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On March 8, 2001, astronaut Susan Helms was on her way to the @Space_Station with the launch of STS-102. Helms made history twice over in the next few days: she was the 1st woman to be on an ISS crew, and performed a record-breaking 8 h 56 min spacewalk with crewmate Jim Voss!
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Happy #InternationalWomensDay!

From studying air quality to sea ice, women at @nasa help us learn more about our home planet. 🌎👩‍🔬#IWD2023

Follow along this #WomensHistoryMonth as we highlight more female-identifying scientists at NASA.
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Artificial Night Sky Brightness

Image Credit: Data: JPSS Satellites; Processing: David J. Lorenz

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my entire prefecture doesn't exist on that map...lmao

Ishikawa...where you at??



New Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi from the @MBRSpaceCentre talked to UAE (United Arab Emirates) Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum today.
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NASA’s OCO-2 satellite helps track carbon dioxide emissions for more than 100 countries.

In this map, countries where more carbon dioxide was removed than emitted appear as green depressions, while countries with higher emissions are tan or red and appear to pop off the page.
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“NASA is focused on delivering Earth science data that addresses real world climate challenges – like helping governments around the world measure the impact of their carbon mitigation efforts.” – Karen St. Germain, NASA’s Earth Science Division director

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New Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi from the @UAESpaceAgency talked to UAE (United Arab Emirates) Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum today.
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March’s full moon marks the beginning of spring and is known by many names, including the Worm Moon, due to earthworms emerging from the newly thawed ground.

The Moon will appear full in the morning sky until Wed., March 8: go.nasa.gov/3SSDZ6t

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#OTD in 2009, @nasa launched the Kepler Space Telescope. It found more than 3,250 planets beyond our solar system and identified 3,000+ planet candidates before running out of fuel. Its name is written in the stars (and planets) it discovered. 💜 go.nasa.gov/3YvAPql
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Researchers are using @NASAEarth-observing satellites to track wildfires increasing in intensity & frequency due to climate change.

Learn how an outside perspective helps scientists study wildfires on the latest episode of our Curious Universe podcast: go.nasa.gov/3kODD4f
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The station's crew of 11 individuals worked on a variety of human research, space botany, and future tech experiments today. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
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rarely seen photo of the human turbine (in mid-spin) used to generate power for the international space system.


Galaxies meet in a wild swirl 💃
500 million light-years from Earth, merging galaxies have a chaotic, disturbed shape in this Webb image. The bright cores of the two galaxies are connected by tendrils of star formation. Eventually they will be one. esawebb.org/images/potm2211a/
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The Moon is calling. ⬜

We are partnering with Minecraft to bring the #Artemis missions to players all over the world. Read more about the partnership: go.nasa.gov/3Zq0emL
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Every day, @nasa data gets served on a dinner plate. 🍽️

Our fleet of Earth-observing satellites helps farmers make critical decisions about how to better grow food on our changing planet.

go.nasa.gov/3SXlEoT
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LIVE NOW: Hear from NASA experts and dive into the findings of our successful #Artemis I mission, which flew the uncrewed @NASA_Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back to Earth. youtube.com/live/_IWSaicWuVA?s…
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It's #TriviaTuesday! Many people know that the Apollo 11 lunar module (LM) was called Eagle, but what was the name of the Apollo 9 LM, that had its first crewed flight while in Earth orbit on this day in 1969?
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I knew this a long time ago, but am clueless now 😥. In any case your post reminds me of my younger days when I had a Viewmaster and a couple of disks of NASA photos of the Moon Landing. Loved those 3D photos. 🥰


Scientists mapped nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in California’s air at the neighborhood scale and found hotspots of the air pollutant near high-rise buildings and food processing facilities.

Dark orange shows where NO2 concentrations were highest in 2018 & 2019. go.nasa.gov/3Jgjs8x
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TEMPO, an upcoming @nasa mission, will allow scientists to see how concentrations of pollution—such as NO2 and ozone—change over time depending on temperature, wind, traffic patterns, and other phenomena.

