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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" What's happening with these clouds? While it may seem that these long and thin clouds are pointing toward the top of a hill, and that maybe a world-famous observatory is located there, only part of that is true. In terms of clouds, the formation is a chance superposition of impressively periodic undulating air currents in Earth's lower atmosphere. Undulatus, a type of Asperitas cloud, form at the peaks where the air is cool enough to cause the condensation of opaque water droplets. The wide-angle nature of the panorama creates the illusion that the clouds converge over the hill. In terms of land, there really is a world-famous observatory at the top of that peak: the Carnegie Science's Las CampanasObservatory in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The two telescope domes visible are the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescopes. The featured coincidental vista was a surprise but was captured by the phone of a quick-thinking photographer in late September. [November 19, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2411/ParallelClouds_Beletsky_960.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Part Ojibwe, All NASA: Linda Spuler’s Role in Protecting Johnson Space Center " Linda Spuler, emergency manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, believes that everyone has a story. “Our stories highlight what we have in common, but they also make us each unique,” she said. Spuler has worked at Johnson for over 32 years, spending most of her career in Center Operations. Her story has involved […] [November 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/part-ojibwe-all-nasa-linda-spulers-role-in-protecting-johnson-space-center/
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#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "First Nations Launch Winners Watch Crew-7 Launch" Participants from the 14th First Nations Launch High-Power Rocket Competition watch NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 launch from the Banana Creek viewing site at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. Students and advisors from University of Washington, University of Colorado-Boulder, and an international team from Queens University – this year’s First Nations Launch grand prize teams – traveled to Kennedy for a VIP tour, culminating in viewing the Crew-7 launch. [November 18, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ksc-20230826-ph-vlc01-0015orig.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "November Transformer of the Month: Ariel Vargas" When Ariel Vargas joined NASA in 2023, he knew he wanted to make an impact. Despite his relatively short tenure, he has earned the reputation of a Digital Transformer in his work as a Network and ICAM (Identity, Credential, and Access Management) Service Integrator at Johnson Space Center (JSC). No matter the task at hand, […] [November 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/november-transformer-of-the-month-ariel-vargas/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "15 Years Ago: STS-129 Delivers Cargo on the Third Utilization and Logistics Flight" On Nov. 16, 2009, space shuttle Atlantis began its 31st trip into space, on the third Utilization and Logistics Flight (ULF3) mission to the International Space Station, the 31st shuttle flight to the orbiting lab. During the 11-day mission, the six-member STS-129 crew worked with the six-person Expedition 21 crew during seven days of docked […] [November 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/history/15-years-ago-sts-129-delivers-cargo-on-the-third-utilization-and-logistics-flight/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Selects New Leader of Space Technology" Clayton P. Turner will serve as the associate administrator of the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday. His appointment is effective immediately. Turner has served as the acting associate administrator of STMD since July. In this role, Turner will continue to oversee executive leadership, […] [November 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-new-leader-of-space-technology/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Program Aids Pediatric Patients Facing Medical Treatments" As NASA innovates for the benefit of humanity and inspires the world through discovery, the agency launched a new video series specifically designed for use by medical treatment centers across the United States to help reduce anxiety and stress among pediatric patients during treatment. The project, named “MISSION: All Systems GO!”, is hosted by NASA […] [November 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-program-aids-pediatric-patients-facing-medical-treatments/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" What is the cause of this unusual parabolic structure? This illuminated cavity, known as LDN 1471, was created by a newly forming star, seen as the bright source at the peak of the parabola. This protostar is experiencing a stellar outflow which is then interacting with the surrounding material in the Perseus Molecular Cloud, causing it to brighten. We see only one side of the cavity -- the other side is hidden by dark dust. The parabolic shape is caused by the widening of the stellar-wind blown cavity over time. Two additional structures can also be seen either side of the protostar; these are known as Herbig-Haro objects, again caused by the interaction of the outflow with the surrounding material. What causes the striations on the cavity walls, though, remains unknown. The featured image was taken by NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope after an original detection by the Spitzer Space Telescope. [November 17, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2411/LDN1471_HubbleSchmidt_960.