"Orion's Finger" in Nearby Giant Nebula Messier 42

"Orion's Finger" in Nearby Giant Nebula Messier 42

Astrophotographer StrongmanMike2002: "Over many years now, when viewing wider field shots of M42, my eye has often been drawn to this finger shaped bit of nebula. A regular thought over the years has been. I've never seen a close up shot of this cool little globule, I should shoot it one day . . . so, finally, ta daaah!"

Globules are dense dust clouds generally associated with large hydrogen-emitting star-formation regions that give off the glowing light of hydrogen gas.

A pareidolia is an optical illusion that makes us see a familiar pattern, where there is none. 

Pareidolia: Dictionaries describe this term as a human tendency to see recognizable shapes in objects or data that are otherwise not familiar to us.

The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula in the Milky Way situated south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion, and is known as the middle "star" in the "sword" of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky with an apparent magnitude of 4.0. It is 1,344 ± 20 light-years (412.1 ± 6.1 pc) away and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. Observations of the nebula have revealed approximately 700 stars in various stages of formation within it. M42 is estimated to be 25 light-years across. It has a mass of about 2,000 times that of the Sun. 

Image Credit: StrongmanMike2002

Capture Location: Eagleview Observatory, Australia
Capture Date: Feb. 10, 2025
Release Date: Feb. 15, 2025

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First Moon Shots: Blue Ghost Mission | Firefly Aerospace

First Moon Shots of Blue Ghost Mission | Firefly Aerospace

While in lunar orbit, the Blue Ghost lander captured its first close-up images of the Moon. With a suite of NASA science and technology on board, Firefly Aerospace is currently targeting no earlier than 3:45 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2, 2025, to land the Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon.

The Blue Ghost lander is completing its 45-day journey to the Moon. Blue Ghost is seeking to land in Mare Crisium to deliver ten NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations to the Moon. They will perform numerous science and technology demonstrations, including lunar subsurface drilling, sample collection, and X-ray imaging of Earth’s magnetic field to advance research for future human missions on the Moon and provide insights into how space weather impacts the planet. Mare Crisium is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. It was formed by the flooding of basaltic lava that filled an ancient asteroid impact.    

Learn more: https://fireflyspace.com/missions/blue-ghost-mission-1/

Image Credit: Firefly Aerospace
Release Date: Feb. 14, 2025

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Commercial Capabilities with Lunar Communication Relays | NASA Artemis

Commercial Capabilities with Lunar Communication Relays | NASA Artemis

NASA is partnering with the aerospace industry to develop lunar relays. Establishing a network of communication relay satellites in lunar orbit will enable continuous and reliable communication between Earth and lunar missions, even in locations where the Earth is not directly visible from the Moon. This effort is being done through the Near Space Network’s Services Request for Proposal (RFP). 

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: David Ryan
Writers: Katherine Schauer and Kendall Murphy
Duration: 1 minute, 43 seconds
Release Date: Feb. 12, 2025

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NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim in Spacewalk Training | International Space Station

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim in Spacewalk Training | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, in his extravehicular activity (EVA) spacesuit, is assisted by NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Stephanie Wilson, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia

In these pictures, NASA astronaut and Soyuz MS-27 crew member Jonny Kim can be seen undergoing International Space Station Extravehicular Activity (EVA) maintenance training, or spacewalk training, at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

During his first mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will serve as a flight engineer and member of the upcoming Expedition 72/73 crew. Kim will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft no earlier than March 2025, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky. The trio will spend approximately eight months at the space station.

While aboard the orbiting laboratory, Kim will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare the crew for future space missions and provide benefits to people on Earth.

NASA selected Kim as an astronaut in 2017. After completing the initial astronaut candidate training, Kim supported mission and crew operations in various roles including the Expedition 65 lead operations officer, T-38 operations liaison, and space station capcom chief engineer.

A native of Los Angeles, Kim is a United States Navy lieutenant commander and dual designated naval aviator and flight surgeon. Kim also served as an enlisted Navy SEAL. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of San Diego and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, and completed his internship with the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim's Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/jonny-kim/

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.

Image Credit: NASA/James Blair

Capture Date: Oct. 28, 2024

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Observing the Universe with NASA's SPHEREx Mission

Observing the Universe with NASA's SPHEREx Mission

NASA’s SPHEREx Mission will explore the universe in a way that has never been done in astronomy before. The observatory has both a wide field of view and the ability to examine the sky in over 100 colors. This approach will help SPHEREx in its quest to understand the origins of our universe as well as water and other molecules important for life.

