Saturday 26 September 2020

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Moon Pairs and the Synodic Month via NASA https://ift.tt/2EEYzFK


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Moon Pairs and the Synodic Month Observe the Moon each night and its visible sunlit portion will gradually change. In phases progressing from New Moon to Full Moon to New Moon again, a lunar cycle or synodic month is completed in about 29.5 days. They look full, but top left to bottom right these panels do show the range of lunar phases for a complete synodic month during August 2019 from Ragusa, Sicily, Italy, planet Earth. For this lunar cycle project the panels organize images of the lunar phases in pairs. Each individual image is paired with another image separated by about 15 days, or approximately half a synodic month. As a result the opposite sunlit portions complete the lunar disk and the shadow line at the boundary of lunar night and day, the terminator, steadily marches across the Moon's familiar nearside. For extra credit, what lunar phase would you pair with the Moon tonight? #NASA September 26, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/2EEYzFK


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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Saturday on September 26, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Saturday on September 26, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
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Hubble Shoots the Moon This image from 1991 shows Earth's Moon, with its dark basaltic mare, clearly visible in great detail. #NASA September 25, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/33UAinC


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NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for IMAP Mission

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for IMAP Mission NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which includes four secondary payloads. September 25, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/367tQfz

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which includes four secondary payloads.

NASA Awards Civil Engineering Contract

NASA Awards Civil Engineering Contract NASA has selected AECOM Technical Services Inc. of Orlando, Florida; Infrastructure Solution Service of Viera, Florida; and Jones Edmunds & Associates Inc. of Titusville, Florida; to provide architecture-engineer services for civil engineering infrastructure, equipment, and facilities at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and other locati September 25, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/3kO5N9B

NASA has selected AECOM Technical Services Inc. of Orlando, Florida; Infrastructure Solution Service of Viera, Florida; and Jones Edmunds & Associates Inc. of Titusville, Florida; to provide architecture-engineer services for civil engineering infrastructure, equipment, and facilities at the agency....

Friday 25 September 2020

Wishing Everyone a Very Happy, and Enjoyable Weekend! 👌 Cheers !! 👍😊👊

Wishing Everyone a Very Happy, and Enjoyable Weekend! 👌 Cheers !! 👍😊👊
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NASA Report Details How Agency Significantly Benefits US Economy

NASA Report Details How Agency Significantly Benefits US Economy NASA released Friday the results of its first-ever agencywide economic impact report. The report shows that, through all NASA activities, the agency generated more than $64.3 billion in total economic output during fiscal year 2019, supported more than 312,000 jobs nationwide, and generated an estimated $7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes September 25, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/366oktN

NASA released Friday the results of its first-ever agencywide economic impact report. The report shows that, through all NASA activities, the agency generated more than $64.3 billion in total economic output during fiscal year 2019, supported more than 312,000 jobs nationwide, and generated an estim...

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Moon over Andromeda The Great Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda (also known as M31), a mere 2.5 million light-years distant, is the closest large spiral to our own Milky Way. Andromeda is visible to the unaided eye as a small, faint, fuzzy patch, but because its surface brightness is so low, casual skygazers can't appreciate the galaxy's impressive extent in planet Earth's sky. This entertaining composite image compares the angular size of the nearby galaxy to a brighter, more familiar celestial sight. In it, a deep exposure of Andromeda, tracing beautiful blue star clusters in spiral arms far beyond the bright yellow core, is combined with a typical view of a nearly full Moon. Shown at the same angular scale, the Moon covers about 1/2 degree on the sky, while the galaxy is clearly several times that size. The deep Andromeda exposure also includes two bright satellite galaxies, M32 and M110 (below and right). #NASA September 25, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/365QNQw


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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Friday on September 25, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Friday on September 25, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
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Thursday 24 September 2020

NASA Has Eyes on the Universe Humanity has "eyes" that can detect all different types of light through telescopes around the globe and a fleet of observatories in space. #NASA September 24, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/2RTThcv


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NASA Invites Media, Public to Watch Cargo Launch to Space Station

NASA Invites Media, Public to Watch Cargo Launch to Space Station NASA commercial cargo provider Northrop Grumman is targeting 10:27 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 29, for the launch of its 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station. September 24, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/2RUEmP9

NASA commercial cargo provider Northrop Grumman is targeting 10:27 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 29, for the launch of its 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station.

