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Manufacturer: McDonnell Douglas (Now Boeing)
Operator: NASA Flight Test Research Center
Type: F-15D two seater Eagle (N836NA)
Event/Location: 2022 Aerospace Airshow/ Edwards AF base
Comment: Aircraft normally used for photo or video support as well as routine flight training required for all NASA pilots.
What a wise decision to go to the airport. The wait was rewarded even when the photo was taken with ISO 2000. So a nice photo of this unique Boeing 747SP was taken. The SOFIA telescope is on board. The plane is in Hamburg for a C-check and will leave us in February 2021.
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Airline: NASA/DLR
Aircraft: Boeing 747SP-21
Registration: N747NA
Date: 30.09.2020
Location: Hamburg Airport HAM/EDDH
NASA 747SP Reg: N747NA another highlight from my US trip, airside at NASA hangar and ramp at Palmdale.
A color-composite and mosaic comprising image data captured by Cassini on June 12, 2016. Highlighting its 26.7º axial tilt and northern hemisphere.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI. Composite by Jason Major.
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).
Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to show that, multiple eruptions from a supermassive black hole over 50 million years have rearranged the cosmic landscape at the center of a group of galaxies.
Scientists discovered this history of black hole eruptions by studying NGC 5813, a group of galaxies about 105 million light years from Earth. These Chandra observations are the longest ever obtained of a galaxy group, lasting for just over a week. The Chandra data are shown in this new composite image where the X-rays from Chandra (purple) have been combined with visible light data (red, green and blue).
Galaxy groups are like their larger cousins, galaxy clusters, but instead of containing hundreds or even thousands of galaxies like clusters do, galaxy groups are typically comprised of 50 or fewer galaxies. Like galaxy clusters, groups of galaxies are enveloped by giant amounts of hot gas that emit X-rays.
Read Full Article: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/chandra-finds-evidence...
Read more about Chandra:
p.s. You can see all of our Chandra photos in the Chandra Group in Flickr at: www.flickr.com/groups/chandranasa/ We'd love to have you as a member!
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N911NA - Boeing B-747SR-46 - NASA
at Marana Pinal Air Park (MZJ)
c/n 20.781 - built in 1973 for Japan Airlines -
to Boeing in 1988 for modification to Shuttle Carrier Aircraft -
operated by NASA between 1989 and 2012 -
on static display at Joe Davis Heritage Airpark, Palmdale CA.since 09/2014
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
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
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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Total lunar eclipse captured January 20-21, 2000. (Mr. Eclipse/Fred Espenak)
Editor's Note: Hey Flickr friends -- this will be a good one!
On the night of Dec. 20 and into the morning of Dec. 21, the moon will have a beautiful total eclipse, coinciding with the winter solstice. NASA astronomers will host two live Web chats to take your questions, including an all-night Web chat with real-time observation of the eclipse. For more information, visit this link: www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/lunar_eclipse.html
Really hope to see all of you there!
Seen in Technik-Museum Speyer, Germany
I find the combination of the XTAR P3200 grain and the bokeh produced by the Zeiss Planar lens very pleasing.
I have created a new Flickr group for film photography using the Contarex series cameras and lenses --> Click
Zeiss Ikon Contarex Special (built between 1960 and 1963)
Carl Zeiss Planar 1:2 50mm Contarex Mount
Kodak TMAX P3200 professional grade high sensitivity black&white negative film, shot at ISO 1000
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Jessica Meir/Kevin M. Gill
Source: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS074&...
NASA's Andromeda Fighter was designed as a defensive and offensive space fighter that could be launched from earth and return on it's own power. The craft was also designed to be launched in groups of 4 not unlike the traditional Space Shuttle. The Andromeda is manned by a crew of 3 and it's weapon systems include guided rockets which launch from the port and starboard pods as well as 30mm rocket cannon.
This was done for Tromas's Real World Starfighter Contest.
This is a visualizations of ozone concentrations over the southern hemisphere.
Minimum concentration of ozone in the southern hemisphere for each year from 1979-2013 (there is no data from 1995). Each image is the day of the year with the lowest concentration of ozone. A graph of the lowest ozone amount for each year is shown.
Read more/download file: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011600/a011648/
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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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
By pushing NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the farthest galaxy ever seen in the universe. This surprisingly bright infant galaxy, named GN-z11, is seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the Big Bang. GN-z11 is located in the direction of the constellation of Ursa Major.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/1oSqHad
The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security -- Regolith Explorer spacecraft (OSIRIS-REx) will travel to a near-Earth asteroid, called Bennu, and bring a sample back to Earth for study. The mission will help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth.
