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Michael King, MODIS Science Team Leader, speaks at the Aqua 10th Anniversary Event on Friday, May 4, 2012 at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center. Aqua is part of the Earth observing System and includes the AIRS, AMSR-E, AMSU-A, CERES, HSB and MODIS instruments. The event was sponsored by Northrop Grumman.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Bill Hrybyk
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) of northern Meridiani Planum shows faults that have disrupted layered deposits. via NASA December 13, 2017
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Look at the person in the foreground! I mean, if this doesn't give you some idea of the scale of EVERYTHING at NASA, I don't know what will. I believe this is the new exhibit that will open up sometime in 2015, but I'm mighty impressed just looking from the outside in on this one. No construction needed!
On Wednesday, March 6, 2019, students in the Flagstaff Unified School District spoke with Astronaut Anne McClain aboard the International Space Station. The opportunity was because a grant awarded to the Lowell Observatory and FUSD from NASA.
Astronaut Karen Nyberg on NASA Channel. the crew is ready to enter the new kibo module of the international space station.
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This illustration depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover on the surface of Mars. The mission, targeted for launch in July/August 2020, takes the next step by not only seeking signs of habitable conditions on Mars in the ancient past, but also searching for signs of past microbial life itself. via NASA ift.tt/2q7Qktb
NASA super guppy at Sun n fun 2026 on the warbird ramp before the Sun n fun air show opened on Monday the 13th.
NASA super guppy at Sun n fun 2026 on the warbird ramp before the Sun n fun air show opened on Monday the 13th.
With access doors at Space Launch Complex 37 opened on Nov. 24, 2014, the Orion spacecraft and Delta IV Heavy stack is visible in its entirety inside the Mobile Service Tower where the vehicle is undergoing launch preparations. Orion will make its first flight test on Dec. 4 with a morning launch atop the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. Orion’s crew module is underneath the Launch Abort System and nose fairing, both of which will jettison about six minutes, 20 seconds after launch. The tower will be rolled away from the rocket and spacecraft 8 hours, 15 minutes before launch to allow the rocket to be fueled and for other launch operations to proceed. The spacecraft will orbit the Earth twice, including one loop that will reach 3,600 miles above Earth. No one will be aboard Orion for this flight test, but the spacecraft is being designed and built to carry astronauts on exploration missions into deep space. Launch is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 4 at 7:05 a.m. EST, the opening of a 2 hour, 39-minute window for the day. Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett via NASA ift.tt/1rN4OKr
New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has provided stringent constraints on the environment around one of the closest supernovas discovered in decades. The Chandra results provide insight into possible cause of the explosion, as described in our press release. On January 21, 2014, astronomers witnessed a supernova soon after it exploded in the Messier 82, or M82, galaxy. Telescopes across the globe and in space turned their attention to study this newly exploded star, including Chandra. Astronomers determined that this supernova, dubbed SN 2014J, belongs to a class of explosions called “Type Ia” supernovas. These supernovas are used as cosmic distance-markers and played a key role in the discovery of the Universe’s accelerated expansion, which has been attributed to the effects of dark energy. Scientists think that all Type Ia supernovas involve the detonation of a white dwarf. One important question is whether the fuse on the explosion is lit when the white dwarf pulls too much material from a companion star like the Sun, or when two white dwarf stars merge. This image contains Chandra data, where low, medium, and high-energy X-rays are red, green, and blue respectively. The boxes in the bottom of the image show close-up views of the region around the supernova in data taken prior to the explosion (left), as well as data gathered on February 3, 2014, after the supernova went off (right). The lack of the detection of X-rays detected by Chandra is an important clue for astronomers looking for the exact mechanism of how this star exploded. The non-detection of X-rays reveals that the region around the site of the supernova explosion is relatively devoid of material. This finding is a critical clue to the origin of the