Geminid Meteor Shower over Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona

Geminid Meteor Shower over Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona

Speeding towards Earth, meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streak across the sky above the 4-meter Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab, in Arizona. Stretching across the center of the sky is the dusty arm of the Milky Way, arching over the radiant of the meteor shower in the constellation Gemini on the right. This image was captured during the peak of this year’s shower on December 14, 2023.

The Geminid meteor shower is one of the most reliable meteor showers. Like other meteor showers, these fireballs are rocky particles zooming through our atmosphere and brightly burning until they disintegrate long before they hit the ground. The particles from the Geminids come from the asteroid 3200 Phaethon, unlike most meteor showers, that originate from comets.

The Mayall telescope is the largest telescope at KPNO and is a great sight alongside the circumstellar phenomena of our Solar System. The telescope is currently home to the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). DESI, led by the US Department of Energy, is acquiring the spectra of tens of millions of galaxies and quasars and has already created the largest and most detailed 3D map of the Universe ever, which is aimed at revealing the effects of dark energy in the Universe.

This photograph was created by carefully stacking a series of photos, captured within a two-hour period. The foreground and background were stacked separately using the same sequence of images before being recombined into this image.

Rob Sparks, the photographer, is a NOIRLab Audiovisual Ambassador.

Every December we have a chance to see one of our favorite meteor showers—the Geminids. All meteors appear to come from the same place in the sky called the radiant. The Geminids appear to radiate from a point in the constellation Gemini, hence the name “Geminids.”

Observations show that the Geminids are denser than meteors belonging to other showers, enabling them to get as low as 29 miles above Earth’s surface before burning up. Meteors belonging to other showers, like the Perseids, burn up much higher.

The Geminids can be seen by most of the world. Yet, it is best viewed by observers in the Northern Hemisphere. As you enter the Southern Hemisphere and move towards the South Pole, the altitude of the Geminid radiant—the celestial point in the sky where the Geminid meteors appear to originate—gets lower and lower above the horizon. Thus, observers in these locations see fewer Geminids than their northern counterparts.
 

Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks (NSF’s NOIRLab)/NASA

Image Date: Dec. 14, 2023

Release Date: Dec. 27, 2023

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Una Puerta al Espacio ("A Door to Space" in Spanish) | NASA

Una Puerta al Espacio ("A Door to Space" in Spanish) | NASA

El astronauta de la NASA Frank Rubio muestra la sección de la Estación Espacial Internacional desde donde se accede al espacio: la esclusa de aire Quest. Quest es un módulo presurizado con dos compartimentos: la cámara de equipamiento, con los sistemas necesarios para el mantenimiento y reacondicionamiento de los trajes, y la esclusa de la tripulación, desde donde los astronautas salen de la estación para realizar caminatas espaciales.

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Astronaut Frank Rubio’s Official NASA Biography:
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/frank-rubio/

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 2 minutes, 19 seconds
Release Date: Dec. 29, 2023

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China's JW-200 Satellite Successfully Demonstrates Advanced Ion Propulsion

China's JW-200 Satellite Successfully Demonstrates Advanced Ion Propulsion

China's JW-200 research satellite has successfully demonstrated its permanent magnet-based Hall-effect ion propulsion thruster in orbit. When fired up, the ion drive produces bluish fumes and halo rings that are caused by extremely hot, electrically charged particles leaving the engine at 30-plus times the speed of sound. In China, scientists at the Shanghai Space Station Institute have been working to improve the technology.

China plans an uncrewed scientific mission to explore the outer solar system planet Neptune. It is 30 times further from the sun than the Earth. The spacecraft will be launched as early as 2028. It will be driven by a nuclear-powered, 20KW ion thruster.

Hall effect thrusters are named after Edwin Herbert Hall, an American physicist. He discovered in the 1930s that electrically charged particles could produce a thrust, but Soviet Russian scientists and engineers were the first to bring the theory to life. Soviet Russia started making numerous types of Hall thrusters for their satellites in the 1970s and even sold engines to NASA. Since then, NASA has  started building its own.

The thrust produced by electric propulsion systems is usually quite small. More importantly, charged particles can affect engine components and could shorten the lifespan of satellites and put human crews in danger. The Chinese research team has been testing the thrusters to the limit to ensure the engines can withstand the damage caused by the particles well enough to be used safely in crewed missions. According to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, one ion drive under development has burned non-stop for 8,240 hours–or more than 11 months–without a glitch, an indicator that they can easily meet the Chinese space station’s designated 15-year lifespan.

