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Thursday, January 19, 2023

Artemis I Orion Moon Mission: Commander Moonikin Campos | NASA Kennedy

Artemis I Orion Moon Mission: Commander Moonikin Campos | NASA Kennedy

Joe Leblanc, Orion payload and cargo manager with Lockheed Martin, secures Commander Moonikin Campos, a sensored stand-in for humans from NASA's Artemis I mission, inside its transport crate in the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 10, 2023, for its trip back to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Moonikin Campos was secured inside the Orion spacecraft for the mission beyond the Moon and back to Earth. Artemis I Orion launched atop the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from Kennedyâs Launch Complex 39B on Nov. 16, 2022, at 1:47 a.m. EST for a 25-day trip beyond the Moon and back. During the flight, Orion flew farther than any human-rated spacecraft has ever flown, paving the way for human deep space exploration and demonstrating NASA's commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond.

The primary goal of Artemis I was to thoroughly test the SLS and Orion spacecraftâs integrated systems before crewed missions. Under Artemis, NASA aims to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon and establish sustainable lunar exploration.

Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC)/Cory Huston

Image Date: Jan. 10, 2023

Release Date: Jan. 19, 2023

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Planetary Missions: Fossils of Our Solar System | NASA Goddard

Planetary Missions: Fossils of Our Solar System | NASA Goddard

When the Hubble Space Telescope launched, one of its main goals was to learn more about our incredible universe. While we’re used to Hubble images coming from thousands of light-years away, Hubble is also capable of looking at objects in our solar system. Using Hubble, astronomers have been able to help planetary missions, like New Horizons and Lucy, plan out their own discoveries.

For more information on Hubble, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble

NASA's LUCY Mission: http://lucy.swri.edu

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Producer & Director: James Leigh

Editor: Lucy Lund

Director of Photography: James Ball

Additional Editing & Photography: Matthew Duncan

Executive Producers: James Leigh & Matthew Duncan

Production & Post: Origin Films

Video Credits:

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL)

Hubble Space Telescope Animations: M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble)

LUCY Mission Animations: NASA GSFC Conceptual Image Lab & NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio

Duration: 2 minutes, 31 seconds

Release Date: Jan. 19, 2023

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Artemis I Orion Moon Mission: Helga & Zohar (MARE) | NASA Kennedy

Artemis I Orion Moon Mission: Helga & Zohar (MARE) | NASA Kennedy

After a 25-day flight inside the Artemis I Orion crew module beyond the Moon and back, Helga, one of two identical phantom torsos, is shown without a radiation detection vest while undergoing post-flight payload inspections inside the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 11, 2023. The detectors will be removed at Kennedy and the torsos will return to teams at the German Space Agency for further analysis. As part of the Matroshka AstroRad Radiation Experiment (MARE) investigation, two female manikins—Helga and Zohar—were equipped with radiation detectors, while Zohar also wore a radiation protection vest, to determine the radiation risk during the Artemis I mission and potentially reduce exposure during future missions with astronauts.

Artemis I Orion launched atop the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39B on Nov. 16, 2022, at 1:47 a.m. EST. During the flight, Orion flew farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown, paving the way for human deep space exploration and demonstrating NASA’s commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I was to thoroughly test the SLS and Orion spacecraft’s integrated systems before crewed missions. Under Artemis, NASA aims to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon and establish sustainable lunar exploration.

Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

Image Date: Jan. 11, 2023

Release Date: Jan. 17, 2023

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Plume | International Space Station

SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Plume | International Space Station

An external high-definition camera on the International Space Station captured the launch plume of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket after it had ascended to Earth orbit following its liftoff on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The space station was flying 262 miles above the Atlantic Ocean just after an orbital sunset at the time of this photograph.

Follow Expedition 68 crew updates at: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 68 Crew

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Anna Kikina & Dmitri Petelin

NASA: Flight Engineers Nicole Mann, Frank Rubio & Josh Cassada

JAXA (Japan): Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata

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: Jan. 18, 2023

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Billions of Celestial Objects Revealed in Milky Way Survey | NOIRLab

Billions of Celestial Objects Revealed in Milky Way Survey | NOIRLab

Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects—arguably the largest such catalog so far. The data for this unprecedented survey were taken with the Dark Energy Camera, built by the US Department of Energy, at the NSF’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLab.

