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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Sols 4338-4340: Decisions, Decisions" Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 18, 2024 On sol 4338, we have a science block planned as well as some arm activities. Our science activities include a ChemCam observation of “Donkey Lake.” This is a bedrock target with exposed laminations. In geology, lamination is a sequence of small-scale, embedded fine layers of sedimentary rock. Next, […] [October 22, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4338-4340-decisions-decisions/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Gateway: Life in a Lunar Module" Teams at NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and Thales Alenia Space, including astronauts Stan Love and Luca Parmitano, came together in Turin, Italy, this summer for a test run of Gateway, humanity’s first space station to orbit the Moon. The group conducted what is known as human factors testing inside a mockup of Lunar I-Hab, […] [October 22, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/gateway/gateway-life-in-a-lunar-module/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" These dark pillars may look destructive, but they are creating stars. This pillar-capturing picture of the Eagle Nebula combines visible light exposures taken with the Hubble Space Telescope with infrared images taken with the James Webb Space Telescope to highlight evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs) emerging from pillars of molecular hydrogen gas and dust. The giant pillars are light years in length and are so dense that interior gas contracts gravitationally to form stars. At each pillar's end, the intense radiation of bright young stars causes low density material to boil away, leaving stellar nurseries of dense EGGs exposed. The Eagle Nebula, associated with the open star clusterM16, lies about 7000 light years away. [October 22, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2410/M16_HubbleWebbPisano_960.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Invites Media to Chile Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony" Chile will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT on Friday, Oct. 25, at NASA’s Headquarters in Washington. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will host Aisén Etcheverry, Chile’s minister of science, technology, knowledge and innovation, and Juan Gabriel Valdés, ambassador of Chile to the United States, along with other officials from Chile and […] [October 21, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-invites-media-to-chile-artemis-accords-signing-ceremony/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "On the Road Again…" In this image from Oct. 3, 2024, NASA’s mobile launcher 1 makes its way back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, after undergoing upgrades and tests in preparation for the agency’s Artemis II mission. Artemis II is the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence […] [October 21, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/on-the-road-again/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "35 Years Ago: STS-34 Sends Galileo on its Way to Jupiter" On Oct. 18, 1989, space shuttle Atlantis took off on its fifth flight, STS-34, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Its five-person crew of Commander Donald E. Williams, Pilot Michael J. McCulley, and Mission Specialists Shannon W. Lucid, Franklin R. Chang-Díaz, and Ellen S. Baker flew a five-day mission that deployed the Galileo […] [October 21, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/history/35-years-ago-sts-34-sends-galileo-on-its-way-to-jupiter/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" Is our universe haunted? It might look that way on this dark matter map. The gravity of unseen dark matter is the leading explanation for why galaxies rotate so fast, why galaxies orbit clusters so fast, why gravitational lenses so strongly deflect light, and why visible matter is distributed as it is both in the local universe and on the cosmicmicrowave background. The featured image from the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium Space Show Dark Universe highlights one example of how pervasive dark matter might haunt our universe. In this frame from a detailed computer simulation, complex filaments of dark matter, shown in black, are strewn about the universe like spider webs, while the relatively rare clumps of familiar baryonic matter are colored orange. These simulations are good statistical matches to astronomical observations. In what is perhaps a scarier turn of events, dark matter -- although quite strange and in an unknown form -- is no longer thought to be the strangest source of gravity in the universe. That honor now falls to dark energy, a more uniform source of repulsive gravity that seems to now dominate the expansion of the entire universe. [October 20, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2410/DarkMatter_KipacAmnh_960.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "S-MODE, ASIA-AQ, and the Role of ESPO in Complex Airborne Campaigns" ESPO solves problems before you know you have them. If you are missing a canister of liquid nitrogen, got locked out of your rental car, or need clearance for a South Korean military base, you want ESPO in your corner. What is ESPO? While the Earth Science Project Office (ESPO) does many things, one of […] [October 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/s-mode-asia-aq-and-the-role-of-espo-in-complex-airborne-campaigns/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Michoud Gets a Rare Visitor" Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) passes over NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in this Oct. 13, 2024, image. This comet comes from the Oort Cloud, far beyond Pluto and the most distant edges of the Kuiper Belt. Though Comet C/2023 A3 will be visible through early November, the best time to observe is between […] [October 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-michoud-gets-a-rare-visitor/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Five Years Ago: First All Woman Spacewalk" The fifth anniversary of the first all-female spacewalk by NASA astronauts Christina H. Koch and Jessica U. Meir seems like a good time to tell the story of women spacewalkers. Since the first woman stepped outside a spacecraft in 1984, 23 women from four nationalities have participated in 61 spacewalks. These women made significant contributions […] [October 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/history/five-years-ago-first-all-woman-spacewalk/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA, Artemis Accords Signatories Progress on Sustainable Exploration" A record number of Artemis Accords