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12 Oct 2024 22:26

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Activates Resources to Help Assess Impacts from Hurricane Milton" In the wake of Hurricane Milton, NASA is deploying resources to support Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and state emergency management agencies to aid their response effort including satellite and aerial data collection. The agency’s Disasters Response Coordination System and Airborne Science Program are began conducting flights Friday to provide emergency responders with better insight [

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12 Oct 2024 01:31

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Sols 4329-4330: Continuing Downhill" Earth planning date: Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024 Curiosity is continuing to make good progress downhill along the western edge of the Gediz Vallis channel, allowing us to take another look from a different perspective at this area we’ve spent many months exploring. The drive from Monday’s plan executed as expected, positioning us about 30 meters […] [October 11, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4329-4330-continuing-downhill/

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11 Oct 2024 23:11

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2024" In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we recognize Hispanic astronauts who have flown in space. The table below lists these individuals of various nationalities who have made significant contributions to their space programs. The first Hispanic astronauts completed short flights to a Soviet space station and aboard the space shuttle. In the past 23 years, [

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11 Oct 2024 21:44

#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Ancient Comet Makes Appearance" Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was about 44 million miles away from Earth in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 272 miles above the South Pacific Ocean southeast of New Zealand just before sunrise on Sept. 28, 2024. [October 11, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/iss072e020907orig.jpg

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11 Oct 2024 21:31

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "ESA/NASA’s SOHO Spies Bright Comet Making Debut in Evening Sky" The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured images of the second-brightest comet to ever pass through its field of view, comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. [October 11, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/esa-nasas-soho-spies-bright-comet-in-evening-sky/

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11 Oct 2024 19:26

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Controlled Propulsion for Gentle Landings " A valve designed for NASA rover landings enables effective stage separations for commercial spaceflight [October 11, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/technology/tech-transfer-spinoffs/controlled-propulsion-for-gentle-landings/

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11 Oct 2024 16:56

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "RCRA Permit Modification" 2023 [October 11, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/rcra-permit-modification/

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11 Oct 2024 06:12

#NewImage from #Nasa: "Ring of Fire over Easter Island" The second solar eclipse of 2024 began in the Pacific. On October 2nd the Moon's shadow swept from west to east, with an annular eclipse visible along a narrow antumbral shadow path tracking mostly over ocean, making its only major landfall near the southern tip of South America, and then ending in the southern Atlantic. The dramatic total annular eclipse phase is known to some as a ring of fire. Also tracking across islands in the southern Pacific, the Moon's antumbral shadow grazed Easter Island allowing denizens to follow all phases of the annular eclipse. Framed by palm tree leaves this clear island view is a stack of two images, one taken with and one taken without a solar filter near the moment of the maximum annular phase. The New Moon's silhouette appears just off center, though still engulfed by the bright disk of the active Sun. [October 11, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2410/eclipse_02_1024.jpg

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10 Oct 2024 23:02

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Igniting Inspiration: Jennifer Becerra’s STEM Legacy at Johnson " Jennifer Becerra has nearly three decades of experience in education, both in the classroom and within the NASA community. Leading a team dedicated to fostering a passion for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), she develops programs that inspire students and educators alike.

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10 Oct 2024 22:02

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Highlights Low Earth Orbit, Sustainability at Space Conference" NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy will lead the agency’s delegation at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) from Monday, Oct. 14, to Thursday, Oct. 17, in Milan. During the congress, NASA will discuss its Low Earth Orbit Microgravity Strategy, emphasizing the agency

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10 Oct 2024 21:01

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Ring Around the Mountain" On June 10, 2023, the Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8 acquired this image of Mount Taranaki, a snow-capped mountain in New Zealand that is ringed by a dark green forest. Two older and extinct volcanoes, Kaitake and Pouakai, lie to the northwest of its peak. Learn more about Mount Taranaki. Image Credit: NASA/Wanmei Liang, [

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10 Oct 2024 19:02

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Lunar Autonomy Mobility Pathfinder Workshop: A NASA Chief Technologist Sponsored Workshop" OVERVIEW The NASA chief technologist’s team, within the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS), is hosting a Lunar Autonomy Mobility Pathfinder (LAMP) workshop on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, to provide a community forum to discuss modeling and simulation testbeds in this domain. The workshop is in coordination with NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate.

