MAST: Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes
Map of the Universe from Johns Hopkins University and others.....
Johns Hopkins University (JHU) continues to pad its space community résumé with their interactive map, “The map of the observable Universe”,
that takes viewers on a 13.7-billion-year-old tour of the cosmos from the present to the moments after the Big Bang.
While JHU is responsible for creating the site, additional contributions were made by NASA, the European Space Agency,
the National Science Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation.
JWST's weekly observing schedule:
NASA's Unverse of Learning
An Integrated AstroPhisics STEM Learning and Literacy program
NASA Science Live: Could Jupiter's Moon Europa Support Life?
#AskNASA #EuropaClipper #NASA
Join mission experts as they discuss NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to an ocean moon of Jupiter and answer your questions live.
Submit questions in the chat using #AskNASA.
Clipper is set to launch on a journey to discover the secrets hidden under this moon's icy crust. Does Europa have conditions to support life?
Europa Clipper is set to launch in October 2024 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will arrive at Jupiter in 2030.
Learn more about the mission:
Credit: NASA
#EuropaClipper #AskNASA #NASA
Transcript
The Europa Clipper: A Voyage to the Waters Above
The Europa Clipper is soon to launch, and will soon be in place to find another abode of life in the Solar System
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Note: Because the history of this journey hasn't been written, this episode relied excessively on one source:
"The Mission: A True Story" by David W. Brown. Because it was published in 2021,
I'm still a bit sketchy on the years between then and now.
0:00 Intro
5:28 Europa Orbiter
7:41 JIMO
9:03 Mars Ho!
10:36 Jupiter Europa Explorer
16:30 Stern Retern
19:08 Laying foundations
21:44 Rock bottom
25:00 The Clipper
27:32 Keeping the spark alight
29:06 The plumes
31:00 The meeting
33:07 The presentation
34:00 An obligatory crisis
35:35 The mission
36:25 Future dreams
36:16 Credits
NASA's Europa Page
Europa Clipper: Exploring Jupiter’s Ocean Moon (Mission Overview)
NASA’s Europa Clipper is the first mission dedicated to studying Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, one of the most promising places
in our solar system to find an environment suitable for life outside of Earth. Evidence suggests that beneath Europa’s
frozen surface is a global ocean of water, and scientists want to find out if there’s also the right chemistry and energy to sustain life.
Europa Clipper is equipped with nine instruments and a gravity experiment. It will orbit Jupiter and make 49 flybys of Europa,
gathering data to help scientists understand the moon’s geology, composition, and interior. While not a life-detection mission,
Europa Clipper will answer key questions about the moon’s potential habitability.
Europa Clipper is expected to launch in October 2024 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and arrive at Jupiter in 2030.
For more information on the mission go to:
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/KSC/APL
Spacecraft Makers: Simulating Space to Test Europa Clipper
How did the team working on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft test whether the spacecraft will work properly in outer space?
They put the spacecraft in a special chamber that mimics the kind of sunlight and airless environment
the spacecraft will experience when it’s in outer space.
In this video, Tony Licari - a mechanical systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
- shows how the team moved the main body of the largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for a planetary mission
into JPL's historic 85-foot-tall, 25-foot-wide (26-meter-by-8-meter) thermal vacuum chamber.Inside the chamber,
the team simulated the kinds of conditions the spacecraft will experience while flying through space,
and practiced deploying instruments. Europa Clipper successfully completed those tests in March 2024.
Spacecraft Makers is a video series that takes audiences behind the scenes to learn more about how space missions,
like Europa Clipper, come together. Europa Clipper will explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to see
if there are conditions suitable for life. The spacecraft needs to be hardy enough to survive a 1.6 billion-mile,
six-year journey to Jupiter, and sophisticated enough to perform a detailed science investigation of Europa once
it arrives at the Jupiter system in 2030.
Europa Clipper is expected to launch in October 2024 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
For more information on the mission go to:
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
#Europa #EuropaClipper #NASA
Europa Clipper Astrobiology Probe Arrives At Kennedy Space Center
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Is About To Launch A $5 Billion Spacecraft!
