Here is a video tour of important sites on the Moon as seen in the imagery and sensor data collected by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) since it reached the Moon in September of 2009: NASA — A Tour of our Moon
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Take a virtual tour of the Moon in all-new 4K resolution, thanks to data provided by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. As the visualization moves around the near side, far side, north and south poles, we highlight interesting features, sites, and information gathered on the lunar terrain.
1. Monday, April 9, 2018; 2-3:30 pm PDT (4-5:30 pm CDT, 5-6:30 pm EDT): We welcome back Dr. Geoffrey Landis of NASA for a variety of discussion topics.
3. Wednesday, April 11, 2018: Hotel Mars. See Upcoming Show Menu and the website newsletter for details. Hotel Mars is pre-recorded by John Batchelor. It is archived on The Space Show site after John posts it on his website.
4. Friday, April 13, 2018; 9:30 AM-11 am PDT, (12:30 -2 pm EDT; 11:30 am -1 pm CDT): We welcome Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch from Germany. Our guest is the author ofThe Cosmic Zoo, which we will be discussing.
5. Sunday, April 15, 2018: 12-1:30 pm PDT; 2-3:30 pm CDT; 3-4:30 pm EDT. We welcome back Dr. Alan Stern to update us on New Horizons and talk about his new book with Dr. David Grinspoon, Chasing New Horizons.
Jupiter image processed by citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill.
See intricate cloud patterns in the northern hemisphere of Jupiter in this new view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
The color-enhanced image was taken on April 1 at 2:32 a.m. PST (5:32 a.m. EST), as Juno performed its twelfth close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 7,659 miles (12,326 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a northern latitude of 50.2 degrees.
Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager.
JunoCam’s raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at: www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam
Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Last Updated: April 6, 2018
Editor: Tony Greicius
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Two other Juno images recently posted by citizen scientists:
A detailed look at the southern hemisphere, showing the swirling colors of the Jovian storms. Processed by K_L_Kohn“Orbiting Jupiter In The Way To The Red One”. Processed by Rafael_Ruiz.
Here is the latest Space to Ground report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station:
This cool video shows a time lapse (90 minutes into 2 minutes) of the SpaceX Dragon approaching the ISS for capture by the robotic arm this past Wednesday:
This video is about the entrepreneurial company Alpha Space, which
owns and operates the MISSE, an orbiting commercial science facility permanently installed on the exterior of the International Space Station. Alpha Space, a woman- and minority-owned company, serves the Space Research, Testing, and Materials Science communities with turn-key, fixed price services that make getting science and test elements safely into space, and data and materials back to earth, as simple and inexpensive as possible. If it fits, it flies.
Note that both the Falcon 9 first stage booster and the Dragon spacecraft had flown before, illustrating the progress SpaceX is making towards routine reuse of space transport systems.
On Wednesday the Dragon caught up with the ISS and was captured by the station’s robotic arm of the station under the control of Japanese astronaut NorishigeKanai, who .brought it in for berthing to the Harmony module:
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