NASA's Mars Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers: New October 2022 Images | JPL

NASA's Mars Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers: New October 2022 Images | JPL

MSL - sol 3633 - MAHLI

Mars2020 - sol 594 - Watson

Mars2020 - sol 594 - Watson

MSL - sol 3631 - Mastcam

Mars2020 - sol 596 - Mastcam-Z

MSL - MastCam - sol 3626 - Image B

MSL - MastCam - sol 3626 - Image A

Celebrating 10 Years on Mars! (2012-2022)

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life. 

Launch: Nov. 6, 2011

Landing Date: Aug. 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.

Launch: July 30, 2020    

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit: mars.nasa.gov

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill/PipploIMP

Image Release Dates: Oct. 18-26, 2022

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First-ever Close-up High-res Views of Our Sun | ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter

First-ever Close-up High-res View of Our Sun | ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter

[Look carefully for detailed changes of motion.] The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has experienced its second close encounter with the Sun. It is delivering more stunning data, and at higher resolution than ever before. The moment of closest approach took place on October 12, 2022, at 19:12 UTC (21:12 CEST), when Solar Orbiter was just 29% of the Earth’s distance from the Sun. This movie comes from October 13, when the spacecraft’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) returned the highest resolution movie of the quiet corona ever taken with any instrument.

Each pixel on this movie spans 105 km on the surface of the Sun. This means that if EUI were to look at the Earth from this distance, our entire planet would span just 120 pixels across. The movie itself contains 2048 across, meaning that 17 Earths would fit side by side across this image.

The corona is the Sun’s outer atmosphere. It is termed quiet when there is little appreciable solar activity such as flares or coronal mass ejections. This movie, and others taken during the encounter, show the dynamic nature of the Sun's million degree-hot corona. The electrically charged gas here, known as plasma, is in constant motion, guided and accelerated by changes of the Sun's magnetic field. The arches of bright plasma in the movie are being held in place by loops of magnetism that burst up into the corona from the Sun’s interior.

The Sun is currently ramping up for a peak in its activity levels, known as solar maximum, in 2025. So views of a quiet corona are likely to become rarer in the coming few years.

The Sun launches a solar wind of particles that streams out through the Solar System. It originates in the corona but the precise mechanism by which this happens is poorly understood. Investigating this phenomenon is a key focus for solar physicists, and one of Solar Orbiter’s main scientific objectives.

This particular encounter benefited from Solar Orbiter rapidly flying in the direction of Earth. This allowed much more data to be downlinked. It also allowed for coordinated observations of solar features to be made with Earth-based telescopes, from October 21 onwards.

“I am very much looking forward to data from all ten instruments being downloaded during the next few weeks, and then the world-wide science community will be very busy discovering new things using this unique data set,” says Daniel Müller, ESA Project Scientist for Solar Orbiter.

Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, operated by ESA.

This movie was enhanced with Wavelet Optimized Whitening technique.

Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team; acknowledgement: Frédéric Auchère, IAS

Duration: 1 minute, 27 seconds

Release Date: October 27, 2022

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New Expedition 68 Crew Photos for October 2022 | International Space Station

New Expedition 68 Crew Photos for October 2022 | International Space Station

NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio inside cupola

NASA Flight Engineer Josh Cassada inside cupola

Roscosmos Flight Engineer Anna Kikina (Russia) performing electronics & comms maintenance

JAXA Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata (Japan) giving 'thumbs up'

Station Commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia) inside the Zvezda service module 

NASA Flight Engineer Josh Cassada inside Columbus laboratory

Roscosmos Flight Engineer Anna Kikina (Russia) wearing headphones for hearing test

JAXA Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata (Japan) checks out the robotics console 

Expedition 68 Crew

Station Commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Anna Kikina & Dmitri Petelin

NASA: Flight Engineers Nicole Mann, Frank Rubio & Josh Cassada

JAXA (Japan): Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Learn more about the important research being operated on ISS: https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Dates: October 1-24, 2022

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Proba-2 Satellite Captures Two Partial Eclipses | European Space Agency

Proba-2 Satellite Captures Two Partial Eclipses | European Space Agency

European Space Agency’s Proba-2 captured two partial solar eclipses on October 25, 2022. A solar eclipse is caused by the movement of the Moon around Earth. Despite their much different sizes, due to their separation, the Moon appears to be about the same size as the significantly larger Sun in the sky. Occasionally, the Moon passes in front of the Sun, blocking its light, so that part of the Earth’s surface is in the Moon’s shadow. The line-up is not always perfect, and so not every eclipse is a total solar eclipse.

