Friday, July 15, 2022

NASA Astronaut Portrait: Kayla Barron Suits Up | Johnson Space Center

NASA Astronaut Portrait: Kayla Barron Suits Up | Johnson Space Center


Expedition 66 crew member Kayla Barron suits up during a dry altitude run in the Space Station Airlock Test Article (SSATA) vacuum chamber at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, for pre-flight training. Barron took part in her first spaceflight, SpaceX Crew-3, as part of the crew of Expedition 66/67, which launched to the International Space Station on November 10, 2021. Kayla returned to Earth on May 6, 2022 after 177 days in space.


NASA Astronaut Kayla Barron Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/kayla-barron/biography


Discover more about spacesuit vacuum chamber tests and astronaut training: 


Image Credit: James Blair

Image Date: April 27, 2021


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JPL and The Space Age: Saving the Galileo Spacecraft | NASA

JPL and the Space Age: Saving the Galileo Spacecraft | NASA


If any spacecraft could be said to have had nine lives, it was Galileo. At the time of its launch, this mission to Jupiter was the most sophisticated science spacecraft ever built. However, the expectation of great science rewards was almost ruined when the spacecraft’s main antenna refused to unfurl. 

“Saving Galileo” is the story of how NASA’s Galileo mission—designed, built, and operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory—was kept alive despite a multitude of technical challenges. It is also the story of a tight-knit team of scientists and engineers who were forged by adversity into what many came to call a family.

“Saving Galileo” tells how, despite many challenges and limitations, Galileo proved a resounding success.


Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Duration: 60 minutes

Release Date: July 14, 2022


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NASA's Space to Ground: Something Incredible | Week of July 15, 2022

NASA's Space to Ground: Something Incredible Week of July 15, 2022

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. 

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

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) Education


Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 2 minutes, 28 seconds

Release Date: July 15, 2022


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Thursday, July 14, 2022

SpaceX’s CRS-25 Resupply Mission Launch | NASA's Kennedy Space Center

SpaceX’s CRS-25 Resupply Mission Launch | NASA's Kennedy Space Center


Derrol Nail of NASA Communications counts down to liftoff of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. 5,800 pounds of science, and the agency’s next investigation to monitor climate change, EMIT, launched aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft on the evening of July 14, 2022, at 8:44pm ET from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Dragon is slated to arrive at the International Space Station on Saturday, July 16.


Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

Duration: 1 minute, 14 seconds

Release Date: July 14, 2022


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NASA’s The Quiet Crew | Meet Acoustician Alexandra Loubeau

NASA’s The Quiet Crew | Meet Acoustician Alexandra Loubeau

In this episode of The Quiet Crew, you’ll meet Acoustician Alexandra Loubeau, Ph.D. and learn about her role in the Quesst mission helping to lead community testing of the X-59. Since Alexandra is a concert violinist, the first time she hears the X-59 fly it will be music to her ears! She is part of the crew on a mission to transform aviation as NASA and communities work together to verify that the X-59’s quiet, supersonic design can turn a sonic boom into a sonic thump. This new technology, along with a potential change in regulations, will allow airliners to fly faster over land, cutting passenger travel time in half without disturbing people on the ground.

For more information about NASA's quiet supersonic mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/Quesst


Credit: NASA Video

Duration: 2 minutes, 23 seconds

Release Date: July 14, 2022


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Infrared Image of Jupiter & Europa Moon | James Webb Space Telescope

Infrared Image of Jupiter & Europa Moon | James Webb Space Telescope

Image Description: Jupiter, center, and its moon Europa, left, are seen through the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument 2.12 micron filter. 

On the heels of Tuesday’s release of the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, data from the telescope’s commissioning period is now available on the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes. The data includes images of Jupiter and images and spectra of several asteroids, captured to test the telescope’s instruments before science operations officially began July 12. The data demonstrates Webb’s to track solar system targets and produce images and spectra with unprecedented detail.

Fans of Jupiter will recognize some familiar features of our solar system’s enormous planet in these images seen through Webb’s infrared gaze. A view from the NIRCam instrument’s short-wavelength filter shows distinct bands that encircle the planet as well as the Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow the Earth. The iconic spot appears white in this image because of the way Webb’s infrared image was processed.

“Combined with the deep field images released the other day, these images of Jupiter demonstrate the full grasp of what Webb can observe, from the faintest, most distant observable galaxies to planets in our own cosmic backyard that you can see with the naked eye from your actual backyard,” said Bryan Holler, a scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, who helped plan these observations.

Clearly visible at left is Europa, a moon with a probable ocean below its thick icy crust, and the target of NASA’s forthcoming Europa Clipper mission. What’s more, Europa’s shadow can be seen to the left of the Great Red Spot. Other visible moons in these images include Thebe and Metis.

