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This dish was communicating with one of the GRAIL moon probes at the time. Sadly, no photography was allowed inside. It was awesome in there and you'll just have to believe me. One word: cryogenics.
Visit Goldstone: www.ridingwithrobots.org/2012/11/goldstone/
Building a Wet and Habitable Earth
How did the Oceans Form? The Earth's surface cooled quickly after the Moon-forming event, forming a hot solid crust. Condensing water vapor from volcanoes, together with water and chemicals delivered by asteroids and comets, produced the first oceans, where life likely began.
Earth's oceans grew from small to global in scale in only 400 million years. Much of this water came from outer space, when migration of the giant planets scattered comets and asteroids throughout the Solar System in the Late Heavy Bombardment. These impactors brought water and organics (some of life's ingredients) to the early Earth.
Early Earth
The icons above represents Earth during the Hadean period about 4.3 billion years ago. During this period, Earth had early oceans and dry continents with abundant old impact basins and fresh impact basins filled with lava.
The Late Heavy Bombardment: During this period, impacts on Earth created over 22,000 craters larger than 20 kilometers (km) in diameter, about 40 basins larger than 1,000 km, and several continent-sized basins larger than 5,000 km.
An ocean formed soon after the Moon-forming impact, but life first appeared 800 million years later (3.7 billion years ago), after the Late Heavy Bombardment. Those impacts brought water and some of life's ingredients, and created hydrothermal systems on Earth that were excellent incubators for life.
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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)
NASA or Science Fiction?
So many of the spaces inside Michoud Assembly Facility look like they’ve been designed for a science fiction movie set, but they are completely utilitarian, in such an elegant way. Who says engineers don’t have good aesthetics?
Tweeps at the sign showing all of JPL's current misions [link]. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Reverberant Acoustic Chamber where spacecraft and equipment are subjected sound of up to 150 decibels to simulate the launch environment.
B #28, TV Studio – Viewing & participation in the NASASocial #Orion, TV broadcast originating from NASA Kennedy
Watch the broadcast here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca1gp-rjbe4
John Grunsfeld, twitter.com/SciAstro, 5-time shuttle astronaut & current associate administrator Science Mission Directorate; Mike Gazarik, director Space Technology Program; Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator Human Exploration; Ellen Stofan twitter.com/EllenStofan, NASA Chief Scientist; David Miller, twitter.com/NASA_Technology NASA Chief Technologist
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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.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre
#Hubble25
23.04.2015
This tool was used in 1984 to repair SolarMax by astronauts on Space Shuttle Challenger
Curiosity Deputy Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada gives a mission update at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California
One of the many test articles around NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility.
When you are sending humans into space, you have to test all parts and processes to the point of failure so that it doesn’t fail with astronauts onboard. .