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In Australia, plentiful rainfall set the stage for prescribed burning to begin. Though the fires were planned, winds can still carry the smoke far from the source.

NASA’s Aqua satellite captured the trailing smoke from space on April 23, 2023. go.nasa.gov/40DOblz
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Yes, I remember wondering if it would blot out the eclipse. It didn't!


These 7 spotlighted galaxies are so far away, their light took ~13 billion years to reach us, via @NASAWebb, which was also used to measure their velocities (more than 2 million mph!). go.nasa.gov/3V5UEnZ
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TROPICS is a constellation of CubeSats that will help us better understand tropical storms and hurricanes around the globe. The first of two launches is set for April 30th.

🌀 Have questions? Use #AskNASA and we may answer them during the live broadcast.
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.@nasa and its International Space Station partners have committed to extending orbital lab operations to promote @ISS_Research and benefit humanity. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
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Happy #NationalParkWeek! Our national parks are awe-inspiring and otherworldly - so much so that NASA visits them to prepare for exploring worlds beyond Earth - with permission from @NatlParkService of course.

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NASA has tested Martian spacecraft on @DeathValleyNPS' dry and dusty terrain. Here, Carl Sagan stands with a mockup of the Viking lander. NASA continues to conduct research at the park's diverse and alien landscape.

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How long will it take for some conspiracy theorist to say this is "proof" that moon landings and other scientific endeavors are fake?


.@YellowstoneNPS is famous for its geysers - as is Saturn’s moon Enceladus! A team from @NASAGoddard visited the park in the winter of 2019 to see if they could detect microbial life within the geysers and the surrounding icy surface.

solarsystem.nasa.gov/enceladus
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Two cosmonauts will conduct a pair of spacewalks on Wednesday, May 3, and Friday, May 12, to relocate hardware outside the @Space_Station. Details and coverage info: go.nasa.gov/44blzDe
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Are you ready for a spacewalk?

Astronauts Steve Bowen and @Astro_Alneyadi will step out of the @Space_Station around 9:15am ET (1315 UTC) on Friday, April 28 to prepare for upcoming power upgrades. Coverage starts here and on NASA TV at 7:45am (1145 UTC): go.nasa.gov/40Iopww
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The Exp 69 crew is GO for Friday's spacewalk set to begin at 9:15am ET live on @nasa TV. Health checks and robotics tests rounded out the day's schedule. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
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"Whew! That's what I call a thrill." –Apollo 16 astronaut Ken Mattingly

Travelling at more than 11,000 m/s (36,000 ft/s) as the Apollo 16 spacecraft entered the atmosphere, its heat shield reached 2200–2480°C (4000–4500°F) and the crew pulled 7 Gs before its parachutes deployed.
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how can there be high g-force _before_ the parachute deployed?


More about the successful conclusion of the Apollo 16 mission, 51 years ago today: go.nasa.gov/41Dd3Lm
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Researchers with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs are using NASA Earth observations of smoke and air pollution to study health impacts of veterans deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and other areas of Southwest Asia since 2001. go.nasa.gov/3Azngwz
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The Tarantula Nebula from SuperBIT apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230427.ht… #APOD
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The Tarantula Nebula from SuperBIT

Image Credit: SuperBIT, NASA

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Yesterday, @NASAGoddard welcomed @President_KR Yoon Suk Yeol and @VP Kamala Harris.

The visit included a meeting with Korean-American @nasa employees, like Hubble engineer Jessica Regalado (second from right in group photo from the event): go.nasa.gov/3AwwQQJ
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What would you do to study snow? ❄️

For @nasa SnowEx scientists, the answer is quite a lot! During their campaign in March 2023, the team snowmobiled and snowshoed across Alaska to study snow and learn how to better study it from the ground, air, and, one day, from space.
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You did it, folks. Thanks to you, we put the Webb in #Webbys!

Our #UnfoldTheUniverse campaign and livestream series have netted us 2 People’s Voice awards. Congrats to all of @nasa’s Webby winners: go.nasa.gov/40Gxyph
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That's a beautiful picture, too bad it doesn't have alt-text. A lot of us her on Mastodon don't boost pictures without alt-text.


With more than 45 years in space already logged, this plan will keep Voyager 2’s science instruments turned on a few years longer than previously anticipated, enabling further revelations from interstellar space.
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The first of two TROPICS launches will send cyclone-tracking CubeSats to low Earth orbit from New Zealand. The launch window opens at 9pm ET April 30 (0100 UTC May 1).

