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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
The Sun: Two Prominences Unraveling | NASA SDO
At the edge of the sun, a large prominence and a small prominence began to shift, turn and fall apart in less than one day (May 8-9, 2017). Prominences are notoriously unstable. Competing magnetic forces pulled the plasma back and forth until they dissipated. This image was taken in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light.
Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA
Image Date: May 9, 2017
Release Date: May 12, 2017
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Milestone Spacewalk on Space Station | This Week @NASA
Also, Exploration Mission-1 Announcement, Future Space Station Crew Previews Mission, Humans to Mars Summit 2017, James Webb Space Telescope at JSC, and Martian New Year in Mars, PA!
Credit: NASA
Duration: 4 minutes, 28 seconds
Release Date: May 12, 2017
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NASA's Space to Ground: Everything is Awesome!
Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center
Duration: 2 minutes, 50 seconds
Release Date: May 12, 2017
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Iceland at Night | Suomi NPP Satellite
May 12, 2017: By day, satellite images of Iceland highlight the nation’s diverse landscape. Sunlight illuminates the smooth, rounded ice caps and the seasonal snow of the interior areas. Snow-capped ridges mark the glacier-carved coastlines.
But the view at night offers an entirely different perspective of the Nordic island nation. This image shows Iceland’s nighttime lights as observed in 2016; it comes from a new global composite map that provides the clearest-yet views of the patterns of human settlements across Earth. The composite was built by selecting the best cloud-free images acquired with the day/night band of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite.
Images of night lights are useful for showing how and where humans populate the planet. In this image, you can see how the Icelandic landscape influences where people live. The island’s interior—the so-called central highlands—is rugged. Compared to coastal areas, the interior is high in elevation, sparsely vegetated, and cold. It is sprinkled with volcanoes, icecaps, and hot springs. People visit the area, but you won’t see many signs of permanent settlement.
In contrast, areas closer to the island’s perimeter are well lit. Reykjavík stands out as the large, bright area in the southwest. That makes sense, given that it is the country’s capital and largest city. In 2014, the city’s population was 184,000 people—almost half of Iceland’s population. The other half live in smaller urban areas located primarily near the coast.
The coast is not only more hospitable; it provides access to ocean resources, particularly fishing. Some of those fishing villages are found on Snæfellsnes, a peninsula in western Iceland that appears well lit. Lights along the peninsula might also be farms and summer homes, and they appear in relatively high density because of the narrow coastal area.
Lights elsewhere could have their roots in agriculture. Towns primarily in the south, such as Flúðir and Hveragerði, make use of geothermal energy to heat greenhouses for growing vegetables and flowers. Artificial lights in these greenhouses can stay on well into the night, particularly during the dark winter months.
Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román, NASA GSFC
Caption Credit: Kathryn Hansen with image interpretation provided by Throstur Thorsteinsson, University of Iceland
Instrument(s): Suomi NPP - VIIRS
Release Date: May 12, 2017
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2017 NASA Student Launch
Student Rockets Blast Off During Annual 2017 #StudentLaunch Challenge
Fifty middle and high school, college and university teams from 23 states launched their student-built rockets at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Credit: NASA/MSFC
Image Date: April 8, 2017
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2017 NASA Student Launch
Fifty middle and high school, college and university teams from 23 states launched their student-built rockets at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Credit: NASA/MSFC
Image Date: April 8, 2017
#NASA #Science #Space #Technology #Engineering #Rockets #Students #Teachers #STEM #Education #StudentLaunch #Challenge #MSFC #Marshall #OrbitalATK #Toney #Alabama #UnitedStates #Photography
2017 NASA Student Launch
Student Rockets Blast Off During Annual 2017 #StudentLaunch Challenge
Fifty middle and high school, college and university teams from 23 states launched their student-built rockets at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Credit: NASA/MSFC
