Planet Mars Rover Samples: Hazeltop & Bearwallow (Samples 12/13) | NASA/JPL

Planet Mars Rover Samples: Hazeltop & Bearwallow (Samples 12/13) | NASA/JPL 

Meet two of the Martian samples that have been collected and are awaiting return to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign. As of June 2023, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has collected and sealed 19 scientifically selected samples inside pristine tubes. The next stage is to get them back for study.

Considered one of the highest priorities by the scientists in the Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032, Mars Sample Return would be the first mission to return samples from another planet and provides the best opportunity to reveal the early evolution of Mars, including the potential for ancient life. NASA is partnering with the European Space Agency (ESA) on this important endeavor.

Learn more about Samples No. 12 and 13—“Hazeltop” and “Bearwallow”—a pair of rock cores from a fine-grained sedimentary rock that scientists believe could have good characteristics for preserving signs of ancient microbes, if they were ever present. 

Read about all the carefully selected samples: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-rock-samples

Learn more about the Mars Sample Return campaign: https://mars.nasa.gov/msr 

A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, as well as be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).

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

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Duration: 1 minute, 17 seconds

Release Date: June 15, 2023

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From Sunset to Sunrise over the Baltic Sea | Earth Science

From Sunset to Sunrise over the Baltic Sea | Earth Science

This serene view from the coast of Sweden looks across the Baltic Sea and compresses time, presenting the passage of one night in a single photograph. From sunset to sunrise, moonlight illuminates the creative sea and skyscape. Fleeting clouds, fixed stars, and flowing northern lights leave their traces in planet Earth's sky. To construct the timelapse image, 3296 video frames were recorded on the night of June's Full Moon between 7:04pm and 6:35am local time. As time progresses from left to right, a single column of pixels was taken from the corresponding individual frame and combined in sequence into a single digital image 3296 pixels wide.

The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain.

Image Credit & Copyright: Bernd Pröschold (TWAN)

Bernd's Website: https://www.sternstunden.net

Release Date: June 16, 2023

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NASA Artemis V Moon Rocket Engine Exhaust Explained

NASA Artemis V Moon Rocket Engine Exhaust Explained

NASA test engineer Derek Zacher discusses the exhaust generated by the testing of the Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 rocket engine for the Artemis Moon missions.

For information about NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), visit: 

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

Credit: NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 3 minutes

Release Date: June 15, 2023

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Artemis II Crewed Moon Mission: European Service Module | Kennedy Space Center

Artemis II Crewed Moon Mission: European Service Module | Kennedy Space Center

Teams are performing final checkouts of the Orion spacecraft’s service module before integrating the crew and service modules for Artemis II, the first Artemis mission with crew. In parallel, technicians from Airbus will conduct inspections of the solar array wings following the successful completion of service module acoustic testing in May, which ensured the service module can withstand the speed and vibration it will experience during launch and throughout the mission. During the inspections, each of the four panels will be fully redeployed and reexamined. The crew module also will undergo acoustic testing ahead of joining with the service module.

Provided by the European Space Agency (ESA), the service module is the powerhouse that will fuel, propel, and provide in-space maneuvering capability, and is responsible for life support commodities such as water and breathable air for astronauts onboard Orion in support of future Artemis missions.

Learn more about the Artemis II Mission:

https://www.nasa.gov/subject/14152/artemis-ii-was-exploration-mission-2/

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Orion/Artemis_II

Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

Release Date: June 7, 2023

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United Arab Emirates Astronaut Candidate Training | NASA's Johnson Space Center

United Arab Emirates Astronaut Candidate Training | NASA's Johnson Space Center

In this video, United Arab Emirates (UAE) astronaut candidates Nora AlMatrooshi and Mohammad AlMulla of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) work to complete several training exercises. This includes wilderness survival training in Fort Novosel (formerly known as Fort Rucker) in Alabama, and suiting up at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. AlMatrooshi and AlMulla were selected in 2021 class of astronaut candidates alongside 10 of their NASA classmates. They are set to graduate in early 2024 as flight eligible astronauts.

UAE Astronaut Candidate Nora AlMatrooshi Biography:

https://www.mbrsc.ae/team/nora/

UAE Astronaut Candidate Mohammad AlMulla Biography:

https://www.mbrsc.ae/team/hazzaa_ali_almansoori/

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 20 minutes

Release Date: June 15, 2023

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Cryogenic Rocket Fuel: Engineering Design Challenge | NASA STEM Education

Cryogenic Rocket Fuel: Engineering Design Challenge | NASA STEM Education

School Grades 4-12: Work in teams to design and build a prototype of a cold fluid storage device and transfer system using everyday items you can find in your classroom or home. (This activity requires leaving the liquids overnight to record the amount of evaporation, plus a second overnight for the redesign.)

