NASA's Mars Perseverance & Curiosity Rovers—New June 2022 Images | JPL

NASA's Mars Perseverance & Curiosity Rovers—New June 2022 Images | JPL   

Mars2020 - Sol 467 - Mastcam-Z

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill

MSL - Sol 3503 - MAHLI

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

MSL - Sol 3483 - Mastcam

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Mars2020 - Sol 467 - Mastcam-Z (another view of landing debris)

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill

Perseverance Rover Update:

Perseverance has continued into Hawksbill Gap, making remote sensing observations of small portions of outcropping rock layers in search of a good place to collect a sample. Since Perseverance is in the Shenandoah quadrangle, we are using target names from Shenandoah National Park. Some of the names this past week included “Bald_Face_Mountain,” “Little_Devil_Stairs,” “Sunset_Hill,” “Luck_Hollow,” and “Moody_Creek.” Perseverance logged nearly 400 meters of driving progress for the week of May 15-21, accumulating a total distance since landing of over 11.8 km as of Sol 446.

Caption Credit: Eleni Ravanis, Student Collaborator at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Release Date: June 2, 2022

Curiosity Rover Update: Sols 3493-3495

"Everywhere you look in the Navcam mosaic (above) there's something interesting to see!

We're up close to a nifty layered outcrop, which is getting lots of imaging including ChemCam LIBS on targets 'Rukumata' and 'Guarico,' a ChemCam mosaic on 'Kamakusa,' MAHLI dogs-eye imaging of 'Tabaco' and the DRT location 'Issano,' which will also have APXS on it.

Mastcam will also be imaging Issano pre- and post-DRT for comparison, and taking a mosaic of the outcrop as a whole. Off the outcrop, ChemCam is also doing LIBS on 'Sisipelin,' which Mastcam will also image, and ChemCam and Mastcam are both taking mosaics further afield towards the Gediz Vallis Ridge.

I . . . was very excited to see the great view we have of the north crater rim, especially since we've been spending so much time recently in among lots of terrain blocking this view. Imaging the crater rim can help us to characterise the amount of dust in the atmosphere, which is especially important in the dusty season.

Aside from the crater rim observations, we are also trying to catch dust devils with a dust devil survey and movie, keeping an eye on the clouds with a few cloud movies, and taking Mastcam tau observations as an additional way to quantify the amount of dust in the atmosphere.

After this marathon of observations, we'll drive about 30 m further and finish up the weekend with a morning ENV block with our weekly AM cloud and dust observations."

Caption Credit: Alex Innanen/JPL

Release Date: June 7, 2022

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.

Launch: July 30, 2020    

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life. 

Launch: November 6, 2011

Landing: August 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit mars.nasa.gov

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University/Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Dates: June 14-15, 2022

#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #Mars #RedPlanet #Planet #Astrobiology #Geology #Jezero #Crater #MountSharp #GaleCrater #Perseverance #Curiosity #Rovers #Robotics #Technology #Engineering #JPL #Pasadena #California #UnitedStates #JourneyToMars #CitizenScience #STEM #Education

Autumn Milky Way at Wellington Dam, Western Australia

Autumn Milky Way at Wellington Dam, Western Australia

This is an 11 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising above a quarry near Wellington Dam about 2 hours south of Perth in Western Australia.

Technical details: 

Nikon d810a, 50mm, ISO 6400, f/2.8

Foreground: 5 x 30 seconds

Sky: 6 x 30 seconds

iOptron SkyTracker

Hoya Red Intensifier filter

The Fading Milky Way

Light pollution is a growing environmental problem that threatens to erase the night sky before its time. A recent study revealed that perhaps two-thirds of the world's population can no longer look upwards at night and see the Milky Way—a hazy swath of stars that on warm summer nights spans the sky from horizon to horizon.

The Milky Way is dimming, not because the end of the Universe is near, but rather as a result of light pollution: the inadvertent illumination of the atmosphere from street lights, outdoor advertising, homes, schools, airports and other sources. Every night billions of bulbs send their energy skyward where microscopic bits of matter—air molecules, airborne dust, and water vapor droplets—reflect much of the wasted light back to Earth. 

