The Moon observed on March 1 2017. Lunar mosaic made from Rome using a Mak-Cassegrain 18 cm telescope.
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Thursday, March 2, 2017
MOON Taken by Raffaello Lena on March 1, 2017 @ Rome Italy
The Moon observed on March 1 2017. Lunar mosaic made from Rome using a Mak-Cassegrain 18 cm telescope.
URANUS AND MARS CONJUNCTION Taken by Marion Haligowski on February 26, 2017 @ Lancaster, PA USA
I have created a GIF showing the movement of Uranus and Mars between November 27, 2016 and February 26, 2017. The movement of Uranus is seen to the left of the image. The planet was in retrograde movement in late 2016, eventually becoming stationary on January 5th, 2017. Uranus began to move eastward eventually meeting up with Mars on February 26, 2017. Thirty-five individual photographs made up the image.
ANNULAR ECLIPSE AFTER SUNRISE Image Credit & Copyright: Vincent Bouchama
NASA RELEASES SOFTWARE CATALOG, GRANTING THE PUBLIC FREE ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGIES FOR EARTHLY APPLICATIONS
The NASA Software Catalog offers an extensive portfolio of software products for a wide variety of technical applications!
Credits: NASA
NASA has released its 2017-2018 software catalog, which offers an extensive portfolio of software products for a wide variety of technical applications, all free of charge to the public, without any royalty or copyright fees.
Available in both hard copy and online, this third edition of the publication has contributions from all the agency’s centers on data processing/storage, business systems, operations, propulsion and aeronautics. It includes many of the tools NASA uses to explore space and broaden our understanding of the universe. A number of software packages are being presented for release for the first time. Each catalog entry is accompanied with a plain language description of what it does.
The new NASA Software Catalog includes the code LEWICE, developed to help study the effects of ice on an aircraft in flight and to help create ice detection systems.
Credits: NASA
NASA published the first edition of its software catalog in April 2014, becoming the first comprehensive listing of publicly available software to be compiled by a federal government agency -- the largest creator of custom code. Since then, NASA has shared thousands of its software programs with students, industry, individuals and other government agencies.
“Software has been a critical component of each of NASA’s mission successes and scientific discoveries. In fact, more than 30 percent of all reported NASA innovations are software,” said Dan Lockney, NASA’s Technology Transfer program executive. “We’re pleased to transfer these tools to other sectors and excited at the prospect of seeing them implemented in new and creative ways.”
Some of the software available include codes for more advanced drones, and quieter aircraft. While access restrictions apply to some codes, NASA has automated and updated its software release process over the last two years to ensure that it is as quick, easy and straightforward as possible.
The software catalog is a product of NASA’s Technology Transfer program, managed for the agency by STMD. The program ensures technologies developed for missions in exploration and discovery are broadly available to the public, maximizing the benefit to the nation.
For a searchable PDF of the software catalog, please visit:
http://software.nasa.gov
To learn more about NASA’s Technology Transfer program, visit;
http://technology.nasa.gov
Gina Anderson
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1160
gina.n.anderson@nasa.gov
JUNO CAPTURES JUPITER CLOUDSCAPE IN HIGH RESOLUTION
This close-up view of Jupiter captures the turbulent region just west of the Great Red Spot in the South Equatorial Belt, with resolution better than any previous pictures from Earth or other spacecraft.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this image with its JunoCam citizen science instrument when the spacecraft was a mere 5,400 miles (8,700 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloudtops on Dec. 11, 2016 at 9:14 a.m. PT (12:14 p.m. ET). Citizen scientist Sergey Dushkin produced the sublime color processing and cropped the image to draw viewers’ eyes to the dynamic clouds.
JunoCam's raw images are available at www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam for the public to peruse and process into image products.
More information about Juno is at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Sergey Dushkin
AT THE CENTER, SATURN
The north pole of Saturn sits at the center of its own domain. Around it swirl the clouds, driven by the fast winds of Saturn. Beyond that orbits Saturn's retinue of moons and the countless small particles that form the ring.
Although the poles of Saturn are at the center of all of this motion, not everything travels around them in circles. Some of the jet-stream patterns, such as the hexagon-shaped pattern seen here, have wavy, uneven shapes. The moons as well have orbits that are elliptical, some quite far from circular.
This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 26 degrees above the ring plane. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Dec. 2, 2016 using a spectral filter which preferentially admits wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 890 nanometers.
The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 619,000 miles (996,000 kilometers) from Saturn. Image scale is 37 miles (60 kilometers) per pixel.
The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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