Over the past few years, SpaceX has been launching both the Falcon 9 and Heavy nearly constantly and is responsible for a majority
of the payload mass sent into space. While the Falcon 9’s payloads usually consist of Starlink satellites or rideshare missions,
Falcon Heavy is often reserved for large single spacecraft.
These are usually either from contracts with the military or NASA experiments that have been decades in the making.
Just yesterday we got the first good look at one of the heavy lift launch vehicle’s upcoming payloads,
and it costs around $5 billion. Here I will go more in-depth into this mission, spacecraft progress,
work toward vehicle integration, and more.
Full article hereFor more space-related content check out
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Credit: SpaceXNASA - / @nasa
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:34 - From SLS to Falcon Heavy
3:52 - More Falcon Heavy Missions
A Closer Look At Falcon Heavy’s Most Expensive Payload Yet
We now are just over a month away from the launch of a single spacecraft worth around $5 billion.
Over the last decade, this spacecraft, named Europa Clipper, has been undergoing development,
testing, and now final preparations. The vehicle tasked with integrating and launching this
payload is SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket.
Considering both its size and the distant destination of Jupiter, they needed a vehicle with
immense power along with some unique characteristics. Here I will go more in-depth into the
spacecraft itself, general mission progress, what to expect in the coming weeks, and more.
Full article here - A Closer Look At Falcon Heavy’s Most Expensive Payload YetFor more space-related content check out
Credit:
Credit: SpaceXNASA - / @nasa
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - An Important Payload
3:38 - Radiation Concerns
A Closer Look At Falcon Heavy’s Most Expensive Payload Yet
Science Overview of the Europa Clipper Astrobiology Mission
Europa up Close An In depth at Jupiter's Icy Moon and Europa Clipper plans for investigation
You can see what the completed spacecraft will look like using this 3D model
For more about the mission, visit
To learn more about the spacecraft’s assembly, visit
NASA's Euopa Clipper mission
Europa Clipper: NASA’s Incredible Hunt for Alien Life
Something many people don't know is that most of the water outside of Earth is found on moons beyond Jupiter.
NASA reveals first real images of Europa and they prove that Jupiter's moon Europa is home to a massive ocean of salt water
and possibly life. You may already know the moon Europa from a popular computer game, and now we'll show you why that computer game might be right!
Micro-Swimmers: Hunting Alien Life with Robot Submarines
SpaceX Ditched an Entire Falcon Heavy To Launch NASA's Massive Probe To Europa!
NASA's Europa Clipper mission will be the largest spacecraft ever to go into deep space. The 6 ton spacecraft will eventually arrive
at Jupiter in 2030 and will make multiple flypasts of Europa, Jupiter's second moon, which is believed to have a substantial
sub-surface ocean, warmed by tidal heating from the giant planet.
This mission will spend years using its instruments to give us a better understanding of Jupiter's icy moons, which may sustain
a complex chemical system in their oceans, and perhaps complex enough to support abiogenesis - that is, the formation of life.
While the probe is unlikely to be able to provide definitive proof of this, it will absolutely give the world the best look
yet at a world which may have all the right ingredients for this.
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This animation shows how the boom of Europa Clipper’s magnetometer deployed — while the spacecraft was in flight — to its full length of 28 feet (8.5 meters).
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Misc Pages from AStrobiology
Mars Perseverance Rover Has Some Astrobiology Ink: A DNA Tattoo
Atmospheres & Climate
A Measurement of the Water Abundance in the Atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b with High-resolution Cross-correlation Spectroscopy
Atmospheres & Climate
A Measurement of the Water Abundance in the Atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b with High-resolution Cross-correlation Spectroscopy
NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,125 22 November 2024 (Space Life Science Research Results)
Potential Technosignature From Anomalously Low Deuterium/Hydrogen (D/H) In Planetary Water Depleted by Nuclear Fusion Technology
Tricorder Tech: Multi-pass, Single-molecule Nanopore Reading of Long Protein Strands
