Sunrise | International Space Station

U.S. Astronaut Randy Bresnik: "Houston is reporting blue sky for the first time in many days! May this sunrise start the healing process." #HoustonStrong

Credit: NASA/JSC, U.S. Astronaut Jack Fischer
Release Date: August 30, 2017

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NASA Concludes Summer Testing of Deep Space Rocket Engines

NASA engineers closed a summer of hot fire testing Aug. 30 for flight controllers on RS-25 engines that will help power the new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket being built to carry astronauts to deep-space destinations, including Mars. The 500-second hot fire an RS-25 engine flight controller unit on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi marked another step toward the nation’s return to human deep-space exploration missions. 

Credit: NASA Stennis 
Duration: 9 minutes 
Release Date: Aug 30, 2017 

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Harvey | International Space Station

Hurricane in Gulf of Mexico photographed from cupola window in orbit
On August 25, 2017, NASA astronaut Jack Fischer photographed Hurricane Harvey from the cupola module aboard the International Space Station as it intensified on its way toward the Texas coast. The Expedition 52 crew on the station had been tracking this storm for the previous two days and capturing Earth observation photographs and videos from their vantage point in low Earth orbit.

Credit: NASA/JSC
Image Date: August 25, 2017

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Tropical Storm Harvey Centered over Gulf of Mexico | NOAA

Aug. 29, 2017 : GOES-16 captured this geocolor image of Tropical Storm Harvey centered over the Gulf of Mexico just before 8:00 a.m. (CDT) on August 29, 2017.

As of 7:00 a.m. CDT on August 29, NOAA's National Hurricane Center reported that Harvey, was located about 90 miles east-southeast of Port O'Connor, Texas, and moving toward the north-northeast near 3 miles per hour. This motion is expected to continue throughout the morning and then a turn toward the northeast is expected later today or tonight, followed by a turn toward the north-northeast on Wednesday (8/30). On the forecast track, the center of Harvey is expected to be just offshore of the middle and upper coasts of Texas through tonight, then move inland over the northwestern Gulf coast on Wednesday. Harvey's maximum sustained winds remain near 45 mph with higher gusts. Little change in strength is forecast during the next 48 hours.

Harvey is expected to produce additional rainfall accumulations of 7 to 13 inches through Friday (9/1) over parts of the upper Texas coast into southwestern Louisiana. Isolated storm totals may reach 50 inches over the upper Texas coast, including the Houston/Galveston metropolitan area. These rains are currently producing catastrophic and life-threatening flooding over large portions of southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana.

Created by our partners at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, the experimental geocolor imagery enhancement shown here displays geostationary satellite data in different ways depending on whether it is day or night. This image, captured as daylight moves into the area, offers a blend of both, with nighttime features on the left side of the image and daytime on the right. In nighttime imagery (seen on the left side of this image), liquid water clouds appear in shades of blue, ice clouds are grayish-white, water looks black, and land appears gray. (The city lights are a static background created with VIIRS Day/Night Band imagery from the Suomi NPP satellite. It does not show any existing power outages.) In daytime imagery (shown on the right side of the image), land and shallow-water features appear as they do in true-color imagery.

Credit: NOAA/CIRA
Release Date: August 29, 2017
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"Follow the water!" | International Space Station

Image captured by ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli of Italy

Credit: ESA/NASA
Image Date: August 30, 2017
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Moon & Earth | International Space Station

U.S. Astronaut Randy Bresnik: "Our neighbor the moon peaking over Earth’s shoulder. May Houston see skies like this very soon. Goodnight from the International Space Station."

Credit: NASA/JSC
Release Date: August 29, 2017

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Harvey's Landfall in Louisiana | NASA/NOAA GOES Satellite

NOAA’s GOES-East satellite provided a visible-light image of Tropical Storm Harvey on Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 7:30 a.m. EDT (1230 UTC) after it made landfall at 4 a.m. CDT just west of Cameron, Louisiana.

Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project
Release Date: August 30, 2017

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Tropical Storm Harvey | International Space Station

U.S. Astronaut Jack Fischer: "Harvey fills the window creating a path of destruction as it traverses the Gulf. Praying for the people there and hoping for sunshine."

Credit: NASA/JSC
Release Date: August 30, 2017

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Italy | International Space Station

Credit: NASA/JSC, ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli of Italy
Release Date: August 27, 2017

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Grand Terre, New Caledonia | International Space Station

Grande Terre is the largest and principal island of New Caledonia. British explorer James Cook sighted Grande Terre in 1774 and named it "New Caledonia", Caledonia being a Latin name for parts of northern Scotland. Eventually, the name "New Caledonia" became applied to Grande Terre and its surrounding islands. (Source: Wikipedia)

New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia and 16,136 km (10,026 mi) east of Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Chesterfield Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of Pines, and a few remote islets. The Chesterfield Islands are in the Coral Sea. Locals refer to Grande Terre as "Le Caillou" ("the stone"). (Source: Wikipedia)

Credit: ESA/NASA/JSC, ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli of Italy
Image Date: August 12, 2017

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Bermuda | International Space Station

Cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy:
"Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean."
"Бермудские О-ва, расположенные в с-з части Атлантического океана"

Bermuda is located off the east coast of North America. Its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, United States, about 1,030 kilometers (640 mi) to the west-northwest. It is about 1,239 kilometers (770 mi) south of Cape Sable Island, Canada, and 1,538 kilometers (956 mi) north of Puerto Rico. Its capital city is Hamilton. (Source: Wikipedia)

Credit: Roscosmos, Cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy (Сергей Рязанский‏)
Release Date: August 26, 2017

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Sunrise | International Space Station

Cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy: "Good morning! We meet 16 sunrises a day and this is one of today's."
"И снова доброе утро! Один из 16 рассветов, которые мы встречаем за сутки"

Credit: Roscosmos, Cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy (Сергей Рязанский‏)
Release Date: August 26, 2017

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2017 Total Solar Eclipse: Bailey's Beads | NASA

The Bailey's Beads effect is seen as the moon makes its final move over the sun during the total solar eclipse on Monday, August 21, 2017 above Madras, Oregon. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of South America, Africa, and Europe.

Watch the 2017 North America Solar Eclipse Live on NASA TV | http://nasa.gov/eclipselive

NASA eclipse info: http://eclipse2017.nasa.gov

Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
Location: Madras, Oregon, United States
Release Date: August 21, 2017

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2017 Total Solar Eclipse: View from Madras, Oregon, USA | Totality Achieved

A total solar eclipse is seen on Monday, August 21, 2017 above Madras, Oregon. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of South America, Africa, and Europe.

NASA eclipse info: http://eclipse2017.nasa.gov

Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
Location: Madras, Oregon, United States
Release Date: August 21, 2017

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2017 Total Solar Eclipse: View from Washington State, USA

The Moon is seen as it starts passing in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, Washington on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of South America, Africa, and Europe.

NASA eclipse info: eclipse2017.nasa.gov

Northern Cascades National Park
nps.gov/noca/index.htm

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Location: Washington (state), United States
Release Date: August 21, 2017

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2017 Total Solar Eclipse: View from Washington State, USA

The Moon is seen as it starts passing in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, Washington on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of South America, Africa, and Europe.

NASA eclipse info: eclipse2017.nasa.gov

Northern Cascades National Park
nps.gov/noca/index.htm

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Location: Washington (state), United States
Release Date: August 21, 2017

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