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In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

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Beth Ridgeway

Aug 26, 2022
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Week of August 22-26

Using AROW, almost anyone with internet access can pinpoint where Orion is and track its distance from the Earth, distance from the Moon, mission duration, and more.
Using AROW, almost anyone with internet access can pinpoint where Orion is and track its distance from the Earth, distance from the Moon, mission duration, and more. Credits: NASA

Track NASA’s Artemis I Mission in Real Time

Join NASA’s Orion spacecraft on its first mission around the Moon using the Artemis Real-time Orbit website to track the spacecraft’s flight as it happens. During Artemis I, Orion will travel to 40,000 miles beyond the Moon in the first integrated flight test with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.

Webb NIRCam composite image of Jupiter from three filters – F360M (red), F212N (yellow-green), and F150W2 (cyan) – and alignment due to the planet’s rotation. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt.
Webb NIRCam composite image of Jupiter from three filters – F360M (red), F212N (yellow-green), and F150W2 (cyan) – and alignment due to the planet’s rotation. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt. Credits: NASA

Webb’s Jupiter Images Showcase Auroras, Hazes

With giant storms, powerful winds, auroras, and extreme temperature and pressure conditions, Jupiter has a lot going on. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of the planet. Webb’s Jupiter observations will give scientists even more clues to Jupiter’s inner life. 

The inset features a close-up view of NGC 4424 that shows Chandra X-ray data (blue) plus a version of the optical data (red) that has had light from a model of NGC 4424 subtracted from the image to show other faint features.
The inset features a close-up view of NGC 4424 that shows Chandra X-ray data (blue) plus a version of the optical data (red) that has had light from a model of NGC 4424 subtracted from the image to show other faint features. Credits: NASA/CXC/Swinburne Univ. of Technology/A. Graham et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI

NASA Telescopes Capture Stellar Delivery Service for Black Hole

Astronomers may have witnessed a galaxy’s black hole delivery system in action. A new study using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope outlines how a large black hole may have been delivered to the spiral galaxy NGC 4424 by another, smaller galaxy.

Senior officials from the Brazilian Space Agency, the Brazilian Ministry for Science, Technology, and Innovation, and a professor from Brazil’s Technological Institute of Aeronautics pose for a photograph with NASA team members
Senior officials from the Brazilian Space Agency, the Brazilian Ministry for Science, Technology, and Innovation, and a professor from Brazil’s Technological Institute of Aeronautics pose for a photograph with NASA team members at the Huntsville Operations Support Center during their visit to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, from Aug. 15-16. Credits: NASA

Brazilian Science, Space Leaders Visit Marshall

Senior officials from the Brazilian Space Agency, the Brazilian Ministry for Science, Technology, and Innovation, and a professor from Brazil’s Technological Institute of Aeronautics visited NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama, on Aug. 15-16. The Brazilian Space Agency is collaborating with Marshall on an upcoming CubeSat mission called the Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task, or SPORT, that will study effects of space weather on Earth’s upper atmosphere.

Participants of the virtual Mentor Protégé Agreement signing ceremony between CH2M Hill Inc. and KS Ware & Associates LLC on Aug. 9.
Participants of the virtual Mentor Protégé Agreement signing ceremony between CH2M Hill Inc. and KS Ware & Associates LLC on Aug. 9 included, clockwise from top left, Max Ledesma, contracting officer at Marshall; Julie Oliphant, president of KS Ware & Associates; Robert Champion, director of the Office of Center Operations at Marshall; Lauren Terry, small business liaison officer and program manager at CH2M Hill Inc.; J.P. Martin, vice president and NASA account manager of CH2M; and Farley Davis, manager of Environmental Engineering and Occupational Health at Marshall. Credits: NASA

Marshall leads Mentor-Protégé Agreement

Leaders from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center prime contractor CH2M Hill Inc. and KS Ware & Associates LLC, a small, woman-owned business based in Nashville, Tennessee, signed a NASA Mentor-Protégé Agreement on Aug. 9. This partnership will foster invaluable connections between the two companies and will further the capabilities of KS Ware & Associates and NASA.

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