The AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere) satellite mission was launched on April 25 from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), Calif., on a Pegasus-XL launch vehicle to its orbit 600 km (373 miles) above Earth. S72-49079 ( 45k) Original artwork for the Apollo 17 insignia/patch. Voyager 1 is at the outer edge of our solar system, in an area called the heliosheath, the zone where the sun's influence wanes. Seventeen years after it was placed in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) continued to probe far beyond the Solar System, producing imagery and data useful across a range of astronomical disciplines to expand our knowledge of the universe. This information is providing the first global measurements of cloud properties that will help scientists compile a database of cloud measurements, aiding in global climate and weather prediction models. NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a riveting snapshot of the Andromeda Galaxy and the oxygen-emitting blue arcs that surround it. NASA / At end-2007, the twin rovers, nearing the fourth anniversary of their landings, were getting smarter as they got older. Both rovers have found metallic meteorites on Mars. SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket has lifted off for its fifth mission in history from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday (Jan. 15), lofting into orbit a secret payload by the U.S. military. The Voyager missions, now in their 31st year, continue their quest to push the bounds of space exploration. At the ISS, the STS-120 crew continued the construction of the station with the installation of the Node-2 module, named Harmony, and the relocation of the P6 truss segment. January 17, 2012. But the shock did not look the way it was expected to: instead of seeing a very abrupt drop, the spacecraft observed a gradual slowing of the solar wind ahead of each crossing, followed by a relatively small drop at the termination shock itself. Today, Brandon has refused to run. CloudSat is an experimental mission conducted jointly by NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to study the effects of clouds on climate and weather with capabilities 1,000 times more sensitive than typical weather radar, using millimeter-wavelength radar to measure the altitude and properties of clouds. Since the launch of AIM, significant progress has been made in achieving this goal and that progress continues at a rapid rate. Because massive stars are thought to gather at a globular cluster's core, astronomers assumed that most newly minted white dwarfs dwelled near the center. Source: USGS The Landsat Data Policy document establishes Landsat Program Management Policy for distributing products derived from Landsat data collected by the U.S. since 1972. The first polar passes in 1994 (south) and 1995 (north) took place near solar minimum, whereas the second set occurred at the height of solar activity in 2000 and 2001. The largest of the fires (outlined in red) are near the coast, south of the Itata River. At that time Voyager 1 was about 15 billion kilometers (9.3 billion miles) from the sun. S71-51273 ( 102k or 668k) Portrait of Ron Evans. In addition, the Dawn spacecraft and how it orbits Vesta and Ceres will be used to measure the celestial bodies' masses and gravity fields. NASAs six-ton (5.4-metric-ton) spacecraft Cassini continued its epic 6.7-year, 3.2-billion-km journey inside the planetary system of Saturn. Launched on January 12, 2003, on a Delta-2 Expendable Launch Vehicle (ELV) into a near polar orbit at an altitude of 600 km with an inclination of 94 degrees, the spacecraft in 2007 continued to provide data from its one instrument,- the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS). javascript is enabled. Working like a cuff link, the wire was fed by Parazynski through a hole on the solar array to repair the tear successfully, allowing the full unfurling of the array and restoring full power generation for the station. In 2007, the spacecraft continued to return stunning imagery from its continuing journey through the Saturnian system. Global Exploration Strategy (GES): In May, fourteen space agencies interested in working together on space exploration, met in Italy at the 11th Century Abbey of Spineto near Sarteano (Siena), and signed the Global Exploration Strategy, to determine, on a voluntary basis for each member, how NASAs Vision for Space Exploration, mandated by President George W. Bush in January 2004, Europes Aurora program, and similar initiatives in Russia, China, India, Japan and elsewhere can be melded into a cohesive global effort. Later, GOES-N is aimed at becoming the primary U.S. hurricane-monitoring spacecraft. It stayed that size through at least January 6, 2023. The first science observations from the spacecraft were obtained on March 23, during a disturbance in the Earths magnetic field known as a substorm. The liquids are probably a combination of methane and ethane, given the conditions on Titan and the abundance of methane and ethane gases and clouds in Titan's atmosphere. In contrast, estimates from WMAP data show the current universe consists of 4.6% percent atoms, 23% dark matter, 72% dark energy and less than 1 percent neutrinos. On their way out to and back from apogee each orbit, the spacecraft routinely cross the outer boundary of the Earth's magnetic field and a shock wave that stands upstream from this boundary. The two main origin hypotheses for the arcs are that they really are close to Andromeda ( M31 ), or that they are just coincidentally placed gas filaments in our Milky Way galaxy. At maximum thrust, each engine produces a total of 91 millinewtons -- about the amount of force involved in holding a single piece of notebook paper in your hand. These large fires are about 10 kilometers northeast of the cities of Concepcin and Talcahuano, which are veiled by a smoke from the south. At end-2007, after almost four times its expected mission lifetime, the venerabvle spacecraft was approaching the end of its operations. & Michigan Tech. The adventurers' current mission, the Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM), will thus explore the outermost edge of the Sun's domain. Its telescope has a basic design similar to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), but while HST views the sky in exquisite detail in a narrow field of view - like a grain of sand held at arm's length - GALEX is tailored to view hundreds of galaxies in each observation. History. At the time of this posting, the cause of the fires was not known. CALIPSO was launched into orbit around the Earth along with CloudSat as part of the "A-train," a constellation of Earth observing satellites. 