Posted on January 26, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: January 1986 – Voyager 2 Flyby of Miranda
Uranus’ moon Miranda is shown in a computer-assembled mosaic of images obtained Jan. 24, 1986, by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Miranda is the innermost and smallest of the five major Uranian satellites, just 480 kilometers (about 300 miles) in diameter. Nine images were combined to obtain this full-disc, south-polar view.
January 26, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2jBNLIN
Posted on January 26, 2017
Scientists Have Discovered
“Scientists have discovered a ring of debris around Uranus!”
Posted on January 25, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Juno’s Close Look at a Little Red Spot
The JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped this shot of Jupiter’s northern latitudes.
January 25, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2jSCIf5
Posted on January 24, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: NASA Simulates Orion Spacecraft Launch Conditions for Crew
In a lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers simulated conditions that astronauts in space suits would experience when the Orion spacecraft is vibrating during launch atop the agency’s powerful Space Launch System rocket on its way to deep space destinations.
January 24, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2jmqQmU
Posted on January 23, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: New Weather Satellite Sends First Images of Earth
The release of the first images today from NOAA’s newest satellite, GOES-16, is the latest step in a new age of weather satellites. This composite color full-disk visible image is from 1:07 p.m. EDT on Jan. 15, 2017, and was created using several of the 16 spectral channels available on the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument.
January 23, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2k994lm
Posted on January 19, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Daphnis Up Close
The wavemaker moon, Daphnis, is featured in this view, taken as NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made one of its ring-grazing passes over the outer edges of Saturn’s rings on Jan. 16, 2017.
January 19, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2jPxlwA
Posted on January 19, 2017
Due to its Poisonous Gases
“Due to its poisonous gases, no man can survive anywhere near Uranus.”
Posted on January 18, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Possible Signs of Ancient Drying in Martian Rock
A grid of small polygons on the Martian rock surface near the right edge of this view may have originated as cracks in drying mud more than 3 billion years ago.
January 18, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2jzvy1d
Posted on January 17, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: NASA Astronaut Shane Kimbrough on Jan. 13 Spacewalk
Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA at work outside the International Space Station on Jan. 13, 2017, in a photo taken by fellow spacewalker Thomas Pesquet of ESA. The two astronauts successfully installed three new adapter plates and hooked up electrical connections for three of the six new lithium-ion batteries on the station.
January 17, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2iDoegW
Posted on January 13, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Crescent Jupiter with the Great Red Spot
This image of a crescent Jupiter and the iconic Great Red Spot was created by a citizen scientist (Roman Tkachenko) using data from Juno’s JunoCam instrument.
January 13, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2iQA9sp
