A mesa-like mountain near the Moons South Pole has actually been called “Mons Mouton” after NASA mathematician Melba Mouton. “Mons Mouton” is nearby to the site at which NASAs VIPER objective will check out and land as part of NASAs Artemis program.
Perseverances Portrait of the Sample Depot: An annotated version of the picture caught by NASAs Perseverance shows the area of the 10 sample tubes in the depot. Astronomers approximate 50,000 sources of near-infrared light are represented in this image from NASAs James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ivo Labbe (Swinburne), Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh), Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI).
Moon Mountain Named in Honor of NASA Mathematician
A mesa-like mountain near the Moons South Pole has been called “Mons Mouton” after NASA mathematician Melba Mouton. In the early days of NASA, she led a group of mathematicians whose computations assisted track spacecraft in orbit. “Mons Mouton” is nearby to the website at which NASAs VIPER objective will check out and land as part of NASAs Artemis program.
Maps originated from information collected by PALSAR-2 on the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 on February 8, 2023 shows damage brought on by the terrible earthquake in the Republic of Turkey in the cities of Nurdaği, Kahramanmaraş, and Türkoğlu.
NASA Data Help with Turkey, Syria Earthquake Response
Following the devastating earthquakes in southern Turkey and western Syria, NASAs Earth Observatory is working to share birds-eye views and data from space to help relief and healing efforts in that area. Find out more at earthobservatory.nasa.gov.
Perseverances Portrait of the Sample Depot: An annotated variation of the portrait caught by NASAs Perseverance reveals the area of the 10 sample tubes in the depot. The “Amalik” sample closest to the rover was about 10 feet (3 meters) away; the “Mageik” and “Malay” samples farthest away were roughly 197 feet (60 meters) from the rover. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/ MSSS.
Perseverance Shows Off Collection of Mars Samples.
NASAs Perseverance Mars rover provided a panorama of its recently finished sample depot. The panorama shows the placement on the Martian surface area of the 10 sample tubes that might be recovered in the future by the Mars Sample Return campaign.
Astronomers estimate 50,000 sources of near-infrared light are represented in this image from NASAs James Webb Space Telescope. Their light has actually taken a trip through differing ranges to reach the telescopes detectors, representing the vastness of space in a single image. A foreground star in our own galaxy, to the right of the image center, displays Webbs distinct diffraction spikes. Bright white sources surrounded by a hazy radiance are the galaxies of Pandoras Cluster, a collection of already-massive clusters of galaxies coming together to form a megacluster. The concentration of mass is so terrific that the material of spacetime is warped by gravity, creating a result that makes the region of special interest to astronomers: a natural, super-magnifying glass called a “gravitational lens” that they can use to see extremely remote sources of light beyond the cluster that would otherwise be undetected, even to Webb. Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ivo Labbe (Swinburne), Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh), Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI).
Webb Uncovers New Details in Pandoras Cluster.
The most recent deep field image from NASAs James Webb Space Telescope features a region of area called Pandoras Cluster. A megacluster of galaxies there acts like a natural magnifying glass that enables much more remote galaxies in the early universe to be observed.
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An illustration of Mons Mouton, a mesa-like lunar mountain that towers above the landscape sculpted by craters near the Moons South Pole. Credits: NASA/Science Visualization Studio
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