Mars: Layering in Danielson Crater | NASA MRO

Mars: Layering in Danielson Crater | NASA MRO

This image shows a classic example of Martian sedimentary rock in Danielson Crater. The many layers of rock are regularly spaced, forming steps; this implies a series of strong cap layers alternating with weaker layers.

At small scale, much of the rock is heavily fractured. Because the fractured pieces neatly fit together, this occurred after the deposit turned to rock.

It is not known with certainty how these rocks formed, but the regularity of the layers suggests a process that repeated many times, perhaps on annual or longer timescales. This suggests that the layers did not accumulate in a series of random events, as layers of crater ejecta might.

Danielson Crater is an impact crater in the Oxia Palus quadrangle on Mars at 7.93° N and 7.11° W. and is 66.7 km in diameter, and is north of the Meridiani Planum, south of Arabia Terra and west of the planet's meridia. Its name was approved in 2009. The crater was named after American engineer G. Edward Danielson. [Wikipedia]

Enhanced color image is less than 1 km (under a mile) top to bottom and is 276 km (171 mi) above the surface. North is to the right.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is the second longest-lived spacecraft to orbit Mars, after 2001 Mars Odyssey. It has been studying the Red Planet since March 2006. The spacecraft collects and relays daily science and weather data. It also scouts for landing locations for Mars landers and serves as a critical relay station for science beamed back from the Red Planet.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on MRO, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado.

Credit: NASA/JPL/UArizona

Release Date: March 9, 2022

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The Horsehead Nebula

The Horsehead Nebula

This exceptional image of the Horsehead Nebula was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) Mosaic CCD camera. Located in the constellation of Orion, the Hunter, the Horsehead is part of a dense cloud of gas in front of an active star-forming nebula known as IC434. The nebulosity of the Horsehead is believed to be excited by the bright star Sigma Orionis, which is located above the top of the image. Just off the left side of the image is the bright star Zeta Orionis, which is the easternmost of the three stars that form Orion's belt. Zeta Orionis is a foreground star, and is not related to the nebula.

The streaks in the nebulosity that extend above the Horsehead are likely due to magnetic fields within the nebula. Close study reveals that many more stars are visible in the top half of the image. Stars in the lower half of the image are obscured by a dark cloud of hydrogen gas. The edge of this large cloud is the horizontal strip of glowing gas that bisects the image. The Horsehead is located about 1,600 light-years away from Earth.

The area shown in this image is quite large on the sky, covering about five times the area of the full Moon. This false-color image was created by combining emission-line images taken in hydrogen-alpha (red), oxygen [OIII] (green) and sulfur [SII] (blue).

Credit: T.A.Rector - National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) / National Science Foundation (NSF) / Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Hubble Heritage Team - Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) / AURA / NASA

Release Date: November 23, 2015

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U.S. Marine Astronauts Maj. Jasmin “Jaws” Moghbeli & Col. Nicole “Duke” Mann

U.S. Marine Astronauts Maj. Jasmin “Jaws” Moghbeli & Col. Nicole “Duke” Mann

Award-nominated portrait of United States Marine Corps NASA astronauts Major Jasmin “Jaws” Moghbeli (left) and Lieutenant Colonel Nicole “Duke” Mann (right). Both are part of NASA's Artemis team dedicated to Moon exploration. They are laughing together during a photoshoot for a "Leatherneck: Magazine of the Marines" cover story. Moghbeli is a naval aviator and aerospace engineer. Mann is a naval aviator and a mechanical engineer. Moghbeli and Mann are U.S. combat veterans.

Download Free Adobe PDF copy of Leatherneck: Magazine of the Marines - October 2021 Issue with a feature article on Moghbeli & Mann: https://mca-marines.org/wp-content/uploads/LNK-October-2021.pdf (see front cover and article on pages 37-43)

Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli Official NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jasmin-moghbeli

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jasmin-moghbeli/biography

Astronaut Nicole Mann Official NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/nicole-a-mann

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/nicole-a-mann/biography

Image Credit: Friends of NASA Member Norah Moran of NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: June 22, 2021

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NASA's Space to Ground: Cargo Countdown | Week of July 8, 2022

NASA's Space to Ground: Cargo Countdown | Week of July 8, 2022

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than Thursday, July 14, 2022, for launch of the CRS-25 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. Two veteran station crew members, European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti and Roscosmos Commander Oleg Artemyev, continued their preparations for an upcoming spacewalk. The duo from Italy and Russia will exit the station Poisk airlock at 10 a.m. on July 21, 2022, and spend approximately seven hours continuing to outfit the European robotic arm attached to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.

