In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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NASA’s DART Prepares for Launch in First Planetary Defense Test Mission
Team members of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) have filled the spacecraft with fuel, performed many of the final tests, and are running rehearsals as they approach DART’s scheduled launch for Nov. 23. DART will be the world’s first planetary defense test mission, heading for the small asteroid Dimorphos and intentionally crashing into it to slightly change its orbit.
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Marshall Celebrates Artemis on the Square
Team members from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center joined with Downtown Huntsville Inc. to showcase NASA technologies that will take the agency to the Moon and on to Mars, as part of Artemis on the Square. See photos from the event.
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NASA’s IXPE Spacecraft Arrives in Florida Ahead of Kennedy Launch
The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft, which will study the polarization of X-rays coming to Earth from some of the universe’s most extreme sources – including black holes and dead stars known as pulsars – arrived at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Nov. 5. IXPE is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle from Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 9.
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Meet VMS – the briefcase-sized chemistry lab headed to Venus
Short for Venus Mass Spectrometer, VMS is one of five instruments aboard the DAVINCI descent probe. Launching in 2029, DAVINCI will be the first U.S. probe mission to enter Venus’ atmosphere in over 40 years. The goal of the mission is to explore Venus to determine if it was habitable, and to understand how it ended up as inhospitable as it did.
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Mocha Swirls in Jupiter’s Turbulent Atmosphere
During its 36th low pass over Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a view of striking cloud bands and swirls in the giant planet’s mid-southern latitudes. The dark, circular vortex near the center of the image is a cyclone that spans roughly 250 miles.
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