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IceBridge Concludes Arctic Field Campaign - Researchers with our Operation IceBridge have completed another successful Arctic field campaign. On May 23, NASA's P-3 research aircraft left Thule Air Base, Greenland, and returned to Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia marking the end of 11 weeks of polar research. During this campaign, researchers collected data on Arctic sea and land ice - both repeating measurements on rapidly changing areas and expanding coverage into new, unsurveyed regions. The mission also released two sea ice data products and provided a professional development opportunity for three science teachers. This image is a view of mountains and sea ice near Thule Air Base, Greenland, from the NASA P-3 on May 6, 2014. Image Credit: NASA/Michael Studinger #nasa #ice #icebridge #arctic #earth #earthrightnow; -
Orion Heat Shield Attached! The world's largest heat shield, measuring 16.5 feet in diameter, has been successfully attached to the Orion spacecraft. The heat shield is made from a single seamless piece of Avcoat ablator. It will be tested on Orion's first flight in December 2014 as it protects the spacecraft from temperatures reaching 4000 degrees Fahrenheit. The uncrewed flight, dubbed Exploration Flight Test-1(EFT-1), will test the spacecraft for eventual missions that will send astronauts to an asteroid and eventually Mars. EFT-1 will launch an uncrewed Orion capsule 3,600 miles into space for a four-hour mission to test several of its most critical systems. After making two orbits, Orion will return to Earth at almost 20,000 miles per hour, before its parachutes slow it down for a landing in the Pacific Ocean. Image Credit: NASA #nasa #orion #spacecraft #space #eft1 #path2mars; -
Violent Birth Announcement from an Infant Star - This Hubble image shows IRAS 14568-6304, a young star that is cloaked in a haze of golden gas and dust. It appears to be embedded within an intriguing swoosh of dark sky, which curves through the image and obscures the sky behind. This dark region is known as the Circinus molecular cloud. This cloud has a mass around 250 000 times that of the sun, and it is filled with gas, dust and young stars. Within this cloud lie two prominent and enormous regions known colloquially to astronomers as Circinus-West and Circinus-East. Each of these clumps has a mass of around 5000 times that of the sun, making them the most prominent star-forming sites in the Circinus cloud. The clumps are associated with a number of young stellar objects, and IRAS 14568-6304, featured here under a blurry fog of gas within Circinus-West, is one of them. ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgements: R. Sahai, NASA JPL/ Serge Meunier #nasa #star #hst #hubble #esa #galaxy #cloud #science; -
We demonstrated that we can land an unmanned spacecraft on a rugged planetary surface in the pitch dark in a free-flight test Wednesday of the Morpheus prototype lander and Autonomous Landing Hazard Avoidance Technology, or ALHAT. The 98-second test began at 10:02 p.m. EDT, with the Morpheus lander launching from the ground over a flame trench and ascending more than 800 feet (244 m) into the dark Florida sky at Kennedy Space Center using only ALHAT's Hazard Detection System for guidance. The Hazard Detection System, assisted by three light detection and ranging (lidar) sensors, located obstacles -- such as rocks and craters -- and safely landed on the lunar-like hazard field a quarter mile away from the NASA Center. These new capabilities could be used in future efforts to deliver cargo to planetary surfaces. Image Credit: NASA/Mike Chambers #nasa #morpheus #ksc #spacecraft; -
Coming together - At the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center, the Orion crew module and heat shield are being moved into position for the mating operation. The heat shield will be tested on Orion's first flight in December, Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), an uncrewed flight that will put to the test the spacecraft that will send astronauts to an asteroid and eventually Mars on future missions. EFT-1 will launch an uncrewed Orion capsule 3,600 miles into space for a four-hour mission to test several of its most critical systems. After making two orbits, Orion will return to Earth at almost 20,000 miles per hour and endure temperatures near 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit, before its parachutes slow it down for a landing in the Pacific Ocean. Image Credit: NASA #nasa #eft1 #space #orion #asteroid #mars;
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The 'Serpent' Star-forming Cloud Hatches New Stars - Within the swaddling dust of the Serpens Cloud Core, astronomers are studying one of the youngest collections of stars ever seen in our galaxy. Infrared light has been assigned colors we see with our eyes, revealing young stars in orange and yellow, and a central parcel of gas in blue. This area is hidden in visible-light views, but infrared light can travel through the dust, offering a peek inside the stellar hatchery. The dark patch to the left of center is swaddled in so much dust, even the infrared light is blocked. It is within these dark wombs that stars are just beginning to take shape. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/2MASS #nasa #spitzer #space #universe #space #stars #galaxy #science; -
#321liftoff! The Soyuz rocket launched today from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 40 Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev, of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst, of the European Space Agency, ESA, and Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA will dock to the International Space Station at 9:48 p.m. EDT. The crew is slated to spend the next five and a half months aboard the orbiting laboratory. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky #nasa #roscosmos #esa #spacestation #launch #soyuz #iss #exp40; -
