The 'Dream Team' Behind China's Tianwen-1 Mars Mission | CGTN

The 'Dream Team' Behind China's Tianwen-1 Mars Mission | CGTN

China's interplanetary exploration program took a significant step forward when the Tianwen-1 rover made the country's first imprint on Mars. While the journey to the Red Planet had not been easy, thanks to a team of Chinese engineers and scientists, the mission was a resounding success.

China's Tianwen-1 Mars probe was launched back in July 2020 and entered Mars orbit in February 2021. The rover landed and started operations in May 2021. After it completed 90 Martian days of assigned scientific exploration tasks, the rover continued its exploration of the Red Planet. The rover, which has traveled 1,921 meters in 358 Martian days, is now in sleep mode.

As of June 29, 2022, the orbiter of the Tianwen-1 mission had completed its primary global remote sensing exploration objectives. It remains in good condition and will continue to conduct scientific exploration and accumulate data from orbit, according to CNSA.

Credit: China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: April 23, 2023

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The Ring Nebula: WR 134 in Cygnus

The Ring Nebula: WR 134 in Cygnus

Made with narrowband filters, this cosmic snapshot covers a field of view about the size of the full Moon within the boundaries of the constellation Cygnus. It highlights the bright edge of a ring-like nebula traced by the glow of ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen gas. Embedded in the region's interstellar clouds of gas and dust, the complex, glowing arcs are sections of bubbles or shells of material swept up by the wind from Wolf-Rayet star WR 134, brightest star near the center of the frame. Distance estimates put WR 134 about 6,000 light-years away, making the frame over 50 light-years across. 

Shedding their outer envelopes in powerful stellar winds, massive Wolf-Rayet stars have burned through their nuclear fuel at a prodigious rate and end this final phase of massive star evolution in a spectacular supernova explosion. The stellar winds and final supernovae enrich the interstellar material with heavy elements to be incorporated in future generations of stars.

Image Credit & Copyright: Craig Stocks

Craig's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/craigstocksphotography/

Release Date: May 18, 2023

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NASA Teams with U.S. Forest Service to Tally America’s Oldest Trees

NASA Teams with U.S. Forest Service to Tally America’s Oldest Trees

Stewards of the public lands of the United States, including the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, have been challenged to produce the first ever national inventory of mature and old growth forests. The next phase of the project will be augmented by NASA laser altimetry data from an instrument on the International Space Station. The GEDI instrument can provide detailed information on tree height and forest biomass, not just in the U.S., but all around the globe.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)/Scientific Visualization Studio

Jefferson Beck (KBR Wyle): Lead Producer

Sally Younger (KBR Wyle): Lead Writer

Kel Elkins (USRA): Lead Visualizer

Benjamin Poulter (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

Marin Palmer (US Forest Service): Scientist

Neil Pederson (Harvard University): Scientist

Additional video footage courtesy Laura Smith, Harvard University; the US Forest Service; and Pond5.

Duration: 4 minutes, 33 seconds

Release Date: May 17, 2023

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Faces of NASA Technology & Research – Meet Amber Soja | Earth Science

Faces of NASA Technology & Research – Meet Amber Soja | Earth Science

Meet Amber Soja, a physical scientist who serves as a NASA Science Program Manager at NASA's Langley Research Center. Amber is part of an applied sciences team, HAQAST, that is studying how the transport of smoke affects air quality and human health. Her team uses NASA satellite data, ground sensors, and field campaigns to put together a comprehensive picture of fires, making the NASA data applicable to communities across the globe.

For more information about Dr. Soja's work with the Health and Air Quality Applied Science Team (HASQAST), visit:

https://haqast.org/tiger-teams/

Credit: NASA Space Tech

Duration: 1 minute, 50 seconds

Release Date: May 16, 2023

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Wide-field View: Edge-on Galaxy NGC 1055 in Cetus | ESO

Wide-field View: Edge-on Galaxy NGC 1055 in Cetus | ESO

This rich wide-field view captures not only the edge-on galaxy NGC 1055 at the center but also the bright galaxy NGC 1068 (also known as Messier 77, it is an active galaxy with a huge black hole at its center) to its lower-left, the fainter galaxy NGC 1032 to the upper right and the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073 to the upper left. In addition, much closer to home, the bright naked-eye blue star Delta Ceti appears at the right of center. This picture was created from images in the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Digitized Sky Survey 2

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: March 1, 2017

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A Galaxy on Edge: NGC 1055 in Cetus | ESO

A Galaxy on Edge: NGC 1055 in Cetus | ESO

ESOcast 98 Light: An image from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) gives a very detailed view of the edge-on galaxy NGC 1055. This ESOcast Light takes a quick look at this image and explains what it shows. This big galaxy is thought to be up to 15 percent larger in diameter than the Milky Way. NGC 1055 appears to lack the whirling arms characteristic of a spiral, as it is seen edge-on. However, it displays odd twists in its structure that were probably caused by an interaction with a neighboring galaxy.

