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Robby

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• Sep 1, 2016

• #681

Ceres' Mountain Ahuna Mons: Side View

Ceres' lonely mountain, Ahuna Mons, is seen in this simulated perspective view. The elevation has been exaggerated by a factor of two. The view was made using enhanced-color images from NASA's Dawn mission. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 2, 2016

• #682

Jupiter Down Under

This image from NASA's Juno spacecraft provides a never-before-seen perspective on Jupiter's south pole. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 6, 2016

• #683

Expedition 48 Crew Preparing to Return Home

Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams of NASA returns to Earth Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016, after a five-and-a-half-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Williams captured this photograph and wrote, "I will certainly miss this view! Vast gratitude toward my crewmates, ground teams, supporting friends, and family." (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 7, 2016

• #684

Expedition 48 Crew Lands Safely on Earth

The Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 48 crew members NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016 (Kazakh time). (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Kevin

Code Monkey

Staff member

• Sep 7, 2016

• #685

Robby said:

Expedition 48 Crew Lands Safely on Earth


The Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 48 crew members NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016 (Kazakh time). (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

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The Russian methods of space missions still fascinates me. Compared to US methods the Russian ways may seem crude but they are effective.

 

Robby

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• Sep 7, 2016

• #686

Expedition 48 Crew Returns Home

The Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 48 crew members NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016(Kazakh time). Williams, Ovchinin, and Skripochka are returning after 172 days in space. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 8, 2016

• #687

OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission at the Launch Pad

The ULA Atlas V rocket with NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft on board is seen illuminated in the distance in this thirty second exposure on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to launch Sept. 8. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 9, 2016

• #688

OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission Launch

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 9, 2016

• #689

Hubble Peers into the Storm

Hubble sees a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 12, 2016

• #690

At Hangar, Raptors Find Shelter from the Storm

As Tropical Storm Hermine charged up the East Coast Sept. 2, the hangar at NASA Langley was able to carefully sandwich in more than a dozen Air Force fighters and offer them protection from the wind. The hangar provides 85,200 square feet (7,915 square meters) of open space and large door dimensions that allow for entry of big aircraft. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 13, 2016

• #691

A Streamlined Form in Lethe Vallis, Mars

This image shows a portion of Lethe Vallis, an outflow channel that also transported lava. This is one of only a few places on Mars where these pristine-appearing landforms have been identified. The channel formed by catastrophic floods, during which it produced the prominent crater-cored, teardrop-shaped island in the middle. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 14, 2016

• #692

Sept. 14, 1966 - View From Gemini XI, 850 Miles Above the Earth

The western half of Australia, looking west, as seen from the Gemini XI spacecraft, 850 miles above the Earth on Sept. 14, 1966. Reaching this record-shattering altitude was a highlight of a demanding, three-day mission for Gemini XI command pilot Charles "Pete" Conrad and pilot Dick Gordon. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 15, 2016

• #693

Infrared Echoes of a Black Hole Eating a Star

This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star, disrupted as it was being devoured by a supermassive black hole. The feeding black hole is surrounded by a ring of dust. This dust was previously illuminated by flares of high-energy radiation from the feeding black hole, and is now shown re-radiating some of that energy. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 16, 2016

• #694

NASA's IceBridge Observes Effects of Summer Melt on Greenland Ice Sheet

NASA's IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, flew over the Helheim/Kangerdlugssuaq region of Greenland on Sept. 11, 2016. This photograph from the flight captures Greenland's Steenstrup Glacier, with the midmorning sun glinting off of the Denmark Strait in the background. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 19, 2016

• #695

Where the Small Moon Rules

Pan may be small as satellites go, but like many of Saturn's ring moons, it has a has a very visible effect on the rings. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 20, 2016

• #696

Space Station Flight Over the Southern Tip of Italy

The southern tip of Italy is visible in this image taken by the Expedition 49 crew aboard the International Space Station on Sept. 17, 2016. The brightly lit city of Naples can be seen in the bottom section of the image. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft can be seen in the foreground. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 21, 2016

• #697

One Billion Base Pairs Sequenced on the Space Station

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins checks a sample for air bubbles prior to loading it in the biomolecule sequencer. When Rubins’ expedition began, zero base pairs of DNA had been sequenced in space. Within just a few weeks, she and the Biomolecule Sequencer team had sequenced their one billionth base of DNA aboard the orbiting laboratory. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 22, 2016

• #698

Practicing Orion Spacecraft Recovery After Splashdown

A group of U.S. Navy divers, Air Force pararescuemen and Coast Guard rescue swimmers practice Orion underway recovery techniques in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to prepare for the first test flight of an uncrewed Orion spacecraft with the agency’s Space Launch System rocket during Exploration Mission (EM-1). (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 23, 2016

• #699

Hubble Views a Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star

This star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star's remaining core. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

Robby

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• Sep 26, 2016

• #700

Tectonically Active Planet Mercury

New NASA-funded research suggests that Mercury is contracting even today, joining Earth as a tectonically active planet. Images obtained by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft reveal previously undetected small fault scarps— cliff-like landforms that resemble stair steps. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)