Learn more about the important research being operated on ISS:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on ISS:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) Education

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)

Duration: 2 minutes, 30 seconds

Release Date: July 8, 2022

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China's Chang'e 4 Moon Probe Continues Third Year of Work at Lunar South Pole

China's Chang'e 4 Moon Probe Continues Third Year of Work at Lunar South Pole

The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe were again switched to dormant mode on July 6, 2022, for the lunar night after working stably for a 44th lunar day. The lander was switched to dormant mode at 06:00 on July 6 (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2, at 19:14 on July 5. The lunar rover has traveled 1,239.88 meters on the far side of the moon. The Chang'e-4 probe, launched on December 8, 2018, made the first-ever soft landing on the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon on Jan 3, 2019. The Chang'e-4 lander and the rover Yutu-2 have been working for more than three years on the far side of the moon, collecting over 3,800 Gigabyte of scientific data.

The previous Chang'e 3 Mission, the first Chinese landing on the Moon in 2013, was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976.

Credit: China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: July 7, 2022

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Asteroid Bennu’s Surprising Surface Revealed | NASA OSIRIS-REx

Asteroid Bennu’s Surprising Surface Revealed | NASA OSIRIS-REx

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu is a rubble pile of rocks and boulders left over from the formation of the solar system. On October 20, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly touched down on Bennu and collected a sample for return to Earth. During this “TAG event,” the spacecraft’s arm sank far deeper into the asteroid than expected, confirming that Bennu’s surface is incredibly weak. Now, scientists have used data from OSIRIS-REx to revisit the TAG event and better understand how Bennu’s loose upper layers are held together.

OSIRIS-REx Mission: 

http://www.asteroidmission.org

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

Duration: 5 minutes, 37 seconds

Release Date: July 7, 2022

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Trash Disposal | International Space Station

Trash Disposal | International Space Station

A trash container is pictured on a trajectory away from the station.

The Nanoracks Bishop Airlock is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm as it is positioned away from the International Space Station.

The Nanoracks Bishop Airlock is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm as it is positioned away from the International Space Station. The commercial platform was being maneuvered prior to jettisoning a trash container for a fiery, but safe disposal above Earth's atmopshere. At right, the Canadarm2 is attached to the U.S. Destiny laboratory module as ground controllers remotely maneuver the robotic arm.

Bishop is a multi-faceted airlock attached to the Tranquility module used not only to discard trash, but also to host research payloads, deploy satellites, and serve as a testbed for a variety of space technologies. 

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Dates: July 2-3, 2022

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Expedition 67 Flight Engineers Pose for Fun | International Space Station

Expedition 67 Flight Engineers Pose for Fun | International Space Station

Expedition 67 Flight Engineers (clockwise from bottom) Jessica Watkins, Kjell Lindgren, and Bob Hines, all from NASA, and Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency), pose for a fun portrait inside their individual crew quarters aboard the International Space Station.

Learn more about the important research being operated on ISS:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on ISS:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) Education

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.

Image Date: July 2, 2022

Release Date: July 7, 2022

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China's Shenzhou-14 Crew Clean Tiangong—China's Space Station

China's Shenzhou-14 Crew Clean Tiangong—China's Space Station 

The Shenzhou-14 crew can be seen cleaning their new home in space: Tiangong—China's Space Station—before completing required exercise. Crew members Chen Dong, Liu Yang, and Cai Xuzhe have continued to adapt to microgravity since their arrival on June 5, 2022. They are on a six-month long duration mission to complete construction of China's new space station. Liu became the first Chinese woman in space during the Shenzhou-9 Mission in 2012. Shenzhou-14 represents the second space mission for Chen Dong and Liu Yang. Cai Xuzhe is on his first.

The lab module Wentian is scheduled to arrive in July 2022, the lab module Mengtian in October, and then the Tianzhou-5 cargo craft and the Shenzhou-15 crew mission spacecraft later this year. The Wentian and Mengtian lab modules will provide larger platforms for scientific experiments in microgravity. 

Nearly 100 experiments are planned during the construction phase of China's space station. After operations are normalized, larger-scale scientific research will be conducted. This is expected to effectively promote breakthroughs in major frontier scientific fields, such as dark matter and dark energy, galaxy formation and evolution, laws about the nature of matter, as well as in sustainable development on Earth.