To protect the ion engine from erosion, researchers put a magnetic field over the engine’s inner wall to repel damaging particles. Chinese scientists have also created a special ceramic material designed to remain stable for a long period in the face of extreme heat or radiation.

In spacecraft propulsion, a Hall-effect thruster (HET) is a type of ion thruster where the propellant is accelerated by an electric field. Hall-effect thrusters (based on the discovery by Edwin Hall) are also referred to as Hall thrusters or Hall-current thrusters. Hall-effect thrusters use a magnetic field to limit the electrons' axial motion and then use them to ionize propellant, efficiently accelerate the ions to produce thrust, and neutralize the ions in the plume. The Hall-effect thruster is classed as a moderate specific impulse (1,600 s) space propulsion technology and has benefited from considerable theoretical and experimental research since the 1960s. [Wikipedia]

Video Credit: China National Space Agency (CNSA) Watcher 

Caption Credit: South China Morning Post (SCMP)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Dec. 29, 2023

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Las mejores imágenes de las investigaciones en la estación del 2023 | NASA

Las mejores imágenes de las investigaciones en la estación del 2023 | NASA

Cientos de experimentos viajaron a bordo de la Estación Espacial Internacional en 2023, cubriendo una amplia gama de temas científicos, incluyendo biología, investigación humana y ciencias de la Tierra. Echa un vistazo a las investigaciones en la estación con esta galería de imágenes. 

Lee más: http://go.nasa.gov/41H4jVe

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Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Dec. 28, 2023

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Best International Space Station Science Images of 2023

Best International Space Station Science Images of 2023

U.S. in-space manufacturing in low Earth orbit is enabled by the use of the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory to demonstrate the production of advanced materials. Hundreds of experiments flew aboard the International Space Station in 2023, covering a wide range of scientific topics, including biology, human research, and Earth science. Take a glimpse back at a year of science in space.

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Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (Denmark)

Roscosmos (Russia): Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Konstantin Borisov

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara (USA)

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: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 2 minutes, 10 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 28, 2023

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Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io: Nearing Closest Approach | NASA's Juno Mission

Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io: Nearing Closest Approach | NASA's Juno Mission

This image revealing the north polar region of the Jovian moon Io was taken on October 15, 2023, by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Three of the mountain peaks visible in the upper part of image, near the day-night dividing line, were observed here for the first time by the spacecraft’s JunoCam.

Planet Jupiter and Moon Io: A Portrait

Io moon's shadow on Jupiter

Juno spacecraft approaches Jovian Moon Io

This composite image depicts the visible changes on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io in the region around Volund, as seen by three NASA spacecraft over thirty years.

Io volcanic plume (upper mid-left in shadow) captured by JunoCam. This plume of material was ejected from the volcano Prometheus. The plume is just visible in the darkness below the terminator (the line dividing day and night).

NASA’s Juno spacecraft will on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2023, make the closest flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io that any spacecraft has made in over 20 years. Coming within roughly 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the surface of the most volcanic world in our solar system, the pass is expected to allow Juno instruments to generate a firehose of data. The orbiter has performed 56 flybys of Jupiter and documented close encounters with three of the gas giant’s four largest moons.

“By combining data from this flyby with our previous observations, the Juno science team is studying how Io’s volcanoes vary,” said Juno’s principal investigator, Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. “We are looking for how often they erupt, how bright and hot they are, how the shape of the lava flow changes, and how Io’s activity is connected to the flow of charged particles in Jupiter’s magnetosphere.”

A second ultra-close flyby of Io is scheduled for Feb. 3, 2024, in which Juno will again come within about 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of the surface.

The spacecraft has been monitoring Io’s volcanic activity from distances ranging from about 6,830 miles (11,000 kilometers) to over 62,100 miles (100,000 kilometers), and has provided the first views of the moon’s north and south poles. The spacecraft has also performed close flybys of Jupiter’s icy moons Ganymede and Europa.

“With our pair of close flybys in December and February, Juno will investigate the source of Io’s massive volcanic activity, whether a magma ocean exists underneath its crust, and the importance of tidal forces from Jupiter, which are relentlessly squeezing this tortured moon,” said Bolton.

Now in the third year of its extended mission to investigate the origin of Jupiter, the solar-powered spacecraft will also explore the ring system where some of the gas giant’s inner moons reside.

