Just as we were finishing another story about fires in Venezuela, a surprisingly large, dark smoke plume appeared in VIIRS and MODIS imagery.
Smoke Over Lake Maracaibo
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Just as we were finishing another story about fires in Venezuela, a surprisingly large, dark smoke plume appeared in VIIRS and MODIS imagery.
Testing on NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover at Kennedy Space Center closed out April on an extremely high note. The latest activities at the Florida spaceport included attaching the aeroshell backshell on April 29 and attaching the rover to its rocket-powered descent stage on April 23 inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The rover and descent …
Food Physiology: The crew participated in a briefing with the Food Physiology team. The Integrated Impact of Diet on Human Immune Response, the Gut Microbiota, and Nutritional Status During Adaptation to Spaceflight (Food Physiology) experiment is designed to characterize the key effects of an enhanced spaceflight diet on immune function, the gut microbiome, and nutritional …
The Expedition 63 crew will monitor the departure of an American resupply ship on Monday and welcome a Japanese cargo craft when it arrives two weeks later. Meanwhile, the three International Space Station residents are configuring the orbital lab for the spaceship activities and continuing microgravity science. Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter is nearing the …
NASA’s International Space Station commander configured robotic assistants today while continuing to get ready for next week’s U.S. cargo craft departure. The two Expedition 63 Flight Engineers from Roscosmos explored advanced space photography techniques and inventoried electronics gear. Three-time space visitor Chris Cassidy is readying a trio of cube-shaped, free-flying robotic assistants for upcoming operations. …
Astrobee battery charge: In preparation for the Kibo Robot Programming Challenge activities which start in the next few weeks, the crew charged several of the batteries used by the Astrobee robots. The Kibo Robot Programming Challenge (Robo-Pro Challenge), also known as Kibo-RPC, allows students to create programs to control Astrobee, a free-flying robot aboard the …
Sea ice geophysicist Melinda Webster was ready to fly to the RV Polarstern for the MOSAiC expedition. Then COVID-19 was declared a pandemic.
As several comprehensive NASA-funded research projects get started, here is a quick roundup of some of the more interesting satellite-related findings about the science of coronavirus and its effects on the environment.
Payloads Wireless (Local Area Network) LAN Setup: The crew made the appropriate Wireless Adapter connection changes to prepare for a wireless access point (WAP)/camera checkout currently planned for next week. The checkout will be between a Laptop in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) and an external WAP which is grappled by the Japanese Experiment Module …
Spacesuits, photo inspections and pilot studies kept the Expedition 63 crew busy aboard the International Space Station today. Meanwhile, the Commercial Crew Program is getting ready to launch its first crewed mission. Commander Chris Cassidy of NASA spent most of Tuesday inside the Quest airlock where spacewalks in U.S. spacesuits are staged. The veteran space …