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Our first close-up of Ganymede!

On this day in 1979, the Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped a series of images of Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system, as it made its closest approach to Jupiter

More about Ganymede: go.nasa.gov/41HpXII

📷 NASA/JPL-Caltech/Björn Jónsson
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Jupiter and Venus over Italy

Image Credit & Copyright: Giovanni Tumino

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If you want to journal, but don't know what to write about, here are 5 ideas to get you started. psychcentral.com/blog/5-ways-t…


A new crew of spacefarers arrives at the @Space_Station, a novel mission seeks to establish GPS on the Moon, and a call for middle and high school students to share their visions for the future of aviation.

Subscribe for weekly updates at go.nasa.gov/3msSF01
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Our @NASAArtemis Learning Lunchboxes feed the stomachs & minds of the Artemis Generation, with hands-on activities to spark interest in STEM.

@NASAAmes Director Eugene Tu, @AstroMD_Yvonne, and @SecondGentleman shared them with students in Oakland, CA: go.nasa.gov/3KXcvul
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An astronaut aboard the @Space_Station captured this panoramic view of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. 🧑‍🚀📷🌍

The dark-toned lines of forest in Botswana’s Okavango inland delta are prominent against the tan landscape. go.nasa.gov/3KMgmKR
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Over the Cuando River basin (upper right corner in this image) a cloud free line traces the course of a river.

This line reflects a zone of cooler air directly above the river where cloud development is suppressed—at least on days with little wind.
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Echo, echo…

Hubble captured a “light echo” from the star V838 Mon. A sequence of images shows how a pulse of light from this star illuminated its surrounding clouds of material!

Find out more about V838 Mon, including an image released #OTD in 2004: go.nasa.gov/3SNCyG4
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This stunning aerial photo, captured from a Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA), shows Space Shuttle Columbia lifting off from @NASAKennedy #OTD in 1994 for STS-62.

Learn more about how the STA prepared Shuttle pilots: go.nasa.gov/3ZbIbAi
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10 Days of Venus and Jupiter apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230304.ht… #APOD
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10 Days of Venus and Jupiter

Image Credit & Copyright: Soumyadeep Mukherjee

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Nuisance or high-tide flooding is projected to rapidly increase along U.S. coastlines in the mid-2030s, when a regular wobble in the Moon’s orbit will amplify the effects of rising seas. Now, see how many high-tide flood days are forecasted for a US city: go.nasa.gov/3EV2fiz
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“There is no part of the planet that isn’t absolutely beautiful...” @NASA_Astronauts @astro_josh on seeing the incredible views of the aurora with Exp 68 crewmates @AstroDuke and @Astro_Wakata.
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Tropical Cyclone Freddy brought heavy rain and flooding to Madagascar and Mozambique. This animation shows NASA IMERG satellite precipitation estimates from Feb. 6 to March 2, along with the cyclone’s position and intensity.

Details:
go.nasa.gov/3Yl5SVF
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What's Up for March? Venus and Jupiter part ways after their recent rendezvous, and it's time to meet the little planet that shares its namesake with your breakfast cereal. solarsystem.nasa.gov/skywatchi…
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📢UPDATE: EMIT’s data is now available to the public through the open science portal: VISIONS. You can explore what measurements have been made and where the mission will be observing next.

Get started: earth.jpl.nasa.gov/emit/data/d…

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Recognizing the need for the U.S. to keep up with other nations in advancing flight technology, Congress created the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) #OTD in 1915. The NACA went on to develop faster fighter planes for WWII… 1/2
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…hypersonic aircraft and rockets in the '40s, and much, much more before being transformed into NASA in 1958.

Read the highlights of the NACA's accomplishments in Roger Launius's new book NACA to NASA to Now: go.nasa.gov/3KN0mIn 2/2
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This week on #SpaceToGround, @nasa's @SpaceX #Crew6 arrives as #Crew5 prepares to return to Earth, plus learn more about a new experiment measuring air quality on the space station.
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Journey into the quantum realm with Ant-Man actor Paul Rudd! Learn how @NASASpaceSci’s quantum science could help unlock insight into the universe’s biggest mysteries, while contributing to technologies that improve our lives on Earth & advance space exploration.
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Journey into the quantum realm with Ant-Man actor Paul Rudd! Learn how @NASASpaceSci’s quantum science could help unlock insight into the universe’s biggest mysteries, while contributing to technologies that improve our lives on Earth & advance space exploration.
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The Apollo 11 Moon landing in July 1969 hinged on the success of Apollo 9, the first flight of the full Apollo spacecraft with the lunar module, launched #OTD in 1969. 🧵
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Jim McDivitt, David Scott, and Rusty Schweickart's 10-day flight in Earth orbit tested flight hardware and mission procedures and proved that a crewed Moon landing was within reach.