Learn about TEMPO:
go.nasa.gov/424mg07
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, seen in this #HubbleClassic image from 1999, has captivated astronomers for centuries. The spot is a vast storm, spinning like a cyclone.

It’s the largest known storm in our solar system and almost twice the size of Earth: go.nasa.gov/3SWCK5W
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Deep Field: The Large Magellanic Cloud apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230307.ht… #APOD
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Deep Field: The Large Magellanic Cloud

Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory, TWAN)

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- I'd never seen a really good picture of the Large Magellanic Cloud.


The newly expanded station crew of 11 members kicked off a busy work week today as four Exp 68 crew members prepare to return to Earth. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
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A jellyfish floating in space✨
Do you see the tendrils hanging from this ''jellyfish'' galaxy? As jellyfish galaxies move through intergalactic space, gas is slowly stripped away, forming trails that resemble tendrils illuminated by star formation. go.nasa.gov/3ykqRxr
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Novel crAssphage isolates exhibit conserved gene order and purifying selection of the host specificity protein biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/…


I've got sunshine on a cloudy day. 🎶

For the first time, @MarsCuriosity spotted some of the clearest sunrays ever seen on the Red Planet. These images reveal new findings about the weather on Mars: go.nasa.gov/3Ypb8aW
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You can move, but you can't hide: identification of mobile genetic elements with geNomad biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/…


It's the last full moon of winter in the northern hemisphere! This full moon corresponds with several religious practices and festivals, including Lent, Purim, Holi, and Medin Poya.

Learn more about Moon phases: moon.nasa.gov/moon-in-motion/m…
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Now that #Crew6 is getting settled in, what's coming up next for the @Space_Station?

Learn more about the heart disease studies, student-designed prototypes, and other @ISS_Research that's heading to orbit on #CRS27 later this month: go.nasa.gov/3F0t84K
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This full moon is worming its way into your sky.

March’s full moon is known as the Worm, Crow, Crust, Sap, or Sugar Moon and is associated with the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

Send us your favorite Moon pics and see what else is up: go.nasa.gov/3F0a7iG
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I'd never ask the general public for moon pics ...idk
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Hi, wondering if your posts will start having alt text like many of your Twitter posts, or am I missing something and it's here? #AccessibleAstronomy


In one minute, light travels 11 million miles/18 million km. (That's 186,000 miles/300,000 km a second!) Light is fast, but distances in space are so vast that it can take years to reach us. go.nasa.gov/3ZJ5txv
#MondayMotivation: Look around; you're already on the way!
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After torrential rains in São Paulo, a state in southeast Brazil, #Landsat images revealed widespread landslides in the coastal São Sebastião municipality.

This Feb. 26 image shows landslides across the hilly landscape between Jaqueí and Praia da Baleia. go.nasa.gov/3EVK3VZ
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Donna Shirley joined @NASAJPL in 1966 as an aeronautical engineer, and went on to lead the development of the first rover to land on Mars (Sojourner) and become the 1st woman to lead a NASA Program, the Mars Exploration Program!

More about her career: go.nasa.gov/41IUsOl
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Quantum science is behind many technologies we use on Earth and helps us study the universe's biggest mysteries.

Learn more alongside Ant-Man actor Paul Rudd! 🐜👇
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Jupiter and Venus from Earth apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230306.ht… #APOD
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Jupiter and Venus from Earth

Image Credit & Copyright: Marek Nikodem (PPSAE)

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If you're struggling with time management, learn about how others approach it. Here's some information that may help: socialwork.buffalo.edu/content…


Some objects in the universe are so massive, they literally cause ripples through space and time.

On the most recent episode of our Curious Universe podcast, dive into the invisible, time-warping world of gravitational waves. go.nasa.gov/41PtqVw
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Trailing tentacles of stars make out the “jellyfish galaxy” captured here by @NASAHubble. As jellyfish galaxies move through intergalactic space, gas is slowly stripped away, forming trails that resemble tendrils. Discover more: go.nasa.gov/3ZCVr0Q
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