Cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia in NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Training
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Sunday, June 25, 2023
Cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia in NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Training
Expedition 70 Mission Patch Design | International Space Station
Expedition 70 Mission Patch Design | International Space Station
Space exploration is also about creating the future of our dreams. The tentative first steps we take today will hopefully become a well-trodden path in the future. This is represented stylistically by the “retro-futuristic” design of the patch, which mimics the design of the posters depicting the future from the early days of the space age. It is also emphasized by the yellow, orange, and red colors suggesting a sunrise. Lastly, the dynamism in the depiction of the number 7 suggests not only the physical launch into space, but also humanity’s progress towards the future.
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.
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European Astronaut Andreas Mogensen: NASA Crew-7 Spacewalk Training
Andreas Mogensen will join NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia, and astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
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 European Space Agency Biography
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Andreas_Mogensen
Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Image Dates: March 18, 2022-April 11, 2023
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NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli: Crew-7 Spacewalk Training for First Spaceflight
NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli: Crew-7 Spacewalk Training for First Spaceflight
Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli Official NASA Biography:
https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jasmin-moghbeli
https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jasmin-moghbeli/biography
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli will join European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia, and astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than mid-August 2023 for the launch of Crew-7, aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four astronauts will join an expedition crew aboard the International Space Station.
Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/Robert Markowitz/James Blair
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Saturday, June 24, 2023
String of Storms in the Atlantic Ocean | NASA Earth Observatory
String of Storms in the Atlantic Ocean | NASA Earth Observatory
Two tropical cyclones formed over the Atlantic Ocean and moved toward the Caribbean in June 2023. This marks the first time on record that more than one such storm has developed in the month of June.
NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s DSCOVR satellite captured this view of tropical storms Bret and Cindy lining up over the Atlantic on June 22, 2023. Smoke from wildfires in Canada is also visible in this image, which was taken from about 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) away from Earth.
On the day the image was acquired, Bret neared the central islands of the Lesser Antilles on a westward path, while Cindy gathered strength in the tropical Atlantic. The following day, on June 23, Bret had passed over the islands and continued moving west, with maximum sustained winds near 95 kilometers (60 miles) per hour. Cindy progressed on a west-northwest path with sustained winds approaching 85 kilometers (50 miles) per hour.
According to the National Hurricane Center, Bret was forecast to weaken and dissipate over the central Caribbean Sea. Cindy was expected to continue west-northwest and strengthen for about a day before weakening.
The Deep Space Climate Observatory is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) space weather, space climate, and Earth observation satellite at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point. It was launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February 11, 2015, from Cape Canaveral in Florida. This is NOAA's first operational deep space satellite and became its primary system of warning Earth in the event of solar magnetic storms. [Wikipedia]
Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using data from DSCOVR EPIC
Image Date: June 22, 2023
Release Date: June 23, 2023
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Japanese Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa in NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Training
Japanese Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa in NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Training
Astronaut Furukawa will join NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia. Furukawa spent 165 days aboard the orbiting laboratory in 2011 as a flight engineer with Expeditions 28 and 29. As part of his duties, he helped support the final space shuttle mission, STS-135.
Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa JAXA Biography:
https://humans-in-space.jaxa.jp/en/astronaut/furukawa-satoshi/
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than mid-August 2023 for the launch of Crew-7, aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four astronauts will join an expedition crew aboard the International Space Station.
Image Credits: SpaceX/NASA/Riley McClenaghan
Image Capture Dates: March 3, 2023-June 2, 2023
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Expedition 69 Crew & Station Photos: June 2023 | International Space Station
Expedition 69 Crew & Station Photos: June 2023 | International Space Station
Follow Expedition 69 updates here:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/
Expedition 69 Crew (June 2023)
Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey FedyaevSpaceX Dragon cargo vehicle approaches International Space Station
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)
Image Dates: May 10-June 23, 2023
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New NASA Technology Concept for Exploring Ocean Worlds in Our Solar System
New NASA Technology Concept for Exploring Ocean Worlds in Our Solar System
SWIM | Sensing with Independent Micro-swimmers: Researchers are working on a mission concept that could change the way we explore alien ocean worlds like Europa, Enceladus, and Titan and answer the question: Are we alone in the universe? The SWIM (Sensing with Independent Micro-swimmers) concept consists of dozens of small, 3D-printed swimming micro-robots (micro-swimmers) equipped with sensors. Deployed individually or as a swarm from a single robot mothercraft, the micro-swimmers would actively sample ocean water and measure desired ocean properties, habitability metrics, and potential biomarkers. These capabilities would enable scientists to better understand the alien ocean’s composition and habitability.
NASA 360 takes a look at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concept (NIAC) called SWIM, a revolutionary idea for exploring ocean worlds.
To learn more visit: https://go.nasa.gov/3JtXJck & https://go.nasa.gov/3NxiSpI
To watch the in-depth presentation about this topic please visit the 2022 NIAC Symposium Livestream site: https://bit.ly/40ktP0L (SWIM talk begins at 4:35:25)
To learn more about NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program visit: https://www.nasa.gov/niac
Credit: NASA Technology/NASA360
Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: June 23, 2023
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NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity: 3D View | Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity: 3D View | Jet Propulsion Laboratory
It is time to get out your red/blue glasses. The multicolor, stereo imaging Mastcam-Z on the Perseverance rover zoomed in to capture this 3D close-up of the Mars Ingenuity helicopter on mission sol 45. This was on Earth-date April 5, 2021. Casting a shadow on the Martian surface, Ingenuity is standing alone on its four landing legs next to the rover's wheel tracks. The experimental helicopter's solar panel, charging batteries that keep it warm through the cold Martian nights and power its flight, sits just above Ingenuity's two 1.2 meter (4 foot) long counter-rotating blades. Thirteen sols later, on April 19, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to perform powered, controlled flight on another planet. It has since gone on to complete more than 50 flights through the thin atmosphere of Mars.