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Receives 14th Consecutive ‘Clean’ Financial Audit Opinion" For the 14th consecutive year, NASA received an unmodified, or “clean,” opinion from an external auditor on its fiscal year 2024 financial statements. The rating is the best possible audit opinion, certifying that NASA’s financial statements conform with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for federal agencies and accurately present the agency’s financial position. The audit opinion […] [November 15, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-receives-14th-consecutive-clean-financial-audit-opinion/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Six Ways Supercomputing Advances Our Understanding of the Universe" At NASA, high-end computing is essential for many agency missions. This technology helps us advance our understanding of the universe – from our planet to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Supercomputers enable projects across diverse research, such as making discoveries about the Sun’s activity that affects technologies in space and life on Earth, building […] [November 15, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/six-ways-supercomputing-advances-our-understanding-of-the-universe/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop in Global Freshwater Levels" Earth’s total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low ever since. [November 15, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-satellites-reveal-abrupt-drop-in-global-freshwater-levels/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Two Years Ago: Artemis I Liftoff" In this photo, NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, carrying the Orion spacecraft, lifts off the pad at Launch Complex 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:47 a.m. EST on Nov. 16, 2022. Set on a path to the Moon, this officially began the Artemis I mission. Since the completion of Orion’s […] [November 15, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/two-years-ago-artemis-i-liftoff/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3" Put on your red/blue glasses and gaze across the western Ocean of Storms on the surface of the Moon. The 3D anaglyph features Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad visiting the Surveyor 3 spacecraft in November of 1969. Surveyor 3 had landed at the site on the inside slope of a small crater about 2 1/2 years earlier in April of 1967. Visible on the horizon beyond the far crater wall, Apollo 12's Lunar Module Intrepid touched down less than 200 meters (650 feet) away, easy moonwalking distance from the robotic Surveyor spacecraft. This stereo image was carefully created from two separate pictures (AS12-48-7133, AS12-48-7134) captured on the lunar surface. They depict the scene from only slightly different viewpoints, approximating the separation between human eyes. [November 15, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2411/KF-ApAn48-7133-4_1024.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "La NASA y Perú acuerdan estudiar una posible campaña de lanzamiento de cohetes sonda" Read this release in English here. La NASA y la Comisión Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Aeroespacial del Perú (CONIDA) sentaron las bases para una posible campaña de varios años de duración para el lanzamiento de pequeños cohetes científicos desde Perú, conjuntamente con Estados Unidos. Ambos países firmaron el jueves un memorando de entendimiento no vinculante […] [November 14, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/la-nasa-y-peru-acuerdan-estudiar-una-posible-campana-de-lanzamiento-de-cohetes-sonda/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Awards Contract for NOAA’s Space Weather Program" NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio to build three coronagraphs for the Lagrange 1 Series project, part of NOAA’s Space Weather Next program. Once operational, the coronagraphs will provide critical data to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, which issues forecasts, warnings, and […] [November 14, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awards-contract-for-noaas-space-weather-program/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Sols 4366–4367: One of Those Days on Mars (Sulfate-Bearing Unit to the West of Upper Gediz Vallis)" Earth planning date: Friday, Nov. 15, 2024 The Monday plan and drive had executed successfully, so the team had high hopes for APXS and MAHLI data on several enticing targets in the rover’s workspace. Alas, it was not to be: The challenging terrain had resulted in an awkwardly perched wheel at the end of the […] [November 18, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4366-4367-one-of-those-days-on-mars-sulfate-bearing-unit-to-the-west-of-upper-gediz-vallis/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 90 Launch, Space Station Docking" NASA will provide live launch and docking coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft delivering nearly three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to the Expedition 72 crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Progress 90 spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 7:22 a.m. EST (5:22 p.m. Baikonur time) Thursday, Nov. 21, on a Soyuz […] [November 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-provide-coverage-of-progress-90-launch-space-station-docking/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Station Science Top News: Nov. 15, 2024" Anthocyanins protect seeds in space After exposure to space outside the International Space Station, purple-pigmented rice seeds rich in anthocyanin had higher germination rates than non-pigmented white rice seeds. This result suggests that anthocyanin, a flavonoid known to protect plants from UV irradiation, could help preserve seed viability on future space missions. Plants are key […] [November 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/station-science-top-news-nov-15-2024/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "First Nations Launch Winners Watch Crew-7 Launch" In this image from Aug. 26, 2023, participants from the 14th First Nations Launch High-Power Rocket Competition watch NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 launch at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Students and advisors from University of Washington, University of Colorado-Boulder, and an international team from Queens University – the 2023 First Nations Launch grand prize […] [November 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/first-nations-launch-winners-watch-crew-7-launch/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Takes a Last Look at Mysterious Sulfur" The rover captured a 360-degree panorama before leaving Gediz Vallis channel, a feature it’s been exploring for the past year. NASA’s Curiosity rover is preparing for the next leg of its journey, a monthslong trek to a formation called the boxwork, a set of weblike patterns