At 10 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 26, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, NASA will host a media briefing with other government agencies to discuss the Monday, April 8 rare total solar eclipse. Notable speakers from NASA and other government agencies will be participating in the event. NASA will be offering coverage of the eclipse…
COSMIC-2 satellite, Image/NOAA A collaboration between NOAA and NASA, ‘Earth from Orbit’ is a series of short videos and a short article with additional information that showcase a compelling weather event, environmental hazard, or interesting meteorological phenomenon each week, as seen by NOAA satellites. One example video details a series of nine “atmospheric rivers” from late Dec. 2022…
Filament of solar plasma, Image/NASA/SDO The sun recently lost a huge filament of solar plasma from its surface. The broken filament is circling its north pole like a vortex of powerful winds. Although a normal occurring event, scientists have yet to see it form such a polar whirlwind until now. Space.com recently elaborated on the solar…
Watch Water Studying Satellite Unfold in Space, Image/NASA/JPL-Caltech The U.S.-European Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite was recently launched into space. After deploying its solar arrays while in Earth orbit, the satellite’s two cameras captured the unfurling of its large mast and KaRIn antenna panels of the spacecraft’s main science instrument. The antennas were successfully deployed over…
Earth’s Magnetic Field, Image/ESA Magnetic signals measured by the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite mission recently have been converted into sound and the results are phenomenal: “Despite being essential to life on Earth, the magnetic field isn’t something we can actually see in itself, or ever hear. But, remarkably, scientists at the Technical University of Denmark have taken…
Smiling Sun, courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams According to one of NASA’s Twitter sites, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recently caught the Sun “smiling.” Viewed in ultraviolet light the coronal holes, dark patches on the Sun, are regions where fast solar wind gushes out into space. The Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first…
SpaceX Falcon Heavy USSF-44 mission, Screen capture/Youtube/SpaceX SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch of the USSF-44 mission to a geosynchronous Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida was successfully completed today. Following booster separation, Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters completed landing at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2 (LZ-1 and LZ-2). Falcon…
NASA Artemis I Moon Mission, Image/NASA Artemis Update Engineers Assess Data After Launch Delay: Engineers are evaluating data gathered during the Artemis I launch attempt Monday, Aug. 29, when teams could not get the rocket’s engines to the proper temperature range required to start the engines at liftoff, and ran out of time in the two-hour…