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Jet Propulsion Lab, California (CNN)NASA says it has received a signal from 540 million miles across the solar system, confirming its Juno spacecraft has successfully started orbiting Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.
NASA Updates 2024:
>> Lunar Trailblazer discover water on the Moon. It achieves critical advancements for science as a lower-budget, ride-along mission, and is in assembly and test for launch in 2025.>> Fri., Nov. 25, 6 a.m. EST: Coverage of a Russian spacewalk to relocate a radiator on the International Space Station.
>> Tues., July 12, 10:30 a.m. EDT: Live coverage of the release of the first images of the James Webb Space Telescope Wed., July 13, 3 p.m. EDT: NASA Science Live: Webb’s First Full-Color Images Explained Thurs., July 21, 9:30 a.m. EDT: Coverage of the Russian/European Space Agency spacewalk at the International Space Station.
>> An astronaut steps into a body scanner and, hours later, walks on Mars in a custom-made spacesuit, breathing oxygen that was extracted from Mars' carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere.
>> Dec 10, 2021 - NASA has selected a diverse group of projects from museums, science centers, library systems, and other informal education organizations across the country as NASA Informal Education Community Anchors.
>> Nov. 21, Sunday 4 p.m. – Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation and engineering news conference.
>> Sept. 23, 2021- Launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V, Landsat 9 continues the nearly 50-year legacy of the Landsat series, an irreplaceable record of Earth’s land surfaces as seen from space. A partnership between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, the Landsat program offers the longest continuous global record of the Earth's surface.
>> Jun 5, 2021 - NASA has awarded $1.2 million to nine universities and organizations across the country for research & technology development projects in areas critical to the agency’s mission, including studying radiation effects and growing food for long-duration space travel..
>> Nov. 21, 2020 - A joint U.S.-European satellite built to monitor global sea levels lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Saturday at 9:17 a.m. PST (12:17 p.m. EST).
>> July 2, 2020 - NASA has awarded the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 (TSIS-2) Spacecraft contract to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems Group of San Diego, California.
>> April 8, 2020 - NASA selected Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California, to deliver and operate eight payloads – with nine science and technology instruments – to the Moon’s South Pole in 2022, to help lay the foundation for human expeditions to the lunar surface beginning in 2024..
>> Climate experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will release their annual assessment of global temperatures and discuss the major climate trends of 2019 ...
>> NASA Science, Cargo Heads to Space Station on Northrop Grumman Mission.
>> NASA Highlights Science on 17th SpaceX Resupply Mission to International Space Station.
NASA and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have successfully demonstrated that a new nuclear reactor power system that could enable long-duration crewed missions to the Moon, Mars and destinations beyond.............
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The spacecraft was approximately 5 million kilometers (3 million miles) from Earth at the time, about 13 times the distance between the Earth and Moon.
>> April 8, 2020 - NASA selected Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California, to deliver and operate eight payloads – with nine science and technology instruments – to the Moon’s South Pole in 2022, to help lay the foundation for human expeditions to the lunar surface beginning in 2024..
>> Climate experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will release their annual assessment of global temperatures and discuss the major climate trends of 2019 ...
>> NASA Science, Cargo Heads to Space Station on Northrop Grumman Mission.
>> NASA Highlights Science on 17th SpaceX Resupply Mission to International Space Station.
NASA and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have successfully demonstrated that a new nuclear reactor power system that could enable long-duration crewed missions to the Moon, Mars and destinations beyond.............
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The spacecraft was approximately 5 million kilometers (3 million miles) from Earth at the time, about 13 times the distance between the Earth and Moon.
Three
images (different color wavelengths) were combined and color-corrected
to make the composite, and the Moon was 'stretched' (brightened) to make
it more easily visible.
"Welcome to Jupiter!" flashed on screens at mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California.
The Juno team cheered and hugged.
