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A still camera on a sound trigger captured this intriguing photo of an airborne frog as NASA's LADEE spacecraft lifts off from Pad 0B at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The photo team confirms the frog is real and was captured in a single frame by one of the remote cameras used to photograph the launch. The condition of the frog, however, is uncertain. Wallops Island National Wildlife Refuge was created on July 10, 1975 and is comprised mainly of salt marsh and woodlands. The wildlife refuge contains habitat for a variety of species, including upland- and wetland-dependent migratory birds. Additionally, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has an agreement with NASA to use the NASA-owned portion of Wallops Island for research and management of declining wildlife in special need of protection. The agreement with NASA covers approximately 3,000 acres of Wallops Island proper and is primarily salt marsh. But how is it possible for wildlife to peacefully coexist with space operations and what effects do rocket launches have on wildlife? NASA’s launch facilities, roads, and facilities take up a small percentage of the area. The rest of the area remains undeveloped and provides excellent habitat for wildlife. During launches, short term disturbance occurs in the immediate vicinity of the launch pads, but the disturbance is short-lived allowing space launches and a wildlife habitat to coexist. Credit: NASA Wallops Flight Facility/Chris Perry #frog #nasafrog #photobomb #launch #nasa #ladee #wallops; -
Two NASA aircraft equipped with scientific instruments are flying over the Houston area throughout September 2013 as part of a multi-year airborne science mission to help scientists better understand how to measure and forecast air quality from space. The aircraft are part of NASA's five-year DISCOVER-AQ study, which stands for Deriving Information on Surface conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality. This two-engine B200 King Air aircraft, shown on the tarmac at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., collects data for the DISCOVER-AQ study looking downward from an altitude of 26,000 feet. The plane's instruments look down at the Earth's surface, much like a satellite, and measure particulate and gaseous air pollution. Image Credit: NASA #discoveryaq #flying #flight #nasa #airquality #science #airbornescience #pollution #environment #smog; -
NASA Remembers September 11, 2001: Visible from space, a smoke plume rises from the Manhattan area after two planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center. This photo was taken of metropolitan New York City (and other parts of New York as well as New Jersey) the morning of September 11, 2001. "Our prayers and thoughts go out to all the people there, and everywhere else," said Station Commander Frank Culbertson of Expedition 3, after the terrorists' attacks. Image credit: NASA #nasa #whereIwas #911 #sept11 #wtc #nyc #iss #september11; -
Expedition 36 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA is carried to the medical tent shortly after he and, Commander Pavel Vinogradov of Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos landed in their Soyuz TMA-08M capsule in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy returned to Earth after five and a half months on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) #iss #space #nasa #spacestation #landing #soyuz #kazakhstan; -
The Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft with Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA aboard, is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy returned to Earth after five and a half months on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) #iss #space #nasa #spacestation #landing #soyuz #kazakhstan;
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At 4:19 p.m. EDT, hatches closed between the International Space Station and Soyuz TMA-87M. Expedition 36 crew members Chris Cassidy, Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin, pictured here from left to right, are preparing to undock at 7:38 p.m. EDT. NASA Television will air live coverage of undocking beginning at 7:15 p.m. The deorbit burn is targeted for 10:05 p.m. and will lead to a landing at 10:58 p.m. southeast of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan. NASA TV coverage of deorbit and landing begins at 9:45 p.m. Photo credit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center #iss #space #nasa #spacestation#landing #soyuz #outofthisworld #offplanet #leo; -
It's a busy day today in low Earth orbit! Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, along with Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy and Alexander Misurkin, who all arrived at the International Space Station on March 28, will be headed home to Earth when Expedition 36 undocks from the station today at 7:35 p.m. EDT. Staying behind will be Flight Engineer Fyodor Yurchikhin, who took over command of the space station yesterday, along with Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano. The three have been orbiting Earth since May 28 and are scheduled for a return home in November. Scheduled to join Expedition 37 on Sept. 25 are Flight Engineers Oleg Kotov, Mike Hopkins and Sergey Ryazanskiy. In this photo, taken on June 8, 2013, we see Vinogradov and Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg of NASA and Misurkin, in the bottom half of this photo from left to right. In the top half of the photo are, left to right, Flight Engineers Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, Cassidy, and Yurchikhin. Image Credit: NASA #iss #space #nasa #spacestation #landing #soyuz #outofthisworld #offplanet #leo; -
The International Space Station’s Expedition 36 crew returns to Earth today at 7:35 p.m. EDT. You can watch the activities unfold live on NASA TV and the NASA App for #iOS and #Android. In this image, Russian search and rescue helicopters are seen as they fly over Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, from the city of Karaganda to Zhezkazgan a day ahead of the scheduled landing of the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft with Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and NASA Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy. Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy are returning to Earth after five and a half months on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) #nasa #space #zhezkazgan #kazakhstan #iss #exp36 #soyuz #landing #nasaapp #spacestation #helicopter #searchandrescue; -