Credit:DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/E. Slawik

Image Processing: M. Zamani (NSF's NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF's NOIRLab)

Duration: 1 minute, 20 seconds

Release Date: Jan. 18, 2023

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Billions of Celestial Objects Revealed in Milky Way Survey | NOIRLab

Billions of Celestial Objects Revealed in Milky Way Survey | NOIRLab

The image above, which is brimming with stars and dark dust clouds, is a small extract—a mere pinprick— of the full Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects—arguably the largest such catalog so far. The data for this unprecedented survey were taken with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at the National Science Foundation’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLab.

Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such catalog so far. The data for this unprecedented survey were taken with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at the NSF’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLab.

The survey is here reproduced in 4000-pixels resolution to be accessible on smaller devices.

Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such catalog so far. The data for this unprecedented survey were taken with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at the NSF’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLab.

For reference, a low-resolution image of the DECaPS2 data is overlaid on an image showing the full sky. The callout box is a full-resolution view of a small portion of the DECaPS2 data.

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Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects—arguably the largest such catalog so far. The data for this unprecedented survey were taken with the Dark Energy Camera, built by the US Department of Energy, at the National Science Foundation’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLab.

The Milky Way Galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, glimmering star-forming regions, and towering dark clouds of dust and gas. Imaging and cataloging these objects for study is a herculean task, but a newly released astronomical dataset known as the second data release of the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) reveals a staggering number of these objects in unprecedented detail. The DECaPS2 survey, which took two years to complete and produced more than 10 terabytes of data from 21,400 individual exposures, identified approximately 3.32 billion objects—arguably the largest such catalog compiled to date. Astronomers and the public can explore the dataset here:

https://decaps.legacysurvey.org/viewer

This unprecedented collection was captured by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) instrument on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF's NOIRLab. CTIO is a constellation of international astronomical telescopes perched atop Cerro Tololo in Chile at an altitude of 2200 meters (7200 feet). CTIO’s lofty vantage point gives astronomers an unrivaled view of the southern celestial hemisphere, which allowed DECam to capture the southern Galactic plane in such detail.

DECaPS2 is a survey of the plane of the Milky Way as seen from the southern sky taken at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. The first trove of data from DECaPS was released in 2017, and with the addition of the new data release, the survey now covers 6.5% of the night sky and spans a staggering 130 degrees in length. While it might sound modest, this equates to 13,000 times the angular area of the full Moon.

The DECaPS2 dataset is available to the entire scientific community and is hosted by NOIRLab’s Astro Data Lab, which is part of the Community Science and Data Center. Interactive access to the imaging with panning/zooming inside of a web-browser is available from the Legacy Survey Viewer, the World Wide Telescope and Aladin.

Most of the stars and dust in the Milky Way are located in its disk—the bright band stretching across this image—in which the spiral arms lie. While this profusion of stars and dust makes for beautiful images, it also makes the Galactic plane challenging to observe. The dark tendrils of dust seen threading through this image absorb starlight and blot out fainter stars entirely, and the light from diffuse nebulae interferes with any attempts to measure the brightness of individual objects. Another challenge arises from the sheer number of stars, which can overlap in the image and make it difficult to disentangle individual stars from their neighbors.

Despite the challenges, astronomers delved into the Galactic plane to gain a better understanding of our Milky Way. By observing at near-infrared wavelengths, they were able to peer past much of the light-absorbing dust. The researchers also used an innovative data-processing approach, which allowed them to better predict the background behind each star. This helped to mitigate the effects of nebulae and crowded star fields on such large astronomical images, ensuring that the final catalog of processed data is more accurate.

“One of the main reasons for the success of DECaPS2 is that we simply pointed at a region with an extraordinarily high density of stars and were careful about identifying sources that appear nearly on top of each other,” said Andrew Saydjari, a graduate student at Harvard University, researcher at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and lead author of the paper. “Doing so allowed us to produce the largest such catalog ever from a single camera, in terms of the number of objects observed.”

“When combined with images from Pan-STARRS 1, DECaPS2 completes a 360-degree panoramic view of the Milky Way's disk and additionally reaches much fainter stars,” said Edward Schlafly, a researcher at the AURA-managed Space Telescope Science Institute and a co-author of the paper describing DECaPS2 published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement. “With this new survey, we can map the three-dimensional structure of the Milky Way's stars and dust in unprecedented detail.”

