Schlagwort: NASA

Sunrise Flight to the Space Station Orbital ATK’s Cygnus resupply ship with its cymbal-ike UltraFlex solar arrays approaches the International Space Station on Nov. 14, 2017. via NASA http://ift.tt/2z9ouRN

How to See the Atmosphere How can you see the atmosphere? The answer is blowing in the wind. via NASA http://ift.tt/2z3kqCD

Mariner 9 Sees Shield Volcano on Mars On November 14, 1971, Mariner ( took this image of a shield volcano on Mars. via NASA http://ift.tt/2zW0Sjy

Our Living Earth … From Space Can you identify this river? via NASA http://ift.tt/2hp8xvp

Liftoff! Orbital Antares Rocket Launches From Wallops Flight Facility The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017 via NASA http://ift.tt/2ji3l0C

Astronaut Jack Fischer With Honor Flight Veterans NASA astronaut Jack Fischer talks with veterans at the World War II Memorial who traveled to Washington, DC with the Buffalo Niagara Honor Flight. Fischer, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, wrote, „Few things can compare to the honor of meeting WWII, Korea and Vietnam vets today–thank you for your sacrifices to keep us all free.“ via NASA http://ift.tt/2iKZW6A

Earth as Viewed From 10,000 Miles On November 9, 1969, the uncrewed Apollo 4 test flight made a great ellipse around Earth as a test of the translunar motors and of the high speed entry required of a crewed flight returning from the Moon. via NASA http://ift.tt/2m8w1ua

Rare Encircling Filament NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory came across an oddity that the spacecraft has rarely observed before: a dark filament encircling an active region (Oct. 29-31, 2017). Solar filaments are clouds of charged particles that float above the sun, tethered to it by magnetic forces. via NASA http://ift.tt/2yhGPrr

Space Station Crew Sees Lots of Clouds Expedition 53 Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency (ESA) photographed cloudy skies over Sudan during an International Space Station flyover on Oct. 22, 2017. Nespoli shared the image with his followers on social media on Nov. 6, writing, „#EarthFromSpace means also… Lots of clouds! How do they look from below?“ via NASA http://ift.tt/2AhQv5K

Pandora, the Would-Be Perturber As Cassini hurtled toward its fatal encounter with Saturn, the spacecraft turned to catch this final look at Saturn’s moon Pandora next to the thin line of the F ring. via NASA http://ift.tt/2AdCOF7