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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

Sep 02, 2022
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Week of August 29 – September 2

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Artemis I mission is the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, and supporting ground systems. The mission is the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to the Moon. Launch of the uncrewed flight test is targeted for no earlier than Sept. 3 at 2:17 p.m. ET. With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. Credits: NASA/Eric Bordelon

NASA Targets Sept. 3 for Next Artemis I Moon Mission Launch Attempt

NASA is targeting Saturday, Sept. 3 at 1:17 p.m. CDT, the beginning of a two-hour window, for the launch of Artemis I, the first integrated test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and the ground systems at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Alyssa Lee, SLS social media specialist, and Sharon Cobb, SLS associate program manager, give details about the Moon rocket of Artemis that will launch this new era of space exploration.
Artemis I Q&A with NASA’s Space Launch System Moon Rocket Expert Credits: NASA

Artemis I Q&A with SLS Moon Rocket Expert

Sharon Cobb, Space Launch System (SLS) associate program manager, joined Alyssa Lee, SLS media specialist, to discuss the Moon rocket that will launch a new era of space exploration.

A transmission spectrum of the hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-39 b captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec).
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and L. Hustak (STScI); Science: The JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team

Webb Telescope Detects Carbon Dioxide in Exoplanet Atmosphere

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system. This observation of a gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star 700 light-years away provides important insights into the composition and formation of the planet.

The Lowell Discovery Telescope near Flagstaff, Arizona captured this sequence in which the asteroid Didymos, moves across the night sky.
On the night of July 7, 2022, the Lowell Discovery Telescope near Flagstaff, Arizona captured this sequence in which the asteroid Didymos, located near the center of the screen, moves across the night sky. The sequence is sped up by about 900 times. Scientists used this and other observations from the July campaign to confirm Dimorphos’ orbit and anticipated location at the time of DART’s impact. Credits: Lowell Observatory/N. Moskovitz

DART Team Confirms Orbit of Targeted Asteroid

Using some of the world’s most powerful telescopes, the DART investigation team last month completed a six-night observation campaign to confirm earlier calculations of the orbit of Dimorphos – DART’s asteroid target – around its larger parent asteroid, Didymos, confirming where the asteroid is expected to be located at the time of impact.

A near-infrared image of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula, captured by NASA’s Webb Telescope.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI; Accessibility Production: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and Kimberly Arcand (CXC/SAO), Matt Russo and Andrew Santaguida (SYSTEM Sounds), Quyen Hart (STScI), Claire Blome (STScI), and Christine Malec (consultant).

NASA Webb’s First Full-Color Images, Data Are Set to Sound

There’s a new, immersive way to explore some of the first full-color infrared images and data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – through sound. Listeners can enter the complex soundscape of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula, explore the contrasting tones of two images that depict the Southern Ring Nebula, and identify the individual data points in a transmission spectrum of hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-96 b.

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