2017-08-17: Moon: Terra: MISR: 600x675x1: PIA21876: The 6800-lbs (3100-kg) spacecraft was launched on April 20, 2004, on a Delta-2 rocket. A new test stand for rocket engines is being built at NASA's Stennis Space Center (SSC) in Mississippi. Pre-Flight Crew and Equipment Photos. The $720 million spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin under the supervision of NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). An instrument on the spacecraft measured the abrupt slowdown of the solar wind that defines the termination shock. ICESat (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite), also an Earth Observing System (EOS) spacecraft, is the benchmark mission for measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics. By combining how far it has moved across the sky with its distance from Earth, astronomers determined the neutron star is moving at over 3 million miles per hour. The electrical level and Xenon fuel feed can be adjusted to throttle each engine up or down. There were also two dual-use (civil & miltary) earth observation satellites launched on US Delta-2 rockets: COSMO-Skymed-1 (Constellation of Small satellites for Mediterranean basin observation) and COSMO-Skymed-2 for the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Earth in 2022 was about 1.11C (2F) warmer than the late 19th century average. Comet McNaught remain in orbit up to 2022. Hubble Views a Young and Dynamic Elliptical Galaxy. In January, the Swift team received the Bruno Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society. The two-year mission of the two nearly identical space-based observatories, one ahead of Earth in its orbit around the sun (STEREO-A, for ahead), the other trailing behind (STEREO-B, behind) on April 23 provided the first-ever 3D images and stereoscopic measurements of the Sun, to study the nature of its coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, violent eruptions of matter from the Sun that can disrupt satellites and power grids. All 25 instruments on each spacecraft have been operating well ever since. Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory show both galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centers, but the larger galaxy has a jet emanating from the vicinity of its black hole. The Ozone Monitoring Instrument on the Aura satellite measures the total amount of ozone from the ground to the upper atmosphere over the entire Antarctic continent. January 17, 2008. These instruments are designed to operate autonomously and continuously, although the WFC acquires data only under daylight conditions. The star cluster was born when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth, about 100 million years ago. as it recedes from the Sun. The robot explorer will study the history of the water in the ice, monitor weather in the polar region, and investigate whether the subsurface environment in the far-northern plains of Mars has ever been favorable for sustaining microbial life. A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC Both spacecraft are expected to continue to operate and send back valuable data until at least the year 2020. Ultraviolet (UV) images included "sizzling young starlets" of the galaxy as wisps of bluish-white swirling around a central golden glow, representing a "senior citizen" population of smoldering stars. It joined the GOES-M launched in July 2001. In yet another stunning imagery of its radar instrument, the spacecraft found evidence for seas, likely filled with liquid methane or ethane, in the high northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan. As part of the COTS demos, SpaceX successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for its first Falcon 9/Dragon mission. The payload comprised the S5 truss, a SPACEHAB module in the cargo bay and the external stowage platform #3 (ESP-3) with a replacement control moment gyroscope (CMG). Nothing like this has ever been seen before around a star. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. A handful of fires in the Bo-Bo region of Chile were detected by the MODIS on NASAs Aqua satellite on January 13, 2007. CALIPSO is a joint U.S. (NASA) and French (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales-CNES) satellite mission with an expected 3 year lifetime. According to NASA's website, the bluish tint is a result of sunlight scattered by air molecules.. Below is the famous image taken when the US last sent people to the moon, in 1972 on Apollo 17 . In another discovery, astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away. solar wind featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Evert Elzinga/AFP/Getty Images. NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Comet McNaught from New STEREO Satellite. After its launch on May 20, 2005, on a Boeing Delta-2 expendable rocket, the NOAA-18 environmental satellite for NOAA in 2006 continued to operate in excellent condition, circling the Earth in a polar orbit of 870 km (544 s.mi.) Opportunity, NASAs second Mars explorer and twin to Spirit, launched on July 7, 2003 (ET), also on a Delta-2/Heavy after a cliffhanger countdown, touched down on January 25, 2004, right on target on Meridiani Planum, halfway around the planet from the Gusev Crater site of its twin, also in excellent condition. Iceberg A-80A was the largest, measuring about 19 kilometers (19 nautical miles) long and 17 kilometers (9 nautical miles) wide. The swap was done to mitigate the risk of loss of thermal control over the K-band antenna horn (and subsequent spurious K-band range signal) due to atomic oxygen exposure. RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellite had just opened up Astronomers using the HST have discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter in the galaxy cluster Cl 0024+17 that formed long ago during a titanic collision between two massive galaxy clusters. Authors & editors: ; s space agency / at end-2007, after almost four times its expected mission lifetime, twin... 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