On October 25 only part of the Sun’s light was blocked by the Moon, creating what is known as a partial eclipse. It was visible from most of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia, with the Moon blocking 82% of the sunlight near the North Pole. In Europe up to 40% of the sunlight was obscured during the event.

This partial eclipse was observed by ESA’s Proba-2 mission from its unique vantage point in space. Its SWAP instrument studies the Sun in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light where it focuses on the solar corona—the Sun’s hot turbulent atmosphere—at temperatures of about a million degrees. The corona is seen in the background of this video.

For us on Earth, the Moon passes only once in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse. Since Proba-2 orbits the Earth in about 100 minutes, it was able to observe this eclipse not once but twice.

Additionally, the Moon was first observed while traversing the field of view in the upper right corner, but not blocking any solar light. The first observation of the eclipse around 10:30 UTC (12:30 CEST) was cut short as Proba-2 experienced an occultation. Such an occultation occurs when Proba-2 flies through the Earth’s atmosphere and the SWAP instrument is not active. The second partial eclipse was captured around 12:25 UTC (14:25 CEST). This video shows both eclipses.

The European Space Agency's sun-watching spacecraft monitors the Sun's behavior to better understand the influence of space weather on our home planet. The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission, in partnership with NASA, is orbiting the Sun from closer than ever before and will provide the first high resolution images of the Sun's poles.

Meanwhile ESA Vigil will be the first mission to keep a constant eye on brewing space weather events, to better protect vital infrastructure on Earth and in orbit.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/ROB

Duration: 38 seconds

Release Date: October 26, 2022

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How to Bring Mars Sample Tubes Safely to Earth | NASA/JPL

How to Bring Mars Sample Tubes Safely to Earth | NASA/JPL

Mars News Report: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is filling sample tubes with rocky material on the Red Planet as the agency works on the next steps to get them safely back to Earth. 

The Mars Sample Return campaign would bring samples collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth for detailed study. The campaign involves an international interplanetary relay team, including the European Space Agency (ESA). These samples could answer a key question: did life ever exist on Mars? 

Aaron Yazzie, who works on the Mars Sample Return campaign, explains the work being done at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to ensure the safe return of the sample tubes.  

For more information on Mars Sample Return, visit: mars.nasa.gov/msr/ 

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Duration: 3 minutes

Release Date: October 26, 2022

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Jupiter in Ganymede’s Shadow | NASA's Juno Mission

Jupiter in Ganymede’s Shadow | NASA's Juno Mission

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter during the mission’s 40th close pass by the giant planet on Feb. 25, 2022. The large, dark shadow on the left side of the image was cast by Jupiter’s moon Ganymede.

During its 40th close pass by Jupiter, our Juno spacecraft saw Ganymede cast a large, dark spot on the planet on Feb. 25, 2022.

JunoCam captured this image from very close to Jupiter, making Ganymede’s shadow appear especially large. At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 44,000 miles (71,000 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops and 15 times closer to the planet than Ganymede.

An observer at Jupiter’s cloud tops within the oval shadow would experience a total eclipse of the Sun. Total eclipses are more common on Jupiter than Earth for several reasons: Jupiter has four major moons (Ganymede, Io, Callisto, and Europa) that often pass between Jupiter and the Sun, and since Jupiter’s moons orbit in a plane close to Jupiter’s orbital plane, the moon shadows are often cast upon the planet.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott J. Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built and operates the spacecraft.

More information about Juno is available at:

https://www.nasa.gov/juno

and

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu

Image Credit: Data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS 

Image Processing: Thomas Thomopoulos © CC 

Release Date: October 24, 2022

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Pinwheel Firework: Spiral Galaxy NGC 4254 | ESO

Pinwheel Firework: Spiral Galaxy NGC 4254 | ESO

In this picture, we can see the well-defined arms of spiral galaxy NGC 4254, also known as the Coma Pinwheel or Messier 99. It is called a grand design spiral galaxy because of its distinctive pinwheel shape with prominent arms. Since Charles Messier first observed it in the 18th century, modern technology has allowed us to observe galaxies like this in significantly greater detail.

