It's a bird, it's a plane, it's.... Integrity! 🌌
Our Meteoroid Environments Office captured this view of the @NASAArtemis II Orion spacecraft this morning through a telescope in Siding Spring, Australia. These frames were taken when Integrity was 202,500 miles away from Earth.
Dr. Matthew A. Mickens is a plant scientist proving that even in zero gravity, green thumbs can thrive.
Find out more about Matt and plant growth in space in @NASASTEM's new "Surprisingly STEM" episode: https://t.co/L5jpYG6Nom
.@NASA and @SpaceX now target Dragon's undocking for 9:05pm ET on Wednesday and @NorthropGrumman's Cygnus targets its departure for 8:05am on Friday. https://t.co/tzWrSqzw3V
Would you spend a year on Mars?
This week on our Curious Universe podcast, we hear from the crew of CHAPEA, one-year analog mission living in a 3-D printed habitat to simulate life on the Red Planet.
Tune in: https://t.co/KgSQExqgut
A distant diamond sky...
Here is Webb’s view of a galaxy cluster whose immense mass distorts and magnifies the light from more distant galaxies behind it. Gravitational lensing lets astronomers study some of the most distant galaxies in the universe: https://t.co/XbrkWYbJ7w