Picture This

All three cameras aboard Juno will be active during the Io flyby. The Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM), which takes images in infrared, will be collecting the heat signatures emitted by volcanoes and calderas covering the moon’s surface. The mission’s Stellar Reference Unit (a navigational star camera that has also provided valuable science) will obtain the highest-resolution image of the surface to date. And the JunoCam imager will take visible-light color images.

JunoCam was included on the spacecraft for the public’s engagement and was designed to operate for up to eight flybys of Jupiter. The upcoming flyby of Io will be Juno’s 57th orbit around Jupiter, where the spacecraft and cameras have endured one of the solar system’s most punishing radiation environments.

“The cumulative effects of all that radiation has begun to show on JunoCam over the last few orbits,” said Ed Hirst, project manager of Juno at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “Pictures from the last flyby show a reduction in the imager’s dynamic range and the appearance of ‘striping’ noise. Our engineering team has been working on solutions to alleviate the radiation damage and to keep the imager going.”

More Io, Please

After several months of study and assessment, the Juno team adjusted the spacecraft’s planned future trajectory to add seven new distant Io flybys (for a total of 18) to the extended mission plan. After the close Io pass on Feb. 3, the spacecraft will fly by Io every other orbit, with each orbit growing progressively more distant: The first will be at an altitude of about 10,250 miles (16,500 kilometers) above Io, and the last will be at about 71,450 miles (115,000 kilometers).

The gravitational pull of Io on Juno during the Dec. 30, 2023 flyby will reduce the spacecraft’s orbit around Jupiter from 38 days to 35 days. Juno’s orbit will drop to 33 days after the Feb. 3 flyby.

After that, Juno’s new trajectory will result in Jupiter blocking the Sun from the spacecraft for about five minutes at the time when the orbiter is at its closest to the planet, a period called perijove. Although this will be the first time the solar-powered spacecraft has encountered darkness since its flyby of Earth in October 2013, the duration will be too short to affect its overall operation. With the exception of the Feb. 3 perijove, the spacecraft will encounter solar eclipses like this during every close flyby of Jupiter from now on through the remainder of its extended mission that ends in late 2025.

Starting in April 2024, the spacecraft will carry out a series of occultation experiments that use Juno’s Gravity Science experiment to probe Jupiter’s upper atmospheric makeup, which provides key information on the planet’s shape and interior structure.

More About the Mission

JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott J. Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built and operates the spacecraft.

Learn more about NASA's Juno mission:

https://www.nasa.gov/juno

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/

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

Image Processing: Ted Stryk, Kevin M. Gill, Alain Mirón Velázquez, Jason Perry

Image Release Dates: Sept. 11, 2019-Dec. 22, 2023

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2023 Revisited: Key Moments in Chinese Space Exploration | CGTN

2023 Revisited: Key Moments in Chinese Space Exploration | CGTN

China's space sector has seen many historic achievements in 2023, including manned missions, international collaborations and commercial launches. In this special series, CGTN reporter Wu Lei revisits the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center for a look back at key moments in space exploration over the past year.

Credit: China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Duration: 4 minutes, 18 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 27, 2023

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Getting Up to Speed with China's Commercial Reusable Rockets | CGTN

Getting Up to Speed with China's Commercial Reusable Rockets | CGTN

Deploying reusable launch vehicles is the pinnacle pursuit for maximizing cost-effectiveness in commercial space exploration. This December 2023, China's private rocket industry shattered multiple launch records, elevating expectations for the country's journey towards utilizing reusable rockets. Dive into the latest achievements of these space explorers with this episode of "Tech Please!"

China opened up its space sector to private and commercial activity in 2014. This is seen as largely in reaction to the explosion of commercial space in the U.S. The central government has since implemented policies and published guidance to support the development of commercial space.

2023 has been a notable year for China’s commercial launch companies. CAS Space, Galactic Energy, iSpace, Expace, Space Pioneer and Landspace have all reached orbit. These include first Chinese commercial liquid propellant launch successes, achieved by Space Pioneer and Landspace. 

Chinese commercial rocket company iSpace’s Hyperbola-2 launch vehicle performed a successful vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) test on Nov. 2, 2023. Hyperbola-2 is a small, reusable, two-stage liquid-propellant launch vehicle, designed by iSpace (Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Corporation Ltd.) to launch up to 1.9 tons to low-Earth orbit. This test marks progress towards a reusable medium-lift rocket to debut in 2025. It is also the latest marker in Chinese efforts to emulate the success of SpaceX and its Falcon 9 rocket.