The ESOcast Light is a series of short videos bringing you the wonders of the Universe in bite-sized pieces. 

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Duration: 1 minute, 22 seconds

Release Date: March 1, 2017

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Zooming to Edge-on Galaxy NGC 1055 in Cetus | ESO

Zooming to Edge-on Galaxy NGC 1055 in Cetus | ESO

This video sequence takes the viewer deep into the faint constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster) and finishes on a new and very detailed view of the edge-on galaxy NGC 1055 from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in northern Chile.

This big galaxy is thought to be up to 15 percent larger in diameter than the Milky Way. NGC 1055 appears to lack the whirling arms characteristic of a spiral, as it is seen edge-on. However, it displays odd twists in its structure that were probably caused by an interaction with a neighboring galaxy.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Digitized Sky Survey 2/A. Fujii

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 22, 2017

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Panning across Edge-on Galaxy NGC 1055 in Cetus | ESO

Panning across Edge-on Galaxy NGC 1055 in Cetus | ESO

This video pan shows a colorful image from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope of NGC 1055 in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). This big galaxy is thought to be up to 15 percent larger in diameter than the Milky Way. NGC 1055 appears to lack the whirling arms characteristic of a spiral, as it is seen edge-on. However, it displays odd twists in its structure that were probably caused by an interaction with a neighboring galaxy.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Duration: 20 seconds

Release Date: May 5, 2023

#NASA #Astronomy #Space #Science #ESO #Galaxies #Galaxy #NGC1055 #Spiral #Cetus #Constellation #Cosmos #Universe #Telescope #VLT #Chile #Europe #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #HD #Video

The Edge-on Galaxy NGC 1055 in Cetus | European Southern Observatory

The Edge-on Galaxy NGC 1055 in Cetus | European Southern Observatory

This colorful image from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows NGC 1055 in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). This large galaxy is thought to be up to 15 percent larger in diameter than the Milky Way. NGC 1055 appears to lack the whirling arms characteristic of a spiral, as it is seen edge-on. However, it displays odd twists in its structure that were probably caused by an interaction with a large neighboring galaxy.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: March 1, 2017

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Cyclone Mocha Strikes Myanmar | NASA Aqua Earth Satellite

Cyclone Mocha Strikes Myanmar | NASA Aqua Earth Satellite

As Cyclone Mocha approached Myanmar on May 14, 2023, winds roared as fast as 175 miles (280 kilometers) per hour, enough to make it a category 5 storm. Although the storm weakened slightly during the final hours of its approach, Mocha still brought dangerous winds, downpours, and storm surge when it made landfall just north of Sittwe, Myanmar.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of the cyclone at 07:15 Universal Time (1:45 p.m. local time) on May 14, 2023, as the storm neared landfall.

The storm underwent a period of rapid intensification on May 14 as it encountered warm water in the Bay of Bengal and little vertical wind shear—factors that can strengthen tropical cyclones. At their peak, Mocha’s powerful winds tied with Cyclone Fani for being the strongest on record in the North Indian Ocean basin, according to Jeff Masters with Yale Climate Connections. To estimate storm intensity, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center uses the Dvorak technique, which is based on an analysis of cloud patterns in visible and infrared imagery from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites.

Early reports suggest the storm caused widespread damage in Sittwe, the state capital of Rakhine, with local news sources reporting flooded streets, downed trees and power lines, and roofs torn from homes. The evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from vulnerable areas in both Bangladesh and Myanmar in advance of the storm may have helped limit casualties, according to some news reports. The worst of the storm surge also missed low-lying refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar that many observers feared were vulnerable.

However, aid groups also report that telecommunication interruptions have made it difficult to assess the full impact of the storm. “Early reports suggest the damage is extensive and needs among already vulnerable communities, particularly displaced people, will be high,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs noted in an update on May 14.

Learn about NASA's Aqua Earth Satellite (launched in 2002):

https://eospso.nasa.gov/missions/aqua

Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. 

Story Credit: Adam Voiland

Release Date: May 16, 2023

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Recientemente: Una nave cambia de puerto de atraque en la estación espacial | NASA

Recientemente: Una nave cambia de puerto de atraque en la estación espacial | NASA 

Recientemente en la NASA, la versión en español de las cápsulas This Week at NASA, te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la NASA. 

