Overcoming Hurricanes and Earthquakes to Get an Experiment to the Space Station
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Camila Morales-Navas conducts final preparations on the Electrochemical Ammonia Removal system prior to parabolic flight testing.
Antares Rocket Launches to the Space Station
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay An Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with the company’s Cygnus spacecraft aboard, launches at 9:16 p.m. EDT, Friday, October 2, 2020, from t NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/antares-rocket-launches-to-the-space-station
Hubble Captures Galactic Glamour Shot
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay This stunning image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy NGC 5643 in the constellation of Lupus (the Wolf). NGC 5643 is about 60 million light-years away from Earth.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2020/hubble-captures-galactic-glamour-shot
Satellite Captures Active Fires in the Western U.S.
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Our Aqua satellite captured this composite visible and infrared image on Sep. 29, 2020, which shows that fires and smoke continue to dominate the landscape of the western U.S.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/satellite-captures-active-fires-in-the-western-us
Retroreflectors: From Apollo to Mars
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay When Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, the crew brought devices with them called retroreflectors, which are essentially small arrays of mirrors.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/retroreflectors-from-apollo-to-mars
Hubble Shoots the Moon
#NASA#ImageOfTheDay This image from 1991 shows Earth’s Moon, with its dark basaltic mare, clearly visible in great detail.
NASA Has Eyes on the Universe
#NASA#ImageOfTheDay Humanity has “eyes” that can detect all different types of light through telescopes around the globe and a fleet of observatories in space.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-has-eyes-on-the-universe
Cyclones of Color at Jupiter’s North Pole
#NASA#ImageOfTheDay Cyclones at the north pole of Jupiter appear as swirls of striking colors in this extreme false color rendering of an image from NASA’s Juno mission.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/cyclones-of-color-at-jupiter-s-north-pole
Ellen Ochoa Shakes Hands with First Humanoid Robot to Head to Station
#NASA#ImageOfTheDay Then-NASA Johnson Space Center deputy director Ellen Ochoa poses for a photo with Robonaut 2 (R2) during media day in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility on Aug. 4, 2010.
Moon Shadow Over Jupiter
#NASA#ImageOfTheDay Jupiter’s volcanically active moon Io casts its shadow on the planet in this dramatic image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
Franklin Chang-Diaz Performs a Spacewalk on the STS-111 Mission
#NASA#ImageOfTheDay In this mage from June 2002, astronaut Franklin R. Chang-Diaz works with a grapple fixture during a spacewalk to perform work on the International Space Station.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/franklin-chang-diaz-performs-a-spacewalk-on-the-sts-111-mission
A New View of Jupiter’s Storms
#NASA#ImageOfTheDay A unique and exciting detail of Hubble’s snapshot appears at mid-northern latitudes as a bright, white, stretched-out storm traveling around the planet at 350 miles per hour.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/a-new-view-of-jupiters-storms
NASA Image Shows Fires, Hurricanes Across the U.S.
#NASA#ImageOfTheDay NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of the United States on Sep. 15, 2020, showing the fires in the West, the smoke from those fires drifting over the country, several hurricanes converging from different angles.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-image-shows-fires-hurricanes-across-the-us
Hubble Stows a Pocketful of Stars
#NASA#ImageOfTheDay Globular cluster NGC 1805, a tight grouping of thousands of stars is, located near the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. In the dense center of one of these clusters, stars are 100 to 1,000 times closer together than the nearest stars are to our Sun.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2020/hubble-stows-a-pocketful-of-stars
Be a NASA Flight Director
#NASA#ImageOfTheDay Not every flight director is a legend, but some are. Take Eugene Kranz, for example.
California’s Creek Fire at Night
#NASA#ImageOfTheDay This NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite image from Sept. 7, 2020, shows the night band image of the Creek Fire at night as well as the smoke from the fire causing lights at night to diffuse or “bloom.”
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/californias-creek-fire-at-night
Star Trek and NASA: 54 Years and Counting
#NASA#ImageOfTheDay Star Trek debuted 54 years ago on Sept. 8, 1966.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/star-trek-and-nasa-54-years-and-counting
Completing the Roman Telescope’s Primary Mirror
#NASA#ImageOfTheDay The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s primary mirror, which will collect and focus light from cosmic objects near and far, has been completed.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/completing-the-roman-telescopes-primary-mirror
Booster Test for Future Space Launch System Flights
#NASA#ImageOfTheDay The first solid rocket booster test for Space Launch System (SLS) missions beyond Artemis III seen here during a two-minute hot fire test, Wednesday, September 2, 2020, at the T-97 Northrop Grumman test facility in Promontory, Utah.
NASA’s Space Launch System Design ‘Right on Track’ for Journey to Mars
#NASA#ImageOfTheDay For the first time in almost 40 years, a NASA human-rated rocket has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review (CDR). The agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) is the first vehicle designed to meet the challenges of the journey to Mars and the first exploration class rocket since the Saturn V.
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/artist-concept-of-the-sls-block-1-configuration.html