on Mars’ surface that stretches for miles. It will […] [November 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-takes-a-last-look-at-mysterious-sulfur/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Hollywood Techniques Help NASA Visualize Supercomputing Data" Captivating images and videos can bring data to life. NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) produces visualizations, animations, and images to help scientists tell stories of their research and make science more approachable and engaging. Using the Discover supercomputer at the Center for Climate Simulation at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, visualizers use […] [November 18, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/ames/hollywood-techniques-help-nasa-visualize-supercomputing-data/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" Stars can create huge and intricate dust sculptures from the dense and dark molecular clouds from which they are born. The tools the stars use to carve their detailed works are high energy light and fast stellar winds. The heat they generate evaporates the dark molecular dust as well as causing ambient hydrogen gas to disperse and glow. Pictured here, a new open cluster of stars designated IC 1590 is nearing completion around the intricate interstellar dust structures in the emission nebula NGC 281, dubbed the Pac-man Nebula because of its overall shape. The dust cloud just above center is classified as a Bok Globule as it may gravitationally collapse and form a star -- or stars. The Pacman Nebula lies about 10,000 light years away toward the constellation of Cassiopeia. [November 18, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2411/BokMan_Loro_960.jpg
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "Pluto at Night" The night side of Pluto spans this shadowy scene. In the stunning spacebased perspective the Sun is 4.9 billion kilometers (almost 4.5 light-hours) behind the dim and distant world. It was captured by far flung New Horizons in July of 2015 when the spacecraft was at a range of some 21,000 kilometers from Pluto, about 19 minutes after its closest approach. A denizen of the Kuiper Belt in dramatic silhouette, the image also reveals Pluto's tenuous, surprisingly complex layers of hazy atmosphere. Near the top of the frame the crescent twilight landscape includes southern areas of nitrogen ice plains now formally known as Sputnik Planitia and rugged mountains of water-ice in the Norgay Montes. [November 16, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2411/PIA20727PlutoNight1024c.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Goddard Lidar Team Receives Center Innovation Award for Advancements" NASA researchers Guan Yang, Jeff Chen, and their team received the 2024 Innovator of The Year Award at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for their exemplary work on a lidar system enhanced with artificial intelligence and other technologies. Like a laser-based version of sonar, lidar and its use in space exploration […] [November 15, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/technology/goddard-tech/nasa-goddard-lidar-team-receives-center-innovation-award-for-advancements/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "" Terms of Service NASA’s “MISSION: All Systems GO!” Participant Terms and Conditions NASA’s MISSION: All Systems GO! is a set of images, videos, certificates and related materials (the “Materials”) intended for use by healthcare providers to assist in reducing the anxieties of children and other patients facing difficult treatment protocols for cancer and other maladies […] [November 15, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/749791/
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#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Two Years Ago: Artemis I Launch" NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launched on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I mission was the first integrated flight test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems. [November 15, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/52507883571-396b3c1c6c-o.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Hubble Takes a Look at Tangled Galaxies" This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located 390 million light-years away and a part of the Coma galaxy cluster. The Coma Cluster is a particularly rich cluster that contains over a thousand known galaxies. Amateur astronomers can easily spot several of these in […] [November 15, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-takes-a-look-at-tangled-galaxies/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Aging and Fragility Biomarkers are Altered by Spaceflight" Spaceflight accelerates the symptoms of aging in astronaut bodies by inducing genomic instability, mitochondrial dysfunction, and increased inflammation. This is the first study to comprehensively examine biomarkers and pathways associated with spaceflight and terrestrial aging, frailty, and sarcopenia. Main Findings: Impact: This work reveals the need for a frailty index to monitor development of frailty-related […] [November 14, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/aging-and-fragility-biomarkers-are-altered-by-spaceflight/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Meet the Space Ops Team: Diana Oglesby" Diana Oglesby’s love for NASA began long before she started working for the agency. A native of Decatur, Texas, Oglesby knew at the age of eight that she would make NASA her future destination. That dream became a reality when Oglesby joined the agency, first as an intern and later as a NASA full-time employee, […] [November 14, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/meet-the-space-ops-team-diana-oglesby/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Johnson Invites Proposals to Lease Vibration Test Facility" Nov. 14, 2024 NASA Johnson Invites Proposals to Lease Vibration Test Facility NASA’s Johnson Space Center is seeking proposals for the use of its historic, but underused, Vibration and Acoustic Test Facility. Prospective tenants must submit facility walk-through requests by Monday, Nov. 18. Final proposals are due by 12 p.m. EST Monday, Dec. 16, and must […] [November 14, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-johnson-invites-proposals-to-lease-vibration-test-facility/
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