In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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The Hardware For NASA’s Artemis I Mission Comes Together
Along with the Gateway in lunar orbit and a new human landing system, the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft create the backbone for the agency’s Artemis missions to the Moon that will land astronauts on the lunar surface by 2024. From top to bottom, you can take a look at the completed flight hardware for SLS and Orion for the first flight, Artemis I, in this latest video. The SLS program is managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Scientists Discover Black Hole Has Three Hot Meals a Day
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, a team of astronomers has found X-ray bursts repeating about every nine hours originating from the center of a galaxy called GSN 069. These data indicate that the supermassive black hole located there is consuming large amounts of material on a regular schedule. Chandra is managed by Marshall.
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Decoding Human Biology at Top of Task List for Space Station Residents
Expedition 60 is in the midst of a busy week aboard the International Space Station, even with Tuesday’s launch scrub of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency HTV-8 “Kounotori” cargo vehicle. While JAXA teams are meeting to discuss a forward plan and assess launch opportunities, mission operations and scientific investigations are moving forward in orbit. Marshall manages science operations for the space station.
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NASA Creates CGI Moon Kit as a Form of Visual Storytelling
A new NASA animation allows humanity to experience their closest galactic neighbor as never before through an online “CGI Moon kit.” Using data and imagery from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Ernie Wright of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, brought the Moon to life in unprecedented detail. LRO is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by Marshall for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate.
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New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters
Using radar data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, recently published research presents a new scenario to explain why some methane-filled lakes on Saturn's moon Titan are surrounded by steep rims that reach hundreds of feet high. The models suggest that explosions of warming nitrogen created basins in the moon's crust.
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