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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Overview | Ganymede – NASA Solar System Exploration
NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.NASA Solar System Exploration
APOD: 2023 March 5 – Jupiter and Venus over Italy
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Jupiter and Venus over Italy
Image Credit & Copyright: Giovanni Tumino
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APOD: 2023 March 5 – Jupiter and Venus over Italy
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8 Approaches to Find Yourself
Learn how to stop reacting to life, making up for the shadows of yesterday, and toiling for your tomorrow. See how to know yourself now.Margarita Tartakovsky, MS (Psych Central)
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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Second Gentleman Joins East Bay Kids for NASA Artemis Activities
Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff along with NASA Ames Research Center Director Dr. Eugene Tu and NASA astronaut Dr.Rachel Hoover (NASA)
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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Northern Kalahari Desert Panorama
Smoke and cumulus clouds dotted the sky when an astronaut photographed a remote part of Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, and Angola.go.nasa.gov
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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NASA - Test Drive: Shuttle Training Aircraft Preps Astronauts for Landing
Shuttle Training Aircraft preps astronauts for landingTerry McDonald - JSC
APOD: 2023 March 4 - 10 Days of Venus and Jupiter
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10 Days of Venus and Jupiter
Image Credit & Copyright: Soumyadeep Mukherjee
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APOD: 2023 March 4 - 10 Days of Venus and Jupiter
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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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Tropical Cyclone Freddy Brings Heavy Rain and Flooding to Madagascar and Mozambique | NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission
Tropical Cyclone Freddy first made landfall along the east coast of Madagascar just north of the town of Mananjary on Feb.go.nasa.gov
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NASA Skywatching Home
What’s visible in the night sky? Get skywatching tips and resources from NASA.NASA Solar System Exploration
📢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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Coverage and Forecasts | EMIT Open Data Portal – EMIT
EMIT will make the first detailed maps of dust composition of Earth’s dust source regions and use state-of-the-art climate models to better understand regional and global heating and cooling impacts and future changes in dust source regions.EMIT
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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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NACA to NASA to Now
NACA to NASA to Now: The Frontiers of Air and Space in the American Century tells the story of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and its successor, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).Michele Ostovar (NASA)
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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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50 Years Ago: Apollo 9 Launched to Test the Lunar Module
50 Years Ago: Apollo 9 Launched to Test the LMKelli Mars (NASA)
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…
#ArchivesHashtagParty
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Apollo 11 in Real Time
A real-time interactive journey through the first landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1969.Apollo 11 in Real Time
#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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Hubble Peers at a Galactic Seascape
A “jellyfish galaxy” with trailing tentacles of stars hangs in inky blackness in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
APOD: 2023 March 3 - RCW 86: Historical Supernova Remnant
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Expedition 68 Welcomes Crew-6 Members Aboard Station
NASA astronauts, Mission Commander Stephen Bowen and Pilot Woody Hoburg, along with UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard the SpaceX Dragon, named Endeavour, have arrived at the Internatio…blogs.nasa.gov
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SpaceX Crew-6 Mission Docks to Station's Harmony Module
NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, along with UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, as the SpaceX Dragon, named Endeavour, docke…blogs.nasa.gov
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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APOD: 2023 March 3 - RCW 86: Historical Supernova Remnant
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Lunar Eclipse at the South Pole
Image Credit & Copyright: Aman Chokshi
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APOD: 2022 November 5 - Lunar Eclipse at the South Pole
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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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Saving a Forest of One
Overgrazing by deer poses a threat to a giant quaking aspen tree colony in Utah—one of the largest organisms in the world.go.nasa.gov
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What’s Up: Skywatching Tips from NASA
Watch the latest video in NASA’s “What’s Up” series to discover the skywatching highlights for this month.NASA Solar System Exploration
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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How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Rewind the Universe
A new simulation shows how NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will turn back the cosmic clock, unveiling the evolving universe in ways that have never been possible before.Ashley Balzer (NASA)
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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NASA to Discuss Findings from Successful Artemis I Moon Mission
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EST Tuesday, March 7, to provide an update on data analyzed thus far on the agency’s Artemis I Moon mission, the first integrated flight test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, uncrewed …Roxana Bardan (NASA)
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NASA Skywatching Home
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