NASAs Parker Solar Probe finished its 16th Sun orbit on June 27, 2023, coming within 5.3 million miles throughout its perihelion. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Brian Monroe
What the Webb telescope found way back in the early Universe …
Another hot trip around the Sun for NASAs Parker Solar Probe …
And were back in touch with NASAs helicopter on Mars …
A few of the stories to tell you about– This Week at NASA!
Scientists have used NASAs James Webb Space Telescope to find the most far-off active supermassive black hole to date. NASAs Parker Solar Probe recently completed its 16th orbit of the Sun. NASAs Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was caught by the Perseverance rovers Mastcam-Z on April 16, not long after the rotorcrafts 50th flight. NASAs X-59 aircraft is parked near the runway at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, on June 19, 2023. NASAs X-59 aircraft was just recently moved from its construction site to the flight line at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Southern California.
Webb Detects Most Distant Active Supermassive Black Hole to Date
Scientists have actually utilized NASAs James Webb Space Telescope to find the most far-off active supermassive great void to date. The great void, which is less huge than any other great void yet determined in the early universe, was discovered in a galaxy that existed just over 570 million years after the big bang. Learn more at nasa.gov/ webb.
Illustration of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Parker Solar Probe Completes 16th Orbit of the Sun
NASAs Parker Solar Probe just recently finished its 16th orbit of the Sun. This included a close technique, understood as perihelion, throughout which the spacecraft came within 5.3 million miles of the solar surface area. In August, Parker Solar Probe will fly by Venus– using the worlds gravity to help establish an even closer perihelion in the future. These close methods will assist us discover more about heliophysics.
NASAs Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was caught by the Perseverance rovers Mastcam-Z on April 16, not long after the rotorcrafts 50th flight. The helicopter would quickly fall silent for 63 days due uneven terrain that disrupted communications in between the rover and airplane. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/ MSSS.
Resourcefulness Mars Helicopter Phones Home.
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team recently re-established contact with the helicopter after about 63 days of being incommunicado. Resourcefulnesss most recent flight took it behind a hill, which obstructed interactions in between Ingenuity and the Perseverance rover– which serves as a radio relay between the helicopter and Earth. When Perseverance drove up the hill and back into Ingenuitys line of sight, contact was re-established.
NASAs X-59 airplane is parked near the runway at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, on June 19, 2023. This is where the X-59 will be housed during ground and initial flight tests. Credit: Lockheed Martin.
NASAs X-59 Moves Closer to Runway.
NASAs X-59 aircraft was recently moved from its building and construction website to the flight line at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Southern California. The relocation is among numerous milestones in preparing the plane for its very first flight. The X-59 is created to demonstrate the ability to fly supersonic while producing simply a quiet sonic thump rather of the loud sonic boom generally connected with supersonic flight.
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