This week, we check out Ingenuity’s remaining resting place, an affect crater in Chad, and Jupiter’s moon Io as seen by Galileo. Plus, a brand new JWST picture and a particular bonus piece of artwork for #starwarsday.
Monday, April 29, 2024
Farewell, Ingenuity
The ultimate resting place of the Mars Ingenuity helicopter, imaged on 25 February 2024 by NASA’s Perseverance rover’s SuperCam Distant Micro-Imager. The helicopter flew for its 72nd and remaining time on 18 January 2024.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Affect Crater from the ISS
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took this picture of a 13-kilometer (8-mile) extensive affect crater in Chad from the Worldwide House Station in 2020.
Wednesday, Could 01, 2024
Galilean Moon
View of the north polar area of Jupiter’s moon Io, in approximate pure shade, comprised of pictures captured with NASA’s Galileo spacecraft on March 28, 1998. The background is crammed with Jupiter’s clouds.
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Thursday, Could 02, 2024
The Horse’s Mane
Rising from turbulent waves of mud and fuel is the Horsehead Nebula, Barnard 33, which resides roughly 1,300 light-years away, and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb House Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared pictures to this point. Webb’s new view focuses on the illuminated fringe of the highest of the nebula’s distinctive mud and fuel construction.
Saturday, Could 04, 2024
Tatooine?
This artist’s idea illustrates Kepler-16b, the primary planet identified to definitively orbit two stars — what’s referred to as a circumbinary planet. The planet, which will be seen within the foreground, was found by NASA’s Kepler mission. The 2 orbiting stars commonly eclipse one another, as seen from our standpoint on Earth. The planet additionally eclipses, or transits, every star, and Kepler knowledge from these planetary transits allowed the scale, density and mass of the planet to be extraordinarily nicely decided. The truth that the orbits of the celebrities and the planet align inside a level of one another point out that the planet fashioned throughout the similar circumbinary disk that the celebrities fashioned inside, moderately than being captured later by the 2 stars. #starwarsday