“I couldn’t believe that we saw everything so clearly, and how bright they were,” said Stefanie Milam, Webb’s deputy project scientist for planetary science based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “It’s really exciting to think of the capability and opportunity that we have for observing these kinds of objects in our solar system.”

Scientists were especially eager to see these images because they are proof that Webb can observe the satellites and rings near bright solar system objects such as Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars. Scientists will use Webb to explore the tantalizing question of whether we can see plumes of material spewing out of moons like Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Webb may be able to see the signatures of plumes depositing material on the surface on Europa. “I think that’s just one of the coolest things that we’ll be able to do with this telescope in the solar system,” Milam said.


Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and B. Holler and J. Stansberry (STScI)

Release Date: July 14, 2022


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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope First Images Expert Panel

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope First Images Expert Panel

Welcome to this special expert panel featuring James Webb Space Telescope scientists as they explain and breakdown the first five images from the James Webb Space Telescope. Featured speakers:

- Dr. David Law - Observational Astronomer, Webb Space Telescope

- Dr. Stefanie Milam - Deputy Project Scientist for Planetary Science, Webb Space Telescope

- Dr. Knicole Colon - Deputy Project Scientist for Exoplanet Science, Webb Space Telescope

- Dr. Klaus Pontoppidan - Project Scientist, Webb Space Telescope

Moderated by Dr. Quyen Hart.


Credit: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Duration: 1 hour

Release Date: July 14, 2022


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Cosmic Cliffs in Carina – NIRCam & MIRI | James Webb Space Telescope

Cosmic Cliffs in Carina – NIRCam & MIRI | James Webb Space Telescope

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope combined the capabilities of the telescope’s two cameras to create a never-before-seen view of a star-forming region in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), this combined image reveals previously invisible areas of star birth.

What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region known as NGC 3324. Called the Cosmic Cliffs, this rim of a gigantic, gaseous cavity is roughly 7,600 light-years away. 

The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image. The high-energy radiation from these stars is sculpting the nebula’s wall by slowly eroding it away.

NIRCam–with its crisp resolution and unparalleled sensitivity–unveils hundreds of previously hidden stars, and even numerous background galaxies. In MIRI’s view, young stars and their dusty, planet-forming disks shine brightly in the mid-infrared, appearing pink and red. MIRI reveals structures that are embedded in the dust and uncovers the stellar sources of massive jets and outflows. With MIRI, the organic, soot-like material on the surface of the ridges glows, giving the appearance of jagged rocks.

Several prominent features in this image are described below.

·      The faint “steam” that appears to rise from the celestial “mountains” is actually hot, ionized gas and hot dust streaming away from the nebula due to intense, ultraviolet radiation.

·      Peaks and pillars rise above the glowing wall of gas, resisting the blistering ultraviolet radiation from the young stars.

·      Bubbles and cavities are being blown by the intense radiation and stellar winds of newborn stars.

·      Protostellar jets and outflows, which appear in gold, shoot from dust-enshrouded, nascent stars. MIRI uncovers the young, stellar sources producing these features. For example, a feature at left that looks like a comet with NIRCam is revealed with MIRI to be one cone of an outflow from a dust-enshrouded, newborn star.

·      A “blow-out” erupts at the top-center of the ridge, spewing material into the interstellar medium. MIRI sees through the dust to unveil the star responsible for this phenomenon.

·      An unusual “arch,” looking like a bent-over cylinder, appears in all wavelengths shown here.

This period of very early star formation is difficult to capture because, for an individual star, it lasts only about 50,000 to 100,000 years–but Webb’s extreme sensitivity and exquisite spatial resolution have chronicled this rare event.

NGC 3324 was first catalogued by James Dunlop in 1826. Visible from the Southern Hemisphere, it is located at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), which resides in the constellation Carina. The Carina Nebula is home to the Keyhole Nebula and the active, unstable supergiant star called Eta Carinae.

NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center.

MIRI was contributed by ESA and NASA, with the instrument designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (The MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with JPL and the University of Arizona.

 

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Release Date: July 12, 2022


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Sun Glint on the Caspian Sea | International Space Station

Sun Glint on the Caspian Sea | International Space Station


The sun's glint beams off the Caspian Sea in this photograph from the International Space Station as it was orbiting on a southwest to northeast trek 262 miles above Turkey near the Black Sea coast. 

The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau of Western Asia.

An endorheic basin is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but drainage converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation.


Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: June 24, 2022


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Samantha Talks with Children via HAM Radio | International Space Station

Samantha Talks with Children via HAM Radio | International Space Station

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on the International Space Station's HAM radio preparing for an ARISS call with children from Il Cielo Itinerante.

Samantha Cristoforetti's Biography (ESA)

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

Learn about Samantha's Minerva Mission: https://bit.ly/MissionMinerva

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: ESA/NASA

Image Date: July 13, 2022


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Europe’s Contributions to The James Webb Space Telescope

Europe’s Contributions to The James Webb Space Telescope

Watch this special Space Sparks episode to learn about European contributions to the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.

