NASA TV Executive Producer Rebecca Sirmons
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay "'NASA for all.' That's something that I think is really important because we are the universe, right? We are made of star stuff, and I think now more than ever, we all need to remember that we're part of a greater purpose." – Rebecca Sirmons, NASA TV Executive Producer, NASA Headquarters
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón Unveils Poem for Europa Clipper
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón reads her poem for the Europa Clipper mission during an event with NASA, Thursday, June 1, 2023, at the Library of Congress in Washington.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/us-poet-laureate-ada-limo-n-unveils-poem-for-europa-clipper
Computer Programmer and Mathematician Josephine Jue
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Hired by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1963, Josephine Jue was a Chinese-American computer programmer and mathematician who worked for the agency for more than 30 years.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/computer-programmer-and-mathematician-josephine-jue
TROPICS Prepped to Track Storms
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay A Rocket Lab Electron rocket stands on Pad B, Launch Complex 1, in Māhia, New Zealand, just ahead of a successful launch on Friday, May 26, with NASA’s Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) CubeSats payload.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/tropics-prepped-to-track-storms
Hubble Captures a Drifting Galaxy
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2023/hubble-captures-a-drifting-galaxy
Strategic Partnerships Manager Anita Dey
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay "If I can advocate for all the groups that need equity, I'm glad to do it." – Anita Dey, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Outreach and Engagement, NASA Headquarters
SpaceX Dragon Crew Ship Approaches the International Space Station
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft, named Freedom, is seen as it approaches the International Space Station with four Axiom Mission 2 private astronauts aboard on Monday, May 22, 2023.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/spacex-dragon-crew-ship-approaches-the-international-space-station
Hubble Peers into a Glistening Star Cluster
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The densely packed globular cluster NGC 6325 glistens in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2023/hubble-peers-into-a-glistening-star-cluster
U.S. Senate Members Meet the Crew of Artemis II
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The four astronauts who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II visited Washington on Wednesday, May 17, to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/us-senate-members-meet-the-crew-of-artemis-ii
Laguna San Rafael National Park Viewed from the Space Station
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Laguna San Rafael National Park, photographed on May 9, 2023 as the space station orbited 268 miles above Chile.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/laguna-san-rafael-national-park-viewed-from-the-space-station
Moon Over the Southern Atlantic
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The waxing gibbous Moon stands out against the stark darkness of space on May 3, 2023.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/moon-over-the-southern-atlantic
Hearing and Seeing the Music of the Spheres
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Maestro Piotr Gajewski conducts the National Philharmonic in the world premiere performance of Henry Dehlinger’s “Cosmic Cycles,” in this photo from Thursday, May 11, 2023, as an enhanced color image of Jupiter is displayed above.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/hearing-and-seeing-the-music-of-the-spheres
50th Anniversary of the Skylab 1 Launch
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Clouds of smoke billow out over the surrounding area as the uncrewed Skylab 1/Saturn V space vehicle launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on May 14, 1973.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/50th-anniversary-of-the-skylab-1-launch
Stabilizing Shorelines with Mangroves
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay A team member from the Environmental Management Branch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center works to remove a mangrove seedling deposited by tropical winds on the shoreline of KARS Park at Kennedy in this image from April 12, 2023.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/stabilizing-shorelines-with-mangroves
Vance Oyama, Searching for Life in Our Solar System
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Vance I. Oyama holds a readout from the gas chromatograph in the life detection laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in this picture from April 22, 1965.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/vance-oyama-searching-for-life-in-our-solar-system
Spacewalkers Stephen Bowen and Sultan Alneyadi exit the Quest airlock
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Spacewalkers Stephen Bowen and Sultan Alneyadi are pictured in their Extravehicular Mobility Units, or spacesuits, exiting the International Space Station's Quest airlock and beginning a spacewalk.
Plumes from Popocatépetl Volcano
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Popocatépetl, one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes, has been erupting since 2005.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/plumes-from-popocat-petl-volcano
Eyes on Ice
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Curtis Flack (left) and Paul von Hardenberg inspect the ice formation on the spinner of an Advanced Air Mobility proprotor model tested in the Icing Research Tunnel at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
Exploring the Cosmos Together
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Miloslav Stašek, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States (left), Foreign Affairs Minister for the Czech Republic, Jan Lipavský (second from left), NASA Administrator Bill Nelson (second from right), and Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Jennifer R. Littlejohn (right),
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/exploring-the-cosmos-together
Hubble Captures Extraordinarily Bright Interacting Galaxies
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows interacting galaxies known as AM 1214-255.
