We’re less than a week away from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's first full-color images!
Webb's Fine Guidance Sensor, built by the Canadian Space Agency to help the telescope lock onto targets, recently captured this stunning engineering test image — an unexpected peek into how Webb will #UnfoldTheUniverse.
This image is among the deepest photos of the universe, and you can see thousands of faint galaxies, each home to billions of stars.
Stay tuned for Webb’s first full-color and high resolution images on July 12!
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So proud of my wife @aram_hamidi for receiving the prestigious Voyager Award in recognition of her extraordinary efforts in preventing the loss of NASA’s Mars InSight lander.
A few months ago, the spacecraft was forced to go into safe mode due to an onboard anomaly, meaning all of its non-essential systems were shut down, and we were faced with high chances of losing the spacecraft. Aram and the team worked tirelessly to detect, identify and self-diagnose the root cause of the anomaly, and were able to re-establish communications and command the spacecraft to exit the safe mode and resume normal operations.
NASA's InSight spacecraft has been studying Mars' interior since 2018 to learn how other worlds, including Earth-like exoplanets around other stars, evolve. InSight is now in an extended mission listening for Marsquakes that will help us learn more about what lies beneath the surface. The InSight's scientific mission will come to an end later this summer, and the spacecraft will be entirely inoperable by the end of this year after it loses power.
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A great opportunity for those who are interested to contribute to NASA’s exploration of Mars. You can help @nasa scientists find clouds on Mars!
NASA is asking citizen scientists to help us identify clouds in data collected by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (#MRO). The extra data analysis may aid researchers in figuring out why the #RedPlanet’s atmosphere is just 1% as dense as Earth’s even though ample evidence suggests Mars used to have a much thicker #atmosphere.
The project, dubbed Cloud spotting on Mars, revolves around a 16-year #data record from #MRO, which has studied the planet since 2006. The spacecraft’s Mars Climate Sounder instrument studies the atmosphere in #infrared light that’s invisible to the human eye. In measurements taken by the instrument as MRO orbits around Mars, clouds appear as arches. The team needs help sifting through that data on Zooniverse, marking the arches so that #scientists can more efficiently study where in the atmosphere they happen.
If you’d like to join in, head to the link in my bio for more information. go.nasa.gov/3Nt9dMQ
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