Ciencia de la NASA: https://ciencia.nasa.gov/

En español: https://www.nasa.gov/suscribete

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 2 minutes, 16 seconds

Broadcast Date: May 12, 2023 

Release Date: May 15, 2023

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Russian Spacewalkers Sergey & Dmitri | International Space Station

Russian Spacewalkers Sergey & Dmitri | International Space Station

Expedition 69 Commander Sergey Prokopyev (left) and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin (right)

Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin work outside the International Space Station on May 12, 2023, to deploy and activate a radiator on the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module during a five-hour and 14-minute spacewalk.

This was the sixth spacewalk in Prokopyev’s career, and the fourth for Petelin. It was the sixth spacewalk at the station in 2023 and the 263rd spacewalk for space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades.

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 69 Crew (May 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey Fedyaev

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

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)

Capture Date: May 10, 2023

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Cosmic Cycles: Travelers | NASA Goddard

Cosmic Cycles: Travelers | NASA Goddard

Nomads of the solar system, small objects like asteroids and comets wander among the planets. Messengers from the distant past, many of these small bodies include debris from the formation of the solar system and carry clues about its origins and the rise of life on Earth. NASA has visited some of them, recently reaching and then touching the asteroid Bennu to collect samples of rock unchanged for nearly 5 billion years.

“Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony" is a groundbreaking collaboration between acclaimed composer Henry Dehlinger, NASA, and the National Philharmonic, featuring a unique fusion of music and video in seven multimedia works on the Sun, Earth, Moon, Planets, and Cosmos. This transformative project takes the audience on a captivating voyage through the universe, showcasing the beauty and power of the marriage between music and science.

Music Credit: “Travelers" from Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony by Henry Dehlinger.  Courtesy of the composer.

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

Producer: James Tralie (ADNET)

Executive Producer: Wade Sisler (NASA/GSFC)

Music Composer: Henry Dehlinger (National Philharmonic)

Duration: 7 minutes

Release Date: May 15, 2023

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Cosmic Cycles: Echoes of The Big Bang | NASA Goddard

Cosmic Cycles: Echoes of The Big Bang | NASA Goddard

NASA studies the makeup and workings of the universe, from the smallest particles of matter and energy to its large-scale structure and evolution. Scientists look far back in space and time to learn the full cosmic history of stars and galaxies. They tease out details of the environments around black holes and observe the most powerful explosions since the big bang. NASA is discovering numerous planets beyond our solar system, decoding how planetary systems form, and learning how environments hospitable for life develop.

“Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony" is a groundbreaking collaboration between acclaimed composer Henry Dehlinger, NASA, and the National Philharmonic, featuring a unique fusion of music and video in seven multimedia works on the Sun, Earth, Moon, Planets, and Cosmos. This transformative project takes the audience on a captivating voyage through the universe, showcasing the beauty and power of the marriage between music and science.

Music Credit: “Echoes of the Big Bang" from Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony by Henry Dehlinger.  Courtesy of the composer.

Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center 

Producer: Scott Wiessinger (KBRwyle)

Executive Producer: Wade Sisler (NASA/GSFC)

Duration: 16 minutes

Release Date: May 15, 2023

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Faces of NASA Technology & Research – Meet Emily Gargulinski | Earth Science

Faces of NASA Technology & Research – Meet Emily Gargulinski | Earth Science

Meet Emily Gargulinski, a NASA Research Engineer at the National Institute of Aerospace. Emily watches fires from space. She uses geospatial data to evaluate what's happening with fires on the ground. As part of her work with NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, or HAQAST, Emily is looking at the impact of small agricultural and range fires. 

For more information about HAQAST, visit: https://haqast.org

Credit: NASA Space Tech

Duration: 1 minute, 38 seconds

Release Date: May 16, 2023

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Cosmic Cycles: Earth as Art | NASA Goddard

Cosmic Cycles: Earth as Art | NASA Goddard

Starting in 1972, nine Landsat satellites have orbited Earth, taking images of the surface. This unprecedented coverage has been tremendously useful to the scientific community, but it has also produced thousands of beautiful high-resolution images of the complex patterns of our world. From the fractal patterns of mountain ranges and river deltas to the precise geometry of agriculture, Landsat has rendered Earth as a work of art.

“Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony" is a groundbreaking collaboration between acclaimed composer Henry Dehlinger, NASA, and the National Philharmonic, featuring a unique fusion of music and video in seven multimedia works on the Sun, Earth, Moon, Planets, and Cosmos. This transformative project takes the audience on a captivating voyage through the universe, showcasing the beauty and power of the marriage between music and science.

Music Credit: “Earth as Art" from Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony by Henry Dehlinger

Courtesy of the composer

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)/United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Producer: Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBRwyle)

Executive Producer: Wade Sisler (NASA/GSFC)

Duration: 6 minutes

Release Date: May 15, 2023

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