Learn more about the SPHEREx Mission

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/spherex/

Video Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Narrator/Writer/Producer: Elizabeth Landau 

Writer/Producer: Robert Hurt 

Editor/Animator: Keith Miller 

Additional Animations: Juan Vargas 

Additional assets provided by: Frank Summers / STScI

Duration: 3 minutes
Release Date: Feb. 14, 2025

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Searching for Scrub Jays: A "Far Out" Mini Episode | NASA Kennedy

Searching for Scrub Jays: A "Far Out" Mini Episode | NASA Kennedy

Kennedy Space Center is known for launching rockets into our cosmos, but it is also home to an expansive wildlife refuge and national seashore where more than 1,200 plant and wildlife species reside. Its 144,000 acres are teaming with creatures you might expect, such as alligators, snakes and eagles, and those you may not know as well like the endangered scrub-jay, tortoise and horseshoe crab.

In this mini-episode of "Far Out," viewers will meet people on the environmental team that are responsible for ensuring the wildlife remains protected and thriving at the space center.

Watch the full episode on NASA+: https://go.nasa.gov/4axnF3M

Video Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
Duration: 2 minutes, 33 seconds
Release Date: Feb. 14, 2025

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A Stellar Bouquet for Valentine's Day: Nebula 30 Doradus | NASA Chandra

A Stellar Bouquet for Valentine's Day: Nebula 30 Doradus | NASA Chandra

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the spectacular star forming region called 30 Doradus.

By combining X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope, infrared data from Spitzer, and radio data from ALMA, this stellar arrangement comes alive.

Otherwise known as the Tarantula Nebula, 30 Doradus is located about 160,000 light-years away in a small neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC for short. As one of the brightest and crowded star-forming regions close to Earth, 30 Doradus is a frequent target for scientists trying to learn more about how stars are born.

With enough fuel to have powered the manufacturing of stars for at least 25 million years, 30 Doradus is the most powerful stellar nursery in the local group of galaxies that includes the Milky Way, the LMC, and our neighboring Andromeda galaxy.

The massive young stars in 30 Doradus send cosmically strong winds out into space. Along with the matter and energy ejected by stars that have previously exploded, these winds have carved out an eye-catching display of arcs, pillars, and bubbles.

A dense cluster in the center of 30 Doradus contains the most massive stars astronomers have ever found, each only about one to two million years old. For comparison, our Sun is over a thousand times older with an age of about 5 billion years.

This new image includes the data from a large Chandra program that involved about 23 days of observing time, greatly exceeding the 1.3 days of observing that Chandra previously conducted on 30 Doradus. The roughly 3,600 X-ray sources detected by Chandra include a mixture of massive stars, double-star systems, bright stars that are still in the process of forming, and much smaller clusters of young stars.

There is a large quantity of diffuse, hot gas seen in X-rays, arising from different sources including the winds of massive stars and from the gas expelled by supernova explosions. This data set will be the best available for the foreseeable future for studying diffuse X-ray emission in star-forming regions.

Image Credits: 

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL-CalTech/SST; Optical: NASA/STScI/HST; Radio: ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/ALMA; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt, N. Wolk, K. Arcand

Release Date: Feb. 11, 2025

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A Stellar Bouquet for Valentine's Day: Nebula 30 Doradus | NASA Chandra

A Stellar Bouquet for Valentine's Day: Nebula 30 Doradus | NASA Chandra

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the spectacular star forming region called 30 Doradus.

By combining X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope, infrared data from Spitzer, and radio data from ALMA, this stellar arrangement comes alive.

Otherwise known as the Tarantula Nebula, 30 Doradus is located about 160,000 light-years away in a small neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC for short. As one of the brightest and crowded star-forming regions close to Earth, 30 Doradus is a frequent target for scientists trying to learn more about how stars are born.

With enough fuel to have powered the manufacturing of stars for at least 25 million years, 30 Doradus is the most powerful stellar nursery in the local group of galaxies that includes the Milky Way, the LMC, and our neighboring Andromeda galaxy.

The massive young stars in 30 Doradus send cosmically strong winds out into space. Along with the matter and energy ejected by stars that have previously exploded, these winds have carved out an eye-catching display of arcs, pillars, and bubbles.

A dense cluster in the center of 30 Doradus contains the most massive stars astronomers have ever found, each only about one to two million years old. For comparison, our Sun is over a thousand times older with an age of about 5 billion years.

