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• Meteorite science meets an artist’s dream of spaceflight
• Live from Athens
• Week In Images
• Image of the week
• Identifying Alzheimer’s using space software
• NASA Ames Research Center News and Features Update
• NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun's Atmosphere is Energized
• Stargazer Aircraft Carrying IRIS Takes Off
• NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble'
• European Space Agency Flickr Update
• Nighttime Image of Texas Cities

Meteorite science meets an artist’s dream of spaceflight Posted: 28 Jun 2013 08:26 AM PDT Inspired by the dream of space exploration, artist Katie Paterson imagined sending a piece of her meteorite artwork back to space in a celebration of science, art and human technology.  Her vision may just become reality, with a little help from ESA's can-do cargo vessel. Original Source

Live from Athens Posted: 28 Jun 2013 08:24 AM PDT Future Earth observation scientists: follow the Advanced Training Course in Land Remote Sensing 1–5 July via live webstream Original Source

Week In Images Posted: 28 Jun 2013 08:23 AM PDT Our week through the lens: 24-28 June 2013 Original Source

Image of the week Posted: 28 Jun 2013 08:21 AM PDT Proba-V captured this image over the border region of Syria, Turkey and Iraq Original Source

Identifying Alzheimer’s using space software Posted: 28 Jun 2013 08:20 AM PDT Software for processing satellite pictures taken from space is now helping medical researchers to establish a simple method for wide-scale screening for Alzheimer's disease. Original Source

NASA Ames Research Center News and Features Update Posted: 28 Jun 2013 08:18 AM PDT NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph spacecraft launched Wednesday at 7:27 p.m. PDT from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. IRIS will study the solar atmosphere. Original Source

NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun's Atmosphere is Energized Posted: 28 Jun 2013 08:16 AM PDT NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Wednesday at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission to study the solar atmosphere was placed in orbit by an Orbital Sciences Corporation Pegasus XL rocket. Original Source

Stargazer Aircraft Carrying IRIS Takes Off Posted: 28 Jun 2013 08:14 AM PDT The Orbital Sciences L-1011 aircraft takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:30 p.m. EDT on June 27, 2013, headed over the Pacific Ocean to release the Pegasus XL rocket carrying NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, solar observatory. IRIS will open a new window of discovery using spectrometry and imaging to trace the flow of energy and plasma through the chromospheres and transition region into the sun's corona. The spacecraft will observe how solar material moves, gathers energy and heats up as it travels through a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere. This interface region, located between the sun's visible surface and its upper atmosphere, is where most of its ultraviolet emission is generated. These emissions impact the near-Earth space environment and Earth's climate.  Photo Credit: NASA/Daniel Casper Original Source

NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble' Posted: 27 Jun 2013 04:07 PM PDT Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar space. Original Source

European Space Agency Flickr Update Posted: 27 Jun 2013 04:03 PM PDT Gaia scanning the sky 27-06-2013 02:34 PM CEST This animation shows the Gaia spacecraft spinning in space scanning the sky. Gaia's mission relies on the systematic and repeating observation of star positions in two fields of view. As the detectors repeatedly measure the position of each celestial object, they will detect any changes in the object's motion through space.  To achieve its mission the spacecraft is spinning slowly, sweeping its two telescopes across the entire celestial sphere to make four complete rotations per day. Gaia's telescopes point at two different portions of the sky, separated by a constant 106.5°. Therefore, objects arrive in the second field of view 106.5 minutes after they are observed in the first. Meanwhile its spin axis precesses around the Sun with a period of about 63 days, allowing different parts of the sky to be scanned. This scanning strategy builds up an interlocking grid of positions, providing absolute – rather than relative – values of the stellar positions and motions. The spacecraft spin axis makes an angle of 45° with the Sun direction, ensuring that the payload is shaded from the Sun, but that the solar arrays can still produce electricity efficiently. Credits: ESA-C.Carreau Moon-set seen from the ISS 27-06-2013 10:36 AM CEST ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano snapped this view of moon-set from his privileged position on the International Space Station. Luca is onboard the orbital outpost as part of ESA's long duration mission, Volare. If you would like to see more of his images, please visit his dedicated Flickr photostream: Volare Mission. Credits: ESA/NASA

Nighttime Image of Texas Cities Posted: 27 Jun 2013 04:00 PM PDT One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station, some 240 miles above Earth, used a 50mm lens to record this oblique nighttime image of a large part of the nation's second largest state in area, including the four largest metropolitan areas in population.  The extent of the metropolitan areas is easily visible at night due to city and highway lights.The largest metro area, Dallas-Fort Worth, often referred to informally as the Metroplex, is the heavily cloud-covered area at the top center of the photo. Neighboring Oklahoma, on the north side of the Red River, less than 100 miles to the north of the Metroplex, appears to be experiencing thunderstorms.  The Houston metropolitan area, including the coastal city of Galveston, is at lower right. To the east near the Texas border with Louisiana, the metropolitan area of Beaumont-Port Arthur appears as a smaller blotch of light, also hugging the coast of the Texas Gulf. Moving inland to the left side of the picture one can delineate the San Antonio metro area. The capital city of Austin can be seen to the northeast of San Antonio.  Image Credit: NASA Original Source

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