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Enceladus in Infrared via NASA https://ift.tt/32TPYZ0


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Enceladus in Infrared One of our Solar System's most tantalizing worlds, icy Saturnian moon Enceladus appears in these detailed hemisphere views from the Cassini spacecraft. In false color, the five panels present 13 years of infrared image data from Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer and Imaging Science Subsystem. Fresh ice is colored red, and the most dramatic features look like long gashes in the 500 kilometer diameter moon's south polar region. They correspond to the location of tiger stripes, surface fractures that likely connect to an ocean beneath the Enceladus ice shell. The fractures are the source of the moon's icy plumes that continuously spew into space. The plumes were discovered by by Cassini in 2005. Now, reddish hues in the northern half of the leading hemisphere view also indicate a recent resurfacing of other regions of the geologically active moon, a world that may hold conditions suitable for life. #NASA September 24, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/32TPYZ0


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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Thursday on September 24, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Thursday on September 24, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
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NASA Invites Media to Hot Fire Test for Mega Rocket

NASA Invites Media to Hot Fire Test for Mega Rocket to Support Moon Missions Media accreditation is now open for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket Green Run hot fire test – the test of the rocket’s core stage and all of its integrated systems before its flight on the Artemis I lunar mission, scheduled for 2021. September 23, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/3kD08mE

Media accreditation is now open for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket Green Run hot fire test – the test of the rocket’s core stage and all of its integrated systems before its flight on the Artemis I lunar mission, scheduled for 2021.

NASA Invites Students to Join the Artemis Generation at SciFest

NASA Invites Students to Join the Artemis Generation at SciFest Virtual Event Venture with NASA to discover the future of flight, understand the portrait of planet Earth, and take the next steps in exploration at SciFest, the virtual STEM expo from the USA Science and Engineering Festival September 23, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/2FUw47t

Venture with NASA to discover the future of flight, understand the portrait of planet Earth, and take the next steps in exploration at SciFest, the virtual STEM expo from the USA Science and Engineering Festival

Wednesday 23 September 2020

Cyclones of Color at Jupiter’s North Pole 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. #NASA September 23, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/330xeqZ


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Cyclones of Color at Jupiter’s North Pole via NASA https://ift.tt/330xeqZ


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ISS Transits Mars via NASA https://ift.tt/33S59RF


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ISS Transits Mars Yes, but have you ever seen the space station do this? If you know when and where to look, watching the bright International Space Station (ISS) drift across your night sky is a fascinating sight -- but not very unusual. Images of the ISS crossing in front of the half-degree Moon or Sun do exist, but are somewhat rare as they take planning, timing, and patience to acquire. Catching the ISS crossing in front of minuscule Mars, though, is on another level. Using online software, the featured photographer learned that the unusual transit would be visible only momentarily along a very narrow stretch of nearby land spanning just 90 meters. Within this stretch, the equivalent ground velocity of the passing ISS image would be a quick 7.4 kilometers per second. However, with a standard camera, a small telescope, an exact location to set up his equipment, an exact direction to point the telescope, and sub-millisecond timing -- he created a video from which the featured 0.00035 second exposure was extracted. In the resulting image capture, details on both Mars and the ISS are visible simultaneously. The featured image was acquired last Monday at 05:15:47 local time from just northeast of San Diego, California, USA. Although typically much smaller, angularly, than the ISS, Mars is approaching its maximum angular size in the next few weeks, because the blue planet (Earth) is set to pass its closest to the red planet (Mars) in their respective orbits around the Sun. #NASA September 23, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/33S59RF


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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Wednesday on September 23, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Wednesday on September 23, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
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Tuesday 22 September 2020

NASA to Provide Update on Agency’s Asteroid Sample Collection Attempt

NASA to Provide Update on Agency’s First Asteroid Sample Collection Attempt NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 24, to provide an update on the agency’s first attempt to contact the surface of asteroid Bennu and collect a sample next month. September 22, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/3clkZrS

NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 24, to provide an update on the agency’s first attempt to contact the surface of asteroid Bennu and collect a sample next month.

Ellen Ochoa Shakes Hands with First Humanoid Robot to Head to Station via NASA https://ift.tt/3mCJOo1


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Ellen Ochoa Shakes Hands with First Humanoid Robot to Head to Station 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. #NASA September 22, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/3mCJOo1


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NASA, US Space Force Establish Foundation for Broad Collaboration

NASA, US Space Force Establish Foundation for Broad Collaboration While advancing plans for unprecedented lunar exploration under the Artemis program, NASA also is building on a longstanding partnership with the Department of Defense with a new memorandum of understanding announced today by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and U.S. Space Force (USSF) Chief of Space Operations Gen. John “Jay” Raymond. September 22, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/2RPvjik

While advancing plans for unprecedented lunar exploration under the Artemis program, NASA also is building on a longstanding partnership with the Department of Defense with a new memorandum of understanding announced today by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and U.S. Space Force (USSF) Chief of Sp...

