On May 17, NASA released a draft set of top-level goals identifying 50 points that fall under 4 overarching classifications of expedition for future Artemis objectives to return astronauts to the Moon in preparation for human expedition of Mars. The latest episode of our NASA Science Live was all about the total lunar eclipse on the night of May 15, overnight into May 16. It included NASA experts and live views of the eclipse from around the world. Inside NASAs Cold Atom Lab, researchers form bubbles from ultracold gas, revealed in pink in this illustration. NASAs Cold Atom Lab, the first-ever quantum physics facility aboard the International Space Station, has been utilized to shape atoms of gas cooled to almost outright no– or about minus 459 degrees Fahrenheit– into exceptionally thin, hollow spheres.
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Laying out the firms objectives for deep space exploration … And covering the overall lunar eclipse on Earth and from area … a few of the stories to tell you about– This Week at NASA!
Uncrewed Commercial Test Mission Launches to the Space Station
On May 19, Boeings CST-100 Starliner spacecraft released from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Orbital Flight Test-2 or OFT-2. The objective is the Starliners second uncrewed flight to the station for our Commercial Crew Program.
NASA Outlines Moon to Mars Objectives
On May 17, NASA released a draft set of top-level objectives identifying 50 points that fall under 4 overarching categories of expedition for future Artemis missions to return astronauts to the Moon in preparation for human expedition of Mars. The agency is asking U.S. industry, academic community, worldwide neighborhoods, and other stakeholders to offer input on these deep area exploration objectives. Discover more at nasa.gov/ moontomars.
A telescopic visualization of the total lunar eclipse, happening May 15-16, 2022. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Ernie Wright
NASA Covers Total Lunar Eclipse
The current episode of our NASA Science Live was everything about the total lunar eclipse on the night of May 15, overnight into May 16. It included NASA experts and live views of the eclipse from worldwide. Our Lucy spacecraft recorded the images of the eclipse seen in this time-lapse when the taking a trip spacecraft was about 64 million miles from Earth. It reveals Earth on the left and the Moon on the right, which can be seen vanishing into darkness as it travels through Earths shadow. The Lucy spacecraft is on its method to study Jupiters Trojan asteroids.
This illustration shows NASAs Mars InSight lander on the Martian surface area. Credit: NASA
InSight Still Hunting Marsquakes as Power Levels Diminish
Dust on the photovoltaic panels of our InSight Mars lander is causing the spacecraft to gradually lose power. As an outcome, the InSight team expects that the lander will become inoperative by the end of this year. InSight, which came to Mars in November 2018, has up until now found more than 1,300 marsquakes and gathered info to help enhance our understanding of the interiors of rocky planets, including Earth.
Inside NASAs Cold Atom Lab, researchers form bubbles from ultracold gas, displayed in pink in this illustration. Lasers, likewise illustrated, are utilized to cool the atoms, while an atom chip, highlighted in gray, generates magnetic fields to manipulate their shape, in mix with radio waves. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Ultracold Bubbles on Space Station Open New Paths for Quantum Research
NASAs Cold Atom Lab, the first-ever quantum physics center aboard the International Space Station, has been used to shape atoms of gas cooled to nearly outright absolutely no– or about minus 459 degrees Fahrenheit– into very thin, hollow spheres. This is comparable to how liquids act in microgravity and cant be replicated in the world. The accomplishment could result in brand-new sort of try outs a state of matter noticeably different from gases, plasmas, solids, and liquids, called a Bose-Einstein condensate or BEC. In a BEC, researchers can observe the quantum homes of atoms at a scale noticeable to the naked eye.
Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST. Credit: Lockheed Martin
New Name for NASAs Supersonic X-Plane Mission
Our research study mission to allow supersonic flight over land has actually been renamed Quesst. The name, which includes an extra “s” to represent “supersonic,” replaces the missions initial name: The Low-Boom Flight Demonstration. Through Quesst, NASA plans to demonstrate that the X-59 research study aircraft can fly faster than sound without creating the loud sonic booms supersonic aircraft usually produce.
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