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10 Oct 2024 18:31

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Does Distant Planet Host Volcanic Moon Like Jupiter’s Io?" The existence of a moon located outside our solar system has never been confirmed but a new NASA-led study may provide indirect evidence for one. New research done at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reveals potential signs of a rocky, volcanic moon orbiting an exoplanet 635 light-years from Earth. The biggest clue is a sodium cloud [

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10 Oct 2024 00:51

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "The Marshall Star for October 9, 2024" Marshall Lends Insight, Expertise to Auburn Aerospace Industry Day Event By Rick Smith Nearly 500 students and faculty of Auburn University gathered on campus Sept. 30-Oct. 2 to hear lectures from leading NASA propulsion and engineering experts and to talk careers goals and opportunities with representatives of the U.S. space program and various aerospace industry [

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09 Oct 2024 22:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Astronauts, Leadership Visit Children’s Hospital, Cancer Moonshot Event" NASA astronauts, scientists, and researchers, and leadership from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) met with cancer patients and gathered in a discussion about potential research opportunities and collaborations as part of President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative on Oct. 4. Roundtable discussions centered conversation around the five hazards of [

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12 Oct 2024 06:36

#NewImage from #Nasa: "Northern Lights, West Virginia" A gravel country lane gently winds through this colorful rural night skyscape. Captured from Monroe County in southern West Virginia on the evening of October 10, the starry sky above is a familiar sight. Shimmering curtains of aurora borealis or northern lights definitely do not make regular appearances here, though. Surprisingly vivid auroral displays were present on that night at very low latitudes around the globe, far from their usual northern and southern high latitude realms. The extensive auroral activity was evidence of a severe geomagnetic storm triggered by the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME), an immense magnetized cloud of energetic plasma. The CME was launched toward Earth from the active Sun following a powerful X-class solar flare. [October 12, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2410/241010_eggleston_1024.jpg

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12 Oct 2024 01:31

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "The Next Full Moon is a Supermoon, and the Hunter’s Moon" The Next Full Moon is a Supermoon; the Hunter’s Moon; the Travel Moon, the Dying Grass Moon, or the Sanguine or Blood Moon; the start of Sukkoth; Sharad Purnima, Kumara Purnima, Kojagari Purnima, Navanna Purnima Kojagrat Purnima, or Kaumudi Purnima; the end of Vassa and Pavarana; the Thadingyut Festival Moon; the end of the Phaung […] [October 11, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/the-next-full-moon-is-a-supermoon-and-the-hunters-moon/

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11 Oct 2024 22:46

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-8 Return, Splashdown" NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 7:05 a.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 13, for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to undock from the International Space Station. Pending weather conditions, the earliest splashdown time is targeted for 3:38 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14, at one of the multiple zones available off the coast of Florida. NASA [

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11 Oct 2024 21:41

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Ancient Comet Makes Appearance" NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this timelapse photo of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) International Space Station as it orbited 272 miles above the South Pacific Ocean southeast of New Zealand just before sunrise on Sept. 28, 2024. At the time, the comet was about 44 million miles away from Earth. Though the comet is very [

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11 Oct 2024 19:56

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Pioneering NASA Astronaut Health Tech Thwarts Heart Failure" Prioritizing health is important on Earth, and it’s even more important in space. Exploring beyond the Earth’s surface exposes humans to conditions that can impact blood pressure, bone density, immune health, and much more. With this in mind, two NASA inventors joined forces 20 years ago to create a way to someday monitor astronaut heart [

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11 Oct 2024 16:56

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Program Executive Dr. Yaítza Luna-Cruz" “My mom had to leave school after 9th grade to support her family, but she always emphasized the importance of education. And with a lot of sacrifices, got us an encyclopedia in Spanish, ‘Enciclopedia de Las Ciencias’. By getting that encyclopedia for us, without knowing it, my mom was my first mentor because she introduced [