This new image includes the data from a large Chandra program that involved about 23 days of observing time, greatly exceeding the 1.3 days of observing that Chandra previously conducted on 30 Doradus. The roughly 3,600 X-ray sources detected by Chandra include a mixture of massive stars, double-star systems, bright stars that are still in the process of forming, and much smaller clusters of young stars.

There is a large quantity of diffuse, hot gas seen in X-rays, arising from different sources including the winds of massive stars and from the gas expelled by supernova explosions. This data set will be the best available for the foreseeable future for studying diffuse X-ray emission in star-forming regions.

Video Credit: NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
Duration: 3 minutes
Release Date: Feb. 11, 2025

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Planet Mars Images: Feb. 10-13, 2025 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

Planet Mars Images: Feb. 10-13, 2025 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

Mars 2020 - sol 1412

Mars 2020 - sol 1415

Mars 2020 - sol 1412

MSL - sol 4450

Mars 2020 - sol 1413

MSL - sol 4447

MSL - sol 4452

MSL - sol 4450

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Celebrating 12+ Years on Mars (2012-2024)

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 3+ 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.

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/ASU/MSSS

Processing: Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Date: Feb. 10-13, 2025

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A Fiery Rose: Nebula & Star Cluster NGC 2040 in Dorado | Gemini South Telescope

A Fiery Rose: Nebula & Star Cluster NGC 2040 in Dorado | Gemini South Telescope

Cosmoview Episode 96: Happy Valentine's Day! Displaying wispy layers of red, orange and yellow, the nebula encasing NGC 2040 resembles a vibrant rose in this image captured by the Gemini South telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory. It is supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab. This nebulous flower showcases the dramatic story of stellar life, death and rebirth.

NGC 2040 is a young open cluster of stars within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located about 160,000 light-years from Earth. It is a type of star cluster known as an OB association because it contains more than a dozen stars of the O and B spectral types. These stars lead short lives of only a few million years, during which they burn very hot before exploding as supernovae. The energy released by the explosions of these massive stars feeds the formation of NGC 2040’s structure, while the expelled material seeds the growth of the next generation of stars.

NGC 2040 contains mostly hydrogen and oxygen atoms. As these atoms are excited by the ultraviolet radiation from nearby massive stars, they emit light. This emitted light spans a range of wavelengths from the ultraviolet, through the visible, and into the infrared. Special filters on Gemini South then allow specific wavelengths, or colors, of this emitted light to pass through, like the deep red and orange of glowing hydrogen and the light blue of glowing oxygen. The bright white represents areas where there is an abundance of both.

Learn more about the Gemini South Telescope:

https://noirlab.edu/public/programs/gemini-observatory/gemini-south/

Credits:
Images and Videos:  International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Matsopoulos/N. Bartmann (NSF NOIRLab)
Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
Duration: 1 minute, 30 seconds
Release Date: Feb. 14, 2025

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Journey to Nebula & Star Cluster NGC 2040 in Dorado | Gemini South Telescope

Journey to Nebula & Star Cluster NGC 2040 in Dorado | Gemini South Telescope

Happy Valentine's Day! Displaying wispy layers of red, orange and yellow, the nebula encasing NGC 2040 resembles a vibrant rose in this image captured by the Gemini South telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory. It is supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab. This nebulous flower showcases the dramatic story of stellar life, death and rebirth.

NGC 2040 is a young open cluster of stars within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located about 160,000 light-years from Earth. It is a type of star cluster known as an OB association because it contains more than a dozen stars of the O and B spectral types. These stars lead short lives of only a few million years, during which they burn very hot before exploding as supernovae. The energy released by the explosions of these massive stars feeds the formation of NGC 2040’s structure, while the expelled material seeds the growth of the next generation of stars.

NGC 2040 contains mostly hydrogen and oxygen atoms. As these atoms are excited by the ultraviolet radiation from nearby massive stars, they emit light. This emitted light spans a range of wavelengths from the ultraviolet, through the visible, and into the infrared. Special filters on Gemini South then allow specific wavelengths, or colors, of this emitted light to pass through, like the deep red and orange of glowing hydrogen and the light blue of glowing oxygen. The bright white represents areas where there is an abundance of both.

Learn more about the Gemini South Telescope:

https://noirlab.edu/public/programs/gemini-observatory/gemini-south/

Credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA

Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)

Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: Feb. 14, 2025

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Close-up: Nebula & Star Cluster NGC 2040 in Dorado | Gemini South Telescope

Close-up: Nebula & Star Cluster NGC 2040 in Dorado | Gemini South Telescope

Happy Valentine's Day! Displaying wispy layers of red, orange and yellow, the nebula encasing NGC 2040 resembles a vibrant rose in this image captured by the Gemini South telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory. It is supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab. This nebulous flower showcases the dramatic story of stellar life, death and rebirth.

