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NASA Day at Capitol Hill - NASA project displays and scientists in the Rayburn Office Building Foyer.
Taking part in the Oracles 2016 project in Walvis Bay, Namibia
ORACLES – Walvis Bay, 2016
Southern Africa produces almost a third of the Earth’s biomass burning (BB) aerosol particles, yet the fate of these particles and their influence on regional and global climate is poorly understood. ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) was a five year investigation with three Intensive Observation Periods (IOP) designed to study key processes that determine the climate impacts of African BB aerosols. Particles lofted into the mid-troposphere are transported westward over the SE Atlantic, home to one of the three permanent subtropical Stratocumulus (Sc) cloud decks in the world. The stratocumulus “climate radiators” are critical to the regional and global climate system.
During August to September 2016, NASA flew an ER-2 out of Walvis Bay with a series of imaging instruments along with a P-3, which conducted in situ observations over the South Atlantic and associated clouds. The single seater ER-2 flew across the Atlantic from Recife Brazil.
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NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren corrals the supply of fresh fruit that arrived on the Kounotori 5 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-5.) via NASA 1.usa.gov/1Uf4eNy
A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away. via NASA ift.tt/1KgqOm1
NASA astronaut Joe Acaba photographed Puerto Rico from the cupola of the International Space Station on Oct. 12, 2017. Sharing the image with his followers on social media, he wrote, "Finally a chance to see the beautiful island of Puerto Rico from @Space_Station. Continued thoughts throughout the recovery process." via NASA October 17, 2017
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is pictured inside of the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft while conducting routine spacesuit checks. The Expedition 49 trio of Rubins, JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi and cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin are scheduled to undock their Soyuz on Saturday, Oct. 29, and land at 11:59 p.m. EDT. via NASA ift.tt/2fnNzOH
NASA astronauts Scott Kelly (left) and Terry Virts (right) work on a Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) inside the station's Japanese Experiment Module. via NASA ift.tt/1RPB752
Marked by an unusually bright central region, swirling dust lanes, and far flung tidal tails, peculiar NGC 3256 is the aftermath of a truly cosmic collision. The 500 million year old clash of two separate galaxies spans some 100 thousand light-years in this sharp Hubble view. Of course when two galaxies collide, individual stars rarely do. Giant galactic clouds of molecular gas and dust do interact though, and produce spectacular bursts of star formation. In this galaxy clash, the two original spiral galaxies had similar masses. Their disks are no longer distinct and the two galactic nuclei are hidden by obscuring dust. On the timescale of a few hundred million years the nuclei will likely also merge as NGC 3256 becomes a single large elliptical galaxy. NGC 3256 itself is nearly 100 million light-years distant toward the southern sailing constellation Vela. The frame includes many even more distant background galaxies and spiky foreground stars. via NASA ift.tt/2sNJlUK
Mom standing in between to separations of a 4 piece rocket also known as Saturn 5 the Largest rocket in the world
NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (Where the put together the Space Shuttles), at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
The world is currently in an active period for the production of atmospheric aerosols, according to Colin Seftor, an atmospheric physicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who compiled this image. Seftor works for Science Systems and Applications, Inc. This image is a combination of a VIIRS RGB image with OMPS aerosol index (AI) data for September 15, 2012.
The OMPS AI shows dust from the Sahara over northern Africa that is being blown over the Atlantic (with yellow, less opaque colors representing less dust and pink, more opaque colors representing more dust). Dust can also be seen over Saudi Arabia and parts of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. However, the aerosol index signal over the Western U.S. is due to dense smoke from wildfires, while smoke from agricultural biomass burning is visible over both South American and southern Africa. The sun glint in the middle of each swath shows the pattern of the satellite's view in orbit.
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Victor Glover, who has accumulated 3,000 flight hours in more than 40 aircraft, over 400 carrier arrested landings and 24 combat missions, took his first spacewalk on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. via NASA February 02, 2021
534 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes and counting. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson flew through the standing record for cumulative time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut at 1:27 a.m. EDT on April 24, 2017, and with the recent extension of her stay at the International Space Station, she has five months to rack up a new one. via NASA ift.tt/2pcSZQM
Very faint but also very large on planet Earth's sky, a giant Squid Nebula cataloged as Ou4, and Sh2-129 also known as the Flying Bat Nebula, are both caught in this scene toward the royal constellation Cepheus. Composed with a total of 20 hours of broadband and narrowband data, the telescopic field of view is almost 4 degrees or 8 Full Moons across. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula's alluring bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue-green emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms. Though apparently completely surrounded by the reddish hydrogen emission region Sh2-129, the true distance and nature of the Squid Nebula have been difficult to determine. Still, a recent investigation suggests Ou4 really does lie within Sh2-129 some 2,300 light-years away. Consistent with that scenario, Ou4 would represent a spectacular outflow driven by a triple system of hot, massive stars, cataloged as HR8119, seen near the center of the nebula. If so, the truly giant Squid Nebula would physically be nearly 50 light-years across. via NASA ift.tt/1NlcUBL
At the NASA Space Center in Houston. As Special Guests of the WorldFest Film Festival, we were hosted for a special tour. This is in the cockpit of a decomissioned Space Shuttle simulator.
1891 Shuttle Main Engine Info, LC-39 Observation Gantry – Kennedy Space Center, 405 Nasa Parkway W, Merritt Island, Brevard, FL. April 29, 2008. Decimal degrees: 28.526009, -80.679184
"Space Shuttle Main Engine"
"This is a Space Shuttle Main Engine which flew on three different orbiters over a period of more than eight years. It was retired after completing 15 space flights.
First flown aboard Challenger's maiden flight in 1983, its credits include assisting the successful launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Gamma Ray Observatory, the Spacelab laboratory, and 13 communications satellites. This engine was also used in 63 successful test firings on the ground, for a total of 78 starts throughout its operational life."
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"The Space Shuttle Main Engine is the most complex propulsion unit ever developed to support space flight. It is the first rocket engine ever designed to be used repeatedly."
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"Each main engine generates about 375,000 pounds of thrust at liftoff. They operate for approximately eight and a half minutes, the time it takes to consume 500,000 gallons of cryogenic propellant and place the Shuttle into low Earth orbit."
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"After thorough testing, three main engines are positioned on the base of the Shuttle Orbiter in preparation for flight."
With 14 electric motors turning propellers and all of them integrated into a uniquely-designed wing, NASA will test new propulsion technology using an experimental airplane now designated the X-57 and nicknamed “Maxwell.” This concept image illustrates NASA's X-57 plane in flight. via NASA ift.tt/1sJCEBk
The worlds orbiting other stars are called “exoplanets,” and they come in a wide variety of sizes, from gas giants larger than Jupiter to small, rocky planets about as big around as Earth or Mars. This rocky super-Earth is an illustration of the type of planets future telescopes, like NASA's TESS, hope to find outside our solar system. via NASA April 13, 2018