NASA's Dragonfly: Eyes in the Skies of Saturn's Moon Titan 🪐🌒

NASA's Dragonfly: Eyes in the Skies of Saturn's Moon Titan 🪐🌒

Dragonfly is a rotorcraft lander mission—part of NASA's New Frontiers Program—designed to take advantage of Titan's environment to sample materials and determine surface composition in different geologic settings.

The Dragonfly dual-quadcopter will explore a variety of locations on Saturn's moon Titan. The dense, calm atmosphere and low gravity make flying an ideal way to travel to different areas of the moon. Studies from the late-1990s onward identified aerial mobility, such as that provided by helicopters, balloons, and airplanes, as a key enabler for Titan exploration. At this stage of the mission, the team is refining Dragonfly's design to best meet its exploration objectives at Titan. This means an evolving look for the rotorcraft-lander that incorporates new camera and instrument placements, thermal designs and use of materials to save mass.  

In under an hour, Dragonfly will cover tens of miles farther than any planetary rover has traveled. With one hop per full Titan day (16 Earth days), the rotorcraft will travel from its initial landing site to cover areas several hundred kilometers away during the planned two-year mission. Despite its unique ability to fly, Dragonfly would spend most of its time on Titan's surface making science measurements.

Learn more about this revolutionary ocean world mission: https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/

On its final flyby of Saturn's largest moon in 2017, NASA's Cassini spacecraft gathered radar data revealing that the small liquid lakes in Titan's northern hemisphere are surprisingly deep, perched atop hills and filled with methane.

The findings, published April 15, 2019 in Nature Astronomy, were the first confirmation of just how deep some of Titan's lakes are (more than 300 feet, or 100 meters) and of their composition. They provide new information about the way liquid methane rains on, evaporates from and seeps into Titan—the only planetary body in our solar system other than Earth known to have stable liquid on its surface.

Credit: Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Applied Physics Laboratory

Duration: 39 seconds

Release Date: December 13, 2022

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Zoom into GNz7q in the Hubble GOODS-North Field

Zoom into GNz7q in the Hubble GOODS-North Field

An international team of astronomers using archival data from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope and other space- and ground-based observatories have discovered a unique object in the distant, early Universe that is a crucial link between young star-forming galaxies and the earliest supermassive black holes. This object is the first of its kind to be discovered so early in the Universe’s history, and had been lurking unnoticed in one of the best-studied areas of the night sky.

Current theories predict that supermassive black holes begin their lives in the dust-shrouded cores of vigorously star-forming “starburst” galaxies before expelling the surrounding gas and dust and emerging as extremely luminous quasars. Whilst they are extremely rare, examples of both dusty starburst galaxies and luminous quasars have been detected in the early Universe. The team believes that GNz7q could be the “missing link” between these two classes of objects.

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble, NASA, Digitized Sky Survey 2, G. Brammer, S. Fujimoto, G. Illingworth, P. Oesch, R. Bouwens, I. Labbé, N. Risinger, E. Slawikkkn, M. Zamani, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble)

Duration: 1 minute, 15 seconds

Release Date: April 13, 2022

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Pan of the Object GNz7q in the Hubble GOODS-North Field

Pan of the Object GNz7q in the Hubble GOODS-North Field

An international team of astronomers using archival data from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope and other space- and ground-based observatories have discovered a unique object in the distant, early Universe that is a crucial link between young star-forming galaxies and the earliest supermassive black holes. This object is the first of its kind to be discovered so early in the Universe’s history, and had been lurking unnoticed in one of the best-studied areas of the night sky. 

The object, which is referred to as GNz7q, was found in the Hubble GOODS-North field,

Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz; Yale University), R. Bouwens and I. Labbé (Leiden University), and the Science Team, S. Fujimoto et al. (Cosmic Dawn Center [DAWN] and University of Copenhagen), N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble)  

Duration: 20 seconds

Release Date: April 13, 2022

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Object GNz7q in the Hubble GOODS-North Field

Object GNz7q in the Hubble GOODS-North Field

An international team of astronomers using archival data from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope and other space- and ground-based observatories have discovered a unique object in the distant, early Universe that is a crucial link between young star-forming galaxies and the earliest supermassive black holes. This object is the first of its kind to be discovered so early in the Universe’s history, and had been lurking unnoticed in one of the best-studied areas of the night sky. 

