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When the Lucy spacecraft starts flying by Trojan asteroids next year, it’ll snap photos, detect chemical “fingerprints” of materials on the asteroids’ surfaces, and more. Scientists are already calibrating the camera settings with test images like these.
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Black, white, and pink all over! 🐧
These flightless birds are making their impact on Antarctica’s Danger Islands, seen from space. The pink-orange hue to the islands isn’t from the land’s minerals, but from penguin droppings, tinted by a diet of krill.
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The Case of the Missing Black Hole
Omega Centauri has long been a mystery for astronomers, with minimal evidence for black holes where they’re expected to be. @nasahubble and @nasawebb now have helped scientists locate the first stellar-mass black hole.
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Over one million names will be traveling a million miles away in space in less than a month!
Roman’s Send Your Name campaign wrapped up with over 1.3 million names submitted. Make sure to tune in Aug 30 at 7:26 am ET to watch the observatory launch from @NASAKennedy.
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NavCube3-mini is ready to go!
After testing, the payload was delivered to Intuitive Machines for the Altus-1 lunar relay. Built on Goddard-developed tech, NavCube3-mini will help demonstrate navigation ability at the Moon from Earth-based GPS signals.
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No shade, but are you ready for the total solar eclipse on August 12?
In this Goddard Glossary, dive into the difference between umbra and penumbra — two parts of the same shadow you may see as the Moon passes in front of the Sun.
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Extremely hot and dry conditions in June and July enabled large fires to break out in Europe.
Spain saw its largest fire on record in Ávila, as shown in this Landsat 9 false color image. Unburned vegetation is light green and burned areas appear brown.
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As we start our countdown to launch, we’re taking a trip back down memory lane, to building Roman at @NASAGoddard in our final hardware highlights video.
Roman is set to launch no earlier than 7:26 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 30.
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It's National Intern Day! 🎉
We're celebrating with a special message to interns (past, present & future) from @NASAArtemis II astronaut @Astro_Christina!
Learn more about internships & other ways to get involved in this week's NASA EXPRESS newsletter!
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There's a solar eclipse happening on Wednesday, Aug. 12 — and if you're not in the path of totality, you can watch along with us online! Get the details:
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LIVE: In one month, @NASARoman will lift off to help us study some of the greatest mysteries in the universe! Tune in as NASA experts give an overview of the mission and its status.
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From hurricanes to planets beyond our solar system, Goddard interns are taking exploration into their own hands! Now’s your chance to ask two summer interns your burning questions about the experience.
Drop them here ⬇️ for Aavik and Lilly to answer tomorrow!
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LINK, the robotic spacecraft from Katalyst Space designed to boost our Swift mission’s orbit, experienced issues with attitude control over the weekend, causing the spacecraft to spin and resulting in sporadic communications. The team is working to stop LINK’s spin over the next few days and then will update LINK’s guidance, navigation, and control to accommodate the spacecraft’s new configuration.
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Even from afar, wildfires are creating unhealthy air.
A NASA-supported study found wildfires have worsened ground-level ozone, or smog, across the U.S., with larger changes in the West and Midwest. Wildfires can increase surface ozone thousands of miles away from active fires.
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