Posted on March 3, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Hubble Showcases a Remarkable Galactic Hybrid
UGC 12591’s classification straddles somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral galaxy. It lies just under 400 million light-years from us in the Pisces–Perseus Supercluster.
March 03, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2mTX87x
Posted on March 2, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Pearl Young at Langley’s Flight Instrumentation Facility, March 1929
In this March 29, 1929 photograph, Pearl I. Young is working in the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory’s Flight Instrumentation Facility (Building 1202). Young was the first woman hired as a technical employee, a physicist at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and the second female physicist working for the federal government.
March 01, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2lx2zsi
Posted on March 2, 2017
NASA is Thinking of Strapping a Couple Rockets
“NASA is thinking of strapping a couple of rockets to a white dwarf and smashing it into Uranus.”
Posted on March 1, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Full-Circle Vista With a Linear Shaped Martian Sand Dune
The left side of this 360-degree panorama from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the long rows of ripples on a linear shaped dune in the Bagnold Dune Field on the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp.
February 28, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2mFkfDS
Posted on February 28, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Glaciers Ebb on South Georgia Island
Frequent cloud cover in the southern Atlantic Ocean often obscures satellite images of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. But occasionally the clouds give way. On September 14, 2016, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured natural-color images of South Georgia Island, where several glaciers are in retreat.
February 28, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2m3yN2e
Posted on February 27, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Images of the Sun From the GOES-16 Satellite
These images of the sun were captured at the same time on January 29, 2017 by the six channels on the Solar Ultraviolet Imager or SUVI instrument aboard NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite. Data from SUVI will provide an estimation of coronal plasma temperatures and emission measurements which are important to space weather forecasting.
February 27, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2lOkQTJ
Posted on February 24, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Orion Spacecraft Progress Continues With Installation of Module to Test Propulsion Systems
On Feb. 22, engineers successfully installed ESA’s European Service Module Propulsion Qualification Module (PQM) at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico that was delivered by Airbus – ESA’s prime contractor for the Service Module. The module will be equipped with a total of 21 engines to support NASA’s Orion spacecraft.
February 24, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2lNu6cD
Posted on February 23, 2017
Time and History
“Time and history will never forget the first man on Uranus.”
Posted on February 22, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Sounding Rocket Launches to Study Auroras
A NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket soars skyward into an aurora over Alaska following a 5:13 a.m. EST, Feb. 22, 2017 launch from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska. The rocket carried an Ionospheric Structuring: In Situ and Groundbased Low Altitude StudieS (ISINGLASS) instrumented payload examining the structure of an aurora.
February 22, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2lp4hz6
Posted on February 21, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Rays of Creusa
When viewed from a distance with the sun directly behind Cassini, the larger, brighter craters really stand out on moons like Dione.
February 21, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2kHYR3n
