Planet Jupiter & Moon Io | NASA's Juno Mission | JPL

Planet Jupiter & Moon Io | NASA's Juno Mission | JPL

Jupiter & Io - PJ51-61

Io - PJ51-64

Io - PJ51-69

Jupiter - PJ51-78

Jupiter - PJ51-80

Jupiter - PJ51-85

Jupiter - PJ51-86

Jupiter has a long history of surprising scientists—all the way back to 1610 when Galileo Galilei found the first moons beyond Earth. This discovery changed the way we see the universe. Fifth in line from the Sun, Jupiter is, by far, the largest planet in the solar system—more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined. Jupiter's familiar stripes and swirls are actually cold, windy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium.

Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the solar system, with hundreds of volcanoes, some erupting lava fountains dozens of miles (or kilometers) high. Io is caught in a tug-of-war between Jupiter's massive gravity and the smaller but precisely timed pulls from two neighboring moons that orbit farther from Jupiter—Europa and Ganymede.

Juno Mission Profile

Launched: Aug. 5, 2011

Arrival at Jupiter: July 4, 2016

Goal: Understand origin and evolution of Jupiter, look for solid planetary core, map magnetic field, measure water and ammonia in deep atmosphere, observe auroras.

Learn more about the Juno mission at: www.nasa.gov/juno

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) manages the Juno mission for NASA. The mission's principal investigator is Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. The mission is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, managed at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)/Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS)

Processing: Kevin M. Gill

Release Dates: May 17-18, 2023

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NASA's Espacio a Tierra | Mezcla de dragones: 12 mayo 2023

NASA's Espacio a Tierra | Mezcla de dragones: 12 mayo 2023

Espacio a Tierra, la versión en español de las cápsulas Space to Ground de la NASA, te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la Estación Espacial Internacional. 

Para obtener más información sobre la ciencia de la NASA, suscríbete al boletín semanal: https://www.nasa.gov/suscribete 

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: May 18, 2023

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America’s Future: Commercial Space Destinations | NASA's Johnson Space Center

America’s Future: Commercial Space Destinations | NASA's Johnson Space Center

As NASA transitions from the International Space Station and sets its sights on the Moon, America will enable a new generation of commercial partnerships . . .

Through the Commercial LEO Development Program, NASA is working with industry partners to develop the first generation of commercial space destinations.  

This new orbital economy will allow the U.S. to maintain a continuous human presence in space, while enabling new opportunities for commercial partners—to discover scientific breakthroughs, stimulate commerce, and share the experience of spaceflight for generations to come. 

Learn more about Commercial Destinations in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO): https://www.nasa.gov/leo-economy/low-earth-orbit-economy

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 1 minute, 42 seconds

Release Date: May 18, 2023

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Zoom-in to Reflection Nebula Bernes 149 & Dark Cloud Lupus 3 | NOIRLab

Zoom-in to Reflection Nebula Bernes 149 & Dark Cloud Lupus 3 | NOIRLab

The massive, star-forming interstellar cloud Lupus 3 is captured with the 570-megapixel US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The dazzling central region of this sprawling cloud reveals a pair of infant stars bursting from their natal cocoons of dust and gas to illuminate the reflection nebula known as Bernes 149. These contrasting regions make this object a prime target of research on star formation. 

This star-forming nebula is located about 500 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Lupus (the Wolf).

Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/ T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab)

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

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: May 17, 2023

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Reflection Nebula Bernes 149 in Dark Cloud Lupus 3 | NOIRLab

Reflection Nebula Bernes 149 in Dark Cloud Lupus 3 | NOIRLab

The massive, star-forming interstellar cloud Lupus 3 is captured with the 570-megapixel US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The dazzling central region of this sprawling cloud reveals a pair of infant stars bursting from their natal cocoons of dust and gas to illuminate the reflection nebula known as Bernes 149. These contrasting regions make this object a prime target of research on star formation.

This star-forming nebula is located about 500 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Lupus (the Wolf).

Video & Image Credits: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/ T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab) Digitized Sky Survey 2/N. Bartmann/D. de Martin Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin

Duration: 1 minute, 12 seconds

Release Date: May 17, 2023

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Reflection Nebula Bernes 149 in Dark Cloud Lupus 3 | NOIRLab

Reflection Nebula Bernes 149 in Dark Cloud Lupus 3 | NOIRLab

The massive, star-forming interstellar cloud Lupus 3 is captured with the 570-megapixel US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The dazzling central region of this sprawling cloud reveals a pair of infant stars bursting from their natal cocoons of dust and gas to illuminate the reflection nebula known as Bernes 149. These contrasting regions make this object a prime target of research on star formation. This star-forming nebula is located about 500 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Lupus (the Wolf).

The clashing of energy and matter can lead to fantastical sites on Earth, such as glowing auroras and powerful lightning displays. The same can be said about space, where energy from bright young stars and protostars floods their surroundings, illuminating vast interstellar clouds of dust and gas to create spectacular objects known as reflection nebulae. 

The two blue stars blazing in the center of the sprawling nebula, known as HR 5999 and HR 6000, illuminate nearby gas and dust, creating the bright blue reflection nebula Bernes 149. These stars grew out of the dark nebula Lupus 3, which stretches like a blanket across the background of stars. This cloud is not just a coal-black cosmic blob, however. It is home to a fleet of infant stars known as T Tauri stars, which will eventually use the material of Lupus 3 to grow into fully fledged stars. 

At the relatively young age of about 1 million years, HR 5999 and HR 6000 are the oldest of the stars in the Lupus 3 region. These stars are pre-main-sequence stars, meaning that despite their brightness, they are not yet powered by nuclear fusion, like our Sun. They are instead powered by gravity, which compresses and heats up the internal matter. These sibling stars have blown away nearby gas and dust, illuminating the remnants and creating the Bernes 149 reflection nebula. 

Lupus 3 is one of at least nine clouds within the massive Lupus cloud complex. Lupus 3 itself stretches across an area of the sky equivalent to about 24 Moon-diameters as seen from Earth. With a whopping 2.2-degree field of view, DECcam can capture massive objects like Lupus 3 in a single image.

Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/ T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab)

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

Release Date: May 18, 2023

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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

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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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