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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "4375-4381: A Stuffed Holiday Plan" Earth planning date: Monday, Nov. 25, 2024 Today we planned a mammoth seven-sol plan, to cover the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday period. Unfortunately, our weekend drive ended a little early and we didn’t receive all of our needed confirmation imagery. At 7 feet high and weighing about 2,000 pounds, the rover itself is as big as […] [December 02, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/4375-4381-a-stuffed-holiday-plan/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Experts Share Inspiring Stories of Perseverance to Students" In celebration of National Aviation History Month, experts from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, spoke with middle school students during a recent event hosted by NASA’s California Office of STEM Engagement. NASA Armstrong employees shared stories about the center’s role in aviation history and current research projects while also talking about their […] [December 02, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/armstrong/nasa-experts-share-inspiring-stories-of-perseverance-to-students/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "A Mission at Home and at Work: Caregivers at Johnson Navigate Dual Role With Community Supports" Many team members at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston may recognize Alicia Baker as the talented flutist in the Hispanic Employee Resource Group’s Mariachi Celestial band. Or, they may have worked with Baker in her role as a spacesuit project manager, testing NASA’s prototype spacesuits and preparing Johnson’s test chambers to evaluate vendor spacesuits. […] [December 02, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/a-mission-at-home-and-at-work-caregivers-at-johnson-navigate-dual-role-with-community-supports/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Expedition 71 Astronauts to Discuss Mission in NASA Welcome Home Event" Dec. 2, 2024 RELEASE: J24-015 Expedition 71 Astronauts to Discuss Mission in NASA Welcome Home Event Four NASA astronauts will participate in a welcome home ceremony at Space Center Houston after recently returning from a mission aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy C. Dyson will share […] [December 02, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/expedition-71-astronauts-to-discuss-mission-in-nasa-welcome-home-event/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "What’s Up: December 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA" Catch December’s Celestial Highlights! This month, Venus dazzles as the “Evening Star,” Jupiter reaches its brightest for the year, and the Geminid meteor shower peaks under challenging moonlit skies. Skywatching Highlights All Month – Planet Visibility: December 3-5 – Venus and the Moon: Look southwest after sunset to see a beautiful pairing. On December 4, […] [December 02, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/whats-up-december-2024-skywatching-tips-from-nasa/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Experience the Launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission " Digital content creators are invited to register to attend the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to carry astronauts to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. This will be the 14th time a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launched by a Falcon 9 rocket takes crews to […] [December 02, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/experience-the-launch-of-nasas-spacex-crew-10-mission/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" This galaxy is unusual for how many stars it seems that you can see. Stars are so abundantly evident in this deep exposure of the spiral galaxy NGC 300 because so many of these stars are bright blue and grouped into resolvable bright star clusters. Additionally, NGC 300 is so clear because it is one of the closest spiral galaxies to Earth, as light takes only about 6 million years to get here. Of course, galaxies are composed of many more faint stars than bright, and even more of a galaxy's mass is attributed to unseen dark matter. NGC 300 spans nearly the same amount of sky as the full moon and is visible with a small telescope toward the southern constellation of the Sculptor. The featured image was captured in October from Rio Hurtado, Chile and is a composite of over 20 hours of exposure. [December 02, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2412/Ngc300_Stern_960.jpg
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "Winter and Summer on a Little Planet" Winter and summer appear to come on a single night to this stunning little planet. It's planet Earth of course. The digitally mapped, nadir centered panorama covers 360x180 degrees and is composed of frames recorded during January and July from the Col du Galibier in the French Alps. Stars and nebulae of the northern winter (bottom) and summer Milky Way form the complete arcs traversing the rugged, curved horizon. Cars driving along on the road during a summer night illuminate the 2,642 meter high mountain pass, but snow makes access difficult during winter months except by serious ski touring. Cycling fans will recognize the Col du Galibier as one of the most famous climbs in planet Earth's Tour de France. [November 30, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2411/LittleplanetGalibier-CamilleNIEL1024.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "December’s Night Sky Notes: Spot the King of Planets" by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Jupiter is our solar system’s undisputed king of the planets! Jupiter is bright and easy to spot from our vantage point on Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops. Jupiter even possesses moons the size of planets: Ganymede, its largest, is […] [November 29, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/night-sky-network/dec2024-night-sky-notes/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "NGC 206 and the Star Clouds of Andromeda" The large stellar association cataloged as NGC 206 is nestled within the dusty arms of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy along with the galaxy's pinkish star-forming regions. Also known as M31, the spiral galaxy is a mere 2.5 million light-years away. NGC 206 is found at the center of this sharp and detailed close-up of the southwestern extent of Andromeda's disk. The bright, blue stars of NGC 206 indicate its youth. In fact, its youngest massive stars are less than 10 million years old. Much larger than the open or galactic clusters of young stars in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy, NGC 206 spans about 4,000 light-years. That's comparable in size to the giant stellar nurseries NGC 604 in nearby spiral M33 and the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. [November 28, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2411/NGC206_APOD1024.