(Source: NASA)

Learn more:

International Dark-Sky Association

https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution

Globe at Night

https://www.globeatnight.org

Night Sky Network (NASA JPL)

https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

Tourism Australia: https://www.australia.com

Image Credit: Trevor Dobson

Image Date: May 6, 2022

 

#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #MilkyWay #Stars #LightPollution #CitizenScience #Astrophotographer #TrevorDobson #Astrophotography #Skywatching #Cosmos #Universe #SolarSystem #Earth #WellingtonDam #Perth #Australia #STEM #Education

The Cosmic Reef: A Guided Tour | Hubble

 The Cosmic Reef: A Guided Tour | Hubble

This image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope has observed. The portrait features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbor NGC 2020 which together form part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 163,000 light-years away. The image is nicknamed the "Cosmic Reef," because NGC 2014 resembles part of a coral reef floating in a vast sea of stars. 

Hubble's senior project scientist, Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, takes us on a tour of this stunning image, describes the telescope's health, and summarizes some of Hubble's contributions to astronomy.

In April 2020, NASA celebrated the Hubble Space Telescope's 30 year anniversary of unlocking the beauty and mystery of space by unveiling this stunning new portrait of a firestorm of starbirth in a neighboring galaxy.

For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope and its images, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble

Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Paul R. Morris (USRA): Lead Producer

Jennifer Wiseman (NASA/GSFC): Narrator

Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support

Music credits:

“Perpetual Twilight” by Christophe La Pinta [SACEM], Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Publishing Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music.

Duration: 3 minutes, 30 seconds

Release Date: April 24, 2020

#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Nebula #NGC2014 #NGC2020 #CosmicReef #LargeMagellanicCloud #LMC #Galaxy #Dorado #Constellation #Science #Astrophysics #Physics #Cosmos #Universe #Telescope #GSFC #STScI #UnitedStates #ESA #Europe #STEM #Education #HD #Video

The Cosmic Reef | Hubble

The Cosmic Reef | Hubble

This image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope has observed. The portrait features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbor NGC 2020 which together form part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 163,000 light-years away. The image is nicknamed the "Cosmic Reef," because NGC 2014 resembles part of a coral reef floating in a vast sea of stars.

Some of the stars in NGC 2014 are "monster-sized." The sparkling centerpiece of NGC 2014 is a grouping of bright, hefty stars, each 10 to 20 times more massive than our Sun. The stars' ultraviolet radiation heats the surrounding dense gas. The massive stars also unleash fierce winds of charged particles that blast away lower-density gas, forming the bubble-like structures seen on the right. The stars' powerful stellar winds are pushing gas and dust to the denser left side of the nebula, where it is piling up, creating a series of dark ridges bathed in starlight.

The blue areas in NGC 2014 reveal the glow of oxygen, heated to nearly 20,000 degrees Fahrenheit (11,000 degrees Celsius) by the blast of ultraviolet light. The cooler, red gas indicates the presence of hydrogen and nitrogen.

By contrast, the seemingly isolated blue nebula at lower left (NGC 2020) has been created by a solitary mammoth star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun. The blue gas was ejected by the star through a series of eruptive events during which it lost part of its outer envelope of material.

In April 2020, NASA celebrated the Hubble Space Telescope's 30 year anniversary of unlocking the beauty and mystery of space by unveiling this stunning new portrait of a firestorm of starbirth in a neighboring galaxy.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Release Date: April 24, 2020

#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Nebula #NGC2014 #NGC2020 #CosmicReef #LargeMagellanicCloud #LMC #Galaxy #Dorado #Constellation #Science #Astrophysics #Physics #Cosmos #Universe #Telescope #GSFC #STScI #UnitedStates #ESA #Europe #STEM #Education

'Engineer of the Future': Star Trek's 'Scotty,' James Doohan at NASA Goddard

'Engineer of the Future': Star Trek's 'Scotty,' James Doohan at NASA Goddard

Note: Poor audio and video quality (and camerawork) in this 1992 video.

