Wednesday, August 14, 2024

NASA Pathways Internships: Apply starting Aug. 14!

NASA Pathways Internships: Apply starting Aug. 14!


All Pathways Internship vacancies are posted on USAJobs.gov

These hands-on internships for U.S. citizens (16 years or older) offer a "direct route to conversion into a career with NASA."

Check out this guide dedicated to helping applicants build their best resume: go.nasa.gov/48e1Ogh

Learn more about NASA Pathways Internships:

https://www.nasa.gov/careers/pathways/

Eligibility Requirements:

https://www.nasa.gov/careers/pathways/#Eligibility-Requirements


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A Long Climb Up Martian Crater Rim | NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

A Long Climb Up Martian Crater Rim | NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

One of the navigation cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this view looking back at the “Bright Angel” area on July 30, the 1,224th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. After 2½ years exploring Jezero Crater’s floor and river delta, Perseverance will ascend to an area where it will search for more discoveries that could rewrite Mars’ history.
This map shows the route NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will take (in blue) as it climbs the western rim of Jezero Crater, first reaching “Dox Castle,” then investigating the “Pico Turquino” area before approaching “Witch Hazel Hill.” 
This panorama shows the area NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will climb in coming months to crest Jezero Crater’s rim. It is made up of 59 images taken by the rover’s Mastcam-Z on Aug. 4, 2024. 

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will soon begin a monthslong ascent up the western rim of Jezero Crater that is likely to include examples of the steepest and most challenging terrain the rover has encountered to date. Scheduled to start the week of Aug. 19, the climb will mark the kickoff of the mission’s new science campaign—its fifth since the rover landed in the crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

“Perseverance has completed four science campaigns, collected 22 rock cores, and traveled over 18 unpaved miles,” said Perseverance project manager Art Thompson of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “As we start the Crater Rim Campaign, our rover is in excellent condition, and the team is raring to see what’s on the roof of this place.”

Two of the priority regions the science team wants to study at the top of the crater are nicknamed “Pico Turquino” and “Witch Hazel Hill.” Imagery from NASA’s Mars orbiters indicates that Pico Turquino contains ancient fractures that may have been caused by hydrothermal activity in the distant past.

Never Miss a Discovery

Orbital views of Witch Hazel show layered materials that likely date from a time when Mars had a very different climate than today. Those views have revealed light-toned bedrock similar to what was found at “Bright Angel,” the area where Perseverance recently discovered and sampled the “Cheyava Falls” rock, which exhibits chemical signatures and structures that could possibly have been formed by life billions of years ago when the area contained running water.

It's Sedimentary

During the river delta exploration phase of the mission, the rover collected the only sedimentary rock ever sampled from a planet other than Earth. Sedimentary rocks are important because they form when particles of various sizes are transported by water and deposited into a standing body of water; on Earth, liquid water is one of the most important requirements for life as we know it.

A study published Wednesday, Aug. 14, in AGU Advances chronicles the 10 rock cores gathered from sedimentary rocks in an ancient Martian delta, a fan-shaped collection of rocks and sediment that formed billions of years ago at the convergence of a river and a crater lake.

The core samples collected at the fan front are the oldest, whereas the rocks cored at the fan top are likely the youngest, produced when flowing water deposited sediment in the western fan.

“Among these rock cores are likely the oldest materials sampled from any known environment that was potentially habitable,” said Tanja Bosak, a geobiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and member of Perseverance’s science team. “When we bring them back to Earth, they can tell us so much about when, why, and for how long Mars contained liquid water and whether some organic, prebiotic, and potentially even biological evolution may have taken place on that planet.”

Onward to the Crater Rim

As scientifically intriguing as the samples have been so far, the mission expects many more discoveries to come.

“Our samples are already an incredibly scientifically compelling collection, but the crater rim promises to provide even more samples that will have significant implications for our understanding of Martian geologic history,” said Eleni Ravanis, a University of Hawaiì at Mānoa scientist on Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z instrument team and one of the Crater Rim Campaign science leads. “This is because we expect to investigate rocks from the most ancient crust of Mars. These rocks formed from a wealth of different processes, and some represent potentially habitable ancient environments that have never been examined up close before.”