signatories, including the United States, gathered at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), the world’s largest global space conference taking place in Milan this week, furthering discussions on the safe and responsible use of space for the benefit of all. During the space conference, top space agency leaders and other […] [October 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-artemis-accords-signatories-progress-on-sustainable-exploration/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "What is Air Quality?" Clean air is essential for healthy living, but according to the World Health Organization (WHO), almost 99% of the global population breathes air exceeding their guideline limits of air pollution. “Air quality is a measure of how much stuff is in the air, which includes particulates and gaseous pollutants,” said Kristina Pistone, a research scientist […] [October 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/what-is-air-quality/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "Most of Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS" On October 14 it was hard to capture a full view of Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. Taken after the comet's closest approach to our fair planet, this evening skyview almost does though. With two telephoto frames combined, the image stretches about 26 degrees across the sky from top to bottom, looking west from Gates Pass, Tucson, Arizona. Comet watchers that night could even identify globular star cluster M5 and the faint apparition of periodic comet 13P Olbers near the long the path of Tsuchinshan-ATLAS's whitish dust tail above the bright comet's coma. Due to perspective as the Earth is crossing the comet's orbital plane, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS also has a pronounced antitail. The antitail is composed of dust previously released and fanning out away from the Sun along the comet's orbit, visible as a needle-like extension below the bright coma toward the rugged western horizon. [October 18, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2410/a3_20241014_s1200.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "I Am Artemis: Sarah Ryan" A passion for puzzles, problem-solving, and propulsion led Sarah Ryan – a native of Columbus, Ohio – to her current position as Raptor engine lead for NASA’s HLS (Human Landing System) insight team at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The SpaceX Raptor rocket engine powers the company’s Starship and Super Heavy rocket. […] [October 17, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/i-am-artemis-sarah-ryan/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA’s C-130 Aircraft En Route to India in Support of NISAR Mission" NASA’s globetrotting C-130 Hercules team is carrying out a cargo transport mission to Bengaluru, India, in support of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The C-130 departed from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, Tuesday, Oct. 15, to embark on the multi-leg, multi-day journey. The flight path will take the aircraft coast to coast […] [October 17, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-c-130-aircraft-en-route-to-india-in-support-of-nisar-mission/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory" NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves — ripples in space-time caused by merging black holes and other cosmic sources. The LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission is led by ESA (European Space Agency) in partnership […] [October 22, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/lisa/nasa-reveals-prototype-telescope-for-gravitational-wave-observatory/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Explore International Space Station Research with NASA Mobile Apps" At any given time, crew members are conducting dozens of scientific investigations and technology demonstrations on the International Space Station. If you’re curious about this work, the Space Station Research Xplorer (SSRX) mobile application provides information on these experiments, special facilities on the station, research benefits, and published results. The app includes summaries of each […] [October 21, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/mobile-app-lets-you-explore-the-diverse-ecosystem-of-research-and-technology-on-the-international-space-station/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Industry Supported Battery Passivation Techniques – Request for Information" The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center (ARC) on behalf of the Space Technology Mission Directorate’s (STMD) Small Spacecraft Technology (SST) Program and is hereby soliciting information from potential sources for inputs on industry, academia, or government adopted battery passivation techniques. As part of a continual process improvement effort and potential requirement revisions, the […] [October 22, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/industry-supported-battery-passivation-techniques-request-for-information/
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#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "On the Road Again…" A drone camera captures NASA’s mobile launcher 1 atop the agency’s crawler-transporter 2 moving from Launch Complex 39B to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. The mobile launcher has been at the launch pad since August 2023 undergoing upgrades and tests in preparation for NASA’s Artemis II mission. [October 21, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ksc-20241003-ph-jbp01-0011orig.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Station Science Top News: Oct. 18, 2024" Microgravity had no immediate effect on a person’s ability to perceive the height of an object, indicating that astronauts can safely perform tasks that rely on accurate and precise height judgments soon after arrival in space. We use the height and width of objects around us to complete tasks such as reaching for objects and deciding whether […] [October 21, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/station-science-top-news-oct-18-2024/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" The tails of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS were a sight to behold. Pictured, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) was captured near peak impressiveness last week over the Eastern Sierra Mountains in California, USA. The comet not only showed a bright tail, but a distinct anti-tail pointing in nearly the opposite direction. The globular star cluster M5 can be seen on the right, far in the distance. As it approached, it was unclear if this crumbling iceberg would disintegrate completely as it warmed in the bright sunlight. In reality, the comet survived to become brighter than any star in the night (magnitude -4.9), but unfortunately was then so nearly in front of the Sun that it was hard for many casual observers to locate. Whether Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas becomes known as the Great Comet of 2024 now depends, in part, on how impressive incoming comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) becomes over the next two weeks. [October 21, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2410/CometA3_Fulda_960.jpg