NASA's STEM engagement program provides learning resources that connect teachers, students, parents and caregivers to the inspiring work at NASA. Join us as we apply science, technology, engineering and mathematics to explore space, improve aeronautics, examine Earth and strive to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon with the Artemis program.

NASA STEM resources: stem.nasa.gov 

Credit: NASA STEM

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: June 15, 2023

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Martian Morning & Afternoon in New ‘Postcard’ | NASA Curiosity Rover | JPL

Martian Morning & Afternoon in New ‘Postcard’ | NASA Curiosity Rover | JPL

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas of “Marker Band Valley” at two times of day on April 8, 2023. Color was added to a combination of both panoramas for an artistic interpretation of the scene.

Lighting from two times of day was combined for a stunning view of terrain that the rover is leaving behind.

After completing a major software update in April, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took a last look at “Marker Band Valley” before leaving it behind, capturing a “postcard” of the scene.

The postcard is an artistic interpretation of the landscape, with color added over two black-and-white panoramas captured by Curiosity’s navigation cameras. The views were taken on April 8, 2023, at 9:20 a.m. and 3:40 p.m. local Mars time, providing dramatically different lighting that, when combined, makes details in the scene stand out. Blue was added to parts of the postcard captured in the morning and yellow to parts taken in the afternoon, just as with a similar postcard taken by Curiosity in November 2021.

The resulting image is striking. Curiosity is in the foothills of Mount Sharp, which stands 3 miles (5 kilometers) high within Gale Crater, where the rover has been exploring since landing in 2012. In the distance beyond its tracks is Marker Band Valley, a winding area in the “sulfate-bearing region” within which the rover discovered unexpected signs of an ancient lake. Farther below (at center and just to the right) are two hills—“Bolívar” and “Deepdale”—that Curiosity drove between while exploring “Paraitepuy Pass.”

“Anyone who’s been to a national park knows the scene looks different in the morning than it does in the afternoon,” said Curiosity engineer Doug Ellison of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, who planned and processed the images. “Capturing two times of day provides dark shadows because the lighting is coming in from the left and the right, like you might have on a stage – but instead of stage lights, we’re relying on the Sun.”

Adding to the depth of the shadows is the fact that it was winter—a period of lower airborne dust—at Curiosity’s location when the images were taken. “Mars’ shadows get sharper and deeper when there’s low dust and softer when there’s lots of dust,” Ellison added.

The image peers past the rear of the rover, providing a glimpse of its three antennas and nuclear power source. The Radiation Assessment Detector, or RAD, instrument, which appears as a white circle in the lower right of the image, has been helping scientists learn how to protect the first astronauts sent to Mars from radiation on the planet’s surface.

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

Curiosity was built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the mission on behalf of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

For more about Curiosity, visit: http://mars.nasa.gov/msl

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Release Date: June 13, 2023

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NASA's "Espacio A Tierra" | Buscando respuestas: 9 de junio de 2023

NASA's "Espacio A Tierra" | Buscando respuestas: 9 de junio de 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

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

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 3 minutes, 40 seconds

Release Date: June 14, 2023

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Why is Planet Venus So Hot? – We Asked a NASA Scientist

Why is Planet Venus So Hot? – We Asked a NASA Scientist

Why is Venus so hot? 

The planet’s thick CO2-filled atmosphere is great at trapping heat. This creates a runaway greenhouse effect that makes Venus roughly 700°F (389°C) hotter than it would be otherwise. Planetary scientist, Dr. Amy Hofmann, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides all the sizzling details.

Explore more about Earth’s closest planetary neighbor: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/overview/

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Producers: Scott Bednar, Jessica Wilde 

Editor: Daniel Salazar 

Duration: 1 minute, 19 seconds

Release Date: June 14, 2023

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Planet Mars: Tracking NASA's Perseverance Rover | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Planet Mars: Tracking NASA's Perseverance Rover | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

This 2022 image from Mars orbit shows some of the tracks left by the Perseverance rover as it traveled to the west of this location in Jezero Crater. Part of the justification for this observation is to extend color coverage of the rover’s traverse.

Celebrating 2+ Years on Mars (2021-2023)

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

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit: mars.nasa.gov

Image cutout is less than 1 km (under a mile) across and the spacecraft altitude was 279 km (173 mi). 

Acquisition Date: April 11, 2022

Local Mars time

15:41

Latitude (centered)

18.457°

Longitude (East)

77.460°

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument, 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.