This image is a composite of data taken with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), co-owned by ESO. The VLT data, shown in blue and purple tones, was captured with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument, mapping the distribution of stars. The ALMA data ––shown here by the red and orange regions–– originates from cold clouds of gas which can eventually collapse into stars. Comparing these two datasets allows for a better understanding of how stars form.

This image was taken as part of the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) survey, which produces high-resolution images of nearby galaxies across all wavelengths of light. This will allow astronomers to learn more about the diverse range of galactic environments found in our Universe.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/PHANGS

Release Date: October 24, 2022

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Galaxy Cluster MACS0647 | Webb & Hubble Space Telescope Comparison

Galaxy Cluster MACS0647 | Webb & Hubble Space Telescope Comparison

This animation compares the 2022 James Webb Space Telescope images of galaxy cluster MACS0647 and the very distant galaxy MACS0647-JD with 2012 Hubble Space Telescope images of the same objects. In both the Webb and Hubble pictures, the cluster appears as a sea of galaxies on a black background. Both images are punctuated by a few foreground stars. Unlike the galaxies, the stars are identified by their prominent spikes, which are caused by diffracted light. The animation blinks back and forth between the Webb and Hubble images.

In both the Webb and Hubble views, the massive galaxy cluster MACS0647 is pictured on the left side of the screen. Also in both views, three small boxes outlined in white borders mark the locations of the three images of galaxy MACS0647-JD. These boxes are numbered 1, 2, and 3. If the galaxy cluster were a clock face, Image 1 of MACS0647-JD would be at about the 7 o’clock position, Image 2 would be between the 6 o’clock and 7 o’clock positions, and Image 3 would be at the 11 o’clock position. Also in both the Webb and Hubble images, three boxes, each featuring an image of MACS0647-JD, appear in a column going down the right side of the screen. These images are labeled JD 1, JD 2, and JD 3.

The Webb images reveals far more detail than the corresponding Hubble images. In the MACS0647 galaxy cluster, Webb detects many more galaxies than Hubble. Most notably, the three images of MACS0647-JD from Webb show two, distinct features that are differently colored, with the larger area appearing redder and the smaller one appearing bluer. In comparison, the Hubble images show only a single, pale, red, pixelated dot.

Note: This video depicts data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process.

[Video Description: Animation blinks between the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope images of galaxy cluster MACS0647 and the very distant galaxy MACS0647-JD. In both views, the cluster appears as a sea of galaxies on a black background. In the MACS0647 galaxy cluster, Webb detects many more galaxies than Hubble.]

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA)/Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

Duration: 10 seconds

Release Date: October 26, 2022

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Never-Before-Seen Details of The Early Universe | James Webb Space Telescope

Never-Before-Seen Details of The Early Universe | James Webb Space Telescope

The massive gravity of galaxy cluster MACS0647 acts as a cosmic lens to bend and magnify light from the more distant MACS0647-JD system. It also triply lensed the JD system, causing its image to appear in three separate locations. These images, which are highlighted with white boxes, are marked JD1, JD2, and JD3. MACS0647-JD has a redshift of about 11, which puts it in the first 400 million years after the Big Bang. The long, diagonal line traversing the image is a diffraction spike from a bright star located just off the frame.

Image Description: A James Webb Space Telescope image of galaxy cluster MACS0647 and the very distant galaxy MACS0647-JD. At left, the cluster appears as a sea of galaxies on a black background and three small boxes outlined in white mark the locations of the three images of galaxy MACS0647-JD. Enlarged images of these boxes appear in a column down the right side of the screen

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

Release Date: October 26, 2022

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How Do Spacecraft Slow Down? We Asked a NASA Technologist

How Do Spacecraft Slow Down? We Asked a NASA Technologist

How do spacecraft slow down? Rigid heat shields and retropropulsion have been the favorites of engineers for years. Now NASA is testing a new inflatable heat shield technology that could allow us to carry even larger payloads to worlds with atmospheres called Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID): https://www.nasa.gov/loftid

Launching on Nov. 1 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket along with NOAA’s JPSS-2 mission, the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, or LOFTID, will demonstrate the heat shield’s ability to slow down and survive atmospheric entry: https://go.nasa.gov/3N7yzBG

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Producers: Scott Bednar, Jessica Wilde

Editor: Daniel Salazar

Duration: 1 minute, 47 seconds

Release Date: October 26, 2022

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Tonight's Sky: November 2022 (Northern Hemisphere)

Tonight's Sky: November 2022 (Northern Hemisphere)

In November, hunt for the fainter constellations of fall, including Pisces, Aries, and Triangulum. They will guide you to find several galaxies and a pair of white stars. Stay tuned for space-based views of spiral galaxy M74 and the Triangulum Galaxy, which are shown in visible, infrared, and ultraviolet light.