Credit:

Directed by: Bethany Downer and Nico Bartmann  

Editing: Nico Bartmann  

Web and technical support: Enciso Systems  

Written by: Bethany Downer  

Narration: Sara Mendes de Costa   

Music: Music written and performed by STAN DART, Dmitry Lee'o/New Horizons  

Footage and photos: ESA/Hubble, ESA, NASA, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab, ESA/ATG Media Lab, ESA/Arianespace

Duration: 8 minutes

Release Date: July 11, 2022


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Zoom Into the Southern Ring Nebula | James Webb Space Telescope

Zoom Into the Southern Ring Nebula | James Webb Space Telescope

This video zooms through space to reveal Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) image of the Southern Ring Nebula.

The bright star at the center of NGC 3132, while prominent when viewed by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Telescope in near-infrared light, plays a supporting role in sculpting the surrounding nebula. A second star, barely visible at lower left along one of the bright star’s diffraction spikes, is the nebula’s source. It has ejected at least eight layers of gas and dust over thousands of years.

Data from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) were used to make this extremely detailed image. It is teeming with scientific information—and research will begin following its release.

(NIRCam Image)

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and the Webb ERO Production Team  

Music: tonelabs - Happy Hubble (tonelabs.com)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: July 14, 2022


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China's Tianwen-1 Mars Rover & Orbiter Mission Completed | CGTN

China's Tianwen-1 Mars Rover & Orbiter Mission Completed | CGTN

The orbiter and rover of China's Tianwen-1 Mars probe have accomplished their planned scientific exploration tasks, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on June 29, 2022. The Tianwen-1 spacecraft orbited Mars 1,344 times in the last 706 days, and transmitted back to Earth about 1,040 gigabytes of medium-resolution visual data of the entire Martian surface. China was the first country to successfully send an orbiter, lander and rover to Mars on its first attempt. China is only the second country after the United States to successfully land and operate a spacecraft on Mars. 


Tianwen-1 was an interplanetary mission of the China National Space Administration (CNSA). China sent a robotic spacecraft to Mars, consisting of 6 spacecraft: an orbiter, two deployable cameras, lander, a remote camera, and the Zhurong rover. The spacecraft, with a total mass of nearly five tons, was one of the heaviest probes launched to Mars and carried 14 scientific instruments. It was the first in a series of planned missions undertaken by CNSA as part of China's Planetary Exploration program.


The mission's scientific objectives included: investigation of Martian surface geology and internal structure, search for indications of current and past presence of water, and characterization of the space environment and of the Martian atmosphere.


Tianwen-1 Mars Mission

Launch Date: July 23, 2020

Orbital Arrival: February 10, 2021 

Zhurong Rover Landing Date: May 14, 2021

Completion Date: June 29, 2022


Credit: China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: June 29, 2022


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Vega-C Rocket Liftoff | European Space Agency

Vega-C Rocket Liftoff | European Space Agency








The European Space Agency’s new Vega-C rocket lifted off for its inaugural flight VV21 at 15:13 CEST/13:13 UTC/10:13 local time from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on July 13, 2022. With new first and second stages and an uprated fourth stage, Vega-C increases performance to about 2.3 t in a reference 700 km polar orbit, from the 1.5 t capability of its predecessor, Vega. For flight VV21, Vega-C’s payload is LARES-2, a scientific mission of the Italian space agency ASI and six research CubeSats from France, Italy and Slovenia.


Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja

Image Date: July 13, 2022


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Expedition 67 Flight Engineers Pose for Dinner Portrait | International Space Station

Expedition 67 Flight Engineers Pose for Dinner Portrait | International Space Station

(Clockwise from left) Expedition 67 Flight Engineers Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins, and Kjell Lindgren, all from NASA, and Samantha Cristofroetti from ESA (European Space Agency), pose for a portrait during dinner time in the Unity module of the International Space Station.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

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)

Image Date: July 11, 2022


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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

New Vega-C Rocket Launch Highlights | European Space Agency

New Vega-C Rocket Launch Highlights | European Space Agency


The European Space Agency’s new Vega-C rocket lifted off for its inaugural flight VV21 at 15:13 CEST/13:13 UTC/10:13 local time from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. With new first and second stages and an uprated fourth stage, Vega-C increases performance to about 2.3 t in a reference 700 km polar orbit, from the 1.5 t capability of its predecessor, Vega. For flight VV21, Vega-C’s payload is LARES-2, a scientific mission of Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) and six research CubeSats from France, Italy and Slovenia.


Learn more about Vega-C: https://bit.ly/3aC8pIl


Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)

Duration: 2 minutes, 50 seconds

Release Date: July 13, 2022


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