Learn more about Apollo 9: go.nasa.gov/3IIHJCE

📷 Dave Scott in the Command Module hatch
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iconic shot for me. Right up there with Ed White's Gemini spacewalk.


Need my space jams! 🎶

#DYK NASA sent personal recorders on the Apollo missions for astronauts to record notes, but the tapes were prerecorded with the crew's favorite #ArchivesMusic.

Listen: The Apollo 11 crew enjoying a mixtape apolloinrealtime.org/11/?t=059…
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#WorldWildlifeDay 🤝 #HubbleFriday

This image shows a "jellyfish" galaxy called JO201.

As jellyfish galaxies move through space, gas is slowly stripped away – forming trails that look like tendrils illuminated by clumps of star formation!

Read more: go.nasa.gov/3YkC9Mu
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RCW 86: Historical Supernova Remnant apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230303.ht… #APOD
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All aboard the orbiting laboratory! The four members of our @SpaceX #Crew6 mission have entered the @space_station and were greeted at their welcoming ceremony. Next: a safety briefing and orientation, then the new arrivals are off to catch some sleep.
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The four @SpaceX #Crew6 members joined the seven Expedition 68 crew members aboard the space station today expanding its population to 11. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
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The @SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour docked to the station's Harmony module at 1:40am ET on Friday. The four #Crew6 crewmates will enter the orbiting lab about 3:18am. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
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RCW 86: Historical Supernova Remnant

Image Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA, T.A. Rector (Univ.of Alaska/NSF’s NOIRLab), J. Miller (Gemini Obs./NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)

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The four @SpaceX #Crew6 members aboard the Crew Dragon Endeavour are soaring toward the station for a docking at 1:17am ET on Friday. Live @nasa TV coverage begins at 11:30pm today. nasa.gov/live
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Lunar Eclipse at the South Pole

Image Credit & Copyright: Aman Chokshi

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all it’s missing is Han Solo riding a tawntawn across the landscape 😂


We look forward to seeing your engineer application. 🚀
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Overgrazing by deer poses a threat to a giant quaking aspen tree colony in Utah that scientists have named Pando.

In this image by #Landsat 9, Pando’s yellow leaves are visible for about 200 meters on either side of State Route 25. go.nasa.gov/3KPIeNU
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Keep your eyes to the skies this month! Look for Jupiter and Venus to go their separate ways, and spot dwarf planet Ceres at its brightest. Get details on this and the phases of the Moon for March: go.nasa.gov/3INKwdO
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Back in the year 1006, humans recorded the arrival of light from a supernova explosion caused by the death of a star 7,000 light-years away!

In this #HubbleClassic view, some of the supernova's “leftovers” are seen as a red ribbon moving through space: go.nasa.gov/3IM5s5b
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Haha, I first read that as a "Red Gibbon" and thought "I for one welcome our ginger ape overlords"
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Hi, I'm new to mastodon so maybe I'm missing something but it seems like far fewer, none so far for me, of your images posted have alt text descriptions. Am I missing them somehow? Thanks.


Our @NASARoman Telescope will match the detail of @NASAHubble, yet cover in a year what would take Hubble nearly a century. Combining data from Roman, Hubble, and @NASAWebb will help astronomers “rewind the universe” and understand how it formed: go.nasa.gov/3y67p7r
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why does Roman not overlap Hubble? Wouldn't that be useful for calibration and change detection? #hubble #roman #astronomy #astronomyquestion


Launch. Check!
Lunar orbit. Check!
Splashdown. Check!

We're giving an update on the data from the #Artemis I flight test around the Moon, which launched successfully in Nov. 2022. Tune in March 7 at noon ET (1700 UTC) for the results: go.nasa.gov/3YdDCEr
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If you missed yesterday's conjunction of Jupiter and Venus, don't worry too much. The pair will still appear close together in the sky for several days. Look to the west just after sunset. solarsystem.nasa.gov/skywatchi…
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