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Saturday, May 27, 2023

'Castell Henllys' from Above | NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter | JPL

'Castell Henllys' from Above | NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter | JPL

This color-enhanced image of the “Castell Henllys” region in Jezero Crater was taken by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during the rotorcraft’s 48th flight on March 21, 2023, the 741st Martian day, or sol, of the Perseverance rover’s mission. At the time the image was taken, the helicopter was at an altitude of about 40 feet (12 meters).

This image and others taken during the flight provided advanced reconnaissance to Perseverance scientists and planners roughly two weeks before the rover reached this area.

Ingenuity's rotors measure 1.2 m (4 ft), and its entire body is 0.49 m (1 ft 7 in) tall. Its fuselage measures 13.6 cm × 19.5 cm × 16.3 cm (5.4 in × 7.7 in × 6.4 in), with four landing legs of 0.384 m (1 ft 3.1 in) each. It is operated by solar-charged batteries that power dual counter-rotating rotors mounted one above the other.

The Martian atmosphere is extremely thin—at the surface just about one percent of the pressure of Earth’s atmosphere at sea level.

Learn more about Ingenuity:

go.nasa.gov/ingenuity

Ingenuity Fact Sheet:

https://mars.nasa.gov/files/mars2020/MarsHelicopterIngenuity_FactSheet.pdf

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which also manages this technology demonstration project for NASA Headquarters. It is supported by NASA’s Science, Aeronautics, and Space Technology mission directorates. NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley and NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, provided significant flight performance analysis and technical assistance during Ingenuity’s development. AeroVironment Inc., Qualcomm, and SolAero also provided design assistance and major vehicle components. Lockheed Martin Space designed and manufactured the Mars Helicopter Delivery System.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Release Date: May 26, 2023

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The Pleiades: Closest Star Cluster to Earth | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

The Pleiades: Closest Star Cluster to Earth | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

The Pleiades, also known as The Seven Sisters, is an open cluster of stars located approximately 440 light-years away towards the constellation of Taurus (The Bull), making it the nearest star cluster to Earth. The cluster’s central region spans about eight light-years, with the diameter of The Pleiades as a whole estimated at 43 light-years. The Pleiades is a very prominent sight to the unaided eye during winter in the Northern Hemisphere, while in summer the cluster is best seen by observers in southern latitudes.

Most of the cluster’s members are very young, hot blue stars formed within the last 100 million years. So far, about 1,000 stars have been confirmed. The hint of bluish nebulosity around the brightest stars originates from a cloud of interstellar gas and dust that the cluster is passing through at the moment. The tiny particles of dust scatter the blue light from the nearest stars more favorably than other colors, so the region appears to twinkle in blue. The cluster contains many brown dwarfs, or failed stars. These objects, though more massive than planets, do not possess enough mass to ignite nuclear fusion reactions in their cores and burst into life as bright stars.

Cultures all over the world have marveled at The Pleiades since early times, including the Maori from New Zealand, the Persians, the Indians, the Chinese, and the Maya and the Aztec in Central and South America. The Japanese call The Pleiades Subaru. Of the many ancient references to this remarkable and dazzling star assembly, among the most notable are those of the ancient Greek poets Hesiod and Homer, who included the Pleiades in his epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey circa 750 BC. The Bible also contains three mentions of The Pleiades.

The French comet hunter Charles Messier determined the position of the cluster and included it as the entry number 45 (Messier 45) in his famous catalogue from 1771.

Caption Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: December 2022

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The Flaming Star Nebula: Another View

The Flaming Star Nebula: Another View

"The Flaming Star Nebula (also known as IC 405, SH 2-229, or Caldwell 31) is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga. The nebula lies about 1,500 light-years away from Earth and spans about 5 light-years. The variable star AE Aurigae is the brightest star in the bright part of the nebula, and is emitting the energy that is causing the surrounding gas to glow. Most of the nebula is dominated by the red glow of hydrogen gas, and there is a blue reflection nebula patch near its core. This diffuse nebula gives the impression that the star is burning, hence its name. The red and blue colors of the nebula are present in different regions and are created by different processes."