OSIRIS-REx is scheduled for launch in late 2016. As planned, the spacecraft will reach its asteroid target in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023.
Watch the full video: youtu.be/gtUgarROs08
Learn more about NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission and the making of Bennu’s Journey: www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/bennus-journey/
More information on the OSIRIS-REx mission is available at:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/osiris-rex/index.html
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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)
A swirling Eastern Pacific Ocean storm system headed for California was spotted by NOAA's GOES-West satellite on February 28. According to the National Weather Service, this storm system has the potential to bring heavy rainfall to the drought-stricken state.
The storm was captured using visible data from NOAA's GOES-West or GOES-15 satellite on Feb. 28 at 1915 UTC/11:15 a.m. PST was made into an image by NASA/NOAA's GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The storm's center appeared as a tight swirl, with bands of clouds and showers already sweeping over the state extending from northern California to Baja California, Mexico.
At 11:30 a.m. PST on February 28, Bill Patzert, climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. said, "Right now from northern to southern California we are being battered by very heavy rain, strong winds and our coastal communities are being battered by high surf. Through the weekend we are bracing for mud and rock slides in areas that recently burned [from wildfires]. Flooding is looming up and down the state."
The National Weather Service (NWS) serving Los Angeles posted a Flood Watch for the region on Friday, February 28. The Flood Watch notes the "potential for flash flooding and debris flows for some 2013 and 2014 burn areas in Los Angeles County from this morning through Saturday evening (March 1).”
The NWS Flood Watch also noted "a very strong and dynamic storm will bring a significant amount of rain to much of southwestern California through Saturday evening. A flash flood watch has been issued for several recent burn areas in Los Angeles County due to the abundant rainfall expected. Rain rates at times are expected to range from a half inch to one inch per hour which could cause significant mud and debris flows. There will be a chance of thunderstorms with locally higher rainfall rates."
"Californians haven't seen rain and wind this powerful in 3 years," Patzert said. "By early next week, as this system moves east, this powerful system will wreak havoc causing snow and ice storms through the Midwest into the Northeast."
GOES satellites provide the kind of continuous monitoring necessary for intensive data analysis. Geostationary describes an orbit in which a satellite is always in the same position with respect to the rotating Earth. This allows GOES to hover continuously over one position on Earth's surface, appearing stationary. As a result, GOES provide a constant vigil for the atmospheric "triggers" for severe weather conditions such as tornadoes, flash floods, hail storms and hurricanes.
On a positive note, Patzert noted, "This is a nice down payment on drought recovery in the parched Western U.S."
For updated information about the storm system, visit NOAA's National Weather Service website: www.weather.gov
For more information about GOES satellites, visit: www.goes.noaa.gov/ or goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Rob Gutro
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite passed directly over Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 2, 2016, just prior to the opening of the Summer Olympic Games. On the left is an image from MISR's nadir camera; on the right, a map of aerosol optical depth. via NASA ift.tt/2b8hQMb
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
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)
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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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
Space shuttle Atlantis is seen as it launches from pad 39A on Friday, July 8, 2011, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch of Atlantis, STS-135, is the final flight of the shuttle program, a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA's Landing and Recovery Team practices bringing a mock Orion capsule into the well deck of the USS Portland (LPD 27) ahead of the Artemis I Orion splashdown slated for Dec. 11.
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I mission is the first integrated flight test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and ground systems. SLS and Orion launched at 1:47 a.m. EST, from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I mission is the first integrated flight test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and ground systems. SLS and Orion launched at 1:47 a.m. EST, from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
A view of the Earth appears over the Lunar horizon as the Apollo 11 Command Module comes into view of the Moon before Astronatus Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. leave in the Lunar Module, Eagle, to become the first men to walk on the Moon's surface.
Image credit: NASA
Landing with a tailwind on runway 12 after reportedly running low on fuel...Prestwick 10/07/14
Check out my non aviation pictures at www.flickr.com/photos/gspiccies
NASA 926, a WB-57, returns to March ARB from a dress rehearsal for the Artemis II splash down in the Pacific Ocean.
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
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Check out the Global Selfie Flickr group at
A new dataset called Bedmap2 gives a clearer picture of Antarctica from the ice surface down to the bedrock below. Bedmap2 is a significant improvement on the previous collection of Antarctic data—known as Bedmap—that was produced more than 10 years ago. The product was a result of work led by the British Antarctic Survey, where researchers compiled decades worth of geophysical measurements, such as surface elevation measurements from NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, known as ICESat, and ice thickness data collected by Operation IceBridge.
To read more go to: 1.usa.gov/17p6pdM
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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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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.