Jasir Zaki

The Artemis II astronauts check out their ride to the Moon, practicing post-splashdown recovery operations for Artemis II, and the Webb Space Telescope checks out a record-breaking star … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around the Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years. This information has enabled countless new discoveries about the workings of our closest star and how it influences the solar system. With a triad of instruments, SDO captures an image of the Sun every 0.75 seconds. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument alone captures images every 12 seconds at 10 different wavelengths of light. This 10-year time lapse showcases photos taken at a wavelength of 17.1 nanometers, which is an extreme ultraviolet wavelength that shows the Sun’s outermost atmospheric layer — the corona. Compiling one photo every hour, the movie condenses a decade of the Sun into 61 minutes.

While Apollo placed the first steps on the Moon, Artemis opens the door for humanity to sustainably work and live on another world for the first time. Using the lunar surface as a proving ground for living on Mars, this next chapter in exploration will forever establish our presence in the stars. ✨ We are returning to the Moon – to stay – and this is how we are going! Actress Kelly Marie Tran of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” lent her voice to this project.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe and its United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle prepare for an unprecedented mission to "kiss the Sun."

In this artist’s rendition, we explore a metallic world named Psyche, an asteroid that offers a unique window into the building blocks of planet formation. The NASA Psyche mission launches in 2023 and will arrive at the asteroid Psyche, which orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, in 2026. The spacecraft, also named Psyche, will spend 21 months orbiting the asteroid, mapping it and studying its properties. The mission is led by Principal Investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible for the mission’s overall management, system engineering, integration and test, and mission operations. Maxar Technologies is providing a high-power solar electric propulsion spacecraft chassis.

For Earth Day 2021, we explore the connections of Earth systems and NASA's ability to observe them in a changing world, highlighting the links between dust transport, vegetation, water quality, conservation and human health, the cryosphere, and disasters.

Everything that happens on the International Space Station revolves around one thing: Earth, sixteen times a day! So for Earth Day 2021, NASA offers a gift you can’t get anywhere else with this leisurely view of our home planet, from 250 miles up, rendered in extraordinary ultra-high definition video. Hit play, relax and enjoy. This 4K footage was recorded between 2019 and 2020. _______________________________________ ignore tags: NASA Space Exploration Astronomy Space Science Rocket Launch International Space Station Mars Hubble Space Telescope SpaceX Moon Landing Solar System Planets Astronauts NASA Missions Spacewalk Black Holes Earth from Space Space Shuttle Mars Rover Space Technology Space News NASA History Spacewalks Exoplanets Space Travel Space Station NASA Live NASA Documentary Spacecraft NASA Images Cosmic Phenomena Space Science News NASA Discoveries Astronomy Photography NASA TV Rocket Science Space Facts NASA Astronauts Space Research Space Exploration News NASA Engineering Alien Life NASA Future Missions Space Agency NASA Educational Space Universe NASA Spacewalk Space History Space Technology Space News Updates Astronomical Discoveries NASA Launch NASA Spacecraft Space Innovation Space Missions NASA Science Space Educational NASA Universe Space Videos NASA Astronomy Space Travel Technology NASA Telescopes NASA Mars Missions Space Exploration Documentary NASA Updates Spacewalks in Space NASA Astronomical Discoveries Space Adventures NASA Rocket Launch NASA Spacewalks Live Space Telescopes Space History Documentary NASA Experiments Space News Today NASA Space Shuttle NASA Mars Rover Space Station Tour NASA Space Innovations Mars Exploration NASA Spacewalk Live Space News 2023 NASA Space Exploration NASA Rocket Science Space Missions Documentary NASA Universe Exploration Mars Science NASA Space Technology Space Race NASA Alien Life Space Exploration History NASA Documentary Series NASA Spacewalks 2023 Space Agencies NASA Space Station Space Shuttle Documentary NASA Mars Landing Spacewalks in Microgravity NASA Space Research NASA Space News Today

101955 Bennu is one of Earth’s closest planetary neighbors – an asteroid roughly the height of a skyscraper, and since late 2018, the place that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has called home. When OSIRIS-REx arrived on Dec. 3, 2018, it began wrapping Bennu in a complex web of observations. OSIRIS-REx departs Bennu on May 10, 2021, on a return voyage to Earth, bringing with it over 60 grams of sample collected from the asteroid. This narrated video presents the mission’s complete trajectory during its time at Bennu. _______________________________________ ignore tags: NASA Space Exploration Astronomy Space Science Rocket Launch International Space Station Mars Hubble Space Telescope SpaceX Moon Landing Solar System Planets Astronauts NASA Missions Spacewalk Black Holes Earth from Space Space Shuttle Mars Rover Space Technology Space News NASA History Spacewalks Exoplanets Space Travel Space Station NASA Live NASA Documentary Spacecraft NASA Images Cosmic Phenomena Space Science News NASA Discoveries Astronomy Photography NASA TV Rocket Science Space Facts NASA Astronauts Space Research Space Exploration News NASA Engineering Alien Life NASA Future Missions Space Agency NASA Educational Space Universe NASA Spacewalk Space History Space Technology Space News Updates Astronomical Discoveries NASA Launch NASA Spacecraft Space Innovation Space Missions NASA Science Space Educational NASA Universe Space Videos NASA Astronomy Space Travel Technology NASA Telescopes NASA Mars Missions Space Exploration Documentary NASA Updates Spacewalks in Space NASA Astronomical Discoveries Space Adventures NASA Rocket Launch NASA Spacewalks Live Space Telescopes Space History Documentary NASA Experiments Space News Today NASA Space Shuttle NASA Mars Rover Space Station Tour NASA Space Innovations Mars Exploration NASA Spacewalk Live Space News 2023 NASA Space Exploration NASA Rocket Science Space Missions Documentary NASA Universe Exploration Mars Science NASA Space Technology Space Race NASA Alien Life Space Exploration History NASA Documentary Series NASA Spacewalks 2023 Space Agencies NASA Space Station Space Shuttle Documentary NASA Mars Landing Spacewalks in Microgravity NASA Space Research NASA Space News Today