BlogHide Resteemsresteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agoPowering Up NASA’s Human Reach for the Red PlanetNASA is pushing forward on testing a key energy source that could literally “empower” human crews on the Mars surface, energizing habitats and running on-the-spot processing equipment to transform…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.NASA CubeSat Missions: Pushing the Boundaries of TechnologyCredits: Nanoracks N ISARA’s three antenna panels feature a printed circuit board pattern that narrowly focuses the CubeSat’s radio transmission beam in much the same way a parabolic dish…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agoJPSS-1, Delta II Await Wednesday LaunchIn this photo taken Nov. 13, the tower has rolled away from the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at Space Launch Complex 2 at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. The rocket now is poised…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Six Stories of Life that NASA Sees from Space: From Microscopic to MulticellularLife. It's the one thing that, so far, makes Earth unique among the thousands of other planets we've discovered. Since the fall of 1997, NASA satellites have continuously and globally observed all…resteemednasavishal (7)in bitcoin • 7 years agoLife On MARSAn Artist Concept of MARS view! #NASAresteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.First Supersonic Parachute Test : NASA's Mars 2020 Mission PerformsA 58-foot-tall Black Brant IX sounding rocket launches from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Oct. 4. This was the first test of the Mars 2020 mission's parachute-testing series, the Advanced…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Listening for Gravitational Waves Using PulsarsThis computer simulation shows the collision of two black holes, which produces gravitational waves. Credits: SXS One of the most spectacular achievements in physics so far this century has been…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Sulfur Dioxide Emissions DropA new study by researchers at NASA and the University of Maryland indicates that India may be the world’s top sulfur dioxide emitter.Sulfur dioxide is an air pollutant that causes acid rain, haze…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.NASA Moves Up Critical Crew Safety Launch Abort TestNASA’s Orion spacecraft is scheduled to undergo a design test in April 2019 of the capsule’s launch abort system (LAS), which is a rocket-powered tower on top of the crew module built to very…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Jupiter’s Stunning Southern HemisphereSee Jupiter’s southern hemisphere in beautiful detail in this new image taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The color-enhanced view captures one of the white ovals in the “String of Pearls,” one of…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.THE FIRST OBSERVATION OF GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES FROM A BINARY NEUTRON STAR INSPIRALVirgo Helps Localize Gravitational-Wave Signals. Sky localizations of gravitational-wave signals detected by LIGO beginning in 2015 (GW150914, LVT151012, GW151226, GW170104), and, more recently, by…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agoSky Localizations of Selected Gravitational-Wave Events.Sky localizations of gravitational-wave signals detected by LIGO beginning in 2015 and, more recently, by the LIGO-Virgo network. Only events in the same hemisphere as GW170817 are shown. The…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agoTHE FIRST OBSERVATION OF GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES FROM A BINARY NEUTRON STAR INSPIRAL : Cataclysmic CollisionArtist’s illustration of two merging neutron stars. The rippling space-time grid represents gravitational waves that travel out from the collision, while the narrow beams show the bursts of gamma…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agoA Global Astronomy Event.A map of the approximately 70 light-based observatories that detected the gravitational-wave event called GW170817. On 17 August 2017, the LIGO and Virgo detectors spotted gravitational waves from…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agoTHE FIRST OBSERVATION OF GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES FROM A BINARY NEUTRON STAR INSPIRAL : Masses of Neutron Stars and Black HolesThe masses of stellar remnants are measured in many different ways. This graphic shows the masses for black holes detected through electromagnetic observations (purple); the black holes measured by…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agoColor Composite Images of Galaxy NGC 4993Each image is 1.5 arcseconds on a side. The left image is taken in the z-band on 2017 August 18 00:05:23 UT and combined with g- and r-band images taken 1 day later. The right image shows the same…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agoApollo 4 was First-Ever Launch from NASA's Kennedy Space CenterThe Apollo 4 mission lifted off on time at 7:00 a.m. EST on Nov. 9, 1967. The launch created one of the loudest-ever human-made sounds, rattling windows at the Launch Control Center and Press Site…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Neutron Star Merger Seen in Gravity and Matter.This still image from an animated visualization shows the coalescence of two orbiting neutron stars. The right panel contains a visualization of the matter of the neutron stars. The left panel shows…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.GW170817 Localization and Triangulation AnnuliWe can pinpoint sources like GW170817 much more accurately now that we can triangulate the signal between Hanford, Livingston, and Virgo. The rapid Hanford-Livingston localization is shown in blue…resteemednasavishal (7)in nasa • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.NEWTON, EINSTEIN AND GRAVITATIONAL WAVESMany people are familiar with the story of "Newton's Apple" - while sitting under a tree one day, Newton observed an apple falling in the distance and realized the moon he saw in the sky orbits the…
