ESA (the European Space Agency) has released a new, 208-gigapixel mosaic of images taken by Euclid, a mission with NASA contributions that launched in 2023 to study why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. This rover and its aerial sidekick were assigned to study the geology of Mars and much more. Over 11 weeks 13 teams, comprised of engineers and aerospace experts, reviewed more than 1,000 SLS documents and data as part of the assessment. The timing flaw consisted of performing two tasks simultaneously-compressing previously acquired data to release space for more data, and making a second copy of the approach command sequence-that together overloaded the spacecraft’s primary computer. Designed and built by L3Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, the assembly incorporates key optics (including the primary mirror) that were made available to NASA by the National Reconnaissance Office. Every day since Nov. 2, 2000, people have been orbiting our planet inside the International Space Station, bringing together science, technology and human innovation to enable new technologies and research breakthroughs not possible on Earth. Rotational crews have been living in low Earth orbit continuously aboard the International Space Station since 2000. Located about 250 miles above Earth, the space station is a full-time microgravity laboratory.

Living and working in low Earth orbit and at the Moon will help NASA and its partners prepare for the next giant leap: sending humans to Mars. More than 20 different research payloads can be hosted outside the station at once, including Earth sensing equipment, materials science payloads, particle physics experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02 and more. The acre of solar panels that power the station means sometimes you can look up in the sky at dawn or dusk and see the spaceship flying over your home, even if you live in a big city. Sometimes called “galactic cirrus” because they look like cirrus clouds at Earth, these clouds can be observed by Euclid’s visible-light camera because they reflect visible light from the Milky Way. With contributions from NASA, the mission will map a third of the sky in order to study a cosmic mystery called dark energy. Euclid and principal investigator for NASA’s Euclid dark energy science team.

NASA’s forthcoming Nancy Grace Roman mission will also study dark energy – in ways that are complementary to Euclid. Instead, you are peeping through the various natural gaps between the leaves. NASA is developing the Earth System Observatory, the core of which is five satellite missions providing critical data on climate change, severe weather and other natural hazards, wildfires, and global food production. Artemis I was an uncrewed flight test that traveled 40,000 miles past the far side of the Moon and back to Earth to validate the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, and other key systems. The solar wind carries these particles toward Earth at up to a million miles per hour! Eight miles of wire connects the electrical power system aboard the space station. Nasa said the full-sized image scale is 7 miles per pixel and was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 9, 2016. The view of the rings looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 18 degrees above the ring plane.

The resistance it exerts on InSight’s heat shield, a 419-pound enclosure composed primarily of crushed cork, will drive the temperature of the protective barrier to temperatures greater than 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit-hot enough to melt steel. 1.5 million lines of flight software code run on 44 computers communicating via 100 data networks transferring 400,000 signals (e.g. pressure or temperature measurements, valve positions, etc.). This first piece of the map already contains around 100 million stars and galaxies. Map the atmospheric dust loading and its global, vertical and temporal variation. Finally, NASA unveiled a brand new image of the Carina Nebula, a distant, massive cloud of gas and dust where stars are both forming and dying. Visble as well are clouds of gas and dust located between the stars in our own galaxy. Scientists are expected to spend a decade or more in search of new discoveries in the treasure trove of data Kepler provided. NASA’s aeronautical innovators are leading a government-industry team to collect data that could make supersonic flight over land possible, dramatically reducing travel time in the United States or anywhere in the world. Sometimes, these divides are more about perception than reality, says Millard.