Famous for his portrayal of Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott—"Scotty"—on the original Star Trek TV series (1966-1969), Canadian actor James Doohan visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in March 1992.

Doohan gave his presentation (entitled "Engineer of the Future") to a standing-room-only crowd in Goddard's Building 8 auditorium before answering questions from the audience.

Doohan's appearance was not quite four months after "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" hit theaters, and little more than half-a-year before he reprised his role in an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation."

Tom Huber, then Goddard's director of engineering, introduced Doohan, whose lecture was presented under the auspices of the Goddard Engineering Colloquium.

This video recording of the presentation was digitized in June 2022 from a Betacam cassette copy found in the archives of the Office of Communications at Goddard.

Learn more about the original Star Trek TV Series:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060028

Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Duration: 52 minutes

Release Date: June 15, 2022

#NASA #Space #Science #ScienceFiction #TV #Film #StarTrek #Scotty #MontgomeryScott #JamesDoohan #Actor #Canadian #Soldier #Veteran #WWIIVeteran #Canada #Scotland #Scottish #Technology #Engineering #Engineer #Greenbelt #Maryland #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #History #HD #Video

NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Landscape Panorama | JPL

NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Landscape Panorama | JPL

This newly-processed panorama was originally captured by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover on Sol 1099 on September 9, 2015. The rover landed on Mars in August 2012.

Curiosity Rover Update: Sols 3493-3495

"Everywhere you look in the Navcam mosaic (above) there's something interesting to see!

We're up close to a nifty layered outcrop, which is getting lots of imaging including ChemCam LIBS on targets 'Rukumata' and 'Guarico,' a ChemCam mosaic on 'Kamakusa,' MAHLI dogs-eye imaging of 'Tabaco' and the DRT location 'Issano,' which will also have APXS on it.

Mastcam will also be imaging Issano pre- and post-DRT for comparison, and taking a mosaic of the outcrop as a whole. Off the outcrop, ChemCam is also doing LIBS on 'Sisipelin,' which Mastcam will also image, and ChemCam and Mastcam are both taking mosaics further afield towards the Gediz Vallis Ridge.

I . . . was very excited to see the great view we have of the north crater rim, especially since we've been spending so much time recently in among lots of terrain blocking this view. Imaging the crater rim can help us to characterise the amount of dust in the atmosphere, which is especially important in the dusty season.

Aside from the crater rim observations, we are also trying to catch dust devils with a dust devil survey and movie, keeping an eye on the clouds with a few cloud movies, and taking Mastcam tau observations as an additional way to quantify the amount of dust in the atmosphere.

After this marathon of observations, we'll drive about 30 m further and finish up the weekend with a morning ENV block with our weekly AM cloud and dust observations."

Caption Credit: Alex Innanen/JPL

Release Date: June 7, 2022

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life. 

Launch: November 6, 2011

Landing: August 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit mars.nasa.gov

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Release Date: June 13, 2022

#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #Mars #RedPlanet #Planet #Astrobiology #Geology #Crater #MountSharp #GaleCrater #Curiosity #Rover #Robotics #Technology #Engineering #JPL #Pasadena #California #UnitedStates #JourneyToMars #CitizenScience #STEM #Education

NASA's Artemis I Moon Rocket: "Fly Me to The Moon" | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's Artemis I Moon Rocket: "Fly Me to The Moon" | Kennedy Space Center

Image Credit: NASA/Cory Huston

Image Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

Image Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

A full Moon is in view from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 14, 2022. The Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher, are being prepared for a wet dress rehearsal to practice timelines and procedures for launch. The first in an increasingly complex series of missions, Artemis I will test SLS and Orion as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon. Through Artemis, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and using the Moon as a steppingstone on the way to Mars. 

Artemis I launch is currently scheduled for 2022.

"Fly Me to the Moon", originally titled "In Other Words", is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard. Kaye Ballard made the first recording of the song the year it was written. Frank Sinatra's 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the Moon. [Wikipedia]

Artemis I will be an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration, and demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond.  It will travel 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon over the course of about a three-week mission. Orion will stay in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.