Reaching the top of the crater won’t be easy. To get there, Perseverance will rely on its auto-navigation capabilities as it follows a route that rover planners designed to minimize hazards while still giving the science team plenty to investigate. Encountering slopes of up to 23 degrees on the journey (rover drivers avoid terrain that would tilt Perseverance more than 30 degrees), the rover will have gained about 1,000 feet (300 meters) in elevation by the time it summits the crater’s rim at a location the science team has dubbed “Aurora Park.”

Then, perched hundreds of meters above a crater floor stretching 28 miles (45 kilometers) across, Perseverance can begin the next leg of its adventure.

More Mission Information

A key objective of Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including caching samples that may contain signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, to help pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet and as the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Program, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), is designed to 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, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.

For more about Perseverance:

science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance


Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Release Date: Aug. 14, 2024


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Sun Releases Strong Solar X1.1 Flare | NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

Sun Releases Strong Solar X1.1 Flare | NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory


The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 2:40 a.m. ET on Aug. 14, 2024. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory watches the Sun constantly and it captured an image of the event.

A portion of the Sun, shown in teal. In the middle a large flash of light bursts out, appearing white.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare—seen as the bright flash in the center—on Aug. 14, 2024. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares. It is colorized in teal.

Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts.

This flare is classified as an X1.1 flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength.

The Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, is structured by strong magnetic fields. Where these fields are closed, often above sunspot groups, the confined solar atmosphere can suddenly and violently release bubbles of gas and magnetic fields called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). A large CME can contain a billion tons of matter that can be accelerated to several million miles per hour in a spectacular explosion. Solar material streams out through the interplanetary medium, impacting any planet or spacecraft in its path. CMEs are sometimes associated with flares but can occur independently.

To see how such space weather may affect Earth, please visit the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center https://spaceweather.gov, the U.S. government’s official source for space weather forecasts, watches, warnings, and alerts. 

NASA works as a research arm of the nation’s space weather effort. NASA observes the Sun and our space environment constantly with a fleet of spacecraft that study everything from the Sun’s activity to the solar atmosphere, and to the particles and magnetic fields in the space surrounding Earth.


Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Duration: 1 second

Release Date: Aug. 14, 2024


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Gaganyaan: India Prepares for First Crewed Spaceflight Missions | ISRO

Gaganyaan: India Prepares for First Crewed Spaceflight Missions | ISRO

Gaganyaan ("sky craft" in Hindi) is a crewed orbital spacecraft for India's human spaceflight program. The spacecraft is being designed to carry three people, and a planned upgraded version will be equipped with rendezvous and docking capabilities. In its first crewed mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s largely autonomous 5.3-metric ton capsule will orbit the Earth at 400 km altitude for up to seven days with a two- or three-person crew on board. Launch is expected in 2025. 

India became the fourth country to land on the Moon and the first to reach its southern polar region on August 23, 2023 with the Chandrayaan-3 Mission. To honor this landmark achievement, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi announced August 23 as "National Space Day".

India is celebrating its maiden National Space Day on August 23, 2024 with the theme "Touching Lives while Touching the Moon: India's Space Saga."

"A myriad of events will unfold highlighting India's remarkable achievements in space, profound benefits to the society, and boundless opportunities for people from all walks of life to engage with the Indian space program. These celebrations will culminate into the main event at New Delhi on August 23, 2024."


Learn more about Gaganyaan program:

https://www.isro.gov.in/Gaganyaan.html


Video Credit: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Aug. 14, 2024


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Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Moonbeams | International Space Station

Moonbeams | International Space Station

The Moon illuminates a cloud-covered Pacific Ocean as stars glitter in the background above the Earth's airglow. The International Space Station's solar arrays dominate the foreground as the orbital outpost soared 268 miles above.
Expedition 71 Updates:

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

Expedition 71 Crew
Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)
NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore

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

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)


Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Image Date: July 18, 2024


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How Does a Photographer 'Shoot' Stars?

How Does a Photographer 'Shoot' Stars?

The most beautiful summertime meteor shower in the northern hemisphere, the Perseids, has been witnessed by many people in China recently. Professional photographers are among those in attendance. Among them is Jeff Dai, who talked about his experience with Zheng Yibing of CGTN.


Video Credit: China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Aug. 12, 2024

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NASA CubeSat Rocket Launch Recap: Noise of Summer | Firefly Aerospace

NASA CubeSat Rocket Launch Recap: Noise of Summer | Firefly Aerospace

The Alpha rocket lit up the night sky across the southwest United States just before Independence Day! Relive the excitement of Firefly's Noise of Summer Mission that launched 8 NASA CubeSats. 