Credit: CNSpace_dev

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: June 25, 2022

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James Webb Space Telescope Mission Trailer: First Images on July 12, 2022

James Webb Space Telescope Mission Trailer: First Images on July 12, 2022

Listen to Carl Sagan narrate the trailer for NASA's upcoming broadcast of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and data. Watch each of the images get revealed one by one on the broadcast, starting at 10:30 am ET (14:30 UTC) on July 12, 2022. Catch the show on NASA TV: 

NASA.gov/NASATV 

You can also check out: 

https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

Learn more about Webb’s mission: http://webb.nasa.gov

Learn more about the search for life: http://astrobiology.nasa.gov

Video Credit: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Produced by Lindeman & Associates

Voice of Carl Sagan courtesy of Druyan-Sagan Associates, Inc., used with permission

Imagery courtesy of NASA and ESA, with Druyan-Sagan Associates, Inc., used with permission

Music Credit / License: "Starfall" Really Slow Motion LLC

Duration: 1 minute, 18 seconds

Release Date: July 7, 2022

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The Pelican Nebula

The Pelican Nebula

This image was taken with the KPNO/WIYN 0.9m telescope on May 24, 2002. It shows the “ionization front” in the Pelican nebula, a giant nearby star-formation region. The Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) is located in the constellation of Cygnus, the Swan. Its pillars are being sculpted by the intense ultraviolet radiation from massive stars which have recently formed within the nebula. 

The image was produced Oxygen [OIII] (blue), Hydrogen-Alpha (green) and Sulphur [SII] (red) narrowband filters. 7x6min in H-alpha, 4x6min in [OIII], 5x6min in [SII]. The image is rotated 135 degrees CW from North is up, East to the left.

Credit: T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab)/National Science Foundation (NSF)/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)

Image Date: May 24, 2002

Release Date: June 30, 2020

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Portrait: NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim in High Altitude Pressure Suit

Portrait: NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim in High Altitude Pressure Suit

Award-winning photo of NASA astronaut Jonny Kim wearing a high-altitude pressure suit worn in NASA's WB-57 aircraft, which is capable of flying at altitudes over 60,000 feet. Kim is a U.S. Navy SEAL, naval officer, and a veteran of over 100 combat operations. He is the recipient of the Silver Star and Bronze Star.

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim's Official Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/jonny-kim-md-lcdr-us-navy-nasa-astronaut

Congratulations to photographer, Norah Moran—a first place winner of NASA's fourth annual "Photographer of the Year" awards for 2021.

Photographer: Norah Moran – Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: December 10, 2021

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New Shepard: Human Spaceflight History | Blue Origin

New Shepard: Human Spaceflight History | Blue Origin

"This month marks the one-year anniversary of our First Human Flight. Each mission gets us closer to our vision of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. Re-live some of the highlights."

Learn more: https://www.blueorigin.com/new-shepard/

Credit: Blue Origin

Duration: 2 minutes, 19 seconds

Release Date: July 6, 2022

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NASA Astronauts Answer Florida Student Questions | International Space Station

NASA Astronauts Answer Florida Student Questions | International Space Station

Aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA Expedition 67 Flight Engineers Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins of NASA answered pre-recorded questions about life and work on the orbital laboratory during an in-flight event July 6, 2022, with students at the Gifford Youth Achievement Center in Vero Beach, Florida. 

Hines and Watkins are in the midst of a science mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions as part of NASA’s Moon and Mars exploration approach, including lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program. 

Learn more about the important research being operated on ISS: https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

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)

Duration: 21 minutes

Release Date: July 6, 2022

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Earth Glow & Stars | International Space Station

Earth Glow & Stars | International Space Station

This time-lapse video was taken by the Expedition 61 crew on board the International Space Station (ISS). The sequence of shots were taken on December 30, 2019 from 22:40:00 to 23:10:15 GMT, on a night pass over Africa. The ISS passes over yellow-hued city lights while bright bursts of lightening fill the sky. The star of this time-lapse video is the star field above the Earth glow around the atmospheric limb.

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: 40 seconds

Release Date: February 14, 2020

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Stratovolcanoes of South America | International Space Station

Stratovolcanoes of South America | International Space Station

The Parinacota and Pomerape stratovolcanoes (top to bottom) are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 263 miles above the South American nation of Chile. Parinacota is a dormant volcano on the Chile-Bolivia border and its peak is about 20,800 feet. Pomerape, last active over 100,000 years ago, is also on the Chile- Bolivia border with an elevation of about 20,600 feet. At top left, is Chungará Lake in northern Chile which rests about 14,800 feet above sea level.

A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra. Unlike shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes are characterized by a steep profile with a summit crater and periodic intervals of explosive eruptions and effusive eruptions, although some have collapsed summit craters called calderas.

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: June 21, 2022

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