On the 15th of September 2017 the completing the last of it's 'Grand Finale' maneuvers the space craft Cassini entered Saturn's atmosphere and burned up. This ended a mission that began with it's launch in 1997 with the exploration mission lasting 13 years from 2004 until it's destruction in September 2017 when the last images … Continue reading Cassini’s Grand Finale – 5 Years on
Apparently according to the media today is space day - I had no idea until just now. The long name for it is International Day of Human Spaceflight. So I thought I would make a post on it becasue space is kinda cool, human spaceflight is kinda cool and it's expanding our understanding of the … Continue reading Space Day 2022
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Saturn, top, and Jupiter, below, are seen after sunset from Shenandoah National Park, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, in Luray, Virginia. The two planets are drawing closer to each other in the sky as they head towards a “great conjunction” on December 21, where the two giant planets will appear a tenth of a degree apart.Credits: … Continue reading The ‘Great’ Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn | NASA
Unless you've had the attention of a hibernating hedgehog you will know that we have had a very icy near Earth visitor these last few weeks. Comet Neowise. Discovered in late March over the last few weeks the comet has been passing closer and closer to the Sun and to Earth. Becoming close enough and … Continue reading My Comet Hunting Challenge
This composite image, made from six frames, shows the International Space Station, with a crew of five on board, in silhouette as it transits the Sun at roughly five miles per second, Wednesday, June 24, 2020, from Fredericksburg, Va. On board are Expedition 63 NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy, Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken, and Roscosmos cosmonauts … Continue reading The Space Station’s Solar Transit | NASA
As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory – SDO – has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years. This information has enabled … Continue reading Watch a 10-Year Time Lapse of Sun From NASA’s SDO | NASA
The curiosity Rover likes to take a selfie... this latest one was taken on the Greenheugh Pediment. Read more in the link:https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-takes-a-new-selfie-before-record-climb No ownership claimed on material
Apollo 13 did not land on the Moon as planned back in April 1970, instead it went around the Moon and returned to Earth. While behind the Moon Apollo 13 was out of touch with mission control.NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter had taken some 4K video of what the Apollo 13 astronauts would have seen.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtO3YQo3kY8 … Continue reading Apollo 13 Views of the Moon in 4K
One of NASA's four Great Observatories, Spitzer launched on Aug. 25, 2003, and has studied the cosmos in infrared light. Its breathtaking images have revealed the beauty of the infrared universe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghnnbMWVtWU#action=share Spitzer made some of the first studies of exoplanet atmospheres (atmospheres of planets around stars other than our Sun). It confirmed two and discovered five of the seven Earth-size exoplanets around the … Continue reading News | NASA Says Goodbye to One of Agency’s Great Observatories
Within the tempestuous Carina Nebula lies “Mystic Mountain.” This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2010, is made up primarily of dust and gas, and exhibits signs of intense star-forming activity. The colors in this composite image correspond to the glow of oxygen (blue), hydrogen and nitrogen (green) and sulfur … Continue reading Carina Nebula’s ‘Mystic Mountain’ | NASA
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