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N905NA - Boeing B-747-123 - NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA)
with shuttle "Enterprise"
at Paris LeBourget Airport (LBG) in 1983 during Aero Salon
c/n 20107 - built in 1970 for American Airlines -
modified as Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) by Boeing in 1976 -
entered service 1977 in ex American Airlines livery -
last flight with Space Shuttle (Discovery) 4/17/12 Kennedy Space Center - IAD -
In 2013, a decision was made to preserve N905NA and display it at Space Center Houston with the mockup shuttle "Independence" mounted on its back. N905NA was flown to Ellington Field where it was carefully dismantled, ferried to the Johnson Space Center in seven major pieces (a process called The Big Move), reassembled, and finally mated with the replica shuttle in August 2014
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
Originally a US Air Force RB-57, N927NA was converted to WB-57F for high altitude research. NASA brought the jet to California to observe the return of the Orion spacecraft from the Artemis mission (...and it MAY have taken part in a hypersonic missile test flight).
N712NA - Convair CV-990-30A-8 Coronado-990 - NASA
at Paris LeBourget (LBG) in June 1977
named "Galileo II"
c/n 301037 - built in 1963 for Garuda Indonesian -
operated by NASA from 1973 -
w/o 7/17/85 March AFB CA - destroyed by fire after aborted takeoff due to blown tire
last Convair CV-990 built
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
NASA 747SP Reg: N747NA another highlight from my US trip, airside at NASA hangar and ramp at Palmdale.
This 747SP started life as Clipper Lindbergh in 1977 with PanAm, sold to United in 1986, retired from service in 1994, and in 1997 purchased by NASA as the next generation airborne telescope platform. Reconfigured at L3 Waco, and after ten years of major reconfiguration, flew as SOFIA for the first time in 2007. "Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy", SOFIA, 'NASA747' departs Palmdale on flight number 8 of observing cycle 9Q.
NASA image acquired October 14, 2011
The Solar Dynamics Observatory sends images of the Sun. This image taken by SDO's AIA instrument at 171 Angstrom shows the current conditions of the quiet corona and upper transition region of the Sun.
Credit: NASA/SDO
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A winter storm that moved through the Mid-Atlantic on Feb. 16 and 17, 2015 extended the northeastern U.S. snowcover farther south. Until this storm hit, southern New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania appeared snow-free on satellite imagery from the previous week.
The overnight storm blanketed the entire states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as seen on this Feb. 16 image. The image was taken from the MODIS or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument that flies aboard NASA's Terra satellite. The snow cover from the storm actually extended even farther south than the image. Snowfall also blanketed West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, while freezing rain and icy conditions affected the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia.
On Feb. 17, 2015, NOAA's National Weather Service noted "The winter storm that brought widespread snow, sleet and freezing rain to parts of the south-central U.S. and Mid-Atlantic will wind down as it moves offshore Tuesday. Lingering snow and freezing rain is possible early Tuesday for parts of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, with rain across parts of the Southeast."
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team
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N827NA - Douglas C-47B-15-DK - NASA
at Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ)
c/n 26787- built in 1943 for the USAF -
operated by NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Edwards CA between 1972 and 1985 - retired
preserved and placed on display with Fairchild AFB, Spokane, WA.
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
Storm in the Sargasso Sea
Scientist aboard the R/V Endeavor in the Sargasso Sea put their research on hold on July 28, 2014, as a storm system brought high waves crashing onto the deck.
NASA's Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR) experiment is a coordinated ship and aircraft observation campaign off the Atlantic coast of the United States, an effort to advance space-based capabilities for monitoring microscopic plants that form the base of the marine food chain.
