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Planting cover crops – those planted between growing seasons – decreases the total harvest of corn and soybeans in the U.S. Midwest, a new #NASAHarvest study found.

Full story: go.nasa.gov/3XLwUGj 🌽
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This map shows the yield impacts for cover crop adoption for corn fields in 2019 and 2020 in six states. Red and orange areas on the map show fields with lower yields because of cover crop usage. 🌽
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a bit more context would help wit this post.

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"More research can help guide that implementation by showing, among other things, how alternatives to rye – the most commonly used cover crop in the U.S. Corn Belt – might result in higher primary crop yields in some regions"



Using #Landsat data, the team also identified fields using cover crops. They found that, from 2011 to 2021, the area where cover crops were planted increased from 1.8% to 7.2%.
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The team then calculated the yield of farms planting cover crops, and used machine learning to compare those fields to similar ones without. Almost all farmers using cover crops for 3+ years saw reduced yields compared to those who let the soil lay bare. go.nasa.gov/3XLwUGj
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A spark, a pure oxygen environment, design flaws in the hatch door…

Roger Chaffee, Ed White, and Gus Grissom were tragically killed on Jan. 27, 1967, when a fire erupted inside the Apollo command module during a preflight rehearsal test. #NASARemembers
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Ready for a puzzler?
This satellite image shows a place on our planet.

Tell us where this is, what we’re looking at, and why it’s interesting. (And, no, it’s not a close up of powdered donuts.)
🧩: go.nasa.gov/4077EvS
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My skin, after January in Boston, MA.

Or, sand dunes in Algeria. I like the Atacama Desert suggestion as well.



Comet ZTF: Orbital Plane Crossing apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230127.ht… #APOD
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Comet ZTF: Orbital Plane Crossing

Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett

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On our Day of Remembrance, we pause to honor all who have perished in the pursuit of space exploration. NASA Admin @SenBillNelson paid tribute at the memorials for the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia @ArlingtonNatl today #NASARemembers πŸ“·flic.kr/s/aHBqjApM8B
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I have long remembered the names Grissom, White and Chafee, the fateful crew of Apollo 1.

Space flight as with aviation learns from its mistakes. Had Apollo 1 not happened, and the lessons learned, there could have been a far more significant failure in flight.



The Exp 68 crew cleaned up today after advanced bone repair studies, worked space physics and Earth observations, and prepped for an upcoming spacewalk. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
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Today we pay tribute to the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger (STS-51L), Columbia (STS-107), and other members of our NASA family that have lost their lives while advancing our mission of exploration, innovation, and discovery. #NASARemembers

More: go.nasa.gov/3wnjZ1n
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I remember how horrifying that day was. I was twelve years old.


We work to never repeat mistakes from our past. On our Day of Remembrance, we honor all of our fallen heroes, including the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger STS-51L, and Columbia STS-107: go.nasa.gov/3Y1j7uS

Feb. 1 marks 20 years since the Columbia tragedy. #NASARemembers
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Touching, nice remembrance. This also marks the first time that NASA has made it 20 years without a catastrophic event. Let's break that record every year.


As we launch into this new era of human spaceflight and #Artemis missions to the Moon, we must never forget the astronauts and others who gave their lives to further the cause of exploration and discovery. #NASARemembers
#NASAArtemis #Artemis


Active Galaxy NGC 1275 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230126.ht… #APOD
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Active Galaxy NGC 1275

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage, A. Fabian (University of Cambridge, UK)

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I just *love* your Pictures of the Day! Thanks for providing beautiful images for my eyeballs


It’s an exciting time for asteroid exploration! For anyone curious about our missions to asteroids, and what these time capsules from the formation of the solar system can teach us, here’s a short πŸͺ¨πŸ§΅:
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Wednesday was the last full day of bone healing research on the station as the Exp 68 crew also studied the human heart and plasma physics. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
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.@SpaceX #Crew6 Pilot Warren Hoburg (@Astro_Woody) talks about upcoming spacewalks planned during his mission's stay at the station.
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Even as Lucy heads out into the solar system, our #OSIRISRex mission is currently on it way back to Earth, carrying a sample from asteroid Bennu. The mission is on track to deliver the sample return capsule on Sept. 24. nasa.gov/osiris-rex
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Meanwhile, the #MissionToPsyche is preparing for its own expedition. Psyche, which will explore a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, is targeted to launch in October.
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.@SpaceX #Crew6 Commander Stephen Bowen and Mission Specialist Sultan Alneyadi talked today about how an international crew works together.
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And just this week, a small asteroid about the size of a truck is predicted to safely make one of the closest approaches by a near-Earth object ever recorded: go.nasa.gov/3jakc4L
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are we sure it isn't space-karen's convertible? He left it out there somewhere.