As part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, Firefly Aerospace launched eight small satellites on July 3, 2024, aboard the company’s Alpha rocket. Named “Noise of Summer,” the rocket successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg in California at 9:04 p.m. PDT.

The CubeSat missions were designed by universities and NASA centers and cover science that includes climate studies, satellite technology development, and educational outreach to students.

Firefly Aerospace completed its Venture-Class Launch Services Demonstration 2 contract with this launch. The agency’s venture-class contracts offer launch opportunities for new providers, helping grow the commercial launch industry and leading to cost-effective competition for future NASA missions.

NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative provides a low-cost way for universities, non-profits, science centers, and other researchers to conduct science and technology demonstrations in space.


Video Credit: Firefly Aerospace

Duration: 1 minute, 18 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 13, 2024



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The Moon, Aurora & Sunrise | International Space Station

The Moon, Aurora & Sunrise | International Space Station

NASA Astronaut Matthew Dominick: "Timelapse of the Moon setting into streams of red and green aurora followed by a sunrise lighting up Soyuz with a light blue. The aurora have been amazing the past few days. Great timing for trying out a new lens that recently arrived on Cygnus." 

Technical details: 15mm, T1.8, 1/3s exposure, 1/2 s interval

Expedition 71 Updates:

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

Expedition 71 Crew
Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)
NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore

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

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)


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

Release Date: Aug. 12, 2024


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Galaxy NGC 6902 in Sagittarius | SPECULOOS Southern Observato

Galaxy NGC 6902 in Sagittarius | SPECULOOS Southern Observatory


This is a first-light image from the SPECULOOS Southern Observatory at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory. This planet-hunting machine is designed to observe nearby but dim stars to locate exoplanets for other telescopes—such as European Southern Observatory's upcoming Extremely Large Telescope (ELT)—to study in detail. Comprising four one-meter telescopes, each named after one of Jupiter’s Galilean moons, SPECULOOS aims to open up new frontiers in exoplanet research.

This image, however, is obviously not of a faint star, but of a galaxy called NGC 6902. Before a telescope starts its primary mission it must successfully undertake an event called “first light”: the first time it is used for a scientific observation. Astronomers typically pick well-known objects for this initial test of a telescope’s capabilities. It is half demonstration and half celebration. In this case, the team settled on NGC 6902 as the first-light target for the Ganymede telescope.

The result was this stunning image of the spiral galaxy. It is found about 120 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer). The galaxy’s spiral arms swirl outwards from a bright center until they dissolve into streams of blue haze at the galaxy’s edge. Discovered in the year 1836 by John Herschel, NGC 6902 is a beautiful spiral galaxy located more than 130 million light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius, the Archer.


Credit: ESO/SPECULOOS Team/E. Jehin

Release Date: Feb. 25, 2019


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NASA Harnesses Kraken Spinning Device to Simulate Human Spaceflight

NASA Harnesses Kraken Spinning Device to Simulate Human Spaceflight

This summer, NASA is using the Kraken, a 50-foot-long, 100-ton U.S. Navy research device, to simulate space motion sickness and test possible recovery strategies for astronauts. The Kraken, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, can rotate participants at exposures of up to 3G. 

As missions stretch further to the Moon and eventually to Mars, a priority is reducing symptoms like dizziness, nausea, and vertigo so that astronauts stay healthy and ready for their missions.

Learn more about the Kraken:

https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/818426/namru-d-releases-the-kraken/


Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC); Kraken footage courtesy of U.S. Navy/Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Aug. 12, 2024

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Monday, August 12, 2024

Distant Edge-on Spiral Galaxy: LO95 0313-192 in Eridanus | Hubble

Distant Edge-on Spiral Galaxy: LO95 0313-192 in Eridanus | Hubble


Despite its unassuming appearance, the edge-on spiral galaxy captured in the left half of this NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope image is actually quite remarkable.

Located about one billion light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus, this striking galaxy—known as LO95 0313-192—has a spiral shape similar to that of the Milky Way. It has a large central bulge, and arms speckled with brightly glowing gas mottled by thick lanes of dark dust. Its companion, sitting pretty in the right of the frame, is known rather unpoetically as [LOY2001] J031549.8-190623.