NGC 2040 contains mostly hydrogen and oxygen atoms. As these atoms are excited by the ultraviolet radiation from nearby massive stars, they emit light. This emitted light spans a range of wavelengths from the ultraviolet, through the visible, and into the infrared. Special filters on Gemini South then allow specific wavelengths, or colors, of this emitted light to pass through, like the deep red and orange of glowing hydrogen and the light blue of glowing oxygen. The bright white represents areas where there is an abundance of both.

Learn more about the Gemini South Telescope:

https://noirlab.edu/public/programs/gemini-observatory/gemini-south/

Credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA

Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)

Duration: 30 seconds
Release Date: Feb. 14, 2025

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Nebula & Star Cluster NGC 2040 in Dorado | Gemini South Telescope

Nebula & Star Cluster NGC 2040 in Dorado | Gemini South Telescope

Happy Valentine's Day! Displaying wispy layers of red, orange and yellow, the nebula encasing NGC 2040 resembles a vibrant rose in this image captured by the Gemini South telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory. It is supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab. This nebulous flower showcases the dramatic story of stellar life, death and rebirth.

NGC 2040 is a young open cluster of stars within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located about 160,000 light-years from Earth. It is a type of star cluster known as an OB association because it contains more than a dozen stars of the O and B spectral types. These stars lead short lives of only a few million years, during which they burn very hot before exploding as supernovae. The energy released by the explosions of these massive stars feeds the formation of NGC 2040’s structure, while the expelled material seeds the growth of the next generation of stars.

NGC 2040 contains mostly hydrogen and oxygen atoms. As these atoms are excited by the ultraviolet radiation from nearby massive stars, they emit light. This emitted light spans a range of wavelengths from the ultraviolet, through the visible, and into the infrared. Special filters on Gemini South then allow specific wavelengths, or colors, of this emitted light to pass through, like the deep red and orange of glowing hydrogen and the light blue of glowing oxygen. The bright white represents areas where there is an abundance of both.

Credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA

Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
Release Date: Feb. 14, 2025

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NASA's Space to Ground: All Heart | Week of Feb. 14, 2025

NASA's Space to Ground: All Heart | Week of Feb. 14, 2025

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

Expedition 72 Updates:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 72 Crew
Station Commander: Suni Williams
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Aleksandr Gorbunov
NASA Flight Engineers: Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit, Nick Hague

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.

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)

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 5 minutes
Release Date: Feb. 14, 2025

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NASA "Espacio a Tierra" | Frecuencias de llamada: 07 de febrero de 2025

NASA "Espacio a Tierra" | Frecuencias de llamada: 07 de febrero de 2025

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.

Aprende más sobre la ciencia a bordo de la estación espacial: https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/space-station-research-and-technology/ciencia-en-la-estacion/

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

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

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 5 minutes
Release Date: Feb. 13, 2025

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Blue Ghost Mission Update: Moon Bound (Week 4) | Firefly Aerospace

Blue Ghost Mission Update: Moon Bound (Week 4) | Firefly Aerospace

In this week's recap, we walk-through our latest burns that propelled us beyond Earth's orbit toward the Moon. Get a behind-the-scenes look at mission ops during a burn and discover the unique relationship between flight directors and flight controllers.

A trans-lunar injection (TLI) is a propulsive maneuver used to send a spacecraft to the Moon.

The Blue Ghost lander is currently on its 45-day journey to the Moon. Blue Ghost is seeking to land in Mare Crisium to deliver ten NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations to the Moon. They will perform numerous science and technology demonstrations, including lunar subsurface drilling, sample collection, and X-ray imaging of Earth’s magnetic field to advance research for future human missions on the Moon and provide insights into how space weather impacts the planet. Mare Crisium is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. It was formed by the flooding of basaltic lava that filled an ancient asteroid impact.

Learn more: https://fireflyspace.com/missions/blue-ghost-mission-1/

Video Credit: Firefly Aerospace
Duration: 8 minutes
Release Date: Feb. 13, 2025

#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #Planet #Earth #ArtemisProgram #Moon #LunarLanders #FireflyAerospace #BlueGhostLunarLander #BlueGhostMission1 #BGM1 #UnitedStates #Robotics #Engineering #SpaceTechnology #SolarSystem #SpaceExploration #STEM #Education #HD #Video