Technical details:

Telescope: 16″ f3.75 Dream Scope

Camera: FLI ML16803

Mount: ASA DDM85

Exposure: 8 hours (42x300s L + 3x18x300s RGB)

Image Copyright & Credit: Bart Delsaert

Caption Credit: Bart Delsaert

Bart's website: https://delsaert.com

Capture Location: Southern Alps, France

Image Date: Date: Sept. 2020

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Portrait of Veteran NASA Astronaut Raja Chari

Portrait of Veteran NASA Astronaut Raja Chari

NASA astronaut candidate Raja Chari poses for a portrait, Friday, July 12, 2019, at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas.

NASA Astronaut Raja Chari Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/content/astronaut-raja-chari/

Chari served as commander of the NASA SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station, which launched on November 10, 2021. He served as a flight engineer aboard the space station for 177 days in orbit. During his time on the International Space Station he performed two spacewalks and helped in capturing and releasing three SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and two Cygnus cargo vehicles.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Image Date: July 12, 2019

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Crescent Planet Neptune and Moon Triton | NASA Voyager 2

Crescent Planet Neptune and Moon Triton | NASA Voyager 2

Gliding through the outer Solar System in 1989, the Voyager 2 spacecraft looked toward the Sun to find this view of most distant planet Neptune and its moon Triton together in a crescent phase. This elegant image of the ice-giant planet and its largest moon was taken from behind just after Voyager's closest approach. It could not have been taken from Earth because the most distant planet never shows a crescent phase to sunward eyes. Heading for the heliopause and beyond, Voyager 2's parting vantage point lacks Neptune's familiar blue hue.

The nuclear-powered Voyager 2 spacecraft remains in contact with Earth through NASA's Deep Space Network. The Voyager 2 probe was launched on August 20, 1977.

Learn more about Planet Neptune:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/neptune/overview/

Image Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Image Date: August 1989

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Friday, May 26, 2023

SpaceX Starship: First Integrated Flight Test | Recap

SpaceX Starship: First Integrated Flight Test | Recap

Starship gave us quite a show during the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship (S24) and Super Heavy rocket (B7) from Starbase in Texas.

On April 20, 2023, at 8:33 a.m. CT, Starship successfully lifted off from the orbital launch pad for the first time. The vehicle cleared the pad and beach as Starship climbed to an apogee of ~39 km over the Gulf of Mexico—the highest of any Starship to-date.

With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and we learned a tremendous amount about the vehicle and ground systems today that will help us improve on future flights of Starship.

"Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the moon during the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program."

Key Starship Parameters:

Height: 120m/394ft

Diameter: 9m/29.5ft

Payload to LEO: 100 – 150t (fully reusable)

Satellites: "Starship is designed to deliver satellites further and at a lower marginal cost per launch than our current Falcon vehicles. With a payload compartment larger than any fairing currently in operation or development, Starship creates possibilities for new missions, including space telescopes even larger than the James Webb."

On April 20, 2023 at 8:33 a.m. CT, Starship successfully lifted off from the orbital launch pad for the first time. The vehicle cleared the pad and beach as Starship climbed to an apogee of ~39 km over the Gulf of Mexico – the highest of any Starship to-date.

With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and we learned a tremendous amount about the vehicle and ground systems today that will help us improve on future flights of Starship.

Starship's Engines: Raptors

"The Raptor engine is a reusable methalox staged-combustion engine that powers the Starship launch system. Raptor engines began flight testing on the Starship prototype rockets in July 2019, becoming the first full-flow staged combustion rocket engine ever flown."

Raptor Engine Parameters:

Diameter: 1.3m/4ft

Height: 3.1m/10.2ft

Thrust: 230tf/500 klbf

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):

https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: May 26, 2023

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Rocket Lab's Electron Launches NASA TROPICS CubeSats in New Zealand

Rocket Lab's Electron Launches NASA TROPICS CubeSats in New Zealand

Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle successfully launched the “Coming To A Storm Near You” mission, the second pair of CubeSats for NASA’s Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS), from Pad B at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, on May 26, 2023, at 03:46 UTC (15:46 NZST).

The NASA Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) Earth science mission is a constellation of state-of-the-science observing platforms that will measure temperature and humidity soundings and precipitation with spatial resolution comparable to current operational passive microwave sounders but with unprecedented temporal resolution (median revisit time of 50 minutes). Each SmallSat hosts a 12-channel passive microwave spectrometer. The primary mission objective of TROPICS is to relate temperature, humidity, and precipitation structure to the evolution of tropical cyclone intensity.

