floods-ja...
Original caption: After forming in the Philippine Sea and rapidly intensifying into a powerful category 5 storm on October 5, 2019, super typhoon Hagibis gradually weakened as it approached Japan. Yet when the category 2 storm made landfall on the Izu Peninsula on October 12, its broad wind field and record-breaking rain devastated the island of Honshu. The storm caused widespread flooding, mudslides, power outages, and wind damage.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of Honshu on October 13, 2019, after the last of the storm’s clouds had moved to the northeast. Rivers and coastal waters that normally appear blue were instead brown with sediment knocked loose and washed away by the rush of rainfall. Large plumes of sediment-rich water rushed into several bays along Honshu’s east coast, where it mixed and swirled with seawater.
While typhoons regularly hit Japan, meteorologists say Hagibis was particularly damaging because of the angle of its attack and where it made landfall. Storms usually strike southern Japan first and weaken rapidly by the time they reach Tokyo and other population centers in central Honshu. In this case, the storm stayed offshore until making landfall just 130 kilometers (80 miles) southwest of Tokyo. That allowed Hagibis to draw energy from the sea longer than most storms do. When it made landfall, the storm was also interacting with higher level winds in the jet stream, which spread the strongest winds over a larger area than usual.
According to press reports, Hagibis caused dozens of deaths, hundreds of injuries, flood damage to at least 10,000 homes, and power outages in many more. River embankments collapsed in at least 66 places on 47 different rivers and streams. One of the areas hardest hit by rain was Hakone, which received 922.5 millimeters (36.3 inches) of rain fall in just one day.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using data from the Level 1 and Atmospheres Active Distribution System (LAADS) and Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). Story by Adam Voiland.