 

About this Series

“Tonight’s Sky” is a monthly video of constellations you can observe in the night sky. The series is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute, home of science operations for the Hubble Space Telescope, in partnership with NASA’s Universe of Learning. 

Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) 

Duration: 4 minutes, 39 seconds

Release Date: October 26, 2022

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Russian Progress 82 Cargo Spacecraft Launch | International Space Station

Russian Progress 82 Cargo Spacecraft Launch | International Space Station 

The uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 82 is safely in orbit headed for the International Space Station following launch at 8:20 p.m. EDT (5:20 a.m. Baikonur time) Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, on a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Progress will deliver almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station.

The resupply ship reached preliminary orbit and deployed its solar arrays and navigational antennas as planned on its way to meet up with the orbiting laboratory and its Expedition 68 crew members.

Progress will dock to the space-facing side of the Poisk module on Thursday, Oct. 27, at 10:49 p.m. EDT Live coverage on NASA TV of rendezvous and docking will begin at 10:15 p.m. EDT.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA/Roscosmos

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 4 minutes, 25 seconds

Capture Date: October 25, 2022

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View of Martian Moon Phobos by NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover | JPL

View of Martian Moon Phobos by NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover | JPL

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to view Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, on Jan. 12, 2022, the 319th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. 

Phobos is the larger of Mars' two moons and is 17 x 14 x 11 miles (27 by 22 by 18 kilometers) in diameter. It orbits Mars three times a day, and is so close to the planet's surface that in some locations on Mars it cannot always be seen.

Phobos, gouged and nearly shattered by a giant impact crater and beaten by thousands of meteorite impacts, is on a collision course with Mars.

Phobos is nearing Mars at a rate of six feet (1.8 meters) every hundred years; at that rate, it will either crash into Mars in 50 million years or break up into a ring. Its most prominent feature is the 6-mile (9.7 kilometer) crater Stickney, its impact causing streak patterns across the moon's surface. 

Phobos was discovered on Aug. 17, 1877 by Asaph Hall.

The Perseverance team took this image to measure the amount of dust in the planet's nighttime atmosphere, which can be compared to similar measurements made by imaging the Sun during the day. 

A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust). 

Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis. 

The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA's Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. 

JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.

For more about Perseverance: 

mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.

Launch: July 30, 2020    

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University (ASU)

Image Date: January 12, 2022

Release Date: October 13, 2022

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Russian Progress 80 Cargo Craft Undocking | International Space Station

Russian Progress 80 Cargo Craft Undocking | International Space Station

The uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 80 spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station’s Poisk module at 6:46 p.m. EDT on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022.

The spacecraft backed away from the space station, and a few hours later, Progress’ engines fired in a deorbit maneuver to send the cargo craft into a destructive re-entry in the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.

The uncrewed Russian Progress 80 launched on a Soyuz rocket at 11:25 p.m. EST (9:25 a.m. on Feb. 15 Baikonur time) on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The unpiloted cargo craft delivered almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 5 minutes

Capture Date: October 23, 2022

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Russian Progress 80 Cargo Craft Undocking | International Space Station

Russian Progress 80 Cargo Craft Undocking | International Space Station

The uncrewed ISS Progress 80 Russian cargo craft is pictured moments after undocking from the International Space Station's Poisk module. The trash-filled Progress 80 would reenter the Earth's atmosphere above the Pacific Ocean a few hours later for a fiery, but "safe" demise.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Capture Date: October 23, 2022

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How Did NASA Test the Artemis Moon Rocket for Launch?

How Did NASA Test the Artemis Moon Rocket for Launch?

Artemis I is the test flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft. This mission will prepare NASA to send the first woman and the first person of color to the Moon. Testing of the rocket, systems, and teams had to be done to prepare SLS for liftoff. Watch to learn how NASA engineers and technicians put SLS to the test before launch day.

The Artemis I launch vehicle is set to return to the pad as soon as Nov. 4 for the launch of  Artemis I, no earlier than Nov. 14, 2022, at 12:07 a.m. EDT.

All about Artemis I:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-i/

Credit: NASA's Marshall Space FLight Center

Duration: 1 minute, 41 seconds

Release Date: October 25, 2022

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