Learn more at: https://tropics.ll.mit.edu/CMS/tropics/Mission-Overview

Credit: Rocket Lab

Image Dates: May 25-26, 2023

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2nd All-Private Astronaut Mission to International Space Station | This Week @NASA

2nd All-Private Astronaut Mission to International Space Station | This Week @NASA

The second all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, completing the set of tiny severe weather trackers, and a robotic explorer—with a twist . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Video Producer, Editor, & Narrator: Andre Valentine

Duration: 2 minutes, 22 seconds

Release Date: May 26, 2023

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The Flaming Star Nebula in Auriga | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

The Flaming Star Nebula in Auriga | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

The Flaming Star Nebula (also known as IC 405, SH 2-229, or Caldwell 31) is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga north of the celestial equator, surrounding the bluish, irregular variable star AE Aurigae.

The nebula is about 5 light-years across.

Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405)

- Data obtained using the MegaCam camera on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

- Image by Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT) & Giovanni Anselmi (Coelum)

Release Date: May 2023

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Korea's Nuri 3 Commercial Satellite Launch | Korea Aerospace Research Institute

Korea's Nuri 3 Commercial Satellite Launch | Korea Aerospace Research Institute

For its third flight, Nuri launched 8 satellites into a Sun-synchronous orbit, from the Naro Space Center, South Korea, on May 25, 2023, at 09:24 UTC (18:24 local time). Nuri (누리호), also known as KSLV-II (Korea Space Launch Vehicle-2), is a three-stage liquid-propellant launch vehicle developed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to “directly put a 1.5-ton application satellite into a 600-800 km Sun-synchronous orbit.”

In 2022, South Korea became the seventh country in the world to have developed a space launch vehicle that can carry a more than 1-ton satellite, after Russia, the United States, France, China, Japan and India.

Credit: Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 6 minutes

Release Date: May 25, 2023

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NASA's Space to Ground: A Full House | Week of May 26, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground: A Full House | Week of May 26, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. Axiom Space Ax-2 crew commander Peggy Whitson (USA), pilot John Shoffner (USA), and mission specialists Ali Alqarni (Saudi Arabia) and Rayyanah Barnawi (Saudi Arabia) were welcomed aboard the International Space Station by the Expedition 69 crew shortly after their SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft docked at 11 a.m. EDT Monday, May 22, 2023.

The Ax-2 crew received their astronaut wings from America's most-experienced astronaut, Peggy Whitson, formerly of NASA.

Rayyanah Barnawi is making history as the first Arab woman aboard the International Space Station. She has become the 600th astronaut.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Expedition 69 Crew (May 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey Fedyaev

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 2 minutes, 39 seconds

Release Date: May 25, 2023

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Rocket Lab's Electron Launches NASA TROPICS CubeSats in New Zealand

Rocket Lab's Electron Launches NASA TROPICS CubeSats in New Zealand

Learn more at: https://tropics.ll.mit.edu/CMS/tropics/Mission-Overview

Credit: NASA/Rocket Lab

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 4 minutes, 44 seconds

Release Date: May 26, 2023

Icy Cliffs at the Martian North Pole | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Icy Cliffs at the Martian North Pole | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

An ice cap about three kilometers (two miles) thick exists at the North Pole of Mars. In some locations its edge is a cliff about 800 meters (half a mile) high that is an almost-vertical wall of ice. With HiRISE images like this one we can look at this cliff face and see it is broken up into jagged blocks. Debris piles at the base of the cliff show where these blocks have fallen out. In the spring, we also sometimes see avalanches pouring down these cliff faces and this image was taken to search for more of them. No avalanches are visible this time, however. For reasons we do not understand, the number of avalanches varies from year to year and this spring appears to be a low-avalanche year.

This image was acquired on Febuary 15, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows a cliff face broken up into jagged blocks. Debris piles at the base of the cliff show where these blocks have fallen out.

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

“For 17 years, MRO has been revealing Mars to us as no one had seen it before,” said the mission’s project scientist, Rich Zurek of JPL.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Image Date: Febuary 15, 2023

Release Date: May 12, 2023

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Thursday, May 25, 2023

Honoring NASA's Skylab: 50th Anniversary of America's First Space Station

Honoring NASA's Skylab: 50th Anniversary of America's First Space Station

America’s first space station and the first crewed research laboratory in space, Skylab, lifted off on May 14, 1973.

