Soyuz Tribute | International Space Station

ESA Astronaut Alexander Gerst: "I bet every explorer who ever lived was convinced that their ship was the most beautiful of all. I still sometimes can't believe she's the ship that we sailed in, from Earth to space."

"Ich wette, jeder Entdecker der jemals gelebt hat war der Meinung, dass sein Schiff das schönste von allen ist! Ich kann es manchmal immer noch nicht glauben, dass sie das Schiff ist, auf dem wir von der Erde bis in den Weltraum gesegelt sind."

Follow Alexander and the Horizons mission:
http://bit.ly/AlexanderGerstESA and on bit.ly/HorizonsBlogESA

Credit: ESA/NASA-A.Gerst
Image Date: June 29, 2018
Release Date: August 20, 2018

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NASA Mars Report for August 20, 2018 | JPL

What’s the latest news from Mars? A global dust storm is starting to settle, but still obscures the Martian surface; the Curiosity rover turns six and drills a new rock sample; the InSight lander is more than halfway to Mars and has tested its instruments and cameras.

For more about all of NASA's Mars missions, visit:
https://mars.nasa.gov

Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Duration: 1 minute, 27 seconds
Release Date: August 20, 2018

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Earth & Moon with Saturn's Rings | NASA Cassini

A Tribute to Carl Sagan

Processed using calibrated red, green, and blue filtered images of Earth and Saturn's Rings taken by the Cassini spacecraft on April 13, 2017. Earth's Moon is also visible above Earth. Though processed using red, green, and blue filters, this should not be taken as fully true color.

Carl Edward Sagan (1934–1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.
Watch: https://youtu.be/oY59wZdCDo0

The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.

The Cassini-Huygens mission was a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, managed the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center was based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
Image Date: April 13, 2017
Release Date: August 14, 2018

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Typhoon Soulik | International Space Station

U.S. Astronaut Ricky Arnold: "Typhoon Soulik barrels toward southern Japan. Stay safe!"

Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC)
http://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html

Global Disaster Alerting Coordination System (GDACS) http://gdacs.org

Credit: NASA Astronaut Ricky Arnold/JSC
Release Date: August 20, 2018
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New Arctic Lakes Could Soon Be a Major Source of Atmospheric Methane

NASA Goddard | For centuries, a massive store of carbon has been locked underground in the Arctic's permanently frozen soil known as permafrost. As Earth's climate continues to warm, that carbon has begun to leach into the atmosphere, the result of microbes waking up and digesting once-frozen organic materials. 

A new NASA-funded study focuses on a mechanism that could accelerate the release of this atmospheric carbon, the result of thermokarst lakes. These lakes form when thawing permafrost causes the ground to slump, creating a depression that collects rain and snowmelt and perpetuates a cycle of further permafrost thaw.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Katy Mersmann
Duration: 1 minute, 22 seconds
Release Date: August 17, 2018

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Painting a picture of the evolving Universe | Hubble

The Hubble Deep Field from 1995 allowed astronomers a first glimpse into the early Universe. This first picture was followed later by an even deeper observation, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 2004. Both images were observed in visible light, the same form of light human eyes can see. But astronomers are also interested in the many forms of invisible light out in the Universe. Therefore, the Ultra Deep Field was later observed in the infrared and the ultraviolet as well, allowing scientists to learn even more about the Universe and to look back even further into its history.

It is less known that the famous deep field observations were not the only images the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope took of the distant Universe. Hubble is also an essential part of the GOODS (The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey) programme, which unites extremely deep observations from several space telescopes: NASA’s Spitzer and Chandra; ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton; and Hubble.

Together these observatories observe two patches of the sky, the GOODS North and the GOODS South fields, with the aim of studying it in as many different wavelengths as possible. The new image here shows part of the GOODS North Field; it includes new Hubble data at ultraviolet wavelengths in addition to the existing data. Because Earth’s atmosphere filters out most ultraviolet light, these observations can only be accomplished from space.