explosion. Astronomers expect that if a white dwarf exploded because it had been steadily collecting matter from a companion star prior to exploding, the mass transfer process would not be 100% efficient, and the white dwarf would be immersed in a cloud of gas. If a significant amount of material were surrounding the doomed star, the blast wave generated by the supernova would have struck it by the time of the Chandra observation, producing a bright X-ray source. Since they do not detect any X-rays, the researchers determined that the region around SN 2014J is exceptionally clean. A viable candidate for the cause of SN 2014J must explain the relatively gas-free environment around the star prior to the explosion. One possibility is the merger of two white dwarf stars, in which case there might have been little mass transfer and pollution of the environment before the explosion. Another is that several smaller eruptions on the surface of the white dwarf cleared the region prior to the supernova. Further observations a few hundred days after the explosion could shed light on the amount of gas in a larger volume, and help decide between these and other scenarios. A paper describing these results was published in the July 20 issue of The Astrophysical Journal and is available online. The first author is Raffaella Margutti from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, MA, and the co-authors are Jerod Parrent (CfA), Atish Kamble (CfA), Alicia Soderberg (CfA), Ryan Foley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Dan Milisavljevic (CfA), Maria Drout (CfA), and Robert Kirshner (CfA). Image Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/R.Margutti et al › View large image › Chandra on Flickr via NASA ift.tt/1BgKGl9
Expedition 51 Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA is seen inside the International Space Station in his spacesuit during a fit check, in preparation for a spacewalk on Friday, May 12, 2017. This will be the 200th spacewalk at the station for assembly and maintenance, the ninth spacewalk for NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and the first for Fischer. via NASA ift.tt/2qwu8ZK
NASA image acquired December 3, 2012
As predicted, Typhoon Bopha made landfall on the Philippine island of Mindanao overnight December 3–4, 2012. Known in the Philippines as Pablo, the storm was blamed for 43 deaths and 25 injuries as of December 4, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
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The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite acquired this image around 1:12 a.m. local time on December 4 (17:12 UTC on December 3). This image is from the VIIRS “day-night band,” which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe signals such as gas flares, auroras, wildfires, city lights, and reflected moonlight.
Bopha remained a powerful typhoon as it made landfall on Mindanao, retaining a distinct eye and spiral shape as storm clouds stretched over the eastern part of the island. Unisys Weather reported that Bopha carried super-typhoon strength at the time it was coming ashore. William Straka, associate researcher at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, estimated that the storm spanned at least 1,677 kilometers (1,042 miles).
Bopha lost some strength after making landfall. On December 4 (late in the evening in the Philippines), the U.S. Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) reported that the storm had maximum sustained winds of 95 knots (175 kilometers per hour) and gusts up to 115 knots (215 kilometers per hour)—still a fierce storm, but weakened since the previous day. The JTWC projected storm track showed Bopha continuing its movement toward the west-northwest, passing over the southern Philippines toward the South China Sea.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using VIIRS day-night band data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Defense. Caption by Michon Scott.
Instrument: Suomi NPP - VIIRS
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
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Boeing 747SR - "Shuttle Carrier Aircraft" (NASA-911) N911NA
Aircraft type: Boeing 747SR-46
First flight: 1973-08-31
Delivery: 1973-09-26 to Japan Airlines, 1988-10-27 to NASA
Serial No: 20781
Line No: 221
Engines: 4 x Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7A
Previous operator: Japan Airlines
Previous registration: N1795B, JA8117, N747BL
Current operator: NASA
Current registration: N911NA
Note: This is the first 747SR (a short-range variant designed for Japanese domestic routes) ever built, and the first 747SR for JAL. After serving JAL for 15 years, it went to NASA and was converted to a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft in 1988. It was withdrawn from use on February 8, 2012.