Jets, outbursts of superheated gas moving at close to the speed of light, have long been associated with the cores of giant elliptical galaxies, and galaxies in the process of merging. However, in an unexpected discovery, astronomers found LO95 0313-192 to have intense radio jets spewing out from its center! The galaxy appears to have two more regions that are also strongly emitting in the radio part of the spectrum, making it even rarer still.

The discovery of these giant jets in 2003—not visible in this image, but indicated in this earlier Hubble composite—has been followed by the unearthing of a further three spiral galaxies containing radio-emitting jets in recent years. This growing class of unusual spirals continues to raise significant questions about how jets are produced within galaxies, and how they are thrown out into the cosmos.


Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt

Release Date: Jan. 25, 2016


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Testing Technology for Mars Exploration: LOFTID | NASA

Testing Technology for Mars Exploration: LOFTID | NASA

On November 10, 2022, NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, or LOFTID, successfully demonstrated a cross-cutting aeroshell—a type of heat shield—for atmospheric re-entry. Video of the mission highlights and analysis of performance of NASA’s cutting-edge entry, descent and landing technology: Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID).

Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID): https://www.nasa.gov/loftid


Video Credit: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)

Duration: 4 minutes, 24 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 12, 2024


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How NASA Sees the Shift from La Niña to El Niño | NASA Goddard

How NASA Sees the Shift from La Niña to El Niño | NASA Goddard

El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), is an ocean-atmosphere coupled phenomenon that affects global weather such as rainfall and drought patterns. We use several NASA and NOAA data products (listed below) to visualize the interaction between the ocean and atmosphere during the transition from La Niña 2021 to El Niño 2023. 

The visualization is a comprehensive explainer showing changes in the upper 300 meters of the Pacific Ocean (such as thermocline relaxation and eastward movement of warm temperature anomalies) and the changes in the lower atmosphere (e.g., the Walker Circulation). 

It is among the first efforts in visualizing the Walker Circulation and its convective branch moving across the Pacific without schematic plots but rather with verified model outputs.

Global Climate Change - NASA

https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/


Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Kathleen Gaeta (GSFC AMA): Lead Producer

Jefferson Beck (GSFC KBR): Producer

Atousa Saberi (NASA GSFC): Lead Scientist, Lead Visualizer

Greg Shirah (NASA GSFC): Visualizer

Duration: 6 minutes, 49 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 12, 2024

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Northern Lights over Shallow Lake, Ontario, Canada

Northern Lights over Shallow Lake, Ontario, Canada

On Earth, auroras are mainly created by particles originally emitted by the Sun in the form of solar wind. When this stream of electrically charged particles gets close to our planet, it interacts with the magnetic field, which acts as a gigantic shield. While it protects Earth’s environment from solar wind particles, it can also trap a small fraction of them. Particles trapped within the magnetosphere—the region of space surrounding Earth in which charged particles are affected by its magnetic field—can be energized and then follow the magnetic field lines down to the magnetic poles. There, they interact with oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the upper layers of the atmosphere, creating the flickering, colorful lights visible in the polar regions here on Earth.

Earth auroras have different names depending on the pole they occur at. Aurora Borealis, or the northern lights, is the name given to auroras around the north pole and Aurora Australis, or the southern lights, is the name given for auroras around the south pole.

The Colors of the Aurora (U.S. National Park Service)

Image Credit: Northern Lights Graffiti
Image Date: August 12, 2024

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Wildfire Smoke from Canada in Earth's Atmosphere | International Space Station

Wildfire Smoke from Canada in Earth's Atmosphere | International Space Station

A wildfire in Canada and its smoke circulating in the Earth's atmosphere, pictured from the Intenational Space Station as it orbited 263 miles above North Dakota in the United States.

Visit National Wildland Fire Situation Report (Canada) for updates:

https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/report

Expedition 71 Updates:

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

Expedition 71 Crew
Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)
NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore

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

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

Image NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: Aug. 6, 2024


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The Hyades Star Cluster in Taurus | Digitized Sky Survey 2

The Hyades Star Cluster in Taurus | Digitized Sky Survey 2

Wide-field view of the Hyades star cluster in the Milky Way galaxy created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. 
Distance: ~150 light years

The Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) is a ground-based imaging survey of the entire sky in several colors of light produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute through its Guide Star Survey group.


Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Digitized Sky Survey 2/STScI

Release Date: Aug. 4, 2020


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