"This is phenomenal," said Geoff Yoder, acting administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate
The probe had to conduct a tricky
maneuver to slow down enough to allow it to be pulled into orbit: It
fired its main engine for 35 minutes, effectively hitting the brakes to
slow the spacecraft by about 1,212 miles per hour (542 meters per
second).
"NASA did it again," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator.
"We're there, we're in orbit. We conquered Jupiter."
"Through
tones Juno sang to us and it was a song of perfection," said Rick
Nybakken, Juno Project Manager, referring to the audio signal the probe
sent to indicate it was in orbit.
The Juno team celebrates at Mission Control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Juno was launched nearly five years ago on a mission to study Jupiter's composition and evolution.
It's the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter since Galileo. Galileo was
deliberately crashed into Jupiter on September 21, 2003, to protect one
of its discoveries -- a possible ocean beneath Jupiter's moon Europa.
"Preliminary
looks are that the spacecraft is performing well ," said Guy
Beutelschies, Director of Interplanetary Missions at Lockheed Martin
Space Systems, the company that built the spacecraft.
____________NASA just discovered some special particles floating in our cosmic neighborhood. The Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004, has detected alien dust that came from outside our solar system. Scientists suspect that this dust is interstellar in origin because it moves fast and in different directions, compared to the dust found on Saturn, according to a recently published report in the journal of Science. And although this alien dust was faint, it had a distinct signature. National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) in 2018, a small space probe will unfurl a sail and begin a journey to a distant asteroid. It’s the first NASA spacecraft that will venture beyond Earth’s orbit propelled entirely by sunlight. This technology could enable inexpensive exploration of the solar system and, eventually, interstellar space. The $16 million probe, called the Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, is one of the 13 science payloads that NASA announced Tuesday. They will hitch a ride on the inaugural flight of the Space Launch System—the megarocket designed to replace the space shuttle and, one day, send the Orion spacecraft to Mars. It will take 2.5 years for the NEA Scout to reach its destination, a smallish asteroid named 1991 VG. But it won’t be a leisurely cruise. The continuous thrust provided by sunlight hitting the solar sail will accelerate the probe to an impressive 63,975 mph (28.6 km/s) relative to the sun. Earlier NASA has released Pluto images has blue skies also numerous small water ice patches too beamed by NASA’s new horizons space craft. The 1st color movies from NASA’s New Horizons mission show Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, and the complex orbital dance of the two bodies, known as a double planet. The 2nd photo shows large number of small exposed water ice regions. More information of NASA 2016 News regarding planet world update released is mentioned below............
Details of NASA Pluto Planet Photos:
“It’s exciting to view Pluto and Charon in motion and in color,” says New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colorado. “Even at this low resolution, we can see that Pluto and Charon have different colors—Pluto is beige-orange, while Charon is grey. Exactly why they are so different is the subject of debate.”
New Horizons will make its closest approach to Pluto on July 14,
zipping by about 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) above the surface. It’s the
first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, a relic of solar system formation
beyond Neptune. Sending a spacecraft on this almost 3-billion mile journey will
help us answer basic questions about the surface properties, atmospheres, and
moons of the Pluto system………...
Planet Mars harboured long lasting lakes and water streams about
3.8 to 3.3 billion years ago. These near-true color movies were assembled from
images made in three colors — blue, red and near-infrared – by the Multicolor
Visible Imaging Camera on the instrument known as Ralph, a “Honeymooners”
reference that classic TV fans can appreciate. The images were taken on nine
different occasions from May 29-June 03, 2015……….
Although the 02 movies were prepared from the
same images, they display the Pluto-Charon pair from different perspectives.
One movie is “Pluto-centric”, meaning that Charon is shown as it moves in
relation to Pluto, which is digitally centered in the movie. (The North Pole of
Pluto is at the top.) Pluto makes one turn around its axis every 6 days, 9
hours and 17.6 minutes—the same amount of time that Charon rotates in its
orbit. Looking closely at the images in this movie, one can detect a regular
shift in Pluto’s brightness—due to the brighter and darker terrains on its
differing faces…..
