This may come as a shock.
We use a 21st century version of Schlieren imagery, which was invented in 1864, to visualize the shockwaves and vortices of a supersonic airplane in flight.
This composite image includes cut-out images of T-38 aircraft around Mach 1.02 taken in December of 2018. To capture the flow dynamics, a slow-moving observer airplane equipped with high-speed digital cameras records the distortion caused by the shockwaves of the supersonic aircraft as they pass.
Image credit: NASA
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Come fly with us ✈️
Freshman and sophomore students from minority-serving institutions got to join NASA researchers on a P-3 aircraft as part of our Students Airborne Science Activation program. Pictured here are Camila Hernandez (left), Neima Dedefo, Michelle Garcia (back), Sophia Ramirez (front), Romina Cano Velasquez, and Trisha Joy Francisco (right).
Credits: NASA
Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3SWClA8
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Today, Vice President Harris (@vp) met with the National Space Council, government officials, and industry leaders at our visitor center in Oakland, California. Accompanying her are Governor Gavin Newsom, FAA Acting Administrator Billy Nolen, and Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, from left to right.
Image credit: NASA/Dominic Hart
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What will the #Artemis I launch plume look like?
Our supercomputer simulations of the Space Launch System rocket can give us an idea! This is one of many ways our center has helped prepare for this step in our return to the Moon.
Image credit: NASA/Michael F. Barad and Timothy Sandstrom
Learn more: www.nasa.gov/ames/artemis-1
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Artemis I is an uncrewed launch, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any passengers aboard…
The hatch has closed on Moonikin “Campos” and the yeast cells that will catch a ride inside our BioSentinel #CubeSat and journey deeper in space than any NASA biology experiment has before!
Image credit [1]: NASA/Frank Michaux
Image credit [2]: NASA/Dominic Hart
Learn more: www.nasa.gov/ames/biosentinel
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🎶 One, two, three four five, #OTD in 1978 we went for a ride!
Our Pioneer Venus Multiprobe journeyed to the planet that has an atmosphere 100 times denser than Earth’s and is hotter than the melting point of zinc and lead.
Image credit: NASA/ Paul Hudson
Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3p4lCNI
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We're still inching forward!
Our VIPER Moon rover team is optimizing mission plans while focusing on system assembly and testing. Get the latest update from the mission manager at the link below. ⤵️
Image credit: NASA
Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3dagx3K
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Space robot "field" testing 🤖
NASA astronaut and Expedition 67 Flight Engineer Bob Hines alongside our blue #Astrobee Bumble recently tested the ability of the robot to autonomously navigate and maneuver inside the International Space Station (@iss) using smartphone technology!
Image credit: NASA
Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3d0i9wN
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Heat shields. So hot right now. 🔥🛡️
To keep astronauts and cargo safe going to and from space, our Entry Systems Modeling project is developing new approaches to predict and simulate the responses of heat shield systems as they blaze through planetary atmospheres.
Image credit: NASA/Isaac Watson
Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3bodKDG
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We’re doing cartwheels over this new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (@nasawebb)!
The Cartwheel Galaxy, located about 500 million light-years away in the Sculptor constellation, looks a lot like the wheel of a wagon as a result of a high-speed collision between a large spiral galaxy and a smaller galaxy. Webb’s new image was taken by two instruments, NIRCam and MIRI, which Ames scientists helped design, develop, and test. It reveals new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central black hole.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3SdOLDo
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