A colorful dart in the night sky! This 30-second exposure is of the Soyuz rocket launch from today at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 40 Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev, of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst, of the European Space Agency, ESA, and Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA will dock to the International Space Station at 9:48 p.m. EDT. The crew is slated to spend the next five and a half months aboard the orbiting laboratory. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky #nasa #roscosmos #esa #spacestation #launch #soyuz #iss #exp40; -
Moving on up... to the spacecraft in the sky! Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, bottom, Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA, center, and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, ESA, top, wave farewell prior to boarding the Soyuz TMA-13M rocket for launch at 3:57 p.m. today at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Suraev, Gerst, and Wiseman will spend the next six months aboard the International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky #nasa #soyuz #exp40 #space #spacestation #321liftoff #launch #kazakhstan #iss; -
Three people head to space today! NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, cosmonaut Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst are set to launch aboard their Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:57 p.m. EDT today (1:57 a.m. Thursday, Kazakh time). Less than six hours later, at 9:48 p.m., Soyuz Commander Suraev will dock the Russian spacecraft to the Rassvet module on the Earth-facing side of the station. In this image, the Soyuz is seen shortly after being raised into a vertical position on the launch pad on Monday. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky #nasa #soyuz #esa #roscosmos #space #spacestation #launch #321liftoff #iss;
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Sunsets on Titan Reveal the Complexity of Hazy Exoplanets - Using data collected by Cassini’s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, or VIMS, while observing Titan’s sunsets, researchers created simulated spectra of Titan as if it were a planet transiting across the face of a distant star. The research helps scientists to better understand observations of exoplanets with hazy atmospheres. This image is an artist’s rendering of our Cassini spacecraft observing a sunset through Titan’s hazy atmosphere. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech #nasa #titan #sunset #exoplanets #cassini #space #science; -
Airborne Research Focuses on Andean Volcanoes - Volcanoes in Central and South America were the primary focus of a four-week Earth science study in late April and early May 2014 using a NASA-developed airborne synthetic aperture imaging radar. The synthetic aperture radar developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory mounted on NASA's C-20A research aircraft captured this image of Peru's Ubinas volcano on April 14, 2014, during its Latin American research mission. The false colors represent different polarizations in the image. Image Credit: NASA JPL UAVSAR / Ron Muellerschoen #nasa #volcano #peru #ubinas #earth #earthrightnow; -
Rolling toward lift off! The Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft is rolled out to its launch pad by train on Monday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. On Wednesday, a new trio of crew members will lift off to join the three orbiting residents of the station. Soyuz Commander and cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst will launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft at 3:57 p.m. EDT (1:57 a.m. May 29 Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky #nasa #roscosmos #kazakhstan #iss #space #spacestation #launch #soyuz; -
All-American Salute - Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the United States flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity. Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, took this picture. The Lunar Module "Orion" is on the left. The Lunar Roving Vehicle is parked beside Orion and the object behind Young (in the shadow of the Lunar Module) is the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph. Stone Mountain dominates the background of this lunar scene. Today, we honor the Americans who have served in the military. #MemorialDay #nasa Image Credit: NASA; -
Coyote Head Nebula Does Not Approve - When searching for the nicest nebulas in the sky it's nice when your friends help you out. This striking star formation region, mapped in infrared light by our Spitzer Space Telescope, was recently spotted by one of Spitzer's Twitter followers searching through the GLIMPSE360 panorama of our Milky Way galaxy. One of multitudes of star-forming nebulas scattered across the sky, this area had been a bit of a "dirty" secret, tucked away behind a veil of dust that blocks our view in visible light. That obscuring veil fades away under Spitzer's infrared gaze revealing a collection of young stars bursting out of the dusty gas clouds in which they formed. Astronomers identify this area only by a collection of catalog numbers like IRAS 15541-5349. This image is a tiny snippet of the vast 20 gigapixel GLIMPSE360 panorama released in March 2014. Visitors were encouraged to use the web viewers on the Spitzer site to search through the data and then share and name their findings on Twitter. This region was tweeted by kevinmgill, who tagged it "Nebula Does Not Approve." Image Credit: NASA #nasa #space #astronomy #spitzer #science #nebula;
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