A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has captured a unique view of the Moon as it passed between the spacecraft and Earth. A series of test images shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the Moon that is not visible from Earth.
Design Wish — Women of NASA LEGOs
LEGO has released their Women of NASA set which includes:
- 4 minifigures: Nancy Grace Roman, Margaret Hamilton, Sally Ride and Mae Jemison.
- Features 3 LEGO® builds illustrating the areas of expertise of the 4 featured women of NASA.
- Nancy Grace Roman’s build features a posable Hubble Space Telescope with authentic details and a projected image of a planetary nebula.
- Margaret Hamilton's build features a stack of book elements, representing the books of listings of Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) onboard flight software source code.
- Sally Ride and Mae Jemison’s build features a launchpad and Space Shuttle Challenger with 3 removable rocket stages.
The Face of the Sun in Timelapse
FROM THE APOD Explanation: Our solar system's miasma of incandescent plasma, the Sun may look a little scary here. The picture is a composite of 25 images recorded in extreme ultraviolet light by the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory between April 16, 2012 and April 15, 2013. The particular wavelength of light, 171 angstroms, shows emission from highly ionized iron atoms in the solar corona at a characteristic temperatures of about 600,000 kelvins (about 1 million degrees F). Girdling both sides of the equator during approach to maximum in the 11-year solar cycle, the solar active regions are laced with bright loops and arcs along magnetic field lines. Of course, a more familiar visible light view would show the bright active regions as groups of dark sunspots. Three years of Solar Dynamics Observatory images are compressed in the video:
NASA's Best Photos of 2016
NASA puts out tons of amazing photos. Here are 20 of 2016's best.
Solar Flares and Activities from NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (Little SDO) creates composite images, like the lead image, the show a series of eruptions in color-indiciative imagery to make visible the differences in wavelengths. Others in the collection make visible differences in intensity, radiation levels, temperature. All of them are beautiful.
50 Photos of Mars on Exhibit at the Smithsonian
Fifty carefully chosen images of the exploration of Mars make up the exhibit, Spirit & Opportunity: 10 Years Roving Across Mars at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
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NASA Best of Satellite 2012
Like a "Now That's What I Call Music" but for Satellite imagery of the Earth, brought to you by NASA.
NASA Best Satellite 2012 first appeared on 5thingsilearnedtoday.com
2 - Robbie
Robbie is a short film, made up entirely of NASA archival footage.
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