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  1. 8 tuntia sitten

    🌌 January 2022 skywatching highlights: The Quadrantid meteors peak after midnight on Jan. 3, and catch some close pairings of the Moon with Jupiter, Mars, and Venus.

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    8 tuntia sitten

    Three orbiters, two rovers, one lander, and one helicopter – not to mention the scientists and engineers working here on Earth – all exploring Mars and preparing the way for future astronauts. It was a lot to track, but we did our best! Some highlights:

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  3. uudelleentwiittasi
    29. jouluk.

    NASA hasn’t invented time travel, but that won’t stop us from looking back at some of 2021’s Earth Science highlights. ⏪ 🌎

    Photo of Earth taken by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC).
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  4. uudelleentwiittasi
    29. jouluk.

    How 'bout we squeeze in some good news before the year ends? Not only did deploy its tower assembly, the team also said the telescope's launch was so precise that we should expect the science to continue well beyond 10 years! 🤩

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  5. 30. jouluk.

    Did you recently unwrap a new device? Put it through its paces on a virtual voyage to Jupiter with our . 🚀 Explore Jupiter in 3D: 🚀 Download 3D models: 🚀 Bring Juno into your room with AR:

    screenshot of virtual Jupiter tour
    screenshot of mobile device app showing a 3D model of the Juno spacecraft superimposed into a photographed space with gifts beneath a Christmas tree
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  6. uudelleentwiittasi
    29. jouluk.

    As far as asteroids go, this year rocked! 🪨 OSIRIS-REx collected 's 1st asteroid sample 🚀 launched to the Trojan Asteroids 💥 lifted off to crash into an asteroid (on purpose!) Let's 𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙠 our way into the new year:

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  7. 29. jouluk.
    poster in psychedelic colors showing the Juno spacecraft over the clouds of Jupiter. "NASA's Juno Mission"
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  8. uudelleentwiittasi
    29. jouluk.

    This year, scientists made progress in understanding Jupiter's enigmatic moon Europa – and our mission took several steps toward its launch slated for 2024! Here are some of the highlights. More:

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  9. uudelleentwiittasi
    28. jouluk.

    ☑️ Landing site: selected ☑️ Prototype: built ☑️ Design: finalized What a year for our Moon rover, VIPER! Get the full recap from our mission manager before we head into 2022:

    VIPER Moon rover illustration on the lunar surface.
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  10. uudelleentwiittasi
    27. jouluk.

    In 2021, our Mars rover landed and our Ingenuity helicopter took flight. Two asteroid missions launched to the skies, and another began its journey home to Earth. A look back at highlights for our planetary missions:

    Perseverance rover selfie on Mars with Ingenuity helicopter nearby and rover tracks visible on the surface
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  11. 27. jouluk.

    📸 JunoCam image of Jupiter and Io processed by Brian Swift

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  12. 27. jouluk.

    Our 3D solar system simulator can help visualize their relative positions. Try it out yourself at

    screenshot of online app showing a simulated view of Jupiter and the relative positions of Juno, Io, and Callisto
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  13. 27. jouluk.

    Giant planet, tiny moon. In this view from the spacecraft as it swept over Jupiter's north pole in November, Jupiter's moon Io looks like just a dot. Io *is* much smaller than Jupiter, but in this shot it's also far from the camera. Details:

    swirling clouds seen on Jupiter, with Io visible nearby as a tiny, yellow dot
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  14. uudelleentwiittasi
    25. jouluk.

    Webb is off to !🚀 Six hours after liftoff, will be about halfway to the Moon. The day after launch, teams will hand off from the to the Deep Space Network as the spacecraft races six times higher in altitude than geosynchronous orbit.

    Photo of the launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
    An artist's concept of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in space.
    A photo of a Near Space Network antenna beneath a rainbow.
    A photo of a 70-meter Deep Space Network antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California.
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  15. uudelleentwiittasi
    25. jouluk.

    ✅ Milestone achieved. is safely in space, powered on, and communicating with ground controllers. The space telescope is now on its way to at its final destination one million miles (1.5 million km) away from Earth.

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  16. uudelleentwiittasi
    25. jouluk.

    ’s solar array has successfully deployed, and Webb’s batteries are charging up ⚡

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  17. uudelleentwiittasi
    25. jouluk.

    We have LIFTOFF of the Space Telescope! At 7:20am ET (12:20 UTC), the beginning of a new, exciting decade of science climbed to the sky. Webb’s mission to will change our understanding of space as we know it.

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  18. uudelleentwiittasi
    25. jouluk.

    LIVE NOW: Watch , the world’s most powerful space telescope, launch on a mission to . 🚀 With its 7:20am ET (12:20 UTC) liftoff, Webb will usher in a new era of astronomy. Have questions? Drop them below.

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  19. uudelleentwiittasi
    21. jouluk.

    Before the James Webb Space Telescope can , it has to literally unfold. Find mission updates at: - (play-by-play) - (milestones) - (livestreams) - (major news) Timeline:

    In this photo, NASA technicians lift the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane and move it inside a clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. 

Once launched into space, the Webb telescope’s 18-segmented gold mirror is specially designed to capture infrared light from the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, and will help the telescope peer inside dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are forming today.
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  20. uudelleentwiittasi
    24. jouluk.

    in 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to see an Earthrise above the Moon's surface. They captured this iconic image and sent a message to all the people back on Earth:

    'Earthrise' photograph of Earth over Moon's horizon taken by Apollo 8 from lunar orbit
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