A second launch is planned for May 16 to complete the constellation: go.nasa.gov/3Ax7aDG
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TOI-1075 b is one of the most massive super-Earths ever discovered. Nearly 10 times Earth’s mass, it orbits a small, red-orange star in only 14½ hours. This makes the planet extremely hot, with an estimated temperature of 1,922 degrees F (1,050 C). go.nasa.gov/3LzD1Kl
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Two astronauts work health checks and tool preps ahead of Friday's spacewalk as the rest of the Exp 69 crew conducts advanced @ISS_Research and lab maintenance today. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
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We did it together. Thanks to you, we're bringing home five People's Voice Awards in this year's #Webbys.

From @NASAWebb's first images to @NASA_Eyes's interactive map of the asteroids, check out our full set of Webby winners: go.nasa.gov/3n7iNOw
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About two billion light-years away, a whole cluster of galaxies known as Abell 68 shines.

The massive gravitational field of Abell 68 is strong enough to bend the light paths of more distant galaxies, causing the warped shapes of some galaxies seen here: go.nasa.gov/442N3e1
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Fascinating extragalactic #astronomy

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About two billion light-years away, a whole cluster of galaxies known as Abell 68 shines.

The massive gravitational field of Abell 68 is strong enough to bend the light paths of more distant galaxies, causing the warped shapes of some galaxies seen here: go.nasa.gov/442N3e1
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Across the country, Vernon's brother Francis Rogallo worked at @NASA_Langley and is best known for designing the Rogallo Wing, a flexible airfoil, with his wife Gertrude. The Rogallo Wing has been used for hang gliding, paragliding and stunt kite flying! 🪂

📷 Rogallo Wing, 1959
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The Moon through the Arc de Triomphe apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230426.ht… #APOD
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Spot the Spacecraft – a little challenge for you, in two levels of difficulty:

The #MarsHelicopter and I have been closer together lately, allowing us to snap pics of each other for the first time in a while. Can you find me in one of these images, and Ingenuity in the other? 🔍
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There's bad days, there's good days, and then there's days when Percy and Ginny play peek-a-boo. Thanks for the smile 😀


Today, @VP Kamala Harris and @President_KR Yoon Suk Yeol were briefed on NASA’s work in climate change and air quality monitoring. @nasa’s TEMPO and the Republic of Korea’s GEMS mission will transform the way scientists observe air quality from space. go.nasa.gov/3L7D1jg
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Recently launched, NASA’s TEMPO mission will observe air quality over North America every hour and reveal how pollution exposure varies by neighborhood and within a city. go.nasa.gov/3VeObXZ
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What are these marks in the ice? 🤔

On March 13, 2023, #Landsat 9 took these images of Tunulliarfik Fjord in Greenland. At the time, the fjord’s waters were capped with a layer of sea ice. 🌊🧊 go.nasa.gov/3V4P0m6
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Some of the lines connect the towns of Qassiarsuk (left) and Narsarsuaq (right), which are about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) apart across the fjord.

@NASAGoddard ice scientists believe these lines and loops were likely produced by humans on snowmobiles.
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🧊 However, some of the “lines” in this image have more variation.

“These look like natural ice deformation features, most likely cracks or ridging due to tidal motion,” said @nasagoddard cryospheric scientist Nathan Kurtz.
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These #Landsat images have been pan-sharpened with a data processing technique to bring out more detail.
Learn how pan-sharpening works: 🔍 go.nasa.gov/3AA2pch
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Today, @VP and @President_KR toured @NASAGoddard for a close-up look at how we study our changing planet—and got a glimpse of @NASARoman, our next space telescope, as it's being built: go.nasa.gov/3mXIRf3
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In case anyone is wondering -- the thing in the background is a centrifuge. What it has to do with this diplomatic visit is a mystery to me.


Congrats to the "Eyes on Asteroids" team, winners of a People's Voice Award from the Webbys! Have you tried it? Tour the solar system's space rocks, and track our asteroid expeditions: #OSIRISREx, #LucyMission, and, soon, #MissionToPsyche - eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/
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.@VP Kamala Harris & @President_KR Yoon Suk Yeol met with scientists at @NASAGoddard to see firsthand climate change research underway. More 📷flic.kr/s/aHBqjABeAN
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Not too hot, not too cold.

No, not April 25. It's what @NASAExoplanets scientists call the habitable zone of a star—the range where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface: go.nasa.gov/41FqY3w
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ok NASA we fucked this one up, can we get a super space ship ready before the oceans boil and Cthulhu rises again? Oh, and please leave Musk et al behind.


The Hubble team is thrilled to share that our video “How Hubble Images Are Made” is @nasa’s 2023 Webby-award-winning entry! 🎉

In addition, five other NASA projects received the honor of winning People’s Voice Awards: nasa.gov/feature/best-of-the-i…
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