22 febrero 2016

You’ve probably already seen our retro travel posters, but here they are explained. Take a look and choose your excursion:http://nasa.tumblr.com/…/travel-posters-of-fantastic-excurs…

Deep in the heart of California’s Owens Valley, a strange looking telescope is listening for echoes of distant stars. These echoes could help us discover new worlds in distant star systems. Discover more:https://youtu.be/hDpVHcmA4rE

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Bon appétit! See how high school culinary students are competing to have their dishes sent to the International Space Station. Team’s in this year’s challenge had to develop a vegetable entrée and the dish had to meet a strict set of nutritional guidelines. Details: http://go.nasa.gov/1mQOaHN

Happy Birthday to Scott Kelly, who is working 250 above Earth, and Mark Kelly, who is helping with the Twins Study from our home planet:http://nasa.tumblr.com/po…/129151446854/the-one-year-mission

Ahead of today’s ‪#‎DAYTONA500‬, NASCAR driver Carl Edwards stopped by our Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a behind-the-scenes tour. Take a look: https://youtu.be/10eum__SZ5k

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It's a diamond in the dust! Our Hubble Space Telescope sees a young forming star. This star is in an adolescent phase of life, while most of a sun-like star’s life is spent in a stable stage. Details:http://go.nasa.gov/1QrLhuM

America stands on the cusp of a new era in aviation that’s dramatically cleaner, quieter, and even faster. If approved, President Obama’s recently released federal budget request will be the first in a bold 10-year plan to achieve huge goals in reducing fuel use, emissions, and noise by the way aircraft are designed, and the way they operate in the air and on the ground. Details: http://go.nasa.gov/20LT6uM ‪#‎FlyNASA‬

‪#‎OTD‬ in 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in his Mercury capsule Friendship 7. In this video, Glenn describes the 'weirdest' training for his historic flight. More:http://go.nasa.gov/1QrIsKh

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Our “flying” telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aboard a highly modified Boeing 747SP jetliner, began its fourth series of science flights to study a full gamut of astronomical topics, both in our solar system and beyond. Details:http://go.nasa.gov/1KxUAqC

OLGA VALENTIN PRADO: nasa history

OLGA VALENTIN PRADO: nasa history: ·   On this day (February 18) in 1930, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto at the Lowell Observatory in Fla...

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On this day (February 18) in 1930, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. In more recent years, the International Astronomical Union (not NASA) has changed the status of Pluto from "planet" to "dwarf planet."
When the New Horizons probe passed Pluto last year, we saw that Pluto has an abundance of ice that forms large mountains on its surface. The probe also discovered that Pluto has a surprising lack of craters, indicating a fairly fresh surface. To honor Tombaugh, some of his cremated remains were carried along on the New Horizons, on the long journey to Pluto. They continue to travel with New Horizons out into the Kuiper Belt.

THEMIS I, II, III, IV, and V, a fleet of nearly identical NASA magnetospheric satellites were launched by a Delta 2 rocket on this day (February 17) in 2007. This mission, the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) aims to resolve one of the oldest mysteries in space physics, namely to determine what physical process in near-Earth space initiates the violent eruptions of the aurora that occur during substorms in the Earth's magnetosphere....