Learn more about Artemis I at:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

Read the Artemis Plan (74-page PDF Free Download): 

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/artemis_plan-20200921.pdf

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS)

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

NASA's Orion Spacecraft

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/about/index.html

Image Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

Image Date: June 14, 2022

#NASA #ESA #Space #Moon #Artemis #ArtemisI #SLS #Boeing #Rocket #DeepSpace #LockheedMartin #Orion #Spacecraft #Astronauts #Mars #JourneyToMars #Science #Engineering #Technology #Exploration #SolarSystem #LaunchComplex39B #KSC #Kennedy #Florida #UnitedStates #Europe #STEM #Education

Expedition 67 Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti Answers European Student Questions

Expedition 67 Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti Answers European Student Questions

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 67 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA) discussed living and working in space during an in-flight interview as part of a multi-site educational event June 14, 2022. Cristoforetti launched in April 2022 on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom for a long-duration science mission to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions. 

Samantha Cristoforetti's Biography (ESA)

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Samantha_Cristoforetti

Expedition 67 Crew

Commander Oleg Artemyev (Russia)

Roscosmos Flight Engineers: Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov (Russia)

NASA Flight Engineers: Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins (USA)

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer: Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy)

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 Video

Duration: 21 minutes

Release Date: June 14, 2022

#NASA #Space #ISS #Earth #Planet #Students #Belgium #Belgique #België #Indonesia #ESA #Astronaut #SamanthaCristoforetti #FlightEngineer #Minerva #Italy #Italia #ASI #Science #HumanSpaceflight #Expedition67 #Europe #UnitedStates #International #STEM #Education #HD #Video

The Waxing Gibbous Moon Above Earth's Horizon | International Space Station

The Waxing Gibbous Moon Above Earth's Horizon | International Space Station

The waxing gibbous Moon is photographed above Earth's horizon from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above Turkey.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: June 12, 2022

#NASA #Astronomy #Space #ISS #Earth #Planet #Türkiye #Turkey #Moon #WaxingGibbous #Artemis #Astronauts #Photography #FlightEngineers #Science #HumanSpaceflight #Expedition67 #UnitedStates #SolarSystem #Exploration #STEM #Education

NASA Astronaut Bob Hines Image Gallery | International Space Station

NASA Astronaut Bob Hines Image Gallery | International Space Station

Bob Hines is a NASA astronaut and flight engineer part of Expedition 67 on the International Space Station (ISS). Bob has served over 21 years in the United States Air Force (USAF) as an instructor pilot, fighter pilot, and a test pilot. Before his selection as an astronaut candidate in 2017, he was serving as a Research Pilot at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.  Bob has accumulated more than 3,500 hours of flight time in 50 different types of aircraft and has flown 76 combat missions in 3 different aircraft types while supporting contingency operations around the world. Bob Hines was the pilot for NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the ISS that launched on April 27, 2022.

Robert Hines' Biography (NASA)

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/bob-hines

Expedition 67 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Bob Hines works on U.S. spacesuits inside the International Space Station's Quest airlock.

Image Date: May 17, 2022

NASA astronaut and Expedition 67 Flight Engineer Bob Hines conducts a robotics test using the U.S. Destiny laboratory module's robotics workstation aboard the International Space Station. The test is part of the Behavioral Core Measures investigation that explores how working on the surface of Mars might affect a crew member’s performance.

Image Date: May 31, 2022

NASA astronaut and Expedition 67 Flight Engineer Bob Hines enjoys a personal size pizza during dinner time aboard the International Space Station.

Image Date: May 27, 2022

NASA astronaut and Expedition 67 Flight Engineer Bob Hines familiarizes himself with systems and procedures aboard the International Space Station having been aboard the orbiting lab for just a few days.