The latest image of sea surface heights in the Pacific Ocean from NASA's Jason-2 satellite shows that the equatorial Pacific Ocean is now in its 16th month of being locked in what some call a neutral, or "La Nada" state. "La Nadas" make long-range climate forecasting more difficult due to their greater unpredictability. Yellows and reds indicate areas where waters are relatively warmer and have expanded above normal sea level, while blues and purple areas show where waters are relatively colder and sea level is lower than normal. The near-normal conditions are shown as areas shaded in green, based on the average of 10 days of data centered on Aug. 27, 2013. The height of the sea water relates, in part, to its temperature, and thus is an indicator of the amount of heat stored in the ocean below. As the ocean warms, its level rises; as it cools, its level falls. Above-normal height variations along the equatorial Pacific indicate El Niño conditions, while below-normal height variations indicate La Niña conditions. The temperature of the upper ocean can have a significant influence on weather patterns and climate. For the past several decades, about half of all years have experienced La Nada conditions, compared to about 20 percent for El Niño and 30 percent for La Niña. NASA scientists will continue to monitor this persistent La Nada event to see what the Pacific Ocean has in store next for the world's climate. Image Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech/Ocean Surface Topography Team #earth #space #nasa #nasajpl #jpl #lanada #elnino #lanina #climate #seasurface #sea #ocean #weather; -
The extreme floods that have been threatening northeastern China and the Russian Far East are slowly moving north along the length of the Amur River. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired the left false-color image of the swollen Amur River on September 8, 2013. The right image, also from Aqua MODIS, shows the river on August 17, 2012, providing a view of normal water levels during the late summer. The false-color images were made with short-wave and near-infrared light. Water is black; plant-covered land is green; clouds are pale blue and white; and burned land is red. The city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur is pale brown. The winding river channels and sponge-like appearance of the land around the river in the 2012 image indicates the presence of wetlands. Image credit: NASA - LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team #earth #flooding #modis #nasa #naturaldisaster;
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Hubble Catches a Spiral in the Air Pump Lying more than 110 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Antlia (The Air Pump) is the spiral galaxy IC 2560, shown here in an image from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. At this distance it is a relatively nearby spiral galaxy, and is part of the Antlia cluster — a group of over 200 galaxies held together by gravity. This cluster is unusual; unlike most other galaxy clusters, it appears to have no dominant galaxy within it. In this image, it is easy to spot IC 2560's spiral arms and barred structure. This spiral is what astronomers call a Seyfert-2 galaxy, a kind of spiral galaxy characterized by an extremely bright nucleus and very strong emission lines from certain elements — hydrogen, helium, nitrogen, and oxygen. The bright center of the galaxy is thought to be caused by the ejection of huge amounts of super-hot gas from the region around a central black hole. There is a story behind the naming of this quirky constellation — Antlia was originally named antlia pneumatica by French astronomer Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, in honor of the invention of the air pump in the 17th century. Image Credit: Hubble/European Space Agency and NASA #nasa #space #hubble #stars #galaxy #constellation #hubblespacetelescope #nofilter; -
NASA's black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has "bagged" its first 10 supermassive black holes. The mission, which has a mast the length of a school bus, is the first telescope capable of focusing the highest-energy X-ray light into detailed pictures. The new black-hole finds are the first of hundreds expected from the mission over the next two years. These gargantuan structures -- black holes surrounded by thick disks of gas -- lie at the hearts of distant galaxies between 0.3 and 11.4 billion light-years from Earth. This image shows the optical color of galaxies seen here overlaid with X-ray data (magenta) from NASA's NuSTAR. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech; -
The image shows Earth today, September 7, 2013, as seen by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) satellite. Geostationary describes an orbit in which a satellite is always in the same position with respect to the rotating Earth. This allows GOES to hover continuously over one position on the Earth's surface, appearing stationary. As a result, GOES provide a constant vigil for the atmospheric "triggers" for severe weather conditions such as tornadoes, flash floods, hail storms, and hurricanes. Image Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project #nasa #earth #space #goes #irl; -
The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is headed toward the moon after launching on a #Minataur V rocket Friday night from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. LADEE is a robotic mission that will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust. A thorough understanding of these characteristics will address long-standing unknowns, and help scientists understand other planetary bodies as well. Learn more about #LADEE at: http://www.nasa.gov/ladee Image credit: NASA/Chris Perry #LADEE #Moon #Rocket #Launch #RocketLaunch #NASA #space; -
Evening View of LADEE's Gantry! This image shows an evening view gantry at Pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., on Sept. 4, 2013. In this photograph, the gantry surrounds the Minotaur V rocket that will launch NASA LADEE. The gantry is now removed and the Minotaur is getting ready to launch LADEE at 11:27 p.m. EDT tonight. Image credit: NASA Wallops/Patrick Black #nasa #moon #minotaur #ladee #space;
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