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NASA’s twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, stand on the Martian landscape in this poster created to commemorate their 20th landing anniversary. The rovers landed in January 2004, on opposite sides of the planet in locales that scientists suspected had been affected by liquid water in the past. Their main scientific objective was to search for a range of rocks and soil types and then look for clues for past water activity on Mars—and what they found rewrote textbooks. In addition to proving that water once existed on Mars, the rovers also far exceeded their initial planned lifetimes. Spirit operated for 6 years, 2 months, and 19 days, more than 25 times its original intended lifetime, and Opportunity operated for almost 15 years, setting several records….

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. Axiom Space’s Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) is the third all-private astronaut mission to the space station, sending crew members Commander Michael López-Alegría, Pilot Walter Villadei of Italy, Mission Specialist Alper Gezeravcı of Turkey, and ESA (European Space Agency) project astronaut Marcus Wandt of Sweden into orbit. The Ax-3 crew will spend about two weeks conducting microgravity research, educational outreach, and commercial activities aboard the space station. Watch our Axiom Mission 3 launch coverage on NASA+. Image Credit: NASA/Chris Swanson 2024年1月18日星期四，一枚搭载该公司龙飞船的SpaceX猎鹰9号火箭从佛罗里达州NASA肯尼迪航天中心发射升空。公理太空的公理3号任务（Ax-3）是第三次前往空间站的全私人宇航员任务，将机组成员指挥官迈克尔·洛佩斯·阿莱格里亚、意大利飞行员沃尔特·比利亚迪、土耳其任务专家阿尔佩尔·格泽拉维奇和ESA（欧洲航天局）项目宇航员瑞典的马库斯·旺特送入轨道。 Ax-3机组人员将在空间站上进行大约两周的微重力研究、教育推广和商业活动。 在NASA+上观看我们对公理任务3号发射的报道。 图片来源: NASA/Chris Swanson

A top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed, revealing the remainder of the asteroid sample inside. Photo: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold The astromaterials curation team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston has completed the disassembly of the OSIRIS-REx sampler head to reveal the remainder of the asteroid Bennu sample inside. On Jan. 10, they successfully removed two stubborn fasteners that had prevented the final steps of opening the Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head. Erika Blumenfeld, creative lead for the Advanced Imaging and Visualization of Astromaterials (AIVA) and Joe Aebersold, AIVA project lead, captured this photograph of the open TAGSAM head including the asteroid material inside using manual high-resolution precision photography and a semi-automated focus stacking procedure. The result is an…

The Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 captured this image of Simsbury, Connecticut on September 15, 2022. Martin Luther King Jr. and other students from Morehouse College worked summers on a tobacco farm, Meadowood, in Simsbury in 1944 and 1947 to earn money for tuition. King’s time in Connecticut impacted his outlook and trajectory as a minister and civil rights activist, according to King scholars. Text Credit: Adam Voiland Image Credit: NASA/Joshua Stevens; USGS 2022年9月15日，陆地卫星9号上的操作陆地成像仪-2在康涅狄格州的辛姆斯伯里拍摄了这张照片。1944年和1947年，马丁·路德·金和莫尔豪斯学院的其他学生在辛姆斯伯里的梅多伍德烟草农场打工，赚取学费。据研究马丁·路德·金的学者说，马丁·路德·金在康涅狄格州的时光影响了他作为一名部长和民权活动家的前景和轨迹。 文字来源：Adam Voiland 图片来源：NASA/Joshua Stevens; USGS

An Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket is seen as it launches from Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Thursday, January 9, 2014, Wallops Island, VA. Antares is carrying the Cygnus spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Orbital-1 mission is Orbital Sciences’ first contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for NASA. Cygnus is carrying science experiments, crew provisions, spare parts and other hardware to the space station. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls 2014年1月9日，星期四，轨道科学公司的安塔瑞斯火箭从NASA瓦洛普斯飞行设施的Pad-0A发射台发射升空。安塔瑞斯运载天鹅座飞船，执行国际空间站的货物补给任务。轨道1号任务是轨道科学公司第一次为NASA向空间站运送货物。天鹅座将携带科学实验、机组人员补给、备件和其他硬件设备前往空间站。 影像来源：NASA/Bill Ingalls

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScl; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScl/Milisavljevic et al., NASA/JPL/CalTech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt and K. Arcand For the first time, astronomers have combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope to study the well-known supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A). This work has helped explain an unusual structure in the debris from the destroyed star called the “Green Monster,” because of its resemblance to the wall in the left field of Fenway Park. By combining the Webb data with X-rays from Chandra, researchers have concluded that the Green Monster was created by a blast wave from the exploded star slamming into material surrounding it. Detailed analysis found that filaments in the outer part of Cas A, from the blast wave, closely…

ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Acknowledgment: L. Shatz This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a richness of spiral galaxies: the large, prominent spiral galaxy on the right side of the image is NGC 1356; the two apparently smaller spiral galaxies flanking it are LEDA 467699 (above it) and LEDA 95415 (very close at its left) respectively; and finally, IC 1947 sits along the left side of the image. This image is a really interesting example of how challenging it can be to tell whether two galaxies are actually close together, or just seem to be from our perspective here on Earth. A quick glance at this image would likely lead you to think that NGC 1356, LEDA 467699, and…

Amazonian leaders visit “Space for Earth,” an immersive audio-visual installation that draws from near real-time satellite data and images, in NASA’s Earth Information Center at the NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson Building in Washington on Nov. 17, 2023. The leaders, joined by University of Richmond faculty and NASA representatives, gathered to discuss how NASA’s data can be used to help protect the Amazon. The NASA Headquarters photographers chose this photo as one of the best images from 2023. Explore the Earth Information Center. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls 2023年11月17日，亚马逊领袖参观了位于华盛顿NASA总部玛丽·W·杰克逊大楼的NASA地球信息中心的“地球空间”，这是一个沉浸式视听装置，取材于近乎实时的卫星数据和图像。 这些亚马逊领袖，加上里士满大学的教师和NASA的代表，聚集在一起讨论如何利用NASA的数据来帮助保护亚马逊。 NASA总部的摄影师将这张照片选为2023年的最佳照片之一。 探索地球信息中心。 图片来源: NASA/Bill Ingalls