The object, which is referred to as GNz7q, is shown here in the center of the cutout from the Hubble GOODS-North field.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz; Yale University), R. Bouwens and I. Labbé (Leiden University), and the Science Team, S. Fujimoto et al. (Cosmic Dawn Center [DAWN] and University of Copenhagen)

Release Date: April 13, 2022

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Replay: Artemis I Moon Mission Returns to Earth with Science | NASA

Replay: Artemis I Moon Mission Returns to Earth with Science | NASA

NASA’s Artemis I Moon mission flew on a historic journey around the Moon, testing technologies, performing science and deploying CubeSats along the way. The Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022, with science experiments on board. What questions do you have about the science on Artemis I? 

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 1 hour

Release Date: Dec. 12, 2022

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Planet Mars: Of Things Light and Dark | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Planet Mars: Of Things Light and Dark | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Here in Eos Chasma, hematite has been detected. Hematite is one of the most abundant minerals in the rocks and soils on the surface of Mars. Although our image from the red-green-blue enhanced color swath appears dark blue, an abundance of hematite in Martian rocks and surface materials gives the landscape a reddish brown color and is why the planet appears red in the night sky.

Eos Chasma is located in the southern part of the massive Valles Marineris canyon system.

This is a non-narrated clip with ambient sound. The image is less than 1 km (under a mile) across and the spacecraft altitude was 264 km (164 mi). 

This image was captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) using the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument. 

Malin Space Science Systems built the Mars Color Imager (MARCI), Context Camera (CTX) systems for MRO.

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, 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.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

Duration: 3 minutes, 32 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 12, 2022

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Orion Recovery Complete | NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission

Orion Recovery Complete | NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission

NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I Moon Mission was successfully recovered inside the well deck of the U.S. Navy's USS Portland on Dec. 11, 2022, off the coast of Baja California. After launching atop the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on Nov. 16, 2022, from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Orion spent 25.5 days in space before returning to Earth, completing the Artemis I mission. At its farthest distance during the mission, Orion traveled nearly 270,000 miles from our home planet, more than 1,000 times farther than where the International Space Station orbits Earth, to intentionally stress systems before flying crew.

The Artemis I mission was the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, the SLS rocket, and Kennedy Space Center's Exploration Ground Systems.

Artemis I provides the foundation for sending humans to the lunar surface, for developing a long-term presence on and around the Moon, and for paving the way for humanity to set foot on Mars.

Learn more about Artemis I: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-i

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Release Date: December 11, 2022

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NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Mission Launched to Detect Water Ice | JPL

NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Mission Launched to Detect Water Ice | JPL

This illustration shows NASA’s Lunar Flashlight, with its four solar arrays deployed, shortly after launch. The small satellite, or SmallSat, will take about three months to reach its science orbit to seek out surface water ice in the darkest craters of the Moon’s South Pole. 

NASA’s Lunar Flashlight SmallSat has communicated with mission controllers and confirmed it is healthy after launching Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022, at 2:38 a.m. EST (Saturday, Dec. 10, at 11:38 p.m. PST) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. About 53 minutes after launch, the small satellite, or SmallSat, was released from its dispenser to begin a four-month journey to the Moon to seek out surface water ice in permanently shadowed craters at the lunar South Pole.

To get close to the Moon’s surface, the SmallSat will employ what’s called a near-rectilinear halo orbit—designed for energy efficiency—that will take it within just 9 miles (15 kilometers) over the lunar South Pole and 43,000 miles (70,000 kilometers) away at its farthest point. Only one other spacecraft has employed this type of orbit: NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission.

Lunar Ice Science

Lunar Flashlight will use a reflectometer equipped with four lasers that emit near-infrared light in wavelengths readily absorbed by surface water ice. This is the first time that multiple colored lasers will be used to seek out ice inside these dark regions on the Moon, which haven’t seen sunlight in billions of years. Should the lasers hit bare rock or regolith (broken rock and dust), the light will reflect back to the spacecraft. However, if the target absorbs the light, that would indicate the presence of water ice. The greater the absorption, the more ice there may be.

The science data collected by the mission will be compared with observations made by other lunar missions to help reveal the distribution of surface water ice on the Moon for potential use by future astronauts.

Lunar Flashlight will use a new kind of “green” propellant that is safer to transport and store than the commonly used in-space propellants such as hydrazine. In fact, the SmallSat will be the first interplanetary spacecraft to use this propellant, and one of the mission’s primary goals is to demonstrate this technology for future use. The propellant was successfully tested on a previous NASA technology demonstration mission in Earth orbit.

