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NASA's Scientific Ballon Program: Providing low-cost rides for science experiments to near-space. #NASASocial
2014-03-14 - Every chance I get I go out and look up at the astronauts on the ISS… but every so often I get to witness a very special pass… this was one of those passes. A solar transit of the ISS. I was worried that the clouds were going to ruin the shot… but thankfully they parted at 12:58Taken from Woodburn, KY at 12:59:53(GMT-6) on 2014-03-14 (Happy Pi Day!). Total transit time was 0.74s. Prediction data is posted on my blog above.
For those interested in equipment, I used a Canon 7D, Sigma 150-500 + Kenko 1.4x, and Baader Solar Filter.
Specific info at:
blog.awharrisphotography.com/2014/03/2014-03-14-iss-solar...
Jen and I in the Deep Space Network Mission Control room ("the center of the universe") at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California
The 1903 Wright Flyer at @NASA_Wallops —well, sort of! @nasa #KittyHawkToSpace #NASASocial #OnTheWrightPath
The machinery to build the machinery to go back to the Moon and beyond. The world’s largest friction stir welder that does the final assembly of the hydrogen tanks for SLS
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)
NASA's Badri Younes, who runs the agency's space communication networks, takes questions from social media writers and traditional press at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California's Mojave Desert.
This is the video of the launch I captured with my HTC One M8 phone, from the causeway at Kennedy Space Center.
Video taken from the NASA Orion EFT-1 Test Flight, from Cape Canaveral, FL
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)
In my 1.2 minute workout, I ran 0.06 miles at an average speed of 2.9 mph, while the ISS traveled 331 miles.
A model of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon system at the SpaceX NASA Social on May 18, 2012. Photo credit: Crystal Coleman
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)
Near Apollo and Shuttle Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, the Alabama River Rock that makes up the top layer of the crawler way shows signs of wear from the weight of the Space Shuttle stack and mobile launch platform.
A detail of the golden record [link] on board the full-size Voyager spacecraft double at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California
#Airplane propellers—created by the Wright brothers—are still used by @NASA to fly their planes. #NASASocial #KittyHawkToSpace
From Atoms to Molecules
Huge interstellar clouds of dust particles and gas can form between the stars. In the cold cores of dense clouds, a rich chemistry develops as atoms combine to form molecules. Astronomers have identified more than 120 kinds of molecules in such clouds. Simple molecules can be made in space either as a gas or on dust grains, and those simple molecules evolve into even more complicated ones through processes studied by scientists of the Goddard Center for Astrobiology. Most of the atoms in your body are bound up in molecules.
Two Dense Interstellar Clouds: The dark object at left is a Bok Globule. At right is the Horseheard Nebula, a cold interstellar region of gas and dust in front of hot clouds of hydrogen atoms (red light). the horsehead is about 4 light years (38,000,000,000,000 kilometers) in size, from top to bottom.
We study Chemistry in Space
Members of the Goddard Center for Astrobiology use sophisticated equipment to study the atoms and molecules in outer space between stars, around stars, on planets and moons, and on comets and asteroids. We identify them by the light they absorb or emit at X-ray, ultraviolet, visual, infrared or radio wavelengths. Our laboratory sceintists study how cosmic rays and high-energy light can both make and destroy molecules, including those with biological roles.
Did you know?
The calcium in your bones and the iron in your blood were made in stars. Also some of the molecules made in the cold birth cloud of our Solar System are preserved in comets and carbonaceous meteorites.
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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.