Read more: 1.usa.gov/WWRVzj
Credit: NASA/SABOR/Chris Armanetti, University of Rhode Island
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NASA video release January 19, 2012
Global temperatures have warmed significantly since 1880, the beginning of what scientists call the "modern record." At this time, the coverage provided by weather stations allowed for essentially global temperature data. As greenhouse gas emissions from energy production, industry and vehicles have increased, temperatures have climbed, most notably since the late 1970s. In this animation of temperature data from 1880-2011, reds indicate temperatures higher than the average during a baseline period of 1951-1980, while blues indicate lower temperatures than the baseline average.
(Data source: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Visualization credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio)
To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2011-temps.html
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This NASA visualization for the National Climate Assessment released on May 6 shows how average temperatures in the U.S. will increase 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century if carbon dioxide emissions continue current trends. It is based on a NOAA analysis of climate model data.
The National Climate Assessment is specifically focused on providing information about the impacts of climate change on the U.S. NASA supports this effort and contributes a global perspective through its satellite missions and science. NASA scientists study global and U.S. influences on temperature, including greenhouse gases, clouds, fine particle pollution and solar activity.
NASA scientists are also studying how rising temperatures in the U.S. and around the world will impact agriculture, extreme summer heat waves and public health.
Increasing carbon dioxide emissions from human activities remains the primary driver of Earth’s rising temperatures. This summer NASA will launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), to make continuous global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
To read the National Climate Assessment’s take on U.S. temperature trends, visit: nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/our-changing-climate/rece...
To learn more about the OCO-2 mission, visit: oco.jpl.nasa.gov
To learn more about other NASA missions that contribute to understanding global temperature, visit: climate.nasa.gov
To see a visualization of temperature changes projected by the National Climate Assessment, visit: go.nasa.gov/1on08V4
To learn more about NASA’s Earth science activities in 2014, visit: www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow
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N817NA - McDonnell Douglas DC-8-72 - NASA - National Aeronautics & Space Administration Edwards CA (Dryden Flight Research Center)
c/n 46082 - built in 1969 for Alitalia as DC-8-62 -
to Braniff 1979 - 1983 -
conv. to DC-8-72 in 1986 and operated by NASA from 1986 - still active in 2021
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
Selected as NASA Picture Of The Day 9/5/2014 Thanks to all at NASA apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140905.html
Captured over 5 nights during the month of August 2014 from my Backyard Observatory in Western Michigan using LRGB & H-Alpha filters with the QHY11 Mono CCD/Takahashi E-180.
The original image is 6676 x 4659 pixels and covers an area of sky equal to 6.8 x 4.75 degrees and includes quite a few Messier objects including M16, M17, M18, M24 and M25.
A much larger 50% annotated view of this image can be seen here
nova.astrometry.net/annotated_full/831359
Total Exposure 10 hours
Image details
Location: DownUnder Observatory, Fremont MI
Date of Shoot: August 2014
H-Alpha 360 min, 9 x 8 min bin 1x1 (for each panel)
LRGB 240 min, 6 x 2 min each bin 1x1 (for each panel)
QHY11 monochrome CCD cooled to -10C
Takahashi E-180 F2.8 Astrograph
Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition Maxim DL
Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack
Post Processing Photoshop CS5
SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, is a Boeing 747SP aircraft modified to carry a 2.7-meter (106-inch) reflecting telescope (with an effective diameter of 2.5 meters or 100 inches).
N429NA - Lockheed L-188C Electra - NASA
at Miami International Airport (MIA) in Feb. 1988
c/n 1103 - built in 1959 for the Hughes Tool Company, but ntu -
delivered to the FAA as N111 in 1961 -
to NASA National Aeronautics & Space Admin Wallops Island VA in 1979 - wfu DMA in 1995
to Neptune Aviation Services Inc. in 2004 - conv. to tanker -
to Air Spray in 2006 as C-FLJO/Tanker 88
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
NASA release date June 21, 2011
The terminator of Mercury, shown here in color, is the line between light and dark, or day and night. On Mercury, three days are equivalent to two years, or in other words, the planet spins around its axis three times for every two orbits around the Sun. The first Mercury year of the MESSENGER mission ended on Monday, June 13, 2011.
