[ad_1] An Atlas-Centaur launched at 5:22 p.m. EST on March 27, 1969, to send Mariner 7 on its way to Mars. Mariner 7 joined its sister spacecraft, Mariner 6, on a journey that carried them within 2,000 miles of the red planet that summer. Mariner 6 was launched from Kennedy …
Read More »Sending “Water” to Europa – NASA
[ad_1] NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a special message when it launches in October 2024 and heads toward Jupiter’s moon Europa. The moon shows strong evidence of an ocean under its icy crust, with more than twice the amount of water of all of Earth’s oceans combined. A triangular …
Read More »CADRE Rovers’ Test Drive in the Mars Yard
[ad_1] Two full-scale development model rovers that are part of NASA’s CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology demonstration drive in the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in August 2023. The project is designed to show that a group of robotic spacecraft can work …
Read More »Hubble Views a Galaxy Under Pressure
[ad_1] This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows LEDA 42160, a galaxy about 52 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The dwarf galaxy is one of many forcing its way through the comparatively dense gas in the massive Virgo cluster of galaxies. The pressure exerted by this intergalactic …
Read More »A Tranquil Sunrise – NASA
[ad_1] A fast boat is seen at sunrise after the landing of SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft a few hours earlier in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. The Crew-7 members returned after nearly six-months in space as part of Expedition 70 aboard …
Read More »Ocean Worlds Planetary Scientist Dr. Lynnae Quick
[ad_1] “I’ve come a long way from thinking, ‘Well, I did this whole dissertation on geysers, what it would take for them to erupt, for a spacecraft to see them, and that people might not take me seriously as a scientist because of it,’ to being on the Europa Clipper …
Read More »Gemini VI Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Walter M. Schirra Jr.
[ad_1] Gemini VI astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (left), pilot, and Walter M. Schirra Jr., command pilot, are shown during suiting up exercises at Cape Kennedy, Florida. Image Credit: NASA Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/s65-56151orig/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] Source link
Read More »St. Patrick’s Aurora Illuminates the Night Sky
[ad_1] This majestic image of the dazzling green lights of the aurora borealis was captured on March 17, 2015, around 5:30 a.m. EDT in Donnelly Creek, Alaska. Image Credit: Sebastian Saarloos Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gsfc-20171208-archive-e000760orig-stpatricksaurora-iotd/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] Source link
Read More »Celebrating Pi Day on the International Space Station
[ad_1] NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Stephen Bowen holds a small pie that is festively decorated in commemoration of Pi Day aboard the International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA/Warren Hoburg Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/iss068e075336/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] Source link
Read More »Apollo 9 Crew Comes Home
[ad_1] Immediately after splashdown, a recovery helicopter from the USS Guadalcanal hovers over the Apollo 9 spacecraft. Still inside the Command Module are astronauts James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, and Russell L. Schweickart. Splashdown occurred at 12:00:53 p.m. EST March 13, 1969, only 4.5 nautical miles from the USS …
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