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Ready for Tuesday's liftoff! The launch gantry, surrounding the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite onboard, is seen in this black and white infrared view at Space Launch Complex 2, Friday, June 27, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. OCO-2 will measure the global distribution of carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth’s climate. OCO-2 is set for a July 1 launch. Image Credit: NASA.Bill Ingalls #nasa #oco2 #earthrightnow #earth #launch #science; -
Puff the Magic Sun: A suite of our sun-gazing spacecraft have spotted an unusual series of eruptions in which a series of fast puffs forced the slow ejection of a massive burst of solar material from the sun's atmosphere. The eruptions took place over a period of three days, starting on Jan. 17, 2013. This combination of three wavelengths of light from our Solar Dynamics Observatory shows one of the multiple jets that led to a series of slow coronal puffs. The light has been colorized in red, green and blue. Image Credit: Alzate/SDO #nasa #sun #space #solarsystem #science; -
World Cup Bet in Space: On Thursday, June 26, the space station crew got a chance to catch up on the action at the 2014 World Cup games in Brazil as the U.S. team took on Germany. With Germany winning, U.S. astronauts Steve Swanson and Reid Wiseman paid up on a friendly wager made with their German crewmate, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, to shave their heads. After the match, Gerst posted this photo to Twitter, saying "Mission accomplished" and thanking the German and U.S. soccer teams for a fun evening in space. Image Credit: NASA/ESA #nasa #spacestation #iss #germany #esa #space #worldcup #usmnt #usa #ger #usavsgermany; -
He actually did it! Yesterday's World Cup match of the U.S. vs Germany may just have been a friendly competition among U.S. and German astronauts on space station, but that didn't mean there weren't stakes involved. If the U.S. won, the America crew members was going to draw a little U.S. flag on Alexander Gerst's head. But Germany won, and now astronaut Reid Wiseman uphold his end of the bargain. Reid posted this image to Twitter and wrote, "Good game Germany! Thanks for the shave." Image Credit: NASA #nasa #worldcup #usavsgermany #usa #ger #iss #germany #usmnt; -
Look out the window: Here's an astronaut's view from the International Space Station. Back-dropped by a blue and white part of Earth and the blackness of space, solar array wings are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member from a window in the Cupola of the space station. Image Credit: NASA #nasa #spacestation #iss #space #science #exp40;
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A test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft descends under its three main parachutes above the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Arizona on June 25, 2014, in the agency’s most difficult test of the parachutes system’s performance. NASA is preparing Orion for its first trip to space in December, a two-hour, four-orbit flight that will send an uncrewed spacecraft more than 3,600 miles into space before returning it to Earth to test the performance of many of the spacecraft’s critical systems needed to carry crew to deep space destinations in the future. Image Credit: NASA #nasa #space #orion #orionspacecraft #parachutes #freefall #parachute #techtest #321techoff; -
Friendly Rivalry Pits U.S. vs. German Astronauts on Space Station NASA's Reid Wiseman and Steve Swanson and the European Space Agency's Astronaut Alexander Gerst, who's from Germany, are cheering on their home countries' World Cup 2014 teams, but will the post-goal celebrations be as uplifting as those on Earth? In this video, the crew shows off their own World Cup moves in an "Out Of This World Cup" match. Zero-gravity offers a unique environment to explore new ways to enjoy and celebrate the world's most popular sport. Video Credit: NASA #worldcup #usmnt #worldcup2014 #usavsgermany #soccer #football; -
The six-person Expedition 40 crew of the International Space Station delved into a number of scientific experiments and health investigations today and trained for the robotic capture of a U.S. commercial cargo spacecraft. Astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this image today and wrote, "It's getting good up here!" Auroras provide spectacular views on the ground and from space. Image Credit: NASA #nasa #spacestation #iss #space #exp40 #science; -
Surrounding the sun is a vast atmosphere of solar particles, through which magnetic fields swarm, solar flares erupt, and gigantic columns of material rise, fall and jostle each other around. Now, using our Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, scientists have found that this atmosphere, called the corona, is even larger than thought, extending out some 5 million miles above the sun's surface -- the equivalent of 12 solar radii. This information has implications for our upcoming Solar Probe Plus mission, due to launch in 2018 and go closer to the sun than any man-made technology ever has before. This image is an observation of the outer limits of the sun's atmosphere (the bright light of the sun itself is blocked by the black circle at the middle) from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory on Aug. 5, 2007. Image Credit: NASA/STEREO #nasa #sun #stereo #science; -