Skylab helped pave the way for permanent operations in low-Earth orbit. Over the course of its human occupation from May 25, 1973, to Feb. 8, 1974, three crews visited Skylab, carrying out 270 scientific and technical investigations in astronauts’ physiological responses to long-duration space flight, Earth sciences, solar physics, and astronomy.

The research conducted on Skylab helped prepare NASA for living and working in space on the International Space Station, and our journey to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

The civilian space program was operating at a time when U.S. budgets were fiscally constrained, so NASA's leaders searched for an affordable way to build a space station. They came up with the idea of turning part of a Saturn V rocket into a space station, and the Skylab concept was born.

Skylab fulfilled the dreams of Dr. Wernher von Braun who had long wanted to build an orbiting outpost where people learn could how to live and work in space for longer periods. Von Braun and his team came up with the idea of using parts of an existing Saturn V rocket to make an orbital laboratory. Turning a rocket into a laboratory was not easy, but it was an affordable way to build a space station because existing hardware could be used.

Unable to be re-boosted by the Space Shuttle, which was not ready until 1981, Skylab's orbit eventually decayed, and it disintegrated in the Earth's atmosphere on July 11, 1979, scattering debris across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia.

To learn more about Skylab, check out: https://www.nasa.gov/skylab

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/skylab

https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/skylab.htm

Credit: NASA

Video Producer: Haley Reed

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: May 25, 2023

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Expedition 69 & Axiom Space Ax-2 Crew Photos | International Space Station

Expedition 69 & Axiom Space Ax-2 Crew Photos | International Space Station

Axiom Mission-2 and Expedition 69 crew members. In the center front row, is Expedition 69 crew member and United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi flanked by (from left) Axiom Mission-2 crew members Commander Peggy Whitson (USA), Mission Specialist Ali Alqarni (Saudi Arabia), Pilot John Shoffner (USA), and Mission Specialist Rayyanah Barnawi (Saudi Arabia). In the back (from left) are, Expedition 69 crew members Roscosmos cosmonaut Dmitri Petelin (Russia), NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, Roscosmos cosmonauts Andrey Fedyaev (Russia) and Sergey Prokopyev (Russia), and NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg. Not pictured is NASA astronaut Frank Rubio.

United Arab Emirates astronaut Astronaut Sultan Alneyadi observes a free-flying Astrobee robotic assistant

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio removes science hardware from Kibo's airlock

NASA Astronaut Woody Hoburg photographs Lake Nasser in Egypt

NASA Astronaut Hoburg photographs the Saudi Arabian coast

NASA spacesuits pictured inside the Quest airlock

SpaceX Freedom Dragon crew ship with Axiom Mission-2 crew

Axiom Space Ax-2 crew commander Peggy Whitson (USA), pilot John Shoffner (USA), and mission specialists Ali Alqarni (Saudi Arabia) and Rayyanah Barnawi (Saudi Arabia), were welcomed aboard the International Space Station by the Expedition 69 crew shortly after their SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft docked at 11 a.m. EDT Monday, May 22, 2023.

The Ax-2 crew received their astronaut wings from America's most-experienced astronaut, Peggy Whitson, formerly of NASA.

Rayyanah Barnawi is making history as the first Arab woman aboard the International Space Station. She has become the 600th astronaut.

Expedition 69 Crew (May 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey Fedyaev

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Dates: May 24-25, 2023

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Expedition 69 Crew Answers Student Questions | International Space Station

Expedition 69 Crew Answers Student Questions | International Space Station

Aboard the International Space Station, NASA Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Stephen Bowen, Woody Hoburg, and Frank Rubio answered pre-recorded questions about life and work on the orbiting laboratory during an in-flight event May 25, 2023, with students attending St. Mark’s Episcopal School in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Bowen, Hoburg, and Rubio are in the midst of a science mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies. Such research benefits people on Earth and lays the groundwork for future human exploration through the agency’s Artemis missions, which will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future expeditions to Mars.

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 69 Crew (May 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey Fedyaev

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 20 minutes

Release Date: May 25, 2023

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