“Since my work on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey two decades ago, I have been looking for a way to make better measurements on top of complex backgrounds," said Douglas Finkbeiner, a professor at the Center for Astrophysics, co-author of the paper, and principal investigator behind the project. “This work has achieved that and more!"

“This is quite a technical feat. Imagine a group photo of over three billion people and every single individual is recognizable!” says Debra Fischer, division director of Astronomical Sciences at NSF. “Astronomers will be poring over this detailed portrait of more than three billion stars in the Milky Way for decades to come. This is a fantastic example of what partnerships across federal agencies can achieve.”

DECam was originally built to carry out the Dark Energy Survey, which was conducted by the Department of Energy and the US National Science Foundation between 2013 and 2019.

Credit: DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Image Processing: M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)

Release Date: Jan. 18, 2022

Is There Weather on the Moon? We Asked a NASA Scientist

Is There Weather on the Moon? We Asked a NASA Scientist

"Is there weather on the Moon? Yes, but not the weather you’re used to. The Sun’s solar wind is a type of “space weather” that can have a big impact on the Moon due to its lack of atmosphere. It can also affect all sorts of things like satellites, electronics and communications. Better understanding how space weather interacts with the Moon will be critical as we send #Artemis astronauts to the lunar surface."

Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3WmUB69

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Producers: Jessica Wilde, Scott Bednar

Editor: James Lucas

Release Date: Jan. 18, 2023

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Aurora Borealis over Canada | International Space Station

Aurora Borealis over Canada | International Space Station

This time-lapse video shows the Expedition 60 crew’s view as they travel over Canada and the Pacific Ocean on September 15, 2019 at 07:50:20 to 08:06:35 GMT. The focus of this particular video is not the Earth—it is the Aurora Borealis in the sky. The ribbon-like aurora, commonly known as the Northern Lights, snake through the Earth’s upper atmosphere with varying intensities. The frequency of aurora follows an 11-year solar activity cycle which is at its minimum in 2019/2020, but aurora still be visible from the International Space Station when it does occur. The time-lapse ends with one of the 16 sunrises visible from the ISS every day.

Want to learn more about the Aurora Borealis?

Visit NASA's About Auroras page:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/about-auroras/

Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Oct. 17, 2019

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Orbital Sunset: Cloud Shadows Stretch across Earth | International Space Station

Orbital Sunset: Cloud Shadows Stretch across Earth | International Space Station

Cloud shadows stretch across the Earth during an orbital sunset as the International Space Station soared 258 miles above the Atlantic coast of Suriname in South America.

Follow Expedition 68 crew updates at: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 68 Crew

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Anna Kikina & Dmitri Petelin

NASA: Flight Engineers Nicole Mann, Frank Rubio & Josh Cassada

JAXA (Japan): Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: Nov. 13, 2022

Release Date: Jan. 18, 2023

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Great Britain & Ireland Show Their Summer Colors | International Space Station

Great Britain & Ireland Show Their Summer Colors | International Space Station

An astronaut on the International Space Station took this photograph during a rare clear day over Ireland and Great Britain. The wide view captures the contrasting colors of various land cover types present across the two islands.

Coastal mountains and rough terrain flank the western edge of Ireland, making the peninsulas there appear browner than the more vegetated (green) areas of central Ireland. The central region is composed of plains with bogs and hilly lowlands, largely consisting of assorted forests, agriculture, and pastures. Similar green tones carry over to the western side of Great Britain.

Many of the tan areas on the eastern side of Great Britain are within a rain shadow created by the uplands and mountains to the west. Weather systems move from west to east, and higher elevation areas on the west receive more rainfall than the lower eastern side. The tan color reflects grasslands where the vegetation was stressed due to high temperatures and drought conditions when this image was taken in summer 2022.

Cities are scattered across both islands, visible as dark-gray and white areas. Great Britain has the highest population density in the region, as indicated by the spatially extensive urban and suburban colors around London, Birmingham, and Manchester.

Across both islands, more than 78,200 square kilometers (30,200 square miles) of land (24 percent) is dedicated to conservation. These areas protect over 10,000 habitats that are used for breeding, migration, and shelter to flora and fauna, such as wildfowl, bats, and mosses.