This image was acquired as part of MDIS's color base map. The color base map is composed of WAC images taken through eight different narrow-band color filters and will cover more than 90% of Mercury's surface with an average resolution of 1 kilometer/pixel (0.6 miles/pixel). The highest-quality color images are obtained for Mercury's surface when both the spacecraft and the Sun are overhead, so these images typically are taken with viewing conditions of low incidence and emission angles.
The MESSENGER spacecraft is the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven scientific instruments and radio science investigation are unraveling the history and evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet. Visit the Why Mercury? section of this website to learn more about the key science questions that the MESSENGER mission is addressing. During the one-year primary mission, MDIS is scheduled to acquire more than 75,000 images in support of MESSENGER's science goals.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Pico Rivera, CA
We stopped by NASA today and thanks to some very, very nice employees, we got a quick little tour around their yard. Thanks to Louie especially for the walk around.
Ex-LA truck that NASA got recently. They also got an ex-ESD truck (NASA AD1)
February 17, 2012: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope may have found evidence for a cluster of young, blue stars encircling HLX-1, one of the first intermediate-mass black holes ever discovered. Astronomers believe the black hole may once have been at the core of a now-disintegrated dwarf galaxy. The discovery of the black hole and the possible star cluster has important implications for understanding the evolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies
To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/shredded-relic....
Credit: NASA, ESA, and S. Farrell (Sydney Institute for Astronomy, University of Sydney)
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On Jan. 20 at 2:30 p.m. EST the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP captured this image of the winter storm moving through the central U.S.
Credits: NASA Goddard Rapid Response
The low pressure area from the Eastern Pacific Ocean moved into the western U.S. and tracked across the four corners region into Texas where NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite observed the clouds associated with the storm. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard Suomi NPP satellite captured the visible image on January 20, 2016 at 19:30 UTC (2:30 p.m. EST) when the storm was over the central U.S. In the image, snow cover is visible in the Rockies and southern Great Lakes states.
VIIRS collects visible and infrared imagery and global observations of land, atmosphere, cryosphere and oceans.
That low pressure system located over the south central United States on Jan. 21 is expected to track east across the Tennessee Valley and will give way to a deepening coastal low pressure area. The National Weather Service said "This latter feature takes over and becomes a dominant force in setting up heavy snow bands over the Mid-Atlantic and very gusty winds."
The storm system is expected to bring an increased risk of severe weather from far southeastern Texas across southern Louisiana/Mississippi, and into the far western Florida Panhandle on Thursday, Jan. 21. That threat for severe weather will move east as the low pressure area continues heading in that direction.
The National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland said "A potentially crippling winter storm is anticipated for portions of the mid-Atlantic Friday into early Saturday. Snowfall may approach two feet for some locations, including the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metro areas. Farther north, there is uncertainty in snowfall for the New York City-to-Boston corridor. Farther south, significant icing is likely for portions of Kentucky and North Carolina."
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just solved a conundrum by proving a controversial finding made with the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope more than 20 years ago.
In 2003, Hubble provided evidence of a massive planet around a very old star, almost as old as the universe. Such stars possess only small amounts of heavier elements that are the building blocks of planets. This implied that some planet formation happened when our universe was very young, and those planets had time to form and grow big inside their primordial disks, even bigger than Jupiter. But how? This was puzzling.
To answer this question, researchers used Webb to study stars in a nearby galaxy that, much like the early universe, lacks large amounts of heavy elements. They found that not only do some stars there have planet-forming disks, but that those disks are longer-lived than those seen around young stars in our Milky Way galaxy.