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11 Oct 2024 13:31

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Hubble Spots a Grand Spiral of Starbursts" The sparkling scene depicted in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is of the spiral galaxy NGC 5248, located 42 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Boötes. It is also known as Caldwell 45. The Caldwell catalog holds visually interesting celestial objects that are not as commonly observed by amateur astronomers as the more […] [October 11, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-spots-a-grand-spiral-of-starbursts/

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10 Oct 2024 23:31

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Sail Along with NASA’s Solar Sail Tech Demo in Real-Time Simulation" NASA invites the public to virtually sail along with the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System‘s space journey using NASA’s “Eyes on the Solar System” visualization tool, a digital model of the solar system. This simulation shows the real-time positions of the planets, moons, and spacecraft – including NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System. Solar sails use the pressure […] [October 10, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/sail-along-with-nasas-solar-sail-tech-demo-in-real-time-simulation/

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10 Oct 2024 22:31

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Awards Aerospace Research, Technology, and Simulations Contract" NASA has selected Metis Technology Solutions Inc. of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide engineering services as well as develop and maintain software and hardware used to conduct simulations for aerospace research and development across the agency. The Aerospace Research, Technology, and Simulations (ARTS) contract is a hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract with an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity component [

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10 Oct 2024 21:01

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected With NASA-Designed Instrument" The imaging spectrometer aboard the Carbon Mapper Coalition’s Tanager-1 satellite identified methane and carbon dioxide plumes in the United States and internationally. Using data from an instrument designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the nonprofit Carbon Mapper has released the first methane and carbon dioxide detections from the Tanager-1 satellite. The detections [

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10 Oct 2024 20:49

#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Ring Around the Mountain" On New Zealand’s North Island, a conical snow-capped volcano ringed by dark green forest rises above dairy pasture. The often-snowcapped peak of Mount Taranaki is the centerpiece of Egmont National Park. A circular piece of land—with a 9.6-kilometer (6-mile) radius from the volcano’s summit—was first formally protected as a forest reserve in 1881. With some subsequent additions, it became New Zealand’s second national park in 1900. [October 10, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/mttaranaki-oli-20230610-lrg.jpg

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10 Oct 2024 18:31

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Kathryn Sullivan: The First American Woman to Walk in Space" Forty years ago, in October 1984, Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.

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10 Oct 2024 06:36

#NewImage from #Nasa: "Five Bright Comets from SOHO" Five bright comets are compared in these panels, recorded by a coronograph on board the long-lived, sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. Arranged chronologically all are recognizable by their tailsstreamingaway from the Sun at the center of each field of view, where a direct view of the overwhelmingly bright Sun is blocked by the coronagraph's occulting disk. Each comet was memorable for earthbound skygazers, starting at top left with Comet McNaught, the 21st century's brightest comet (so far). C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas, approaching its perihelion with the active Sun at bottom center, has most recently grabbed the attention of comet watchers around the globe. By the end of October 2024, the blank 6th panel may be filled with bright sungrazer comet C/2024 S1 Atlas. ... or not. [October 10, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2410/SohoKy3_1024.jpg

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09 Oct 2024 23:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Sols 4327-4328: On the Road Again" Earth planning date: Monday, Oct. 7, 2024 After successfully completing investigations within Gediz Vallis, Curiosity is back on the road through the Mg-sulfate (magnesium sulfate) bearing unit. The terrain under our wheels is a familiar collection of broken up blocks, and we’re keeping our rover eyes on the more distant stratigraphy and the deposits within […] [October 09, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4327-4328-on-the-road-again/

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09 Oct 2024 22:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Project Engineer Miranda Peters Flips the Script on Neurological Differences" In her six years working with NASA, Miranda Peters has filled a variety of roles. She trained in flight control for the International Space Station, worked as a safety engineer in the station’s program office, and served as a project engineer working on next-generation spacesuit assembly and testing. She has also embraced an unofficial duty: [