Astronaut photograph ISS067-E-253753 was acquired on August 11, 2022, with a Nikon D5 digital camera using an 17 millimeter lens and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 66 crew.

Credit: NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.

Caption by Sara Schmidt, GeoControl Systems, JETS Contract at NASA-JSC.

Image Date: Aug. 11, 2022

Release Date: Jan. 15, 2023

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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Globular Cluster ESO 520-21 | Hubble

Globular Cluster ESO 520-21 | Hubble

This sparkling starfield, captured by the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21 (also known as Palomar 6). A densely packed, roughly spherical collection of stars, it lies close to the center of the Milky Way, where interstellar gas and dust absorb starlight and make observations more challenging.

Globular clusters (GCs) are spheroidal collections of tightly bound stars orbiting galaxies perceived as natural laboratories enabling studies on stellar and chemical evolution. These objects are relatively rare, as there are just over ~200 such clusters so far identified in the Milky Way.

This absorption by interstellar material affects some wavelengths of light more than others, changing the colors of astronomical objects and causing them to appear redder than they actually are. Astronomers call this process “reddening”, and it makes determining the properties of globular clusters close to the galactic center—such as ESO 520-21—particularly difficult.

ESO 520-21 lies in the constellation Ophiuchus, near the celestial equator. Ophiuchus was one of the 48 constellations which appeared in the writings of the second-century Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy, all of which are among the 88 constellations officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union today. Not all the constellations proposed by astronomers throughout history have survived, however—forgotten or obsolete constellations include Felis (the Cat), Rangifer (the Reindeer), and even Officina Typographica (the Printer’s Workshop).

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 27, 2021

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Globular Cluster ESO 520-21 | Hubble

Globular Cluster ESO 520-21 | Hubble

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen

Release Date: Sept. 20, 2021

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A Well-traveled Beagle | NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission

A Well-traveled Beagle | NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission

Snoopy, the zero gravity indicator that flew aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft during the Artemis I mission, wears a smile after being unpacked from his transport case on Jan. 5, 2023. Zero gravity indicators are small items carried aboard spacecraft that provide a visual indicator when a spacecraft has reached the weightlessness of microgravity. NASA has held an association with Snoopy since the Apollo Era—the character has contributed to the excitement for NASA human spaceflight missions, helping inspire generations to dream big, and is a symbol of NASA’s safety culture and mission success.

Orion returned to Kennedy on Dec. 30, 2022, after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 11, 2022, following a 25-day mission around the Moon.

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. Orion stayed in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and returned home faster and hotter than ever before.

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.

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

Image Credit: NASA/Isaac Watson

Release Date: Jan. 17, 2023

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Download Free NASA Commercial Crew 2023 Children's Artwork Calendar

Download Free NASA Commercial Crew 2023 Children's Artwork Calendar

Download Free Adobe PDF 2023 CCP Children's Artwork Calendar (2.5MB) here (English):

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/ksc_2023_ccp_childrens_artwork_calendar_508.pdf

Congratulations to this year’s winners of the 2023 Commercial Crew Program (CCP) Children’s Artwork Contest!

The contest—designed to get our youth excited about science, technology, engineering and math and to inspire our future scientists, engineers and explorers—ran from Sept. 2 through Oct. 27. The contest asked young artists ages 4-12 years old to submit unique and original masterpieces featuring NASA themes: Rockets and Spacecraft, Living and Working in Space, Exploring the Solar System, and Astronauts.

Kids from all over the world submitted 2,260 entries, which were judged on originality and composition. A total of 36 entrants were selected first, second, or third place winners in each theme and age category.

Thank you to all our incredible artists! NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is working hard to make living and working in space safe and affordable for people all around the world. When you grow up, there could be many different spacecraft taking scientists, researchers, educators, and even tourists to different low-Earth orbit destinations like space stations, laboratories, and hotels! The science NASA’s Commercial Crew Program helps enable in space is making life better here on Earth and helping explorers go back to the Moon and on to Mars.

