Ocular Health Ocular and Cardiac Ultrasounds: Yui and Lindgren performed ocular and cardiac ultrasounds today as part of their Flight Day 60 Ocular Health testing. The ultrasound images will be used to identify changes in globe morphology and document optic nerve sheath diameter, optic nerve sheath tortuosity, globe axial measurements, and choroidal engorgement. The Ocular …
TVAC Successfully Completed!
Congratulations to the team on completing thermal vacuum testing after more than 30 days of 24-hour testing! The Project successfully completed a 37-day Instrument Payload Thermal Vacuum Test – the final major environmental test before flight. After a comprehensive test data review, the team removed the payload from the thermal vacuum facility and is currently […]
Eye Checks, Fitness Research and Spacewalk Preps for Space Station Crew
The six-member space station crew is conducting human research to prepare future astronauts for long-term missions beyond low-Earth orbit including NASA’s Journey to Mars. The orbital residents are also getting ready to release a cargo craft Monday while getting ready for a late October spacewalk. Space station Commander Scott Kelly, who is comparing his body …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 09/22/15
Ocular Health: Lindgren and Yui continued with their Flight Day 60 Ocular Health activities this morning by performing their Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), each acting as the Crew Medical Officer (CMO) for the other. Later in the day, the crew performed fundoscopy, again taking turns as the CMO. OCT is used to measure retinal thickness, …
Space Cargo Deliveries Coming and Going on Station Next Week
Crew members practiced an emergency evacuation drill and conducted long-term biomedical research today onboard the International Space Station. Japan’s fifth resupply ship is also being loaded with trash before its mission ends early next week. Station Commander Scott Kelly teamed up with his fellow One-Year Crew member Mikhail Kornienko and cosmonaut Sergey Volkov to review …
September Puzzler
Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The September 2015 puzzler is above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us what part of the world we are looking at, when the image was acquired, what the image shows, and why the scene is interesting. How to answer. Your answer can be a few […]
18 Days on the Ice
Hi there, For this last blog post of the season, we summarize our work with numbers and photos to give you an idea of our field camp and the life/work on the ice sheet. This summer fieldwork can be summarized as: Weather and camping: 18 days spent on the ice including 16 sunny days and […]
ISS Daily Summary Report – 09/21/15
Ocular Health Testing: Lindgren and Yui have initiated their Flight Day 60 Ocular Health testing by performing vision and tonometry tests, taking blood pressure measurements, and completing a vision questionnaire. Microbiome Investigation: Kelly completed survey questions and performed body sample collections for his Flight Day 180 session of the Microbiome investigation. Microbiome investigates the …
NASA Marshall Team Observing and Taking Questions about Upcoming Lunar Eclipse
In the Americas on Sunday night, Sept. 27, we will be treated to a lunar eclipse with its beautiful orange and red colors, a prelude to the fall color of leaves in Earth’s Northern Hemisphere. This eclipse will straddle midnight on Sept. 27, depending on where you live. If observing close to the Greenwich Meridian …
Long-Term Human Research for Crew before Japanese Mission Ends
Japan’s resupply ship, the “Kounotori” HII Transfer Vehicle-5 (HTV-5), will end its stay at the International Space Station next Monday. A new Russian Progress cargo mission will launch to replenish the crew Oct. 1. While the HTV-5 is winding down its mission, the six-member Expedition 45 is conducting human research and lab maintenance. First time …