An artist illustration of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft on the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image credit: NASA By Linda Herridge NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center NASA’s Ground Systems Development and Operations Program (GSDO) has successfully… Read more“GSDO Critical Design Review Marks Progress for NASA’s Journey to Mars”
NASA Astronaut Kjell Lindgren Completes Space Station Mission, Safely Returns to Earth
Expedition 45 crew members Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency settle into the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft that carried them safely back to Earth on Dec. 11, 2015 after their 141-day mission aboard the International Space… Read more“NASA Astronaut Kjell Lindgren Completes Space Station Mission, Safely Returns to Earth”
NASA Releases New Visualization of Space Environment at Pluto
This video shows a simulation of the space environment all the way out to Pluto in the months surrounding New Horizons’ July 2015 flyby. At the time, scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, worked with the New Horizons team to test how well their models—and other… Read more“NASA Releases New Visualization of Space Environment at Pluto”
Coronal Hole Front and Center
The dark area across the top of the sun in this image is a coronal hole, a region on the sun where the magnetic field is open to interplanetary space, sending coronal material speeding out in what is called a high-speed solar wind stream. The high-speed solar wind originating from… Read more“Coronal Hole Front and Center”
Media Accreditation Open for Orbital ATK Mission to Resupply Space Station
Artist’s concept of Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft in orbit. Credits: Orbital ATK NASA has opened media accreditation for the fourth commercial resupply services launch of an Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft filled with cargo for the International Space Station. The launch is currently targeted for Thursday, Dec. 3 during a 30-minute… Read more“Media Accreditation Open for Orbital ATK Mission to Resupply Space Station”
Arctic Sea Ice Summertime Minimum Is Fourth Lowest on Record
According to a NASA analysis of satellite data, the 2015 Arctic sea ice minimum extent is the fourth lowest on record since observations from space began. This animation shows the evolution of the Arctic sea ice cover from its wintertime maximum extent, which was reached on Feb. 25, 2015, and… Read more“Arctic Sea Ice Summertime Minimum Is Fourth Lowest on Record”
Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
Illustration of the interior of Saturn’s moon Enceladus showing a global liquid water ocean between its rocky core and icy crust. Thickness of layers shown here is not to scale. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech View Unlabeled Image A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s geologically active moon Enceladus, according… Read more“Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn’s Moon Enceladus”