2023 CCP Children's Artwork Calendar

Category: Rockets and Spacecraft

Ages 4 to 6

1st - SpaceX Dragon Crew-5, Kaushik, I., USA

2nd - NASA Rocket Launch Day, Kim, T., South Korea

3rd - Rockets and Spacecraft, J, Achyutkemparaj, India

KSC 2023 CCP Childrens Artwork Calendar Cover

Ages 7 to 9

1st - Artemis from the Moon to Mars, Costa, L., USA

2nd - Hello Future!, Yoo, J., South Korea

3rd - NASA & Galaxy, Yeo, S., USA

Ages 10 to 12

1st - A Long Flight to Mars, Zhang, X., USA / China

2nd - Rocket to Freedom, Wynar, M., USA

3rd - Working in Space, Lee, J., China / South Korea

Category: Exploring the Solar System

Ages 4 to 6

1st - Reach for the Stars, Chandra, A., USA

2nd - Dancing with Planets, Jung, Y., South Korea

3rd - They are Smiling at Me, Zhou, C., USA

Ages 7 to 9

1st - Exploring the Solar System, Chavala, H., USA / India

2nd - Out in Space, Kimmel, G., USA

3rd - My Happy Space, Sidharth, S., India

Ages 10 to 12

1st - Puzzled Solar System, Thomas, E., USA

2nd - Each Planet has its Purpose , Lee, S., South Korea

3rd - Space Exploration of our Dreams, Yun, H., South Korea

KSC 2023 CCP Childrens Artwork Calendar Back Cover

Category: Living and Working in Space

Ages 4 to 6

1st - Dance my Dream in the Space, Zhou, E., USA

2nd - Art in Space, Yu, A., USA

3rd - Growing up in Space, Hui, M., Canada

Ages 7 to 9

1st - Atmosphere for Life, Usman Adnan Sheikh, M., Pakistan

2nd - Astronaut's Yummy Breakfast in Space, Niu, J., USA / China

3rd - IMAGI-SPACE, Christopher, N., India

Ages 10 to 12

1st - Living and Working in Space, Reddy, M., India

2nd - Daily Life in Space, Lee, M., USA

3rd - Jewelry Making Process in Space, Lee, S., South Korea

Category: Astronauts

Ages 4 to 6

1st - The Colors of the Life, Maity, A., UAE / India

2nd - Hello Astronauts, Fung, T., USA

3rd - Astronauts: Enjoying Coffee Time in Space, Mohapatra, A., India

Ages 7 to 9

1st - Astronaut on the Moon, Gleason, A., USA

2nd - World Peace on the Moon, Kim, S., USA / South Korea

3rd - Space…Playground of the Astronauts!, Rahman, A., India

Ages 10 to 12

1st - Exploring the Vast Beyond, Appou, G., USA

2nd - Me as Astronauts, Thiththika, A., India

3rd - Outer Space, Tong, S., USA

Credit: Commercial Crew Program, Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

Thank you to SciArt Exchange for helping NASA conduct this year’s contest.

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Download Free NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory Calendar 2023

Download Free NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory Calendar 2023

Print your own 2023 Chandra calendar with spectacular images from the past year. Featured objects include supernova remnants, clusters of galaxies, black holes and beyond. Available as a 14-page full color PDF. Individual months may also be downloaded separately. Links for image descriptions and credits are provided below.

Free download of all options:

https://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/handouts/lithos/calendar2023/

Download Full Calendar:

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Note: These handouts are printable documents in PDF format.

Credit: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Monday, January 16, 2023

New Mars Images | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers + Ingenuity | JPL

New Mars Images | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers + Ingenuity | JPL

MSL - sol 3711 - MastCam

Mars2020 - sol 676 - Mastcam-Z

Mars2020 - sol 677 - Supercam

Mars2020 - sol 670 - Mastcam-Z

MSL - Sol 3711 - Mastcam

MSL - Sol 3710 - Mastcam

Mars2020 - sol 676 - Mastcam-Z

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Celebrating 10 Years+ on Mars! (2012-2023)

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

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

Launch: Nov. 6, 2011

Landing Date: Aug. 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

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.

Mars Helicopter (Ingenuity)

Launch: July 30, 2020

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

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/

Processing: Kevin M. Gill/Del-4Ri/Elisabetta Bonora & Marco Faccin/Thomas Appéré

Thomas' Website: http://bit.ly/3ZKlJzg

Image Release Dates: Jan. 15-16, 2023

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