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Building and assembly of the James Webb Space Telescope in the world's largest cleanroom at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Display at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
University of Colorado, Boulder
#NASAGOLD #NASASocial
24.01.2018 16:06 MST
24mm 1/400 sec f/6.3 ISO 3200
The brains and creativity behind JPL's leading-edge social media outreach: Stephanie Smith, Courtney O'Connor, and Veronica McGregor. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California
Bobak Ferdowsi, Mars Science Laboratory tactical downlink lead (often known as "Mohawk Guy") in the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California
The Importance of Space Dust
In the hot inner region of a protostellar disk, countless tiny dust grains convert gases stuck to their surfaces into simple organic, or carbon-containing, compounds. Later reactions will convert these compounds into more complex molecules, possibly including ingredients of the "prebiotic soup" that led to life on Earth. The "cosmic cycle" of this production is illustrated in the above image.
Dust Grains Kick-Start Chemical Reactions: Dust grains in space often serve as tiny test tubes where crucial chemical reactions take place. Goddard scientists investigate these reactions using heated grains of astrophysical "smokes."
Center: A tiny interplanetary dust grain collected in Earth's stratosphere which is 10 micrometers.
A Planetary System is Born
Dust is cleared as planets form: The protoplanetary disk phase ends with the formation of planets and clearing of gas from the desk. Gaps appear in the disk as the planets grow, here illustrated by the giant gas planets (left.) After planetary growth ended, the Solar System could have been configured with an outer disk of icy bodies and with Uranus as the outermost giant planet (above, right). Today, Neptune is outermost.
Did you know?
The same chemical reactions that made complex organic chemicals in the inner solar nebula can be used to convert coal into gasoline and nitrogen from the air into fertilizer here on Earth.
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For the first time ever, all 10 NASA field centers participated in a multi-center NASA Social event Dec. 3, previewing the Dec. 4 first flight of the Orion Spacecraft on Exploration Flight Test-1.
Goddard hosted up to 25 social media followers to attend an afternoon celebrating the Orion launch. Attendees toured the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory, where Martian meteorites and other samples are tested to answer two of the biggest mysteries facing humanity: How did we get here? And are we alone? We'll also tour Goddard's massive Integration and Testing Facility, where spacecraft are built and tested and the world's largest cleanroom where the James Webb Space Telescope is being constructed. Webb is the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built.
On June 6, a NASA social media event was held at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, to discuss the New Horizons spacecraft and its upcoming flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto, scheduled July 14. More than 30 NASA social media followers from across the country applied for and were selected to attend the event, at their own cost.
The New Horizons spacecraft is part of NASA’s New Frontiers program and is managed by Marshall.
Learn more about the Marshall Center, New Horizons spacecraft and the Lowell Observatory at:
#NASAMarshall Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/nasamarshallcenter
#NASA's New Horizons Mission Page: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html
Lowell Observatory Facebook:
www.facebook.com/lowellobservatory
#PlutoFlyBy #Pluto #NASASocial
Image Credit: (NASA/MSFC/Christopher Blair)
Joseph M. Acaba is one of three educator mission specialists. He was the focus of a NASA Social, a behind the scenes opportunity to meet and speak with Acaba and other space-exploration-minded participants.
Like the two other NASA Socials - then called NASA Tweetups - I attended, this took place in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street, SW, Washington, DC.
Attendees of NASA Socials use social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Participants at this event are provided a unique in-person experience at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., which they are encouraged to share with others through their favorite social network.
Acaba launched to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft May 15, 2012, spending 123 days aboard as a flight engineer of the Expedition 31 and 32 crews. He recently returned to Earth on Sept. 17 after four months off the planet. Acaba had previously spent 13 days in space as mission specialist during space shuttle Discovery's STS-119 mission to the station in 2009, where he conducted two spacewalks totaling 12 hours and 57 minutes.
While in space, Acaba frequently tweeted on his Twitter account, @AstroAcaba, and participated in an #askStation TweetChat. 4 December 2012
Panorama shot showing NASA's Ikhana drone (civilian Predator) and the Gulfstream they're currently modifying for research purposes.
#NASASocial participants were the first ones to sign the "Welcome Discovery" banner outside the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar
(Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, VA)
Building and assembly of the James Webb Space Telescope in the world's largest cleanroom at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Night before launch (February 28, 2013) at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS)
NASA TV had live coverage of the Orion mission as it unfolded, and the Kennedy Space Center visitors center had large televisions put up throughout the facility so that visitors could check the status of the mission. They were using an interlacing that made it look weird when I took this picture.
Picture taken from the NASA Orion EFT-1 Test Flight, from Cape Canaveral, FL
The SMAP Earth-observation spacecraft [link] under construction. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.