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NASA Moon
@NASAMoon
This week the
@NASAGoddard
Instrument Field Team is testing instruments and conducting science experiments in one of the most moonlike places on Earth. Follow along with their trip over at
@NASAExpeditions
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NASA Expeditions
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Good morning from one of the most Moon- and Mars-like places on our planet! Today's science plans include: 🧬 Use ultraviolet light to reveal hidden patterns of minerals & organic molecules inside of a lava cave. 🧲 Detect a hidden cave from above ground using magnetic fields.
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It’s #WallpaperWednesday! If you’re in need of a new screensaver, this could be love at first light. These image compilations from
@NASASun
's Solar Dynamics Observatory would brighten any background! ☀️
Image of half of the Sun. The Sun appears orange, with nine "slices" cut out, representing different wavelengths. The "slices" are all the same size. Starting on the left, they are pink, forest green, blue, red-orange, purple, orange-yellow, dark yellow, teal, and dark green.
Compilation image of the Sun in nine different wavelengths. The image is divided into 9 squares, with the section of the Sun in each square being the color of a different wavelength. The top row is teal, pink, then green. The middle row is bright orange, dark orange, then blue. And, the final row is purple, red-orange, then yellow.
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Grow an internship into a career! 🚀 NASA Pathways offers a multi-semester opportunity for college students to hone their skills and prepare for a career at NASA. Applications are open from Sept. 12-16. Get the details: go.nasa.gov/3S7adZN
Annie Caraccio, an intern, smiles and poses with her hands in her pockets in a lab. Bottles of different fluids are stacked besides her.
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Starting September 15, we're celebrating our Hispanic and Latinx colleagues in #HispanicHeritageMonth! Follow us on social media throughout the month for stories of our Hispanic and Latinx colleagues who inspire us and keep Goddard thriving!
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NASA Sun & Space
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What color is the Sun – white, yellow, orange, red? NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observes the Sun in different wavelengths because they convey unique information about the Sun's surface and atmosphere, teaching us more about our closest star.
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Stephanie enjoys family hikes in her downtime. "Nature reminds me I'm part of something bigger. Walking in the woods lets me notice an interesting rock formation, or a spider spinning a web, or a frog camouflaging itself in a pond. Hiking with my children is my favorite pastime."
A white woman with curly blonde hair smiles in the lower left corner of this image, which features a rocky outcropping with a small waterfall. The woman wears a purple shirt and glasses. The rocks have flat sedimentary layers, with one moss-covered group in the foreground, and one higher up in the background, with moss and trailing branches hanging down over the edge near the waterfall. Over the scene are tall, bright green leafy trees.
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Stephanie is also deputy principal investigator for
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's DAVINCI mission (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging). DAVINCI will study Venus' atmosphere, clouds, and highlands to answer questions about its past.
A white woman with curly blonde hair and glasses stands behind two halves of a large silver globe, one facing upward like a bowl, one facing downward and resting on silver sheets of material that look like aluminum foil. The table is covered in a gray metal sheet with gridded holes. The woman wears a teal blouse, dark jacket, and lanyard, standing in front of a white wall with vertical and horizontal frames.
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From watching Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" with her dad, to her work as director of Goddard's Solar System Exploration Division, Dr. Stephanie Getty is driven to understand our universe's origins. "A lot of my research is inspired by the question of how life originates," she said.🧵
A white woman with curly blonde hair gestures with her hands as she speaks to two people in the foreground of the image, a man and a woman, backs to the camera. The woman wears a white patterned blouse, black jacket, jeans, lanyard, and glasses. To her right, partly obscured by one of the people in the foreground, is a large reflective globe with a bolted seam around the middle and a small red antenna pointing out the top. Another man and woman stand behind and beside the speaker. The background wall is white with vertical and horizontal frames.
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We can't wait to learn all about what NASA's OSIRIS-REx and JAXA's
@haya2e_jaxa
teams learn about these rocky worlds! Thank you to everyone that asked questions about asteroids Bennu & Ryugu!
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HAYABUSA2@JAXA
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Thank you to everyone who asked us questions during last week’s Ryugu & Bennu asteroid Q&A with @NASAGoddard! We loved receiving your questions about the asteroids & on what we’re learning from the samples returned by Hayabusa2 & #OSIRISREx. Here are just a few of our favourites:
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NASA en español
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Nuestra prueba de vuelo #Artemis I se lanzará no antes del 27 de septiembre, y estamos considerando otra opción de respaldo para el 2 de octubre.
