Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts
Saturday, July 6, 2013
New NASA Book Details Human Factors in Aerospace Accidents
Monday, June 17, 2013
European Space Agency Flickr Update
17-06-2013 06:05 PM CEST
Signature of Rider 1 to ESA Contract for Exomars at the ESA pavilion at the Paris Air Space Show, 17 June 2013.
From left to right: Jean-Loïc Galle, Chief Executive Officer of Thales Alenia Space, Vincenzo Giorgio, VP Domain Exploration and Science, Thales Alenia Space, Alvaro Giménez Cañete, ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General.
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Credits: ESA–M. Pedoussaut, 2013
17-06-2013 12:39 PM CEST
Entrance of the ESA pavilion at the Paris Air Space Show, 17 June 2013.
The 50th International Paris Air Space Show at Le Bourget will open its doors on Monday 17 June. The Agency's pavilion, situated between the full-size models of the Ariane 1 and Ariane 5 launchers, will feature the wealth of ESA programmes across all space domains, and focus on recent and upcoming launches and their results.
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Credits: ESA–M. Pedoussaut, 2013
17-06-2013 10:18 AM CEST
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303. The galaxy, located only 55 million light-years away from Earth, is roughly the size of the Milky Way, with a diameter of around 100 000 light-years.
The galaxy is notable for one particular reason â six supernovae have been observed within Messier 61, a total that places it in the top handful of galaxies alongside Messier 83, also with six, and NGC 6946, with a grand total of nine observed supernovae. In this Hubble image the galaxy is seen face-on as if posing for a photograph, allowing us to study its structure closely.
The spiral arms can be seen in stunning detail, swirling inwards to the very centre of the galaxy, where they form a smaller, intensely bright spiral. In the outer regions, these vast arms are sprinkled with bright blue regions where new stars are being formed from hot, dense clouds of gas. Messier 61 is part of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, a massive group of galaxies in the constellation of Virgo (the Virgin).
Galaxy clusters, or groups of galaxies, are among the biggest structures in the Universe to be held together by gravity alone. The Virgo Cluster contains more than 1300 galaxies and forms the central region of the Local Supercluster, an even bigger gathering of galaxies.
The image was taken using data from Hubbleâs Wide Field Camera 2. Different versions of this image were submitted to the Hubble's Hidden Treasures image processing competition by contestants Gilles Chapdelaine, Luca Limatola, and Robert Gendler.
Credits: ESA/Hubble NASA
Acknowledgements: G. Chapdelaine, L. Limatola, and R. Gendler.
17-06-2013 10:08 AM CEST
Ligeia Mare, shown here in a false-color image from the international Cassini mission, is the second largest known body of liquid on Saturn's moon Titan. It measures roughly 420 km x 350 km and its shorelines extend for over 3,000 km. It is filled with liquid hydrocarbons, such as ethane and methane.
The mosaic shown here is composed from synthetic aperture radar images from flybys between February 2006 and April 2007.
The Cassini–Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA and ASI, the Italian space agency.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Yagi (Northwest Pacific)
06/11/2013 12:00 AM EDT
Tropical Storm Yagi is not expected to make landfall in Japan, but NASA satellite imagery showed that the storm was just south of the big island.
Monday, June 3, 2013
European Space Agency Flickr Update
03-06-2013 10:24 AM CEST
The north polar ice cap of Mars, presented as a mosaic of 57 separate images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express. The ice cap spans approximately 1000 km and is seen here in polar stereographic projection.The images were taken throughout the entire mission, when Mars Express was at its closest to Mars along its orbit, at about 300-500 km altitude.
The mosaic was published as space science image of the week on the occasion of the tenth anniversary since the mission launched on 2 June 2003.
Friday, May 31, 2013
Another American High Frontier First: 3-D Manufacturing in Space
05/31/2013 12:00 AM EDT
In
preparation for a future where parts and tools can be printed on demand
in space, NASA and Made in Space Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., have
joined to launch equipment for the first 3-D microgravity printing
experiment to the International Space Station.Thursday, May 30, 2013
NASA's Grail Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity
05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT
NASA's
Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered
the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon's gravity
uneven, a phenomenon that affects the operations of lunar-orbiting
spacecraft.Landsat 8 Satellite Begins Watch
05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT
NASA
transferred operational control Thursday of the Landsat 8 satellite to
the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in a ceremony in Sioux Falls, S.D.Radiation Measured by NASA's Curiosity on Voyage to Mars has Implications for Future Human Missions
05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT
Actor Jaden Smith Focuses on Earth Science in a New NASA PSA
05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT
Jaden
Smith, star of Columbia Pictures' movie "After Earth," is featured in a
new NASA public service announcement that describes the contributions
of the agency's Earth science program to environmental awareness and
exploration of our home planet.Artist's Rendering of an Asteroid Capture
05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT
This
artist's rendering shows what capturing an asteroid could look like.
NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a
small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in
the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it.Performing these elements for the proposed asteroid initiative integrates the best of NASA's science, technology and human exploration capabilities and draws on the innovation of America's brightest scientists and engineers.
It uses current and developing capabilities to find both large asteroids that pose a hazard to Earth and small asteroids that could be candidates for the initiative, accelerates our technology development activities in high-powered solar electric propulsion and takes advantage of our hard work on the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, helping to keep NASA on target to reach the President's goal of sending humans to Mars in the 2030s.
Image Credit: NASA/Advanced Concepts Lab
NASA Hosts June 4 Media Briefing on Next Solar Mission Launch
05/29/2013 12:00 AM EDT
NASA
will host a news briefing at 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 4, about the
upcoming launch of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
mission.
NASA's WISE Mission Finds Lost Asteroid Family Members
05/29/2013 12:00 AM EDT
Data
from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a
new and improved family tree for asteroids in the main belt between Mars
and Jupiter.Wednesday, May 29, 2013
NASA'S Swift Reveals New Phenomenon in a Neutron Star
05/29/2013 12:00 AM EDT
Astronomers
using NASA's Swift X-ray Telescope have observed a spinning neutron
star suddenly slowing down, yielding clues they can use to understand
these extremely dense objects.
NASA Hosts News and Social Media Events Around This Week's Asteroid Pass
05/29/2013 12:00 AM EDT
NASA
is inviting members of the media and public to participate in online
and television events May 30-31 with NASA officials and experts
discussing the agency's asteroid initiative and the Earth flyby of the
1.7-mile-long asteroid 1998 QE2.
92E (Eastern Pacific Ocean)
05/28/2013 12:00 AM EDT
NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of System 92E as it continues to develop near to southwestern Mexico.
An Inside Look at SNC’s Dream Chaser
05/28/2013 12:00 PM EDT
NASA
Partner Manager for Sierra Nevada Corporation Cheryl McPhillips
discusses the uniqueness of the company's Dream Chaser spacecraft and
the milestones it will complete during the agency's Commercial Crew
Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative.
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano arrives at Space Station
New Space Station Residents on Fast Track to Orbital Laboratory
05/28/2013 12:00 AM EDT
Three
new Expedition 36 crew members lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
in Kazakhstan at 4:31 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 28, (2:31 a.m.
Kazakh time, Wednesday, May 29) on a six-hour flight to the International Space Station.
Kazakh time, Wednesday, May 29) on a six-hour flight to the International Space Station.
Soyuz docking
Expedition 36 Soyuz Launch
05/28/2013 12:00 AM EDT
A
Soyuz rocket with Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of
the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineers Luca
Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Karen Nyberg of NASA,
onboard, launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the
International Space Station.
Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano will remain aboard the station until mid-November, 2013.
Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano will remain aboard the station until mid-November, 2013.
Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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