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Thanksgiving Celebrations in Space" The Thanksgiving holiday typically brings families and friends together in a celebration of common gratitude for all the good things that have happened during the previous year. People celebrate the holiday in various ways, with parades, football marathons, and attending services, but food remains the over-arching theme. For astronauts embarked on long-duration space missions, separation […] [November 27, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/thanksgiving-celebrations-in-space-3/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "John Herrington Performs a Spacewalk" On Nov. 30, 2002, NASA astronauts John Herrington (pictured) and Michael Lopez-Alegria performed the third and final spacewalk of the STS-113 mission. The goal of the mission was to install and activate the Port 1 Integrated Truss Assembly (P1). The first major component installed on the left side of the Station, the P1 truss provides […] [November 27, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/john-herrington-performs-a-spacewalk/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "An Electronic Traffic Monitor for Airports " Ground traffic management program saves passengers and airlines time while cutting fuel costs [November 27, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/technology/tech-transfer-spinoffs/an-electronic-traffic-monitor-for-airports/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" How different are these two streaks? The streak on the upper right is Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas showing an impressive dust tail. The comet is a large and dirty iceberg that entered the inner Solar System and is shedding gas and dust as it is warmed by the Sun's light. The streak on the lower left is a meteor showing an impressive evaporation trail. The meteor is a small and cold rock that entered the Earth's atmosphere and is shedding gas and dust as it is warmed by molecular collisions. The meteor was likely once part of a comet or asteroid -- perhaps later composing part of its tail. The meteor was gone in a flash and was only caught by coincidence during a series of exposures documenting the comet's long tail. The featured image was captured just over a month ago from Sichuan Province in China. [November 27, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2411/MeteorComet_WangHao_960.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Awards Contract for NOAA’s Next-Generation Space Weather Sensors" NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory of Laurel, Maryland, to build the Suprathermal Ion Sensors for the Lagrange 1 Series project, part of NOAA’s Space Weather Next Program. This cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is valued at approximately $20.5 million and includes the development of […] [November 26, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awards-contract-for-noaas-next-generation-space-weather-sensors/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Sols 4732-4735: I’ll Zap You, My Pretty, and Your Pebble Too" Earth planning date: Friday, Nov. 22, 2024 For more than a year, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been climbing through layers of sulfate-rich rock in Gale Crater, where alternating thick light- and dark-toned bands are visible by satellite. After a successful 24.55-meter drive (about 81 feet), Curiosity traversed across a light-toned band into a dark-toned one, […] [December 02, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4732-4735-ill-zap-you-my-pretty-and-your-pebble-too/
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#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Technicians Install Gateway’s Fuel Tanks" Technicians carefully install a piece of equipment to house Gateway’s xenon fuel tanks, part of its advanced electric propulsion system. [December 02, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/jsc2024e044854orig.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Technicians Install Gateway’s Fuel Tanks" Technicians guide the equipment that will house Gateway’s xenon and liquid fuel tanks in this photo from July 1, 2024. The tanks are part of Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element, which will make the lunar space station the most powerful solar electric spacecraft ever flown. Once fully assembled and launched to lunar orbit, the Power and […] [December 02, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/technicians-install-gateways-fuel-tanks/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "You Are Now Arriving at ‘Pico Turquino’" Earth planning date: Monday, Nov. 18, 2024 Perseverance has been continuing its sightseeing tour of the Jezero crater rim, with this week’s travel itinerary including an up-close look at “Pico Turquino.” Here, the team hopes to investigate the history recorded in this approximately 200-meter-long region (about 656 feet) of exposed outcrop. Such rocks may reveal […] [December 02, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/you-are-now-arriving-at-pico-turquino/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA to Cover its 31st SpaceX Resupply Mission Station Departure" NASA and its international partners are set to receive scientific research samples and hardware as a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft departs the International Space Station on Thursday, Dec. 5, for its return to Earth. NASA’s live coverage of undocking and departure begins at 10:50 a.m. EST on NASA+. Learn how to watch NASA content through a […] [December 02, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-cover-its-31st-spacex-resupply-mission-station-departure/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "New Artemis Virtual Meeting Backgrounds Released Celebrating Artemis I, Looking to Artemis II and Beyond" Virtual meetings feeling a little stale? NASA has just unveiled a suite of new Artemis backgrounds to elevate your digital workspace. From the majesty of the Artemis I launch lighting up the night sky to the iconic image of the Orion spacecraft with the Moon and Earth in view, these virtual backgrounds allow viewers to […] [December 02, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/new-artemis-virtual-meeting-backgrounds-released-celebrating-artemis-i-looking-to-artemis-ii-and-beyond/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" What color is the universe? More precisely, if the entire sky were smeared out, what color would the final mix be? This whimsical question came up when trying to determine what stars are commonplace in nearby galaxies. The answer, depicted here, is a conditionally perceived shade of beige. In computer parlance: #FFF8E7. To determine this, astronomers computationally averaged the light emitted by one of the larger samples of galaxies analyzed: the 200,000 galaxies of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. The resulting cosmic spectrum has some emission in all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, but a single perceived composite color. This color has become much less blue over the past 10 billion years, indicating that redder stars are becoming more prevalent. In a contest to better name the color, notable entries included skyvory, univeige, and the winner: cosmic latte. [December 01, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2412/CosmicLatte_jhu_960.jpg
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#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Management and Program Analyst Tami Wisniewski" “I love my country. I love serving my country. I think that was ingrained in me in the military, where I grew to realize how lucky we are to live in America and have the freedoms that we have. When I returned from [my first duty station] in Germany, I separated from the Air Force for about nine months, but I missed it so much, I was like, 'Well, I guess I could join the reserves." I did want to get my education. I was ready by then.