More About the Mission

Lunar Flashlight launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as a rideshare with ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1. Lunar Flashlight is managed for NASA by JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California. Barbara Cohen, the mission’s principal investigator, is based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Lunar Flashlight will be operated by Georgia Tech, including graduate and undergraduate students. The Lunar Flashlight science team is distributed across multiple institutions, including Goddard, the University of California, Los Angeles, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and the University of Colorado.

Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech
Release Date: Dec. 11, 2022

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ispace HAKUTO-R M1 Lunar Lander & Rover Mission | SpaceX

ispace HAKUTO-R M1 Lunar Lander & Rover Mission | SpaceX

ispace Inc.'s HAKUTO-R mission 1 successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The M1 lander will deploy two robotic rovers, a two-wheeled, baseball-sized device from Japan's JAXA space agency and the four-wheeled Rashid explorer made by the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The M1 lunar lander, made by Japanese company ispace, may become the first commercial lander to reach the moon. In Japanese folklore, the name HAKUTO refers to "the white rabbit that lives on the moon." 

Image Credit: SpaceX

Image Capture Date: Dec. 11, 2022

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OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Departs Asteroid Bennu for Earth | NASA

OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Departs Asteroid Bennu for Earth | NASA

This animation shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft departing asteroid Bennu, returning to Earth, and dropping off a capsule of pristine material from the asteroid. On September 24, 2023, the sample return capsule will enter Earth’s atmosphere, cross the Western U.S., deploy its parachute, and touch down at the Air Force’s Utah Test and Training Range in the Great Salt Lake Desert. From there, the capsule will be flown to NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, where its samples of asteroid Bennu will be curated, distributed, and studied for decades to come.

OSIRIS-REx Mission: 

http://www.asteroidmission.org

Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab/SVS

Duration: 1 minute, 20 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 12, 2022

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Panning across a Cosmic Smokescreen: The Lagoon Nebula | Hubble

Panning across a Cosmic Smokescreen: The Lagoon Nebula | Hubble

A portion of the open cluster NGC 6530 appears as a roiling wall of smoke studded with stars in this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 6530 is a collection of several thousand stars lying around 4,350 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The cluster is set within the larger Lagoon Nebula, a gigantic interstellar cloud of gas and dust. It is the nebula that gives this image its distinctly smokey appearance; clouds of interstellar gas and dust stretch from one side of this image to the other.

Description: Clouds of gas cover the entire view, in a variety of bold colors. In the center the gas is brighter and very textured, resembling dense smoke. Around the edges it is more sparse and faint. Several small, bright blue stars are scattered over the nebula.

Astronomers investigated NGC 6530 using Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. They scoured the region in the hope of finding new examples of proplyds, a particular class of illuminated protoplanetary discs surrounding newborn stars. The vast majority of proplyds have been found in only one region, the nearby Orion Nebula. This makes understanding their origin and lifetimes in other astronomical environments challenging.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, European Southern Observatory (ESO), O. De Marco  

Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç  

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date:  Dec. 12, 2022

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Coloring the Night over Chile | NOIRLab

Coloring the Night over Chile | NOIRLab

Looking past Earth’s brightly lit atmosphere, incredibly brilliant and colorful celestial objects exist in the vast expanse of space. The Milky Way is the most conspicuous of these nighttime objects, captured here near Cerro Pachón in Chile, home to several facilities operated by NSF's NOIRLab, including half of the International Gemini Observatory, the SOAR Telescope and Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The Milky Way’s luminous disk is partially obscured by the interstellar clouds of dust known as the Great Rift. Some of the rift’s dark nebulae fragments appear to stretch into the nearby neighborhood of nebulae. The small grouping of colors is known as the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, a dynamic bunch made of reflection nebulae, scattering bright blue and yellow hues from nearby stars, and emission nebulae, diffusing the reddish glow of hot hydrogen gas. Hidden among this interstellar complex are the stars Rho Ophiuchi itself and the ‘heart’ of Scorpius, Antares. ‘Above’ this vibrant group is a much larger deep red emission nebula known as Sh2-27, surrounding the star Zeta Ophiuchi.

The diffuse light to the right of the center is the gegenschein, which is caused by sunlight that is scattered back from dust particles in the outer Solar System. The dust that produces the zodiacal light and Gegenschein comes from a variety of sources, including comet tails and asteroid collisions.

This 170-megapixel photo was taken as part of the recent NOIRLab 2022 Photo Expedition to all the NOIRLab sites. 