Specifications:
General characteristics:
Crew: 4: pilot, co-pilot, 2 flight engineers (1 flight engineer when not carrying Shuttle)
Length: 231 ft 4 in (70.5 m)
Wingspan: 195 ft 8 in (59.7 m)
Height: 63 ft 5 in (19.3 m)
Wing area: 5,500 ft² (510 m²)
Empty weight: 318,000 lb (144,200 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 710,000 lb (322,000 kg)
Powerplant: 4 × P&W JT9D-7J turbofans, 50,000 lbf (222 kN) each
Performance
Cruise speed: Mach 0.6 (with Shuttle) (250 KIAS)
Range: 1,150 mi (1,000 nmi, 1,850 km) while carrying Shuttle
Service ceiling: 15,000 ft (4,500 m) (with Shuttle)
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Angie Kelly, Science Interface Manager, Earth Science Mission Operations Project, speaks at the Aqua 10th Anniversary Event on Friday, May 4, 2012 at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center. Aqua is part of the Earth observing System and includes the AIRS, AMSR-E, AMSU-A, CERES, HSB and MODIS instruments. The event was sponsored by Northrop Grumman.
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Lt. Governor Miller Tours the NASA Goddard Campus by Patrick Siebert at 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771
The delta plain of the Mississippi River is disappearing. The lobe-shaped arc of coastal land from the Chandeleur Islands in eastern Louisiana to the Sabine River loses a football field’s worth of land every hour. Put another way, the delta has shrunk by nearly 5,000 square kilometers (2,000 square miles) over the past 80 years. That’s as if most of Delaware had sunk into the sea. Though land losses are widely distributed across the 300 kilometer (200 mile) wide coastal plain of Louisiana, Atchafalaya Bay stands as a notable exception. In a swampy area south of Morgan City, new land is forming at the mouths of the Wax Lake Outlet and the Atchafalaya River. Wax Lake Outlet is an artificial channel that diverts some of the river’s flow into the bay about 16 kilometers (10 miles) west of where the main river empties. Both deltas are being built by sediment carried by the Atchafalaya River. The Atchafalaya is a distributary of the Mississippi River, connecting to the “Big Muddy” in south central Louisiana near Simmesport. Studies of the geologic history of the meandering Mississippi have shown that—if left to nature—most of the river’s water would eventually flow down the Atchafalaya. But the Old River Control Structure, built in the 1960s by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ensures that only 30 percent of the Mississippi flows into the Atchafalaya River, while the rest of the keeps moving toward Baton Rouge and New Orleans. More information. Image Credit: NASA/Earth Observatory via NASA ift.tt/1D4iXai
On the mildly-psychotic golf course at Ilfracombe.
Taken with Minolta MD Macro Zoom 35-70mm f3.5 on Panasonic GX7.
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman checks his spacesuit in preparation for the first Expedition 41 spacewalk in this image, posted to social media by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst. Wiseman and Gerst will work outside the International Space Station for about 6-1/2 hours Tuesday, Oct. 7. They set their spacesuits to internal battery power at 8:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday morning, signifying the official start of the spacewalk. The spacewalkers will move a failed cooling pump from temporary to long-term storage on the station's truss. They also will install a new relay system that will provide backup power options to the mobile transporter, which moves the large robotic arm around the outside of the space station. > Wiseman and Gerst Conduct First Spacewalk of Expedition 41 Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Alexander Gerst via NASA ift.tt/1oN3KiG
Sign at the entrance to "Chelsea," a bar located near the lake on the way from JSC to Galveston. Cool vibe in this place. There was a big (informal) NASA hoedown to honor the 50th anniversary of Shepard's first flight here tonight, apparently someone from NASA brought test flight footage and other video never before shown. Missed it, but was there briefly before it all started.
NASA has this silly idea of sending even more multi-billion dollar projects to Mars and this baby will probably aboard for one of those.
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Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101) arrival aboard 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) at Kennnedy International Airport, New York, on April 27, 2012.
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Guests enjoy refreshments at the Aqua 10th Anniversary Event on Friday, May 4, 2012 at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center. Aqua is part of the Earth observing System and includes the AIRS, AMSR-E, AMSU-A, CERES, HSB and MODIS instruments. The event was sponsored by Northrop Grumman.
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