Ingenuity's flights have repeatedly proven its ability to fly over a hundred million miles from Earth, without direct human control. Because radio signals take between 5–20 minutes to travel between Earth and Mars—depending on planetary positions—Ingenuity must operate autonomously, performing maneuvers planned, scripted and transmitted to it by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Friday, June 23, 2023
Showcasing NASA's New Earth Information Center | This Week @NASA
Showcasing NASA's New Earth Information Center | This Week @NASA
Showcasing our new Earth Information Center, in search of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet, and getting ready for an important delivery . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!
Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Video Producer, Editor & Narrator: Andre Valentine
Duration: 3 minutes
Release Date: June 23, 2023
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El Niño Returns | Sentinel Earth Satellites | NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
El Niño Returns | Sentinel Earth Satellites | NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The map above depicts sea surface height anomalies across the central and eastern Pacific Ocean as observed from June 1–10, 2023. Shades of blue indicate sea levels that were lower than average; normal sea level conditions appear white; and reds indicate areas where the ocean stood higher than normal.
After three consecutive years of La Niña, spring 2023 saw the return of El Niño—a natural climate phenomenon characterized by the presence of warmer than normal sea surface temperatures (and higher sea levels) in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
El Niño is associated with the weakening of easterly trade winds and the movement of warm water from the western Pacific toward the western coast of the Americas. The phenomenon can have widespread effects, often bringing cooler, wetter conditions to the U.S. Southwest and drought to countries in the western Pacific, such as Indonesia and Australia.
Satellite- and ocean-based measurements of sea surface temperature are one way to detect the arrival of El Niño. Its signature also shows up in satellite measurements of sea surface height, which rises as ocean temperatures warm up. This is because warmer water expands to fill more volume, while cooler water contracts.
Data for this map were acquired by the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich and Sentinel-3B satellites and processed by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Note that signals related to seasonal cycles and long-term trends have been removed to highlight sea level anomalies associated with El Niño and other short-term natural phenomena.
In a report released on June 8, 2023, the NOAA Climate Prediction Center declared El Niño conditions were present. The report pointed to sea surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the tropical Pacific (from 170° to 120° West longitude) that in May 2023 were 0.8°C (1.4°F) above the long-term average.
Forecasters expected El Niño conditions to gradually strengthen into the 2023–2024 Northern Hemisphere winter, by which time they called for a 84 percent chance of a moderate strength El Niño developing and a 56 percent chance of a strong El Niño.
As of June 2023, however, El Niño was not as far along as past El Niño events by the same time of year, according to Josh Willis, an oceanographer and Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich project scientist at JPL.
“It’s still a bit too early to say whether this will be a big one,” Willis said. “It will probably have some global impacts, but there’s still time for this El Niño to underwhelm.”
The climate phenomenon emerged in late spring 2023, as waters grew warmer and sea levels rose higher than usual in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
Instrument: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich
Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2023) processed by the European Space Agency and further processed by Josh Willis, Severin Fournier, and Kevin Marlis/NASA/JPL-Caltech
Story Credit: Kathryn Hansen
Visiting The Pleiades Star Cluster (Fulldome view) | ESO
Visiting The Pleiades Star Cluster (Fulldome view) | ESO
This is a fulldome representation of travel through The Pleiades (also known as M45), an open star cluster in the constellation of Taurus (the Bull). The Pleiades is the closest star cluster to Earth.
Note: The full dome video display format is designed for projection systems in planetariums.
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Duration: 13 seconds
Release Date: Aug. 20, 2018
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Giant Galaxies in Pavo
Giant Galaxies in Pavo
Over 500,000 light years across, NGC 6872 (top right) is a truly enormous barred spiral galaxy, at least five times the size of our own very large Milky Way. The appearance of this giant galaxy's distorted and stretched out spiral arms suggests the magnificent wings of a giant bird. Of course its popular moniker is the Condor Galaxy. It lies about 200 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Pavo, the Peacock. Lined with star-forming regions, the distorted spiral arms are due to NGC 6872's gravitational interaction with the nearby smaller galaxy IC 4970, seen just above the giant galaxy's core. The Pavo galaxy group's dominant giant elliptical galaxy, NGC 6876 is below and left of the soaring Condor Galaxy.
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby, Observatorio El Sauce
Mike's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/masterdarksastro/
Observatorio El Sauce's Website: https://obstech.cl/
Release Date: June 23, 2023
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NASA's Space to Ground: Four for 7 | Week of June 23, 2023
NASA's Space to Ground: Four for 7 | Week of June 23, 2023
NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli will be the spacecraft commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission—the agency’s seventh rotational mission to the International Space Station. Moghbeli is a naval aviator, test pilot, and aerospace engineer. This will be the first spaceflight for Moghbeli, who became a NASA astronaut in 2017.
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli will join European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia and astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than mid-August 2023 for the launch of Crew-7, aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four astronauts will join the expedition crew aboard the International Space Station.
Expedition 69 Crew (June 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.
Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science
For more information about STEM on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 2 minutes, 20 seconds
Release Date: June 22, 2023
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Mars Images: June 20-22, 2023 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers | JPL
Mars Images: June 20-22, 2023 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers | JPL
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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
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 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University/Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS)
Processing: Kevin M. Gill
Image Release Dates: June 20-22, 2023
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Thursday, June 22, 2023
NASA's "Espacio A Tierra" | En una buena racha: 16 de junio de 2023
NASA's "Espacio A Tierra" | En una buena racha: 16 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
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Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 3 minutes, 39 seconds