This is a James Webb Space Telescope image of NGC 346, a massive star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. With its relative lack of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, the NGC 346 cluster serves as a nearby proxy for studying stellar environments with similar conditions in the early, distant universe. Ten, small, yellow circles overlaid on the image indicate the positions of the ten stars surveyed in this study.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Olivia C. Jones (UK ATC), Guido De Marchi (ESTEC), Margaret Meixner (USRA)
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, played a critical role in the test flight of the #Orion spacecraft on Dec. 5, 2014. Goddard's Networks Integration Center, pictured here, coordinated the communications support for both the Orion vehicle and the Delta IV rocket, ensuring complete communications coverage through NASA's Space Network and Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.
The Orion spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37 in Florida at 7:05 a.m. EST. The Orion capsule splashed down about four and a half hours later, at 11:29 a.m. EST, about 600 miles off the coast of San Diego, California. While no humans were aboard Orion for this test flight, in the future, Orion will allow humans to travel deeper into space than ever before, including an asteroid and Mars.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Amber Jacobson
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NASA Unfiltered – Our First Photo NASA Social
Are you instantly on Instagram? A Flickr fanatic? If you know the difference between shutter speed and an f-stop, this NASA Social is for you. NASA is hosting an event for its photo-fanatic social media followers on the morning of Feb. 27, 2014, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
This NASA Social will bring 15 social media photo-gurus together at NASA Goddard to snap and share photos of where NASA's next great Earth science satellite was developed, built and tested. The Global Precipitation Measurement mission Core Observatory is the largest satellite ever built and tested at NASA Goddard.
NASA Social participants and their friends and family are also invited to attend the GPM launch party at NASA Goddard's Visitor Center. We will watch a live NASA Television broadcast of the launch of GPM from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. The Visitor Center will be open from 12:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. EST, with expert presentations and family-friendly hands-on demonstrations. The launch of the GPM Core Observatory is scheduled for no earlier than 1:07 p.m. EST, Feb. 27, 2014.
More details and registration: 1.usa.gov/1fs1sRr
Credit: NASA
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Montebello, CA
A few months ago, Moises sent me some pictures of this place and I was shocked to see practically all of NASA's oldies sitting here. I completely forgot NASA had this second yard so a few weeks later, my brother and I went to check it out. Most of the trucks look to be in decent shape for just sitting so that's good. In fact, when we went to the main yard a few minutes later, we even saw one of the 310 Heils pulling in! Haven't been out here since April so not sure what's been moved around.
Pico Rivera, CA
We stopped by NASA today and thanks to some very, very nice employees, we got a quick little tour around their yard. Thanks to Louie especially for the walk around.
1 of 3 ex-Ontario trucks. Kevin was at the same auction that these were bought from. NASA refurbished them completely all in house, from engine rebuilding to painting.
NASA image captured October 5, 2011
The Antarctic Peninsula seen from space.
Satellite: Aqua/MODIS
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team
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Description Astronaut N. Jan Davis, payload commander, is pictured at the work station for the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) on the aft flight deck of the Space Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-85. Davis controlled and oversaw operations with the Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere-Shuttle Pallet Satellite-2 (CRISTA-SPAS-2) during the 12-day mission in Earth-orbit.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: STS085-312-027
Date: August 19, 1997
Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto’s horizon. The smooth expanse of the informally named icy plain Sputnik Planum (right) is flanked to the west (left) by rugged mountains up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) high, including the informally named Norgay Montes in the foreground and Hillary Montes on the skyline. To the right, east of Sputnik, rougher terrain is cut by apparent glaciers. The backlighting highlights over a dozen layers of haze in Pluto’s tenuous but distended atmosphere. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) to Pluto; the scene is 780 miles (1,250 kilometers) wide.
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Landing with a tailwind on runway 12 after reportedly running low on fuel...Prestwick 10/07/14
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Selfies for Earth Science
Where on Earth are you going to be this Earth Day? On April 22, help us celebrate our planet by snapping and sharing a pic of yourself — using the hashtag #GlobalSelfie — wherever you happen to be. Find out more about the Global Selfie at
www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/globalselfie/
Visit the Global Selfie Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/events/233952006809533/
Check out the Global Selfie Flickr group at
Artist concept of SLS launching.
