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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
Figured I'd get an impromptu portrait off.
Here's a photo from my album of the wonderful NASA Social showing off the NASA OLYMPEX exercise to verify satellite measurement of precipitation.
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com
#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.
Cometary Compositions Reflect Diverse Origins
Comet nuclei are about 50-50 composed of ices (water, dry ice and others) and rocky minerals, while asteroids are richer in minerals. Goddard scientists investigate cometary ices by measuring the gases released from the nucleus. they find that comets are highly diverse in their organic (for example: methanol, ethane, methane) and nitrogen-containing ices (hydrogen cyanide, ammonia), whether the comets reside in the Oort Cloud or the Kuiper Belt.
Comet Hartley-2: This false-color image of the nucleus of Harltey-2 shows jets of water vapor (blue), CO2 (green) and dust (yellow). The ices of the measured gases are not mixed uniformly in the nucleus of this comet.
The Diversity of Cometary Ices
Comets and asteroids delivered much of the water, and building blocks of life, to our planet. The fraction of each delivered in this way is under intense study. Importantly, the isotopic compositions of water are the same in comet Hartley-2 and in Earth's oceans, but other comets are different. Did comets just like Hartley-2 deliver Earth's oceans?
Did you know?
A comet nucleus could serve as a rich resource for a future space colony. A comet of 1 kilometer diameter contains aboutt 500 million cubic meters of material, or about 250 million metric tons of ice and mineral-rich dust, enough to supply a colony with fuel, water, metals and food for a very long time.
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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.
Dr Fran Bagenal is just off-frame, very animatedly pretending to be Juno in orbit. Video of the demonstration.
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)
The evening before the March 1, 2013, launch, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket for the CRS-2 mission to the International Space Station sit on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS).
It's been a long road here for me from standing in the rain on the school yard waiting for the movie of the moon landing. Who would had thought here I am actually standing next to the Nasa_Orion capsule that will take the astronauts to the next moon landing. Ironically it will be more than 50 years since the first landing in 1969.
The immense 70-meter antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California's Mojave Desert moves into position to contact the STEREO B probe in deep space. Because of the crop, it almost looks like I'm the one moving.