[ad_1] From left to right, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, and Deputy Chief of Mission for the Embassy of Israel Eliav Benjamin, place wreaths at the Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial during a ceremony that was part of NASA’s Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, at …
Read More »Celebrating NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity Rovers’ Mars Landings
[ad_1] On the 20th anniversary of the landing of Spirit and Opportunity, celebrate NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Project with this two-sided poster that lists some of the pioneering explorers’ accomplishments on the Red Planet. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/e1-mer-20th-poster-vert-front-1080×1920-1-eefb7b/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] Source link
Read More »Axiom Mission 3 Launches to the International Space Station
[ad_1] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft for Axiom Space’s Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) to the International Space Station lifts off at 4:49 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. Ax-3 is the third all …
Read More »NASA Interns at Johnson’s Rock Yard
[ad_1] A NASA intern uses an augmented reality headset to test out heads-up display technology being developed for future Artemis missions. This technology was created as part of the NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students, or SUITS, design challenge in which college students from across the country help design …
Read More »NASA’S OSIRIS-REx Curation Team Reveals Remaining Asteroid Sample
[ad_1] A top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed, revealing the remainder of the asteroid sample inside. Erika Blumenfeld, creative lead for the Advanced Imaging and Visualization of Astromaterials (AIVA) and Joe Aebersold, project management lead, captured this picture using manual high-resolution precision photography and …
Read More »Hubble Captures a Monster Merger
[ad_1] This Hubble Picture of the Week features Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy that in fact comprises two galaxies — NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642, the round, face-on spiral — that are in the midst of a collision. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, …
Read More »An Aurora in Another Light
[ad_1] The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite sensor on the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, over western Canada on November 5, 2023. Image Credit: NASA/Lauren Dauphin and Wanmei Liang; NOAA Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nameraurora-vir-2023309-lrg/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] Source link
Read More »NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Research Aircraft Unveiled
[ad_1] NASA and Lockheed Martin publicly unveil the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft at a ceremony in Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission, which seeks to solve one of the major barriers to supersonic flight over land, currently banned …
Read More »Verdant Farmlands of Simsbury, Connecticut
[ad_1] The Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 captured this image of Simsbury on September 15, 2022. The tobacco farm where Martin Luther King worked—Meadowood—is located west of the Farmington River, a tributary of the Connecticut River. Image Credit: NASA/Joshua Stevens; USGS Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/simsbury-oli2-2022258-lrg/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] …
Read More »30 Doradus B: NASA Telescopes Start the Year With a Double Bang
[ad_1] This deep dataset from Chandra of the remains of a supernova known as 30 Doradus B (30 Dor B) reveals evidence for more than one supernova explosion in the history of this remnant. Unusual structures in the Chandra data cannot be explained by a single explosion. These images of …
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