I love science - NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

#NASA #Science #Space

Would you like to see #OrsonWelles talking about alien life, along with contributions from various scientists including #CarlSagan ?

NASA did a weird documentary in 1975 which is exactly that. As NASA films are public domain, I've uploaded it to PeerTube and you can watch it at:

https://fedi.video/w/kDCK9DJg5Q5CAkEU5YVdKc

#Aliens #NASA #Space #SETI #Science @space

Fedi.Video on PeerTube

2024-04-22 13:11:14

Who's Out There? (1975)

NASA documentary on extraterrestrial life presented by Orson Welles, with contributions from various scientists including Carl Sagan.

The documentary is public domain, as are almost all videos released by NASA.

NASA documentary on extraterrestrial life presented by Orson Welles, with contributions from various scientists including Carl Sagan.

The documentary is public domain, as are almost all videos released by NASA.

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft – headed to Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa in October 2024 – will carry a laser-etched message that celebrating humanity’s connection to water with laser-engravings of the word for water in 103 languages from around the world.

https://theconversation.com/nasas-mission-to-an-ice-covered-moon-will-contain-a-message-between-water-worlds-225771
#space #NASA

I'm so excited about this upcoming space mission.

NASA has just confirmed that the Dragonfly octocopter will launch in July, 2028. When it arrives, it will spend at least two years flying over the organic-rich sands of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Resources/news/20231128.php #space #science #nasa #life #tech

Imagine what could have been done if some guy didn't waste $44b on a stupid social network and instead utilized the money for the benefit of humanity and science.

"the agency’s current plan to bring the first samples collected by the Mars rover Perseverance could cost up to $11 billion and would likely not be achievable until 2040."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24131341/nasa-mars-sample-return-mission-elon-musk-space-x

#space #nasa #mars

NASA needs a cheaper, faster way to bring Mars dirt back to Earth

NASA’s Bill Nelson says the agency will solicit ideas for cheaper and faster ways to perform a Mars sample-return mission, aiming to bring the samples back in the 2030s.

^{Amrita Khalid (The Verge)}

"A lunar landing by astronauts in a Starship vehicle, as part of the Artemis programme, once planned for 2025, has been delayed to 2026. And even that looks a stretch given that Starship has yet to fly successfully, let alone with humans on board."

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/03/14/elon-musks-starship-reaches-orbit-on-its-third-attempt

#TheEconomist #SpaceX #NASA #Starship

Elon Musk’s Starship reaches orbit on its third attempt

Though it failed to return to Earth, it’s a step nearer to the stars

^{The Economist}

🍿🚀
Apple TV+ rolls out "Fly Me to the Moon" trailer.

- Star studded cast, including Scarlet Johansson and Channing Tatum
- Focused on the race to the moon

Can't help but think this will fuel a LOT of conspiracy theories for folks who already think the moon landing was faked. 🙄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW7enw6mFxs
#NASA #Space #Rocket #Apple #AppleTV #AppleTVPlus

FLY ME TO THE MOON - Official Trailer (HD)

The whole world will be watching. #FlyMeToTheMoon starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum – coming exclusively to movie theaters this July.Visit Our W...

^YouTube

Wow look at this fantastic #timelapse #photo of the #eclipse from #NASA

I think that's the Washington Monument in #DC #WashingtonDC

Live: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse: Through the Eyes of NASA (Official Broadcast) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MJY_ptQW1o

#TotalSolarEclipse #SolarEclipse #Eclipse #Eclipse2024 #NASA

2024 Total Solar Eclipse: Through the Eyes of NASA (Official Broadcast)

Watch live with us as a total solar eclipse moves across North America on April 8, 2024, traveling through Mexico, across the United States from Texas to Mai...

^YouTube

Bits of the training #nasa gives its scientists are from MinuteEarths excellent illustrated explanation videos.

Check it out.

Did you know that departures of #eclipse calculations in the past from predicted helped scientists figure out the earths rotation rate is slowing down?

https://youtu.be/wshkH64xDac?si=HRw2ZrNs-8H9cUYw

#SolarEclipse2024 forecast from #nasa #gsfc #gmao office and timing details from #heliophysics folks

Don’t look at the sun. Make a pinhole projector and observe the shadow of the eclipse if you are without glasses.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5073

https://youtu.be/fmtGqOxxmEU?si=5MoqTerSPhx7yR1-

If you cannot view the #eclipse, #nasa will have English, Spanish, and silent flavors of streaming from 1p EST.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/how-to-watch-upcoming-total-solar-eclipse-with-nasa-from-anywhere/

Einsteins #GeneralRelativity predicted that massive objects like the sun should bend light with their massive gravity. Photos of stars at night versus during an eclipse show this effect.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/04/engineers-pinpoint-cause-of-voyager-1-issue-are-working-on-solution/

Wow, so Voyager 1 is currently fifteen billion one hundred twenty-seven million twenty-four thousand four hundred eleven miles from earth.

And despite that mind boggling, incomprehensible difference, engineers have been able to debug why the probe has stopped responding.

This is yet another moment where I see humanity's boundless potential expressed in a feat of technical prowess.

I now return you to your First World Problems currently in progress :)

#space #technology #nasa

Coyote, a stowaway on the spaceship Ares that brought the First Hundred to Mars, was a prominent figure of the underground resistance in #KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy.

Here we see one of his hideouts, on the other side of the Neretva Vallis riverbank 🙃 🤣

#FreeAssociation

Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking NW (319°) from RMC 51.2390
Sol 1109, LMST: 11:47:39

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01109/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1109_0765388746_706EBY_N0512390ZCAM09130_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#KSR #SciFi #Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

The first-ever view of a solar eclipse from the surface of the Moon. That's the Earth eclipsing the Sun!

Images captured by NASA's Surveyor 3 lunar lander on April 24, 1967.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140407.html #science #astronomy #space #nasa

Only three humans have ever witnessed an eclipse of the Sun by the *Earth*. It happened while the Apollo 12 crew was returning home from the Moon, on November 21, 1969.

Fortunately, the astronauts filmed the moment so you can share in the experience.

https://archive.org/details/Apollo1216mmOnboardFilm [at the 4:50 mark] #space #science #nasa #eclipse