The observation program, called the Hubble Deep UV (HDUV) Legacy Survey, harnessed the ultraviolet vision of Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. This study extends and builds on the previous Hubble multi-wavelength data in the CANDELS-Deep (Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey) fields within the central part of the GOODS (The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey) fields. This mosaic is 14 times the area of the Hubble Ultraviolet Ultra Deep Field released in 2014.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Release Date: August 20, 2018

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Under the celestial arch | ESO

In this spectacular image, taken by ESO Photo Ambassador Petr Horálek, we see the bright arc of the Milky Way stretching across the sky above ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. On the ground are the dome of ESO’s 3.6-meter optical telescope (on the right) and the silvery dish of the Swedish-ESO submillimeter telescope (on the left). Even though it was decommissioned in 2003 to make way for the more advanced APEX and ALMA instruments, the Swedish-ESO dish still seems to be gazing longingly at the sky, perhaps hoping for another chance to explore the mysteries of the heavens.

The Milky Way dominates this image, showing clearly why La Silla is one of the best astronomical sites in the world, famed for its dark skies and clear air. From the peak of the bright arc hangs a striking red feature known as Gum Nebula. This, like similar regions along the band of the Milky Way, is an emission nebula, where gas is made to glow by radiation emitted from nearby bright stars. The bright band of the Milky Way is broken up by dark filaments of dust, wherein stars are forming, stars that will add to the spectacle in the millennia to come.

Sitting under the arc is one of the Milky Way’s companion dwarf galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud; below it, just to the right of the Swedish-ESO dish, is the second such companion, known unsurprisingly as the Small Magellanic Cloud. Over to the right of the image is the planet Jupiter, glowing brightly against the faint glow of the gegenschein, a phenomenon only seen in the darkest skies. A rare sight for most, this magical celestial display is commonplace at astronomical observing sites like La Silla.

Credit: P. Horálek/ESO
Release Date: August 20, 2018
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Sunrise over Gulf of Saint Lawrence

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) focused a camera lens on the Sun’s reflection point, roughly 1700 kilometers (1050 miles) to the northeast of the spacecraft’s position over Massachusetts at the time this image was taken. This oblique photograph shows the horizon and coastline of the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, with Quebec further inland. 

There was only a narrow window of opportunity for this sunglint photograph. The Sun’s reflection was moving across the narrows (separating the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador) and in a break between two cloud banks. Clouds are so common in this part of the world that images of the region are not often acquired from the ISS.

The Gulf of Saint Lawrence is the outlet of the North American Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean. The Strait of Belle Isle is a waterway in eastern Canada that separates the Labrador Peninsula from the island of Newfoundland, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
(Source: Wikipedia)

From their altitude in the space station, the astronauts were seeing an early sunrise, which was timed at 4:41 a.m. at Goose Bay in Labrador on the day this photograph was taken. The Sun would only rise at 5:20 a.m. for people on the ground in Massachusetts directly below the spacecraft.

Three airplane condensation trails appear in the left half of the image, and another is visible on the right margin. All of them are oriented along the shortest air route to Europe (over eastern Canada), which is one of the most densely travelled air routes between North America and Europe.

Astronaut photograph ISS056-E-77502 was acquired on July 5, 2018, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 145 millimeter lens and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 56 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public.

Image Credit: NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
Caption Credit: M. Justin Wilkinson, Texas State University, JETS Contract at NASA-JSC
Instrument: ISS — Digital Camera
Image Date: July 5, 2018
Release Date: August 19, 2018

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Earth Aurora | International Space Station

Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev: "Is there nothing more beautiful than to view the Aurora from the height of the International Space Station?"

Auroras are produced when the Earth's magnetosphere is sufficiently disturbed by the solar wind that the trajectories of charged particles in both solar wind and magnetospheric plasma, mainly in the form of electrons and protons, precipitate them into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere) due to Earth's magnetic field, where their energy is lost. The resulting ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents emits light of varying color and complexity.
(Source: Wikipedia)

Credit: Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev/Roscomos
Release Date: August 18, 2018

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Inside NASA's Kennedy Space Center | Week of Aug. 17, 2018

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is beginning its mission to the Sun after a successful launch Aug. 12 aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The mission was first proposed in 1958 by heliophysics pioneer Dr. Eugene Parker, who viewed the launch from Kennedy and anticipates new discoveries from his namesake spacecraft.

Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Duration: 1 minute, 46 seconds
Release Date: August 17, 2018

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The Moon as seen by Humans in Space

This video was taken by crews on board the International Space Station (ISS). This video is comprised of several time-lapse frames taken by astronauts over the past 10 years. Astronauts aboard the ISS view the same Moon phases as we do on Earth, only they experience Moon rises and Moon sets 16 times a day as the ISS orbits Earth.

Credit:
Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit
NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 1 minute, 34 seconds
Release Date: August 8, 2018

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Continents and Clouds | International Space Station

This time-lapse video was taken by the Expedition 56 crew on board the International Space Station. The sequence of shots were taken using a 16mm fisheye camera lens on June 21, 2018 from 15:19:25 to 16:09:25 GMT, on a day pass from The Pacific Ocean to Africa. The video begins over cloud covered waters of the Pacific Ocean and heads toward the western coast of North America. The first sight of land is the Baja peninsula of Mexico and quickly approaches the southwest US states of Arizona and Utah. The US midwest is mostly cloudy. Orange waters on the western edge of Lake Superior are the result of significant flooding in Duluth, MN at the time of the video. The ISS continues over the northern Atlantic Ocean and passes over Spain at the Strait of Gibraltar. As the ISS heads southeast across Africa, orange Saharan sands come into view and the video ends with a sunset over the cloud covered continent.

Credit:
Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit
NASA Johnson Space Center
Duration: 2 minutes, 55 seconds
Release Date: June 26, 2018

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Mars is What Color?! | NASA 360

Aug. 17, 2018: Look up to sky tonight and you may notice that the Red Planet isn't so red right now. A global dust storm has obscured views of Mars' surface since late May and has even caused the planet to appear yellow-orange in the night sky, instead of its usual rusty-red color.

Take a look—what color do you see?

Credit: NASA 360
Duration: 59 seconds
Release Date: August 17, 2018

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Mission to Touch the Sun is Underway | This Week @NASA

Aug. 17, 2018: Our Parker Solar Probe mission to touch the Sun is on its way, Administrator Bridenstine visits NASA spaceflight facilities, and an update on our first-ever asteroid sample return mission … a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Credit: NASA
Duration: 3 minutes, 44 seconds
Release Date: August 17, 2018

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NASA's Kennedy Spaceport Magazine for August 2018

Read KSC's August 2018 Spaceport Magazine (Free PDF: 15-pages):
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/spaceport-magazine.html
Direct Download:
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/spm_aug2018_web.pdf
In the August 2018 issue:
· NASA assigns first crews to fly commercial spacecraft
· NASA, commercial partners progress to human
spaceflight home stretch
· Mobile launcher's crew access arm successfully tested
· Engineers mark completion of umbilical testing at Launch
Equipment Test Facility
· Aeroshells prepared for Orion's launch abort system test
· Astronaut crew quarters being prepped for return to
human spaceflight from American soil

Spaceport Magazine is a monthly NASA publication that serves Kennedy Space Center employees and the American public. The magazine’s wide topic variety mirrors Kennedy's diverse spaceport operations. From launch processing to center development and employee stories, Spaceport Magazine covers it all.

Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Release Date: August 17, 2018

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NASA's Space to Ground: ICARUS Ascending

Week of Aug. 17, 2018: NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

Icarus is a collaborative environmental experiment between Germany and Russia that studies the migratory patterns of small animals on Earth. It consists of an antenna and GPS hardware to track the movements of animals that have been tagged with small GPS receivers. The experiment may provide data about how animals move from one location to another, how animal population density shifts over time, and how diseases spread.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center
Duration: 2 minutes, 42 seconds
Release Date: August 17, 2018

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