A mysterious X-ray signal has been found in a detailed study of galaxy clusters using our Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton. One intriguing possibility is that the X-rays are produced by the decay of sterile neutrinos, a type of particle that has been proposed as a candidate for dark matter. This composite image of the Perseus Cluster combines data equivalent to more than 17 days of observation time over a decade. The Perseus Cluster is one of the most massive objects in the Universe, and contains thousands of galaxies immersed in an enormous cloud of superheated gas. Image Credit: X-ray: NASA, CXC, SAO, E.Bulbul, et al. #nasa #astronomy #space #chandra #xray #galaxies #darkmatter #science;
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Orion's Belt Rises Through the Atmosphere: On June 23, 2014, Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman captured this image which connects Earth to the International Space Station and to the stars. Among the "stellar" scene is part of the constellation Orion, near the center of the frame. The U.S. laboratory or Destiny is seen in the upper right. Wiseman's tweeted the image and wrote, "One of my favorites – Orion’s belt rises through the atmosphere." Image Credit: NASA #nasa #spacestation #iss #orion #earth #space #astronauts #exp40; -
Titan's Building Blocks Might Pre-date Saturn: A new study has found firm evidence that nitrogen in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan originated in conditions similar to the cold birthplace of the most ancient comets from the Oort cloud. This artist's concept depicts a fledgling solar system with a dusty pre-planetary disk circling the stellar embryo (doughnut-shaped cloud). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech; -
A selfie on Mars! Our Curiosity Mars rover used the camera at the end of its arm in April and May 2014 to take dozens of component images combined into this self-portrait where the rover drilled into a sandstone target called "Windjana." Winjana is within a science waypoint site called "The Kimberley," where sandstone layers with different degrees of resistance to wind erosion are exposed close together. The view does not include the rover's arm. It does include the hole in Windjana produced by the hammering drill on Curiosity's arm collecting a sample of rock powder from the interior of the rock. The hole is surrounded by grayish cuttings on top of the rock ledge to the left of the rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS #nasa #space #mars #curiosity #msl #planets #science #selfie; -
Here comes the sun! The sun, peeking through the thin line of Earth's atmosphere, is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member on the International Space Station. Crew members onboard the space station see, on average, sixteen sunrises and sunsets during a 24-hour orbital period. Image Credit: NASA #nasa #space #spacestation #iss #exp40; -
June 19 marks the 15th anniversary of the launch of NASA's QuikScat, a satellite sent for a three-year mission in 1999 that continues collecting data. Built in less than 12 months, QuikScat has watched ocean wind patterns for 15 years and improved weather forecasting worldwide. Despite a partial instrument failure in 2009, it provides calibration data to international partners. This false-color image is based entirely on SeaWinds measurements from QuikScat obtained over oceans, land, and polar regions. Over the ocean, colors indicate wind speed with orange as the fastest wind speeds and blue as the slowest. White streamlines indicate the wind direction. The ocean winds in this image were measured by SeaWinds on September 20, 1999. The large storm in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida is Hurricane Gert. Tropical storm Harvey is evident as a high wind region in the Gulf of Mexico, while farther west in the Pacific is tropical storm Hilary. An extensive storm is also present in the South Atlantic Ocean near Antarctica. The land image was made from four days of SeaWinds data with the aid of a resolution enhancement algorithm developed by Dr. David Long at Brigham Young University. The lightest green areas correspond to the highest radar backscatter. Note the bright Amazon and Congo rainforests compared to the dark Sahara desert. The Amazon River is visible as a dark line running horizontally though the bright South American rain forest. Cities appear as bright spots on the images, especially in the U.S. and Europe. The image of Greenland and the north polar ice cap was generated from data acquired by SeaWinds on a single day. In the polar region portion of the image, white corresponds to the largest radar return, while purple is the lowest. The variations in color in Greenland and the polar ice cap reveal information about the ice and snow conditions present. Image Credit: NASA/JPL #nasa #space #quikscat #seawinds #earth #earthscience #ocean #oceandata;
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