Image Date: April 8, 2017
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2017 NASA Student Launch
Fifty middle and high school, college and university teams from 23 states launched their student-built rockets at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Credit: NASA/MSFC
Image Date: April 8, 2017
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2017 NASA Student Launch
Student Rockets Blast Off During Annual 2017 #StudentLaunch Challenge
Fifty middle and high school, college and university teams from 23 states launched their student-built rockets at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Credit: NASA/MSFC
Image Date: April 8, 2017
#NASA #Science #Space #Technology #Engineering #Rockets #Students #Teachers #STEM #Education #StudentLaunch #Challenge #MSFC #Marshall #OrbitalATK #Toney #Alabama #UnitedStates #Photography
2017 NASA Student Launch
Student Rockets Blast Off During Annual 2017 #StudentLaunch Challenge
Fifty middle and high school, college and university teams from 23 states launched their student-built rockets at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Credit: NASA/MSFC
Image Date: April 8, 2017
#NASA #Science #Space #Technology #Engineering #Rockets #Students #Teachers #STEM #Education #StudentLaunch #Challenge #MSFC #Marshall #OrbitalATK #Toney #Alabama #UnitedStates #Photography
2017 NASA Student Launch
Student Rockets Blast Off During Annual 2017 #StudentLaunch Challenge
Fifty middle and high school, college and university teams from 23 states launched their student-built rockets at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Credit: NASA/MSFC
Image Date: April 8, 2017
#NASA #Science #Space #Technology #Engineering #Rockets #Students #Teachers #STEM #Education #StudentLaunch #Challenge #MSFC #Marshall #OrbitalATK #Toney #Alabama #UnitedStates #Photography
2017 NASA Student Launch
Student Rockets Blast Off During Annual 2017 #StudentLaunch Challenge
Fifty middle and high school, college and university teams from 23 states launched their student-built rockets at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Credit: NASA/MSFC
Image Date: April 8, 2017
#NASA #Science #Space #Technology #Engineering #Rockets #Students #Teachers #STEM #Education #StudentLaunch #Challenge #MSFC #Marshall #OrbitalATK #Toney #Alabama #UnitedStates #Photography
Friday, May 19, 2017
2017 NASA Student Launch
Student Rockets Blast Off During Annual 2017 #StudentLaunch Challenge
Fifty middle and high school, college and university teams from 23 states launched their student-built rockets at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Credit: NASA/MSFC
Image Date: April 8, 2017
#NASA #Science #Space #Technology #Engineering #Rockets #Students #Teachers #STEM #Education #StudentLaunch #Challenge #MSFC #Marshall #Toney #Alabama #UnitedStates #Photography
Fifty middle and high school, college and university teams from 23 states launched their student-built rockets at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Credit: NASA/MSFC
Image Date: April 8, 2017
#NASA #Science #Space #Technology #Engineering #Rockets #Students #Teachers #STEM #Education #StudentLaunch #Challenge #MSFC #Marshall #Toney #Alabama #UnitedStates #Photography
Uintah Basin, USA | Earth from Space | European Space Agency
May 12, 2017: In this 229th edition of "Earth from Space", Sentinel-2 takes us over the border of the U.S. states Utah and Colorado—presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios.
Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
Duration: 2 minutes, 31 seconds
Release Date: May 12, 2017
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
NASA Celebrates Mars New Year in Mars, Pennsylvania
Website: www.MarsNewYear.com
Credit: NASA
Duration: 2 minutes
Release Date: May 10, 2017
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Mars: NASA Opportunity Rover Panorama | May 10, 2017
"Color mosaic of pancam images acquired by NASA's Opportunity rover on May 10, 2017 (mission sol 4726). Opportunity is at the head of 'Perseverance Valley,' located on the rim of Endeavour Crater. This view is made from raw uncalibrated images and has been color-adjusted to approximately the type of color you'd see on Mars. Note: The right side of the image was a bit overexposed in the raw images so that is why it seems a bit lighter there."
For more information about Opportunity, visit:
www.nasa.gov/rovers
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech//Jason Major
Image Date: May 10, 2017
Release Date: May 11, 2017
#NASA #Mars #Astronomy #Science #Space #Geology #Geoscience #PerseveranceValley #Endeavour #Crater #Panorama #Landscape #Terrain #Sol4726 #Opportunity #Rover #Robotics #JPL #Pasadena #California #UnitedStates #Exploration #SolarSystem #STEM #Education
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