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A dark, snaking line across the lower half of the sun in this Feb. 10, 2015 image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a filament of solar material hovering above the sun's surface. SDO shows colder material as dark and hotter material as light, so the line is, in fact, an enormous swatch of colder material hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. Stretched out, that line – or solar filament as scientists call it – would be more than 533,000 miles long. That is longer than 67 Earths lined up in a row. Filaments can float sedately for days before disappearing. Sometimes they also erupt out into space, releasing solar material in a shower that either rains back down or escapes out into space, becoming a moving cloud known as a coronal mass ejection, or CME. SDO captured images of the filament in numerous wavelengths, each of which helps highlight material of different temperatures on the sun. By looking at such features in different wavelengths and temperatures, scientists learn more about what causes these structures, as well as what catalyzes their occasional eruptions. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010 aboard a ULA Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is designed to study the causes of solar variability and its impacts on Earth. The spacecraft's long-term measurements give solar scientists in-depth information to help characterize the interior of the sun, the sun's magnetic field, the hot plasma of the solar corona, and the density of radiation that creates the ionosphere of the planets. The information is used to create better forecasts of space weather needed to protect aircraft, satellites and astronauts living and working in space. Image Credit: NASA/SDO via NASA 1.usa.gov/1ChkNPt
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson trains underwater for a spacewalk at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Whitson is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in late 2016 as part of Expedition 50/51. via NASA ift.tt/1muWexu
Jaiwon Shin, NASA Associate Administrator for Aeronautics Research at the 51st Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium. The Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium is an annual event the brings together leaders in government, industry, and academia to discuss the space program in general and NASA’s strategic plan. The symposium was held at the Greenbelt Marriott, located in Greenbelt, MD.
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Images from the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) on STS-135, the final mission of NASA's 30-year space shuttle program.
ITCD Director, Adrian Gardner, is the guest reader for the GCDC Rockets on April 27, 2012.
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NASA Boeing 747SP N747NA "SOFIA" at Christchurch Airport. After the final departure from Christchurch, SOFIA performed a low level fly by with wing wave, before heading back to California via Honolulu.
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Kass' dad works in the aerospace industry, so we took a few pictures at NASA's Johnson Space Center for him.
While following the engineering design process, our newly-minted engineers explore the different facets involved in designing, landing, and driving a vehicle on Mars. They are involved in a team
process while designing these spacecraft. Design, implementation, and testing is practiced.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Debbie Mccallum
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Like salsa verde on your favorite burrito, a green aurora slathers up the sky in this June 25 snapshot from the International Space Station. About 400 kilometers (250 miles) above Earth, the orbiting station is itself within the upper realm of the auroral displays. Aurorae have the signature colors of excited molecules and atoms at the low densities found at extreme altitudes. Emission from atomic oxygen dominates this view. The tantalizing glow is green at lower altitudes, but rarer reddish bands extend above the space station's horizon. The orbital scene was captured while passing over a point south and east of Australia, with stars above the horizon at the right belonging to the constellation Canis Major, Orion's big dog. Sirius, alpha star of Canis Major, is the brightest star near the Earth's limb. via NASA ift.tt/2eSjeJ1
On another Valentine's Day 25 years ago, cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back one last time to make this first ever Solar System family portrait. The complete portrait is a 60 frame mosaic made from a vantage point 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane. In it, Voyager's wide angle camera frames sweep through the inner Solar System at the left, linking up with gas giant Neptune, the Solar System's outermost planet, at the far right. Positions for Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are indicated by letters, while the Sun is the bright spot near the center of the circle of frames. The inset frames for each of the planets are from Voyager's narrow field camera. Unseen in the portrait are Mercury, too close to the Sun to be detected, and Mars, unfortunately hidden by sunlight scattered in the camera's optical system. Closer to the Sun than Neptune at the time, small, faint Pluto's position was not covered. via NASA ift.tt/1DQ6S7v
This version of the Redstone rocket was modified to carry the one-person Mercury spacecraft. It launched the first American astronauts - Alan Shepard (May, 1961) and Virgil "Gus" Grissom (July, 1961) - into the space frontier. The Redstone rocket was selected by NASA for manned space flight because of its proven performance and reliability. This vehicle's first passenger was Ham the chimpanzee, launched January, 1961 on a 16 minute, 39 second flight. The red rescape tower above the Mercury capsule supported an escape rocket. In case of a launch emergency, the rocket inside would ignite and pull the capsule (with astronaut inside) to safety.
Protected by the Mobile Service Tower, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket stands ready for the launch of NASA's Landsat on Monday morning at 10:02am Pacific.
Often imaged but rarely mentioned, Messier 43 is a large star forming region in its own right. It's just part of the star forming complex of gas and dust that includes the larger, more famous neighboring Messier 42, the Great Orion Nebula. In fact, the Great Orion Nebula itself lies off the lower edge of this scene. The close-up of Messier 43 was made while testing the capabilities of a near-infrared instrument with one of the twin 6.5 meter Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in the Chilean Andes. The composite image shifts the otherwise invisible infrared wavelengths to blue, green, and red colors. Peering into caverns of interstellar dust hidden from visible light, the near-infrared view can also be used to study cool, brown dwarf stars in the complex region. Along with its celebrity neighbor, Messier 43 lies about 1,500 light-years away, at the edge of Orion's giant molecular cloud. At that distance, this field of view spans about 5 light-years. via NASA ift.tt/1J7ut2C
Divers retrieve the test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator off the coast of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. On June 28, 2014, the vehicle was lifted to near-space with the help of a balloon and rocket in order to test new Mars landing technologies. The divers, from the U.S. Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, retrieved the vehicle hours after the successful test. NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate funds the LDSD mission, a cooperative effort led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. NASA's Technology Demonstration Mission program manages LDSD at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia, coordinated support with the Pacific Missile Range Facility, provided the core electrical systems for the test vehicle, and coordinated the balloon and recovery services for the LDSD test. For more information about the LDSD space technology demonstration mission: http://go.usa.gov/kzZQz. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech via NASA ift.tt/1ssIjpl
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Panorama of Bayer decoded/colorized Curiosity images of a metallic-like object (perhaps a meteorite) on the floor of Gale Crater. Color/processing variant.
Machining for NASA's Orion spacecraft, scheduled to fly on the second integrated flight with agency's Space Launch System rocket, is well underway at Ingersoll Machine Tools in Rockford, Illinois. The new deep space spacecraft will take humans farther into the solar system than we have ever traveled before. via NASA ift.tt/2qANEQE
For 50 years, NASA has been "suiting up" for spacewalking. In this Feb. 7, 1984 photograph of the first untethered spacewalk, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless is in the midst of the first "field" tryout of a nitrogen-propelled backpack device called the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). via NASA ift.tt/1K9NJRo