“So, I enrolled in school and went into the Reserves, and then 9/11 happened. That will change a person. I called my unit that afternoon and said, "Whatever you need, I'm ready." I was activated supporting the mission, but I didn't deploy like my husband. [9/11] is what touched my life more than anything: how quickly things can change in the blink of an eye. That's what strengthened my respect of the Air Force core values: service before self and integrity, and excellence in all we do.
“Then, when I got pregnant, I thought I might want to be home, so I continued in civil service and just fell in love with my kids. That's when my relationship with loving the Air Force changed. It evolved. I still value all that time I had and served and the lessons I learned growing up [in the Air Force]. The biggest thing I have and will continue to pass on to my kids is respect for your country, even if you don't follow the route I did. Respect your country and the people who serve it.” – Tami Wisniewski, Management and Program Analyst, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center [November 29, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ceb-5798.jpg
#NewImage from #Nasa: "Messier 4" Messier 4 can be found west of bright red-giant star Antares, alpha star of the constellation Scorpius. M4 itself is only just visible from dark sky locations, even though the globular cluster of 100,000 stars or so is a mere 5,500 light-years away. Still, its proximity to prying telescopic eyes makes it a prime target for astronomical explorations. Recent studies have included Hubble observations of M4's pulsating cepheid variable stars, cooling white dwarf stars, and ancient, pulsar orbiting exoplanet PSR B1620-26 b. This sharp image was captured with a small telescope on planet Earth. At M4's estimated distance it spans about 50 light-years across the core of the globular star cluster. [November 29, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2411/m4_STXL16200_RC14_LRGB1024.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Aaron Yazzie: Bridging Indigenous Heritage and Space Exploration" Aaron Yazzie’s dream of being part of humanity’s exploration of space took him on a journey from his childhood home on the Navajo Nation to working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. His journey reflects not only his personal ambition, but also a commitment to elevating Indigenous representation in science, technology, engineering, […] [November 27, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/bridging-indigenous-heritage-and-space-exploration/
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#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "John Herrington Performs a Spacewalk" In this photograph astronaut and STS-113 mission specialist John B. Herrington, (center frame), participates in the mission's third spacewalk. The forward section of the Space Shuttle Endeavour is in right frame. [November 27, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/0302398orig.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Plane Supported Innovative Microgravity Research in ‘90s" A bell rings and a strobe light flashes as a pilot pulls the nose of the DC-9 aircraft up sharply. The blood quickly drains from researchers’ heads as they are pulled to the cabin floor by a force twice that of normal gravity. Once the acceleration slows to the desired level, and the NASA aircraft […] [November 27, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/nasa-plane-supported-innovative-microgravity-research-in-90s/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Manager and Program Analyst Tami Wisniewski" “I love my country. I love serving my country. I think that was ingrained in me in the military, where I grew to realize how lucky we are to live in America and have the freedoms that we have. When I returned from [my first duty station] in Germany, I separated from the Air Force […] [November 27, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/manager-and-program-analyst-tami-wisniewski/
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#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Selfie Time with Astronaut Victor Glover" NASA astronaut Victor Glover (right) takes photos during a visit on Friday, Nov. 8, 2024, with employees at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The employees support the agency’s Exploration Ground Systems Program to help NASA send astronauts, including Glover, to the Moon and back through the Artemis II launch. [November 26, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ksc-20241108-ph-jbs01-0065orig.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA, USAID Invite Media to Launch of New SERVIR Central America Hub" NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) invite media to the official launch celebration of the new SERVIR Central America regional hub, located in Costa Rica, on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 11 a.m. EST. The event will be hosted by NASA SERVIR Program Manager Daniel Irwin, U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador William H. […] [November 26, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-usaid-invite-media-to-launch-of-new-servir-central-america-hub/
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