Image Date: May 1, 2022

Expedition 67 Crew

Commander Oleg Artemyev (Russia)

Roscosmos Flight Engineers: Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov (Russia)

NASA Flight Engineers: Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins (USA)

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer: Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy)

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)

Image Dates: May 1-31, 2022

#NASA #Space #ISS #Earth #Planet #Astronaut #RobertHines #BobHines #FlightEngineer #Pilot #USAF #Military #Science #HumanSpaceflight #Astronauts #Expedition67 #UnitedStates #International #STEM #Education

Jupiter with Moons Europa & Io | NASA Juno Probe

Jupiter with Moons Europa & Io | NASA Juno Mission

An image of Jupiter and two of its moons, Europa and Io (see upper left-hand corner), captured by NASA's Juno probe on May 23, 2022. 

Juno Mission

Launched: Aug. 5, 2011

Arrival at Jupiter:  July 4, 2016

Goal: Understand origin and evolution of Jupiter, look for solid planetary core, map magnetic field, measure water and ammonia in deep atmosphere, observe auroras.

Juno is the second spacecraft to orbit Jupiter, after the nuclear powered Galileo orbiter, which orbited between 1995 and 2003. Unlike earlier spacecraft sent to the outer planets, Juno is powered by solar panels. Radioisotope thermoelectric generators are commonly used for missions to the outer Solar System and beyond. For Juno, the three largest solar panel wings ever deployed on a planetary probe play an integral role in stabilizing the spacecraft as well as in generating power. [Wikipedia]

More information about Juno:

https://www.nasa.gov/juno 

https://missionjuno.swri.edu 

For more about Juno's science results: 

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/science-findings

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

Processing: Elisabetta Bonora & Marco Faccin

Release Date: June 14, 2022

#NASA #Astronomy #Space #Science #Jupiter #Planet #Io #Europa #Moons #Juno #Spacecraft #Exploration #SolarSystem #Technology #Engineering #UnitedStates #LockheedMartin #JPL #MSFC #Marshall #SwRI #CitizenScience #STEM #Education

NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Finds "Hardware" | JPL

NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Finds "Hardware" | JPL

This picture was taken by the Mastcam-Z left camera aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on sol 467 (June 13, 2022) at 10:05 am Martian local time. We are to assume this is debris from the rover's landing. Perseverance has traveled a total distance of over 7.31 miles or 11.76 km since its landing in February 2021.

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.

Launch: July 30, 2020

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

Perseverance Rover Update:

Perseverance has continued into Hawksbill Gap, making remote sensing observations of small portions of outcropping rock layers in search of a good place to collect a sample. Since Perseverance is in the Shenandoah quadrangle, we are using target names from Shenandoah National Park. Some of the names this past week included “Bald_Face_Mountain,” “Little_Devil_Stairs,” “Sunset_Hill,” “Luck_Hollow,” and “Moody_Creek.” Perseverance logged nearly 400 meters of driving progress for the week of May 15-21, accumulating a total distance since landing of over 11.8 km as of Sol 446.

Caption Credit: Eleni Ravanis, Student Collaborator at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Release Date: June 2, 2022

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit mars.nasa.gov

Image Credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Caltech / Arizona State University (ASU) / Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) / Thomas Appéré

Release Date: June 14, 2022

#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #Mars #RedPlanet #Planet #Rock #Hardware #Curiosities #Astrobiology #Geology #Jezero #Crater #Perseverance #Rover #Robotics #Technology #Engineering #JPL #Pasadena #California #UnitedStates #JourneyToMars #CitizenScience #STEM #Education

NASA Mars Perseverance Rover: Another View of a Rock's Balancing Act | JPL

NASA Mars Perseverance Rover: Another View of a Rock's Balancing Act | JPL

This picture was taken by NASA's Mars Perseverance rover with its Mastcam-Z Right camera on sol 466 (June 12th, 2022) at 12:20 Martian local time.

Perseverance Rover Update:

Perseverance has continued into Hawksbill Gap, making remote sensing observations of small portions of outcropping rock layers in search of a good place to collect a sample. Since Perseverance is in the Shenandoah quadrangle, we are using target names from Shenandoah National Park. Some of the names this past week included “Bald_Face_Mountain,” “Little_Devil_Stairs,” “Sunset_Hill,” “Luck_Hollow,” and “Moody_Creek.” Perseverance logged nearly 400 meters of driving progress for the week of May 15-21, accumulating a total distance since landing of over 11.8 km as of Sol 446.