“For 17 years, MRO has been revealing Mars to us as no one had seen it before,” said the mission’s project scientist, Rich Zurek of JPL.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona

Image Date: April 11, 2022

Release Date: June 13, 2023

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European Astronaut Andreas Mogensen in SpaceX Crew-7 Dragon Spacesuit

European Astronaut Andreas Mogensen in SpaceX Crew-7 Dragon Spacesuit

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark poses for portraits taken at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, during crew training. Mogensen will be the spacecraft pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission—the first non-US astronaut assigned in this capacity. Crew-7 will be NASA’s seventh rotational mission to the International Space Station.

Andreas Mogensen will join NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli and astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). An additional crew member will be assigned at a later date.

This will be the first long-duration mission for Mogensen. He previously served as a flight engineer on a ten-day mission to the International Space Station in 2015. Crew-7 will be his second trip to space.

Andreas Mogensen Official ESA Biography

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

Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Release Date: June 8, 2023

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Earth: A Year in Climate | NASA Goddard

Earth: A Year in Climate | NASA Goddard

Understanding Earth gives us the means to better protect it. Join NASA, as we monitor, study, and observe our planet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year—to learn more and to protect and improve life on Earth.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Kathleen Gaeta (GSFC AIMMS): Lead Producer

Dr. Kate Calvin (NASA HQ): Lead Scientist

Dr. Peter Jacobs (NASA GSFC): Scientist

Duration: 1 minute, 42 seconds

Release Date: June 14, 2023

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South America to The Stars: The 25-year Journey of Europe's Ariane 5 Rocket

South America to The Stars: The 25-year Journey of Europe's Ariane 5 Rocket

For a quarter century, Ariane 5 has been Europe’s heavy-lift workhorse. Flying from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, Ariane 5 has carried to space a long series of commercial and scientific missions. Notable payloads include the European Space Agency’s comet-chasing Rosetta, a dozen of Europe’s Galileo navigation satellites—orbited with just three launches—the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope and, in April 2023, the European Space Agency’s Juice mission to Jupiter.

Ariane 5 more than doubled the mass-to-orbit capacity of its predecessor, Ariane 4, which flew from 1988 until 2003 as a favorite of the telecommunications industry with its need to put large payloads into very high geosynchronous orbits. Ariane 5’s capacity enabled it to orbit two large telecommunications satellites on a single launch, or to push very large payloads into deep space.

After 117 flights, Ariane 5 is being replaced by an all-new launch vehicle, Ariane 6.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)

Duration: 1 minute, 47 seconds

Release Date: June 14, 2023

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A China Space Station Tour: Robotic Arm Camera

A China Space Station Tour: Robotic Arm Camera

The China Space Station has a three-module configuration consisting of the core module Tianhe and two lab modules Wentian and Mengtian. The assembly of the space station's T-shape basic structure was completed in orbit during 2022. The successful completion of the China Space Station was an important milestone in China's human spaceflight space program.

Credit: China National Space Administration (CNSA)/China Manned Space Agency (CMSA)

Duration: 3 minutes, 45 seconds

Release Date: June 14, 2023

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The Shark Nebula in Cepheus

The Shark Nebula in Cepheus

There is no sea on Earth large enough to contain The Shark Nebula. This predator apparition poses us no danger as it is composed only of interstellar gas and dust. Dark dust like that featured here is somewhat like cigarette smoke and created in the cool atmospheres of giant stars. After being expelled with gas and gravitationally recondensing, massive stars may carve intricate structures into their birth cloud using their high energy light and fast stellar winds as sculpting tools. The heat they generate evaporates the murky molecular cloud as well as causing ambient hydrogen gas to disperse and glow red. During disintegration, we humans can enjoy imagining these great clouds as common icons, like we do for water clouds on Earth. Including smaller dust nebulae such as Lynds Dark Nebula 1235 and Van den Bergh 149 & 150, the Shark nebula spans about 15 light years and lies about 650 light years away toward the constellation of the King of Aethiopia (Cepheus). The nebulas are blue because of the blue-white main sequence stars that illuminate the gas and dust which also causes infrared radiation.  

Image Credit & Copyright: Stephen Kennedy

Stephen's Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/occupyspacecreations/

Release Date: June 14, 2023

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Barnard's Galaxy in Sagittarius: Wide-field View | ESO

Barnard's Galaxy in Sagittarius: Wide-field View | ESO

Also known as NGC 6822, this dwarf irregular galaxy is one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbors 2 million light years away. This image is a color composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2). The field of view is approximatelly 2.9 x 2.9 degrees. 

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

Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin

Release Date: July 30, 2010

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