Credit:

NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/ P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)

Release Date: Dec. 7, 2022

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NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission Highlights

NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission Highlights 

From launch to splashdown, NASA’s Orion spacecraft completed its first deep-space mission with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, west of Baja California, at 9:40 a.m. PST (12:40 p.m. EST) Sunday, December 11, 2022. The record-breaking Artemis mission traveled more than 1.4 million miles on a path around the Moon and returned safely to Earth. Splashdown was the final milestone of the Artemis I Moon mission, which began with a successful liftoff of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket Nov. 16, from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Over the course of 25.5 days, NASA tested Orion in the harsh environment of deep space before flying astronauts on Artemis II. During the mission, Orion performed two lunar flybys, coming within 80 miles of the lunar surface. At its farthest distance during the mission, Orion traveled nearly 270,000 miles from our home planet, more than 1,000 times farther than where the International Space Station orbits Earth, to intentionally stress systems before flying crew. 

Prior to entering the Earth’s atmosphere, the crew module separated from its service module, which is the spacecraft’s propulsive powerhouse provided by ESA (European Space Agency). During re-entry, Orion endured temperatures of about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, half as hot as the surface of the Sun. Within about 20 minutes, Orion slowed from nearly 25,000 mph to about 20 mph for its parachute-assisted splashdown. During the flight test, Orion stayed in space longer than any spacecraft designed for astronauts without docking to a space station. While in a distant lunar orbit, Orion surpassed the record for distance traveled by a spacecraft designed to carry humans, previously set during Apollo 13.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 24 minutes

Release Date: Dec. 11, 2022

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Cosmic Smokescreen: The Lagoon Nebula | Hubble Space Telescope

Cosmic Smokescreen: The Lagoon Nebula | Hubble Space Telescope

A portion of the open cluster NGC 6530 appears as a roiling wall of smoke studded with stars in this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 6530 is a collection of several thousand stars lying around 4,350 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The cluster is set within the larger Lagoon Nebula, a gigantic interstellar cloud of gas and dust. It is the nebula that gives this image its distinctly smokey appearance; clouds of interstellar gas and dust stretch from one side of this image to the other.

Image Description: Clouds of gas cover the entire view, in a variety of bold colors. In the center the gas is brighter and very textured, resembling dense smoke. Around the edges it is more sparse and faint. Several small, bright blue stars are scattered over the nebula.

Astronomers investigated NGC 6530 using Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. They scoured the region in the hope of finding new examples of proplyds, a particular class of illuminated protoplanetary discs surrounding newborn stars. The vast majority of proplyds have been found in only one region, the nearby Orion Nebula. This makes understanding their origin and lifetimes in other astronomical environments challenging.

Hubble’s ability to observe at infrared wavelengths—particularly with Wide Field Camera 3—have made it an indispensable tool for understanding starbirth and the origin of exoplanetary systems. In particular, Hubble was crucial to investigations of the proplyds around newly born stars in the Orion Nebula. The new NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope’s unprecedented observational capabilities at infrared wavelengths will complement Hubble observations by allowing astronomers to peer through the dusty envelopes around newly born stars and investigate the faintest, earliest stages of starbirth.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, European Southern Observatory (ESO), O. De Marco

Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç

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Replay: NASA Experts Discuss Artemis I Moon Mission Splashdown & Next Steps

Replay: NASA Experts Discuss Artemis I Moon Mission Splashdown & Next Steps

Following the successful splashdown of the Artemis I Moon mission off the coast of California at 12:40 p.m. EST (17:40 UTC) on Dec. 11, 2022, NASA experts discussed next steps for the Orion spacecraft. Orion spent 25.5 days in space and travelled 1.4 million miles (2.3 million km) around the Moon and back after launching aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on Nov. 16 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC).

The Artemis I mission is the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, the SLS rocket, and Kennedy Space Center's Exploration Ground Systems.

This will provide the foundation to send humans to the lunar surface, to develop a long-term presence on and around the Moon, and pave the way for humanity to set foot on Mars.

Learn more about Artemis I: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-i

Credit: NASA

Duration: 50 minutes

Release Date: Dec. 11, 2022

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Orion Spacecraft Recovery | NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission

Orion Spacecraft Recovery | NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission

NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission was successfully recovered inside the well deck of the United States Navy's USS Portland on Dec. 11, 2022 off the coast of Baja California. After launching atop the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on Nov. 16, 2022, from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, Orion spent 25.5 days in space before returning to Earth, completing the Artemis I mission.

The Artemis I mission is the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, the SLS rocket, and Kennedy Space Center's Exploration Ground Systems. 

This will provide the foundation to send humans to the lunar surface, develop a long-term presence on and around the Moon, and pave the way for humanity to set foot on Mars.

Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-i

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Release Date: Dec. 11, 2022

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