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This just in: Our #Artemis I flight test around the Moon will launch no earlier than Sept. 27, with a backup opportunity of Oct. 2 under review. See the blog for details about ongoing work and testing, and potential launch windows: go.nasa.gov/3d96Z9u
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rocket has a large orange fuel tank, and white solid rocket boosters emblazoned with the red NASA "worm" logotype. The rocket is flanked by tall metal lighting towers. Low, green foliage and white aquatic birds span the middle ground of the photo, and the whole scene is reflected in still, blue water. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
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If you voted for Mercury, you're right! It's the closest planet to the Sun. From the planet’s surface, the Sun would appear more than 3x larger & the sunlight would be 7x brighter! Despite all of this, Venus still takes the cake for the hottest planet due to its thick atmosphere.
Mercury appears as a perfect globe against a black sky. The planet is brightly colored, in rich blues, dark yellows and golds, with visible lighter craters marking its surface. Light blue lines streak across the planet in a few places.
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NASA Expeditions
@NASAExpeditions
Hi from HI! We’re the Goddard Instrument Field Team (and friends), and we study Earth’s most otherworldly places. This week we’re in Hawaii working to answer questions about our solar system’s history and the search for life beyond Earth. Follow along for updates.
In a blue-lit cave, two researchers wearing helmets operate a large, flat light array mounted on a tripod. The cave walls are coated in a substance that fluoresces brightly.
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NASA
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LIVE: Hear from NASA leaders and the #DARTMission team about the technology behind the world's first planetary defense test. Learn about how the DART spacecraft will autonomously navigate to and impact its target asteroid on Sept. 26.
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Media Briefing: Behind the Technologies Enabling NASA’s DART Mission
Listen as mission experts from NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) explain how some of the key technologies enabling the DART spacecraft to autono...
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What can you see in the night sky in September? Jupiter is in opposition, making it visible all night and easy to see with clear skies. Sept. 23 brings the equinox, signaling the start of fall in the Northern Hemisphere & spring in the Southern! Watch for more stargazing tips!
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Today we join the rest of the world in remembering Queen Elizabeth II. The queen and Prince Philip visited Goddard in May 2007. During their visit, they toured the center, met scientists, and planted a commemorative tree on the grounds of the Goddard Visitor Center.
In this archive photo, Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II holds a bouquet of flowers as she walks past a group of children and adults behind a rope fence. The queen is a white woman with short white hair, wearing a long yellow jacket over a pink and yellow floral dress, a yellow hat with large pink flowers, and white gloves. Over one arm is draped a rectangular purse. The people greeting her include adults and young children of various genders and ethnicities, holding British flags and flowers. Several adults hold up cameras and phones to take the queen's picture.
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Have you ever wondered how we got here? 🤔 Goddard astrobiologist Dr. Danny Glavin looks for the or the building blocks of life on asteroids! Tune into this episode of “Houston, We Have a Podcast” to learn more: go.nasa.gov/3x3DUTN
Square image with gray asteroid lower left corner ejecting particles from its surface toward the top right. The words "Houston we have a podcast" are in white in the top left. The NASA meatball logo is in the top right. The words "Episode 253" are in white, highlighted in blue, and underlined in red in the bottom left with the words "The blueprint of life" below.
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HAYABUSA2@JAXA
@haya2e_jaxa
The deadline to apply for the #JAXAcademy webinar on planetary defense is Friday, September 9 at 8:00am JST. Three space agencies will discuss the Hayabusa2#, Hera and DART missions to protect the Earth. If you would like to participate, don't forget to apply!
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📣Final chance！ Please register by September 9th, 8am JST. Researchers from #JAXA #NASA #ESA will get together and discuss Planetary Defense online in English! Please join us on September 9th, 7pm JST. edu.jaxa.jp/news/2022/j-08 #JAXAAcademy
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🕷 Already pulling out the Halloween decorations?
@NASAWebb
too! The telescope caught the Tarantula Nebula, home to thousands of young stars. This nebula is similar to what star-forming regions might have been like when the universe was young. go.nasa.gov/3REi157
Fluffy tan-colored nebula clouds, with rust-colored highlights, surround a black central area. Within that area, the focal point of the image is one large yellow star with eight long thin points. To the right of this star is a bright star cluster in an oval shape. The stars within the cluster look like tiny pale blue sparkles. The cluster is more densely packed at its core and scatters outward. Towards the bottom of the image, multiple arms appear to spiral out of a cloudy tan knob. Taken together, the structures resemble a spider or a squid. Other blue and yellow eight-pointed stars, as well as distant galaxies, are dotted throughout the image.
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