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What's happening in this strange juxtaposition of moon and planet? First and foremost, Saturn's moon Dione was captured here in a dramatic panorama by the robotic Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting the giant planet. The bright and cratered moon itself spans about 1100-km, with the large multi-ringed crater Evander visible on the lower right. Since the rings of Saturn are seen here nearly edge-on, they are directly visible only as a thin horizontal line that passes behind Dione. Arcing across the bottom of the image, however, are shadows of Saturn's rings, showing some of the rich texture that could not be seen directly. In the background, few cloud features are visible on Saturn. The featured image was taken during the last planned flyby of Dione by Cassini, as the spacecraft is scheduled to dive into Saturn's atmosphere during 2017. via NASA ift.tt/1Jf3ODS
NASA engineers closed a summer of successful hot fire testing Aug. 30 for flight controllers on RS-25 engines that will help power the new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket being built to carry astronauts to deep-space destinations, including Mars. via NASA ift.tt/2xyYAm6
NASA's fleet of 18 Earth science missions in space, supported by aircraft, ships and ground observations, measure aspects of the environment that touch the lives of every person around the world. This visualization shows the NASA fleet in 2017. via NASA ift.tt/2plZ9yK
We were going to use this as our "control room" for our 48HFP 2009 movie, VENJAXOR: 2012! but blew a fuse, alerting others to our presence and ultimately getting us kicked out and forcing a re-write. Looks pretty sweet though, doesn't it?
Edited MODIS Aqua (1km/pixel) showing a band of smoke across central California. It was this smoke that made the moon so luridly red this evening. I'm not entirely sure where the smoke is from, though. The Meadows Fire in Yosemite National Park is still burning as can be seen from the smoke there.
NASA astronaut Robert Curbeam works on the International Space Station's S1 truss during the space shuttle Discovery's STS-116 mission in Dec. 2006. via NASA February 06, 2018
Ten years ago, an explorer from Earth parachuted into the haze of an alien moon toward an uncertain fate. After a gentle descent lasting more than two hours, it landed with a thud on a frigid floodplain, surrounded by icy cobblestones. With this feat, the Huygens probe accomplished humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system. Huygens was safely on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. These images of Saturn's moon Titan were taken on Jan. 14, 2005 by the Huygens probe at four different altitudes. The images are a flattened (Mercator) projection of the view from the descent imager/spectral radiometer on the probe as it landed on Titan's surface. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed, developed and assembled the Cassini orbiter. NASA supplied two instruments on the Huygens probe, the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer and the Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer. > More: NASA and ESA Celebrate 10 Years Since Titan Landing Image Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona via NASA 1.usa.gov/1zcFCj1
NASA's Genesis Mission Suggests Sun and Planets Constructed Differently
Researchers analyzing samples returned by NASA's 2004 Genesis mission have discovered that our sun and its inner planets may have formed differently than previously thought.
Taking part in the Safari 2000 project in Pietersburg, South Africa
SAFARI 2000 – Pietersberg, 2000
The Southern African Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000) project was an international science initiative to study the linkages between land and atmosphere processes conducted from 1999-2001 in the southern African region. In addition, SAFARI 2000 examined the relationship of biogenic, pyrogenic, and anthropogenic emissions and the consequences of their deposition to the functioning of the biogeophysical and biogeochemical systems of southern Africa.
During September 2000 NASA flew an ER-2 out of Polokwane, also known as Pietersburg. The ER2 carried a number of imaging instruments and was accompanied by low level in situ measurements conducted from a University of Washington C-580. Flying took place over South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique and Zambia. The project was supported and supplied by a USAF C-141 and K -135 from March AFB. The single seater ER-2 flew across the Atlantic from Recife Brazil.
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NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore works outside the International Space Station on the first of three spacewalks preparing the station for future arrivals by U.S. commercial crew spacecraft, Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. Fellow spacewalker Terry Virts, seen reflected in the visor, shared this photograph on social media. The spacewalks are designed to lay cables along the forward end of the U.S. segment to bring power and communication to two International Docking Adapters slated to arrive later this year. The new docking ports will welcome U.S. commercial spacecraft launching from Florida beginning in 2017, permitting the standard station crew size to grow from six to seven and potentially double the amount of crew time devoted to research. The second and third spacewalks are planned for Wednesday, Feb. 25 and Sunday, March 1, with Wilmore and Virts participating in all three. Image Credit: NASA via NASA ift.tt/1Be2FLU
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of UGCA 281 with the pale purple dots showing star forming regions (along with a large green (at least in these images) nebula). Color/processing variant.
To piece together a more complete picture of star birth, astronomers
have used the Hubble Space Telescope to look at star formation among
galaxies in our own cosmic back yard. The survey of 50 galaxies in the
local universe, called the Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS), is the
sharpest, most comprehensive ultraviolet-light look at nearby star-
forming galaxies.
The LEGUS survey combines new Hubble observations with archival
Hubble images for star-forming spiral and dwarf galaxies, offering a
valuable resource for understanding the complexities of star formation
and galaxy evolution. Astronomers are releasing the star catalogs for
each of the LEGUS galaxies and cluster catalogs for 30 of the galaxies, as
well as images of the galaxies themselves. The catalogs provide detailed
information on young, massive stars and star clusters, and how their
environment affects their development.
The local universe, stretching across the gulf of space between us and
the great Virgo cluster of galaxies, is ideal for study because astronomers
can amass a big enough sample of galaxies, and yet, the galaxies are
close enough to Earth that Hubble can resolve individual stars. The survey
will also help astronomers understand galaxies in the distant universe,
where rapid star formation took place.
yep...it's the real thing...and it's my yard, and it's proof that Barnstead is the center of the universe
These two views of Ceres were acquired by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Feb. 12, 2015, from a distance of about 52,000 miles (83,000 kilometers) as the dwarf planet rotated. The images have been magnified from their original size. The Dawn spacecraft is due to arrive at Ceres on March 6, 2015. Dawn's mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK, Inc., of Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The framing cameras were provided by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany, with significant contributions by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, and in coordination with the Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering, Braunschweig. The visible and infrared mapping spectrometer was provided by the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, built by Selex ES, and is managed and operated by the Italian Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, Rome. The gamma ray and neutron detector was built by Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, and is operated by the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA via NASA ift.tt/17e9246
NASA Sign with Atlantis Space Shuttle at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
Cape Canaveral
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Color-enhanced image courtesy of NASA. The black circle which indicates Flattop Mountain was added by landowner who submitted image.
Amongst the guano & other detritus on this washroom area floor, there were also some circuit boards (1970s/1980s solid-state type stuff -- no ICs) & RF connector adapters. One circuit board (METRAPLEX CORP. PART No. III-122 45 11 SERIAL No. 3080) was marked "Checked bad, 11-22-89"
Lt. Governor Miller Tours the NASA Goddard Campus by Patrick Siebert at 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771
During an engineering flight test of the Cloud-Aerosol Multi-Angle Lidar (CAMAL) instrument, a view from NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s ER-2 aircraft shows smoke plumes, from roughly 65,000 feet, produced by the Thomas Fire in Ventura County, California, around 1 p.m. PST on Dec. 5th, 2017. via NASA ift.tt/2j3XCf5
Hidden beneath Chamber A at the Johnson Space Center is an area engineers used to test critical contamination control technology that has helped keep our James Webb Space Telescope clean during cryogenic testing. via NASA ift.tt/2gjAzIb