Image credit: NASA
Original image:
www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/multimedia/gallery/s...
More about SLS:
www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html
Space Launch System Flickr photoset:
www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157627559536895/
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A general purpose two-person EVA unit, commonly used to construct, inspect or repair sections of the ISS-B.
Work boats sported second-generation manipulator arms, tentacles more precisely; the biomechanical design was found to be superior to the older jointed boom arms as the tentacle's algorithms would find the best route to the grasp point and also be capable of reaching through complex station beamwork. In effect, the workers could remain stationary with the arms found it's own way to it's target point.
Triggered by the impact of a coronal mass ejection on New Year's eve, a moderate geomagnetic storm brought a celebration of sky lights to planet Earth's high latitudes yesterday. In this New Year's nightscape, the shimmering reddish curtains of aurora australis along a southern horizon are captured over Morgiana, SW Victoria, Australia. Of course, more permanent jewels of the southern skies are on the scene. The southern Milky Way, Alpha and Beta Centauri, and bright stars of the Southern Cross are on the left. In silhouette, branches of the large foreground tree stretch across the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic clouds. The bright star framed near the tips of tree branches at right is Achernar. Alpha star of the constellation Eridanus, Achernar is sometimes known as the southern end of the river. via NASA ift.tt/1mvpULk
The year is 1964. Reverse engineered and improved upon from a Soviet blueprint for the Крекер-7 Soviet Starfighter, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration secretly developed the Manta Ray fighter as a smaller and more nimble response to the hulking Soviet craft. NASA test pilots were known to wear gorilla masks to instantly discredit any onlookers that might stumble upon the highly classified weapon.
Built for Cracker, Inc. - this is the second fighter for our team in Round 7 of the Starfighter Telephone Game! [www.flickr.com/groups/starfighter_telephone_game/discuss/...]
Thanks to Cooper Works 70 for the awesome decals.
This one will be packed and shipped to Hammerstein NWC as soon as the stand is constructed! Can't wait to see what he does with it!
Instruments Overboard
On July 26, 2014, scientists worked past dusk to prepare and deploy the optical instruments and ocean water sensors during NASA's SABOR experiment.
NASA's Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR) experiment is a coordinated ship and aircraft observation campaign off the Atlantic coast of the United States, an effort to advance space-based capabilities for monitoring microscopic plants that form the base of the marine food chain.
Read more: 1.usa.gov/WWRVzj
Credit: NASA/SABOR/Wayne Slade, Sequoia Scientific
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What's happening behind those houses? Pictured here are not auroras but nearby light pillars, a nearby phenomenon that can appear as a distant one. In most places on Earth, a lucky viewer can see a Sun-pillar, a column of light appearing to extend up from the Sun caused by flat fluttering ice-crystals reflecting sunlight from the upper atmosphere. Usually these ice crystals evaporate before reaching the ground. During freezing temperatures, however, flat fluttering ice crystals may form near the ground in a form of light snow, sometimes known as a crystal fog. These ice crystals may then reflect ground lights in columns not unlike a Sun-pillar. The featured image was taken in Fort Wainwright near Fairbanks in central Alaska. via NASA ift.tt/1nSIfTe
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found compelling evidence of a planet forming 7.5 billion miles away from its star, a finding that may challenge current theories about planet formation.
Of the almost 900 planets outside our solar system that have been confirmed to date, this is the first to be found at such a great distance from its star. The suspected planet is orbiting the diminutive red dwarf TW Hydrae, a popular astronomy target located 176 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Hydra the Sea Serpent.
Read more: 1.usa.gov/196B6lZ
NASA, ESA, J. Debes (STScI), H. Jang-Condell (University of Wyoming), A. Weinberger (Carnegie Institution of Washington), A. Roberge (Goddard Space Flight Center), G. Schneider (University of Arizona/Steward Observatory), and A. Feild (STScI/AURA)
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