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS Flys Away" These six panels follow daily apparitions of comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as it moved away from our fair planet during the past week. The images were taken with the same camera and lens at the indicated dates and locations from California, planet Earth. At far right on October 12 the visitor from the distant Oort cloud was near its closest approach, some 70 million kilometers (about 4 light-minutes) away. Its bright coma and long dust tail were close on the sky to the setting Sun but still easy to spot against a bright western horizon. Over the following days, the outbound comet steadily climbs above the ecliptic and north into the darker western evening sky, but begins to fade from view. Crossing the Earth's orbital plane around October 14, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS exhibits a noticeable antitail extended toward the western horizon. Higher in the evening sky at sunset by October 17 (far left) the comet has faded and reached a distance of around 77 million kilometers from planet Earth. Hopefully you enjoyed some of Tsuchinshan-ATLAS's bid to become the best comet of 2024. This comet's initial orbital period estimates were a mere 80,000 years, but in fact it may never return to the inner Solar System. [October 19, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2410/C2023A3-in-the-past-6-days_1100.jpg
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#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "NASA Michoud Gets a Rare Visitor" The Oort Cloud comet, called C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, passes over Southeast Louisiana near New Orleans, home of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. The comet is making its first appearance in documented human history; it was last seen in the night sky 80,000 years ago. The Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet made its first close pass by Earth in mid-October and will remain visible to viewers in the Northern Hemisphere just between the star Arcturus and planet Venus through early November. [October 18, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/epb-comet-tsuchinchanatlas-c2023a3orig.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA and Partners Scaling to New Heights " NASA, in partnership with AeroVironment and Aerostar, recently demonstrated a first-of-its-kind air traffic management concept that could pave the way for aircraft to safely operate at higher altitudes. This work seeks to open the door for increased internet coverage, improved disaster response, expanded scientific missions, and even supersonic flight. The concept is referred to as […] [October 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/nasa-and-partners-scaling-to-new-heights/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Selects Crew for 45-Day Simulated Mars Mission in Houston" NASA selected a crew of four research volunteers to participate in its last simulated mission to Mars in 2024 within a habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Obaid Alsuwaidi, Kristen Magas, Tiffany Snyder, and Anderson Wilder will step into the 650-square-foot HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog) facility on Friday, Nov. 1. Once […] [October 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/nasa-selects-crew-for-45-day-simulated-mars-mission-in-houston/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Hubble Captures a New View of Galaxy M90" This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the striking spiral galaxy Messier 90 (M90, also NGC 4569), located in the constellation Virgo. In 2019, Hubble released an image of M90 created with Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) data taken in 1994, soon after its installation. That WFPC2 image has a distinctive stair-step pattern […] [October 18, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-captures-a-new-view-of-galaxy-m90/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Sols 4336-4337: Where the Streets Have No Name" Earth planning date: Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024 Curiosity continues to drive along the western edge of the upper Gediz Vallis channel. After exiting the channel a few weeks ago, we turned north to image the “back side” of the deposits that we investigated on the eastern side before the channel crossing. As a member of […] [October 18, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4336-4337-where-the-streets-have-no-name/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Selects Two Teams to Advance Life Sciences Research in Space " NASA announced two awards Thursday to establish scientific consortia – multi-institutional coalitions to conduct ground-based studies that help address the agency’s goals of maintaining a sustained human presence in space. These consortia will focus on biological systems research in the areas of animal and human models, plants, and microbiology. When fully implemented, the awards for […] [October 17, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/biological-physical-sciences/nasa-selects-two-teams-to-advance-life-sciences-research-in-space/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Goddard Hosts Former VP Al Gore to Mark 10 Years of DSCOVR Mission" Environmentalist and former Vice President Al Gore visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Oct. 16, 2024, to commemorate the upcoming 10th anniversary of the DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) mission. “The image of our Earth from space is the single most compelling iconic image that any of us have ever seen,” […] [October 17, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/nasa-goddard-hosts-former-vp-al-gore-to-mark-10-years-of-dscovr-mission/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA’s IXPE Helps Researchers Determine Shape of Black Hole Corona" New findings using data from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature of a structure important to black holes called a corona. A corona is a shifting plasma region that is part of the flow of matter onto a black hole, about which scientists have only a […] [October 17, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/ixpe/nasas-ixpe-helps-researchers-determine-shape-of-black-hole-corona/
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