Greenhouse gas emissions decreased a little during the first year of the COVID pandemic, but was it enough to make a lasting impact? @NASAClimate scientist Leslie Ott explains.
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.@nasa's Space Station Program Manager Joel Montalbano discusses the upcoming @SpaceX #Crew6 mission and more cargo and crew missions scheduled in 2023.
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We've got some good sample hunters in the comments! Many can pick out two tubes fairly easily by following my tracks. And if you download the high-res selfie you might spot several more. (The one shown directly in front of me in the pic sits at position #9 in this overhead map.)
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A new set of four crew members are preparing to launch to the space station as part of @nasa’s @SpaceX #Crew6 mission! Learn more about the international crew ahead of their launch next month.πŸš€ go.nasa.gov/3jclMmJ
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LIVE NOW: Astronauts aboard our next mission to the @Space_Station are taking questions from the media and the public at @NASA_Johnson. Share your #Crew6 Qs with #AskNASA! twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BdGY…
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LIVE NOW: Astronauts aboard our next mission to the @Space_Station are taking questions from the media and the public at @NASA_Johnson. Share your #Crew6 Qs with #AskNASA! twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BdGY…

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i really wish my tax dollars werent going to spacex. Wish we funded nasa more instead


Our #LucyMission was already set to break records by visiting 9 asteroids during its 12-year mission. Now it will be adding another asteroid flyby to its 4-billion-mile journey. The new flyby will also provide a test run for later encounters. πŸ›°πŸͺ¨ More: go.nasa.gov/3wxFXid
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Two recently discovered planets join 10 others in an exclusive category: worlds in the β€œconservative” habitable zone that are less than 1.5 times the size of Earth. There are more planets in ''optimistic'' habitable zone, but not many: 40. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/3XAJ2tL
#NASAExoplanets


LIVE NOW: We're talking about #Crew6, our next crewed mission to the @Space_Station, lifting off from @NASAKennedy no earlier than Feb. 26. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1ypKd…

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LIVE NOW: We're talking about #Crew6, our next crewed mission to the @Space_Station, lifting off from @NASAKennedy no earlier than Feb. 26. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1ypKd…
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#20YearsAgo Rick Husband was orbiting the Earth as commander of STS-107, his 2nd Shuttle flight. Husband dreamt of being an astronaut from childhood and, after becoming a @usairforce test pilot, applied 4 times before being selected to NASA's 1994 astronaut class. #NASARemembers
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Journaling doesn't have to be about beautiful things. Sometimes it's about the stressful stuff too: socialwork.buffalo.edu/content…
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Sometimes I find it useful to write an ingratitude list. Just to get it out of my system.


Ever wonder what Hubble saw on your birthday?

Here’s what Hubble captured #OTD in 2000 – the galaxy NGC 4013, seen edge-on from 55 million light-years away!

Find your image: go.nasa.gov/3WwqARC
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LDN 1622: The Boogeyman Nebula apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230125.ht… #APOD
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LDN 1622: The Boogeyman Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Joshua Carter

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In Antarctica, a long-watched rift in the Brunt Ice Shelf produced an iceberg about twice the size of New York City: Iceberg-A81. 🧊

The iceberg, with an area of 1550 square kilometers (about 600 square miles), was captured by @nasa’s Terra satellite.

go.nasa.gov/3XCgakS
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boost cw climate doomer shit: we're fucked, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the warming
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The break occurred along a rift known as Chasm 1. In 2021, #Landsat 8 captured the extent of the chasm and several other cracks across the northeast part of the shelf.
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#ICYMI: In February 2021, the Brunt Ice Shelf calved A-74, an iceberg that spanned about 1270 square kilometers (490 square miles), or about twice the size of Chicago.

go.nasa.gov/3WGvk7g
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Attach some engines to it. Perfect base for Hank Scorpio.
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or for the international audience, roughly the size of Cairo, a city with 12 million people 😱

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