The Tiangong Space Station is expected to provide an opportunity for commercial launch vehicles to gain contracts to deliver cargo. The national Guowang LEO broadband megaconstellation is also expected to provide opportunities for commercial actors.

Video Credit: China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Duration: 5 minutes, 30 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 24, 2023  

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NASA Mars Perseverance Rover's View of 'Airey Hill' | JPL

NASA Mars Perseverance Rover's View of 'Airey Hill' | JPL

Captured by the rover’s Mastcam-Z, the images used to create this panorama were acquired on Nov. 3, Nov. 4, and Nov. 6, 2023, the 962nd, 963rd, and 965th Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission. 

This is a natural color version.

This is an anaglyph that can be viewed with red-blue 3D glasses.

The journey ahead: A labeled image in the enhanced-color view indicates a possible future track for NASA's Mars Perseverance rover, including its route out of Jezero Crater.

Jezero Crater on Mars formed from an asteroid impact almost 4 billion years ago. After NASA's Perseverance Mars rover landed in February 2021, the mission team discovered the crater floor is made of igneous rock formed from magma underground or from volcanic activity at the surface. They have since found sandstone and mudstone, signaling the arrival of the first river in the crater hundreds of millions of years later. Above these rocks are salt-rich mudstones, signaling the presence of a shallow lake experiencing evaporation. The team thinks the lake eventually grew as wide as 22 miles (35 kilometers) in diameter and as deep as 100 feet (30 meters).

Arizona State University leads the operations of the Mastcam-Z instrument, working in collaboration with Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, on the design, fabrication, testing, and operation of the cameras, and in collaboration with the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen on the design, fabrication, and testing of the calibration targets.

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, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).

Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.

The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed for the agency by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.

Celebrating 2+ Years on 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 return to Earth.

Mars Helicopter (Ingenuity)

Launch: July 30, 2020    

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

For more about Perseverance: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

Release Date: Dec. 12, 2023

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NASA's Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River | JPL

NASA's Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River | JPL

After 1,000 Martian days of exploration, NASA’s Perseverance rover is studying rocks that show several eras in the history of a river delta billions of years old. Scientists are investigating this region of Mars, known as Jezero Crater, to see if they can find evidence of ancient life recorded in the rocks. Perseverance project scientist Ken Farley provides a guided tour of a richly detailed panorama of the rover’s location in November 2023, taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument.

Composed of 993 individual images and 2.38 billion pixels, this 360-degree mosaic looks in all directions from a location the rover science team calls “Airey Hill.” Portions of the rover itself are visible in the scene, appearing more distorted toward the edges as a result of the image processing. 

A color enhancement applied to the image increases contrast and accentuates color differences. By approximating what the scene would look like under Earth-like lighting conditions, the adjustment allows mission scientists to use their everyday experience to interpret the landscape. 

The view on Mars would be darker and more reddish. 

Learn more about Perseverance: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020

Celebrating 2+ Years on 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 return to Earth.

Mars Helicopter (Ingenuity)

Launch: July 30, 2020    

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

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS; ESA/DLR/FU-Berlin

Duration: 3 minutes

Release Date: Dec. 27, 2023

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Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Release via Canadarm2 | International Space Station

Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Release via Canadarm2 | International Space Station

New Views: NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara monitored the Canadarm2 robotic arm release of the Cygnus space freighter on Friday, Dec. 22, 2023. Earlier, ground engineers remotely maneuvered the Canadarm2 and detached Cygnus from the Unity module where it had been installed since Aug. 4.

Packed inside Cygnus, along with disposable cargo, is the SAFFIRE-VI experiment that will be remotely activated aboard the spacecraft to explore fire safety. The space freighter from Northrop Grumman will orbit Earth on its own until early January for a safe, but fiery demise above the south Pacific Ocean.

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Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (Denmark)

Roscosmos (Russia): Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Konstantin Borisov

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara (USA)

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: Dec. 22, 2023

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The Last Full Moon of 2023 | International Space Station

The Last Full Moon of 2023 | International Space Station

The last full moon of 2023, the "Cold Moon," sits just above the blue glow of Earth's horizon as the International Space Station orbited nearly 270 miles over the Pacific Ocean.

