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Inside JPL's Mars Sample Return (MSR) Sample Transfer Testbed where MSR Lead Engineer Austin Nicholas shows off a prototype Orbiting Sample canister.
NASA opened its doors to media and social media its annual "State of NASA" event, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, at the agency’s locations across the country, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. JPL hosted 29 digital creators to learn how the center’s robotic missions help future human exploration of the Moon and Mars. Participants met scientists and engineers, and went behind the scenes in mission control, an indoor "Mars Yard" for testing landers and rovers, and the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, where Mars 2020, NASA's next rover, is preparing for launch later this year. www.nasa.gov/social/state-of-nasa
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
JPL's historian, Erik Conway, explains how robotic missions such as Surveyor paved the way for astronaut exploration of the Moon. Beside him are a Moon rock and the scoop from the Surveyor 3, which the Apollo 12 crew retrieved from the lunar surface.
NASA-JPL Moon to Mars Social
March 11, 2019
#Moon2Mars #NASASocial
For more information on the NASA Social program, visit nasa.gov/social
NASA-JPL Moon to Mars Social
March 11, 2019
#Moon2Mars #NASASocial
For more information on the NASA Social program, visit nasa.gov/social
Tweetup badge with bonus red lanyard for Hot Bus 3, KSC LSP bookmark collection, KSC visitor map, Tweetup agenda, anaglyph 3D viewer, Juno press folder, Juno sticker, Juno pin, Juno iron-on (?) badge, Juno / Atlas V brochure booklet, Juno info card, NASA Eyes info card, Juno bookmark, NASA Discovery Program bookmark, NASA LSP pin, JPL Sociable Science sticker and business card, NASA New Frontiers Program sticker, JPL Solar System Exploration press folder. Not shown: ISS 2011 Calendar, which is already hanging on the wall.
Mars 2020 deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan addresses the NASA Social group in the gallery above the clean room where the rover was built and tested.
NASA opened its doors to media and social media its annual "State of NASA" event, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, at the agency’s locations across the country, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. JPL hosted 29 digital creators to learn how the center’s robotic missions help future human exploration of the Moon and Mars. Participants met scientists and engineers, and went behind the scenes in mission control, an indoor "Mars Yard" for testing landers and rovers, and the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, where Mars 2020, NASA's next rover, is preparing for launch later this year. www.nasa.gov/social/state-of-nasa
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Sunday, July 3, 2016 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. #NASASocial #Juno #Jupiter
Sunday, July 3, 2016 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. #NASASocial #Juno #Jupiter
JPL's historian, Erik Conway (center), explains how robotic missions such as Surveyor paved the way for astronaut exploration of the Moon.
NASA-JPL Moon to Mars Social
March 11, 2019
#Moon2Mars #NASASocial
For more information on the NASA Social program, visit nasa.gov/social
From May 2, 2018, to May 5, 2018, traditional media, the public and NASA Social participants gathered on and around Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California to support NASA’s InSight launch. InSight is NASA’s first mission to study the interior of Mars.
The event included a press briefing, tours and a late night viewing of the launch.
InSight will look for tectonic activity and meteorite impacts, study how much heat is still flowing through the planet, and track Mars' wobble as it orbits the sun. While InSight is a Mars mission, it's more than a Mars mission. InSight will help answer key questions about the formation of the rocky planets of the solar system.
JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the InSight Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space, Denver, built the spacecraft. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, which is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Photo Credit: (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
For more information about the mission, go to mars.nasa.gov/insight.
Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory
Our laboratory aims to understand the formation, evolution, and distribution of organic compounds relevant to the origin of life.
We use state-of-the-art commercial analytical instruments to examine a variety of samples: Meteorites, Returned Samples, Laboratory Simulations, Terrestrial Analogs.
Examples:
• Amino acids and nucleases in meteorites
• Cometary material returned by Stardust
• Ice and dust grain analogs
• Antarctic and Arctic ices
The samples we study reflect different sources of organic compounds available on the early Earth and throughout the Solar System.
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Mission Development
• Mission Concepts
• New Flight Instruments
• Mars (ExoMars)
• Asteroid (OSIRIS-REx)
Natural Materials
• Contamination
• Extremophile Biosignatures
• Mars (MSL)
• Comets (Stardust)
• Meteorites
• Interplanetary Dust Particles
• Antarctic Ice
Lab Simulations
• Astrophysical Ices
• Aqueous Alteration
• Grains
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We use chromatographic separation techniques combines with multiple detectors (e.g. mass spectrometry, optical absorption) to measure abundance and isotopic rations of organic compounds.
1. Ultra precision liquid chromatograph with absorption or flourescence detector couple to time-of-flight mass spectrometer
2. High precision liquid chromatograph with absorption or flourescence detector coupled to tandem quadrupole mass spectrometer
3. Ultrahigh precision liquid chromatograph with absorption or flourescence detector coupled to Fourier transform mass spectrometer
4. Nanoflow ultrahigh precision inlet liquid chromatograph with laser induced fluorescence
5. Direct Analysis in Real Time Inlet
6. Gas chromatograph coupled to quadrupole mass spectrometer and isotope ratio mass spectrometer and supporting elemental analyzers
7. Gas chromatograph coupled to triple quadrupole mass spectrometer
8. Pyrolysis Gas chromatograph coupled to quadrupole mass spectrometer
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Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory, Building 34 Room C178
Discussion of research into meteorites and other extraterrestrial samples and analogs as well as NASA's work in support of missions such as twitter.com/OSIRISREx asteroid sample return.