Caption Credit: Eleni Ravanis, Student Collaborator at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Release Date: June 2, 2022

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.

Launch: July 30, 2020    

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit mars.nasa.gov

Image Credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Caltech / Arizona State University (ASU) / Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) / Thomas Appéré

Release Date: June 13, 2022

#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #Mars #RedPlanet #Planet #Rock #Rocks #Curiosities #Astrobiology #Geology #Jezero #Crater #Perseverance #Rover #Robotics #Technology #Engineering #JPL #Pasadena #California #UnitedStates #JourneyToMars #CitizenScience #STEM #Education

The Hawaiian Islands | International Space Station

 The Hawaiian Islands | International Space Station

The volcanic islands of Hawaii as seen from the International Space Station and captured by European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.

The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll. [Wikipedia]

Expedition 67 Crew

Commander Oleg Artemyev (Russia)

Roscosmos Flight Engineers: Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov (Russia)

NASA Flight Engineers: Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins (USA)

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer: Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy)

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: European Space Agency Astronaut Samantha Crisotoforetti

Image Date: June 4, 2022

#NASA #Space #ISS #Earth #Planet #Hawaii #Hawaiian #Islands #Archipelago #Volcanic #PacificOcean #ESA #Astronaut #SamanthaCristoforetti #Minerva #Italy #Italia #ASI #Photography #Art #Science #HumanSpaceflight #Astronauts #Expedition67 #Europe #UnitedStates #International #STEM #Education

NASA Artemis Crew Transportation Vehicle (CTV) Demo | Kennedy Space Center

NASA Artemis Crew Transportation Vehicle (CTV) Demo | Kennedy Space Center

This is an example of the type of vehicle NASA's Artemis astronauts will use on the drive to the launchpad for crewed missions to the Moon starting with Artemis II & Artemis III at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Canoo Technologies Inc., was awarded a contract to design and provide the next generation of Crew transportation vehicles (CTVs) for the Artemis crewed missions.

Representatives with Canoo were at the spaceport demonstrating the environmentally friendly fleet of vehicles. Artemis II will be the first Artemis mission flying crew aboard the Orion spacecraft. NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon on Artemis II, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.

Canoo's website: https://www.canoo.com

Learn more about NASA's Artemis Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

Read the Artemis Plan (74-page PDF Free Download): 

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/artemis_plan-20200921.pdf

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS)

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

NASA's Orion Spacecraft

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/about/index.html

Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center/Kim Shiflett

Capture Date: May 11, 2022

#NASA #ESA #Space #Moon #Artemis #ArtemisII #ArtemisIII #SLS #Rocket #DeepSpace #Orion #Spacecraft #Astronauts #Mars #JourneyToMars #MoonToMars #Science #Engineering #Technology #SolarSystem #Exploration #KSC #CTV #Canoo #CrewVehicle #Florida #Spaceport #UnitedStates #Europe #STEM #Education

How Will China's Xuntian Survey Space Telescope Differ from Hubble?

How Will China's Xuntian Survey Space Telescope Differ from Hubble?

Welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour! In this episode, we provide an overview of the Xuntian Space Telescope (launching in 2023), and compare it to the Hubble Space Telescope operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. As always, lots of fun facts & cool physics! 

Xuntian, also known as the Chinese Survey Space Telescope or Chinese Space Station Telescope, is a planned Chinese space telescope currently under development. It will feature a 2-meter (6.6 foot) diameter primary mirror and is expected to have a field of view 300–350 times larger than the 32 year old Hubble Space Telescope. This will allow the telescope to image up to 40 percent of the sky using its 2.5 gigapixel camera over ten years.

Xuntian is planned for launch in 2024 on China's Long March 5B rocket. It will to co-orbit with China's new Tiangong Space Station in slightly different orbital phases, allowing for periodic docking with the station.

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Credits for various visuals: CCTV, CGTN, NASA, CAST, Celestrak, CNSA

Video Credit: Dongfang Hour

Duration: 13 minutes

Release Date: June 5, 2022

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