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Equinox in the Sky via NASA https://ift.tt/33Smb2h


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Equinox in the Sky Does the Sun set in the same direction every day? No, the direction of sunset depends on the time of the year. Although the Sun always sets approximately toward the west, on an equinox like today the Sun sets directly toward the west. After today's September equinox, the Sun will set increasingly toward the southwest, reaching its maximum displacement at the December solstice. Before today's September equinox, the Sun had set toward the northwest, reaching its maximum displacement at the June solstice. The featured time-lapse image shows seven bands of the Sun setting one day each month from 2019 December through 2020 June. These image sequences were taken from Alberta, Canada -- well north of the Earth's equator -- and feature the city of Edmonton in the foreground. The middle band shows the Sun setting during the last equinox -- in March. From this location, the Sun will set along this same equinox band again today. #NASA September 22, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/33Smb2h


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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Tuesday on September 22, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Tuesday on September 22, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
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NASA Publishes Artemis Plan to Land First Woman, Next Man on Moon

NASA Publishes Artemis Plan to Land First Woman, Next Man on Moon in 2024 Following a series of critical contract awards and hardware milestones, NASA has shared an update on its Artemis program, including the latest Phase 1 plans to land the first woman and the next man on the surface of the Moon in 2024. September 21, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/3kz6vaI

Following a series of critical contract awards and hardware milestones, NASA has shared an update on its Artemis program, including the latest Phase 1 plans to land the first woman and the next man on the surface of the Moon in 2024.

NASA Highlights Science, Business on Next Northrop Grumman Mission

NASA Highlights Science, Business on Next Northrop Grumman Mission to Space Station NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 24, to discuss science investigations, technology demonstrations, and commercial products launching on Northrop Grumman’s 14th commercial resupply mission for the agency to the International Space Station. September 21, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/3mAx2q5

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 24, to discuss science investigations, technology demonstrations, and commercial products launching on Northrop Grumman’s 14th commercial resupply mission for the agency to the International Space Station.

Monday 21 September 2020

NASA to Discuss Early Artemis Exploration Plans with Media

NASA to Discuss Early Artemis Exploration Plans with Media NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will discuss the agency’s latest Artemis program exploration plans during a media teleconference today at 5 p.m. EDT. September 21, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/3mG5LCI

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will discuss the agency’s latest Artemis program exploration plans during a media teleconference today at 5 p.m. EDT.

Omega Sunrise via NASA https://ift.tt/35SpHMD


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Omega Sunrise Capturing this sunrise required both luck and timing. First and foremost, precise timing was needed to capture a sailboat crossing right in front of a rising Sun. Additionally, by a lucky coincidence, the background Sun itself appears unusual -- it looks like the Greek letter Omega (Ω). In reality, the Sun remained its circular self -- the Omega illusion was created by sunlight refracting through warm air just above the water. Optically, the feet of the capital Omega are actually an inverted image of the Sun region just above it. Although somewhat rare, optical effects caused by the Earth's atmosphere can make distant objects near the horizon -- including the Sun and Moon -- look quite unusual. This single exposure image was taken over the Mediterranean Sea just over two weeks ago near Valencia, Spain. #NASA September 21, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/35SpHMD


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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Monday on September 21, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Monday on September 21, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
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Sunday 20 September 2020

Breaking Distant Light via NASA https://ift.tt/2RF1voA


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Breaking Distant Light In the distant universe, time appears to run slowly. Since time-dilated light appears shifted toward the red end of the spectrum (redshifted), astronomers are able to use cosmological time-slowing to help measure vast distances in the universe. Featured, the light from distant galaxies has been broken up into its constituent colors (spectra), allowing astronomers to measure the cosmological redshift of known spectral lines. The novelty of the featured image is that the distance to hundreds of galaxies can be measured from a single frame, in this case one taken by the Visible MultiObject Spectrograph (VIMOS) operating at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) array in Chile. Analyzing the space distribution of distant objects will allow insight into when and how stars and galaxies formed, clustered, and evolved in the early universe. #NASA September 20, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/2RF1voA


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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Sunday on September 20, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Sunday on September 20, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
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