NASA covered the “Ring of Fire” annular solar eclipse on October 14, with broadcasts from Kerrville, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. This event also permitted NASA to introduce sounding rockets to study the eclipses atmospheric effects. An overall solar eclipse is beginning April 8, 2024, moving from Texas to Maine.
Highlighting the “Ring of Fire” solar eclipse …
Learning how the body responds to long spaceflights …
And a brand-new engine test series for future Artemis objectives …
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NASA covered the “Ring of Fire” annular solar eclipse on October 14, with broadcasts from Kerrville, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. This occasion likewise allowed NASA to introduce sounding rockets to study the eclipses climatic impacts. An overall solar eclipse is coming on April 8, 2024, moving from Texas to Maine.
Observations of 5- to 12-micron infrared light from Webbs MIRI show that WASP-17 bs environment likewise consists of clouds made of nanocrystals of quartz (SiO2). Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI).
Highlighting the “Ring of Fire” Solar Eclipse
On October 14, NASA brought you coverage of the “Ring of Fire” annular solar eclipse with views from NASA transmitted areas along the course of annularity in Kerrville, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In addition to seeing opportunities, the eclipse offered unique opportunities for science– that included NASA sounding rockets introducing clinical instruments to study the results of the eclipse on the environment.
The next solar eclipse occurs on April 8, 2024, when a total solar eclipse will cross the U.S. from Texas to Maine.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral OHara sets up an exercise cycle for an exercise session inside the Destiny laboratory module aboard the International Space Station. Credit: NASA
Knowing How Human Bodies React to Long Spaceflights
Aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Loral OHara is taking part in the CIPHER study to assist us discover more about how the body reacts to long-duration objectives in area.
Astronauts headed to the station can offer for this broad suite of experiments, which monitors their health before, throughout, and after their objectives to assist us prepare to safely send humans to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Learn more at nasa.gov/ mission/cipher.
NASA finished a complete period, 550-second hot fire of the RS-25 certification engine on October 17, starting an important test series to support future SLS (Space Launch System) objectives to deep space as NASA explores the tricks of deep space for the advantage of all. Credit: NASA/ Danny Nowlin
New Engine Test Series for Future Artemis Missions
On October 17, engineers at NASAs Stennis Space Center started a new test series with an RS-25 engine. This planned 12-test series is the last round of accreditation testing ahead of production of an updated set of the engines.
Four RS-25s will help power NASAs Space Launch System rocket on future Artemis objectives to the Moon and beyond.
WASP-17 b is a hot gas giant that orbits its star at a range of just 0.051 AU (about 4.75 million miles, or one-eighth the distance in between Mercury and the Sun), completing one complete circuit in about 3.7 Earth-days. Observations of 5- to 12-micron infrared light from Webbs MIRI show that WASP-17 bs environment likewise consists of clouds made of nanocrystals of quartz (SiO2). Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI).
Webb Detects Tiny Quartz Crystals in the Clouds of Exoplanet.
Researchers using NASAs James Webb Space Telescope have actually detected evidence for quartz nanocrystals in the high-altitude clouds of WASP-17 b, a hot Jupiter exoplanet 1,300 light-years from Earth.
The detection, which was uniquely possible with Webbs Mid-Infrared Instrument, marks the very first time that silica particles have actually been identified in an exoplanet atmosphere.
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