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Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (Denmark)

Roscosmos (Russia): Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Konstantin Borisov

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara (USA)

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

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: Dec. 26, 2023

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NASA in 2024: Onward & Upward

NASA in 2024: Onward & Upward

Landing science on the Moon, demonstrating quiet supersonic aircraft, and launching two new Earth climate satellites, plus a mission to Europa, one of Jupiter's icy moons, are just a FEW of the milestones we have planned for 2024.

To learn more about the missions mentioned in this video, take a deep dive into these links:

[0:24] Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS): https://www.nasa.gov/commercial-lunar-payload-services/

[0:33] VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover): https://science.nasa.gov/mission/viper/

[0:38] PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1): https://www.nasa.gov/polar-resources-ice-mining-experiment-1/

[0:41]Artemis missions to the Moon: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/

[0:50] 3D Versions of human organs called Tissue Chips used for groundbreaking science: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/biological-physical-sciences/chipping-away-at-personalized-medicine/

[0:54] Artemis III spacesuits provided by Axiom Space: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/spacesuit-for-nasas-artemis-iii-moon-surface-mission-debuts/

[1:05] Human Landing Systems (HLS) development: https://www.nasa.gov/reference/human-landing-systems/

[1:08] Gateway, humanity’s first lunar space station: https://www.nasa.gov/mission/gateway/ 

[1:11] Lunar Terrain Vehicles to explore the lunar South Pole: https://www.nasa.gov/extravehicular-activity-and-human-surface-mobility/lunar-terrain-vehicle/

[1:13] International Space Station (ISS) science: https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/space-station-research-and-technology/

[1:19] NASA’s Commercial Crew Program: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/commercial-space/commercial-crew-program/

[1:21] Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) to the ISS: https://www.nasa.gov/mission/boeing-cft/ 

[1:29] NASA-ISRO joint mission to systematically map Earth using synthetic aperture radar (NISAR): https://nisar.jpl.nasa.gov/ 

[1:35] PACE Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission: https://pace.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 

[1:38] X-59 Quesst Supersonic Low-boom Aircraft: https://www.nasa.gov/mission/quesst/ 

[1:46] Europa Clipper Launches to Jupiter Moon Europa: https://europa.nasa.gov/ 

[1:58] Total Eclipse across North America: https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/

Credit: NASA

Video Producer: Sonnet Apple

Duration: 2 minutes, 32 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 27, 2023

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One Million Astronomical Objects | European Space Agency

One Million Astronomical Objects | European Space Agency

Embark on a cosmic journey with the European Space Agency as we explore the universe through the lens of ‘One Million’. From the scorching temperatures of the Sun's corona to the cosmic gaze of the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope— discover the astronomical wonders that surround us. 🚀

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)

Duration: 4 minutes, 17 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 26, 2023

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Recientemente: Un video desde el espacio profundo | NASA

Recientemente: Un video desde el espacio profundo | 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. 

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 2 minutes, 48 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 26, 2023

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What's a Lunar Crater Radio Telescope? | NASA Space Technology

What's a Lunar Crater Radio Telescope? | NASA Space Technology

Imagine a giant telescope secluded on the surface on the far side of the Moon. This is the idea behind the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT), a visionary project from NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program. Deployed by cliff-climbing robots, the LCRT would be isolated from Earth-based radio interference, giving us an unparalleled view of the universe. The LCRT would be able to detect radio waves from the cosmic Dark Ages, a period before the first stars formed. With the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the universe, the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope would be a game-changer in space exploration.

NASA 360 takes a look at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concept (NIAC) called the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT), a bold idea that could revolutionize our understanding of the universe. 

To learn more about the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope, visit: https://go.nasa.gov/3GYult1

To watch the in-depth presentation about this topic, please visit the 2022 NIAC Symposium Livestream site: https://livestream.com/viewnow/niac2022/videos/232995243 (LCRT talk begins at 4:38:30)

To learn more about NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program visit: https://www.nasa.gov/niac

This video represents a research study within the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. NIAC is a visionary and far-reaching aerospace program, one that has the potential to create breakthrough technologies for possible future space missions. However, such early stage technology developments may never become actual NASA missions. NIAC projects study innovative, technically credible, advanced concepts to turn science fiction to science fact.

For more information about NIAC: https://www.nasa.gov/NIAC

Apply to NIAC link: 

https://www.nasa.gov/content/apply-to-niac

Video Credit: NASA Space Tech

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Dec. 26, 2023

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