Presenter: Jamie Elsia Cook, astrochemistry research scientist
Learn more at: astrobiology.gsfc.nasa.gov
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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 opened its doors to media and social media its annual "State of NASA" event, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, at the agency’s locations across the country, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. JPL hosted 29 digital creators to learn how the center’s robotic missions help future human exploration of the Moon and Mars. Participants met scientists and engineers, and went behind the scenes in mission control, an indoor "Mars Yard" for testing landers and rovers, and the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, where Mars 2020, NASA's next rover, is preparing for launch later this year. www.nasa.gov/social/state-of-nasa
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA opened its doors to media and social media its annual "State of NASA" event, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, at the agency’s locations across the country, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. JPL hosted 29 digital creators to learn how the center’s robotic missions help future human exploration of the Moon and Mars. Participants met scientists and engineers, and went behind the scenes in mission control, an indoor "Mars Yard" for testing landers and rovers, and the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, where Mars 2020, NASA's next rover, is preparing for launch later this year. www.nasa.gov/social/state-of-nasa
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The NASA Social centered on the upcoming GPM Mission. The event was partially tied to the D.C. Cherry Blossom Festival, which honors a gift of cherry trees to the U.S. from Japan.
To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/connect/social/social_gpm_april2013.html
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Pat Izzo
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NASA opened its doors to media and social media its annual "State of NASA" event, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, at the agency’s locations across the country, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. JPL hosted 29 digital creators to learn how the center’s robotic missions help future human exploration of the Moon and Mars. Participants met scientists and engineers, and went behind the scenes in mission control, an indoor "Mars Yard" for testing landers and rovers, and the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, where Mars 2020, NASA's next rover, is preparing for launch later this year. www.nasa.gov/social/state-of-nasa
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Joseph M. Acaba was one of just three educator mission specialists to have been chosen by NASA. On his first flight, Acaba flew with one of the other two - Richard R. Arnold, on STS-119/Discovery.
Acaba's second mission was as flight engineer for ISS Exp. 31 and 32. As part of that mission, he among other tasks supported the arrival of the first commercial resupply spacecraft, SpaceX's Dragon, in late May 2012 - along with other astronauts, Donald R. Pettit, whom I met in October 2012.
I had a photo like this signed by Leland D. Melvin, which I gave up. I was fortunate to get a similar pose signed in-person by Acaba at a NASA Social event. And, this photo was used as the image for the NASA Social badges. Washington, DC. 4 Dec. 2012
Dr. Dan Raible gives the NASA Social group an overview of the iROC project-radio and optical communications.
The four MMS spacecraft will be developed, integrated, and tested at GSFC. Each satellite has an octagonal shape that is approximately 3.5 meters wide and 1.2 meters high. The satellites spin at 3 RPM during science operations. Low shock, commercial separation systems similar to the separation system used by the launch vehicle will separate the top three observatories in the launch stack. There are 8 deployable booms per satellite: four 60 meter wire booms in the spin plane for electric field sensors, two 12.5 meter booms in the axial plane for electric field sensors, and two 5 meter booms in the spin plane for magnetometers. The aluminum structure has a modular design to simplify I&T consisting of a propulsion assembly, separation system/thrust tube, instrument deck, and spacecraft deck. MMS Observatory DimensionsThe attitude control system keeps the spacecraft to within ±0.5° of the desired orientation during science operations and implements on-board closed loop maneuver control. Star sensors and sun sensors provide attitude sensor data, and accelerometers provide acceleration and delta-V data. Thrusters are used as actuators. The propulsion system is a mono-propellant blowdown system with 12 thrusters sized to achieve both small formation maintenance maneuvers and large apogee raise maneuvers. Approximately 360 kg of propellant will be contained in four titanium tanks per spacecraft. The Electrical Power System is a Direct Energy Transfer System employing a battery dominates bus. Power to the Spacecraft is supplied from 8 identical body-mounted solar array panels that are electrostatically and magnetically clean. The battery is sized to provide power during the 4 hour eclipses. The thermal design is passive using thermostatically controlled heaters. Ground communications occur over a single S-Band frequency for uplink to all four spacecraft and a single S-Band frequency for downlink from all four spacecraft. Real-time coverage of all critical commands, including post launch separation and all maneuvers, will be accomplished through TDRSSMMS Observatory description. The spacecraft bus avionics performs command and telemetry processing, timing distribution, solar array regulation, battery charge management, and thruster control. Orbit determination is performed on-board using weak signal GPS processing. Each satellite including instruments, fuel, and margin has a mass of approximately 1,250 kg. The power budget at end of life with instruments and margin is approximately 318 watts.
MMS Observatory InterfacesThe spacecraft will be developed using the standard GSFC protoflight testing approach. The first unit will be tested to qualification levels and the remaining units to acceptance levels. Design heritage from previous GSFC in-house development efforts will be used where possible, although each unit having heritage will go through the full design and test process. Commercially available components will be purchased competitively. Planned procurements include accelerometers, star cameras, sun sensors, batteries, solar arrays, transponders, thrusters, propellant tanks, and separation systems.
Spacecraft to instrument suite integration and constellation level testing will occur at GSFC. Each instrument suite will be integrated with the spacecraft bus to form the MMS observatory. Performance and environmental testing will be performed on each observatory. Additional testing will be performed in the stacked launch configuration.
More information here... mms.gsfc.nasa.gov/spacecraft.html