Image of Pluto, credit to NASA & respective photographer.
From 10 year old Kaela to NASA.
BREAKING 🚨: NASA admin Jared Isaacman responds to a letter from a 10-year-old asking to make Pluto a planet again
"We are looking into this."
It was great to be on the #CBC Alberta at Noon show today with Joel Powell and host Sue Deyell. Thank you to all who phoned in. It was incredibly special listening to @Astro_Jenni sharing her thoughts while being on console as CapCom during the #ArtemisII lunar flyby. Photo credit: #CSA
There is less water ice on the Moon than previously thought according to a survey by NASA's Shadow cam. In shadowed regions at the poles it was expected there would be 20-30% water, but they found less than 10%. This could impact future missions
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#astronomy #Moon #water
If you are able to listen right now, tune into #NASA Live (link below) & listen to the crew of Artemis II provide real time visual descriptions of the lunar surface from their spacecraft’s windows. It’s been over 50 years since we last heard this! Image: NASA Live
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Perfect condition.
Here is a sample of images recorded by my remote camera located inside the pad perimeter.
I must thank the amazing Kennedy Space Center Public Affairs Office team. They were all outstanding and handled the ~800 journalists and photographers with incredible professionalism. Thank you!
Earth.
Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis
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Here are three Artemis II launch images from the KSC press site!
Congratulations to #NASA, the #CSA and all the International partners for a successful to this historic mission for human spaceflight.
#ArtemisII
Launch was incredible!
The intense sound and super bright flame is something memory cards cannot really replicate.
Internet and cell service is slow with everyone filing photos and video.
I will share more later.
The Artemis II mission will send a crew of 4 around our Moon & back to Earth ~10 days later. This is similar to the Apollo 8 mission launched in 1968. What makes this mission even more audacious than Apollo 8, is that the Orion capsule has never flown with a full life support system or a crew before
Last night (March 31), before trying to go to sleep, I stepped out onto the balcony and looked up at our Moon high in the SE.
It was amazing to think that human eyes will soon have closeup views of this celestial world in just a few days.
My photo using a Canon EOS-R with an 800mm lens.
This afternoon the Artemis II crew arrived at the Kennedy Space Center. The crew consists of Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist 1 Christina Koch & Mission Specialist 2 Jeremy Hansen (CSA). Backup astronauts Andre Douglas (NASA) & Jenni Gibbons (CSA) were also present.
Today NASA arranged for a special sunrise photo opportunity with the SLS on the launch pad.
Here are some of my images.
The start of Artemis II’s launch window opens on April 1st.
Thank you to NASA’s KSC Office of Communications for this amazing opportunity. #artemisII
Happy Vernal Equinox!
According to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada’s Observer’s Handbook… at 8:46 MDT, the Sun crossed the celestial equator heading north. We will experience longer days and shorter nights in the coming days
(in the northern hemisphere).
This afternoon, SLS appears ready to rollout to launch pad 39B. NASA stated first motion is expected to occur around 20:00 EDT. The 6.75 km journey is estimated to take about 12 hours.
The Artemis II crew will now begin their quarantine keeping April 1 as the first potential launch date.
The first crewed mission to the Moon in over 50 years is starting to feel very real.
NASA announced the SLS moon rocket will be rolled out to the launch pad beginning around 20:00 EDT on March 19.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying another batch of Starlink satellites into low earth orbit. The launch produced one of the most beautiful jellyfish effects I have ever seen.
Check out my time lapse video posted here on YouTube.
Do you see the heart at the end?
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On Tuesday, the Moon entered the Earth’s shadow & just as totality occurred the Moon dropped into a low bank of clouds. Here are a few of my fuzzy photos taken during the early stages of the eclipse. Longer exposures reveal the reddish glow produced by sunlight passing through the Earth’s atmosphere
Photos taken during the SLS rollback to the VAB on Feb 25.
I must thank the KSC public affairs team for allowing us to photograph this event up close!
Burn baby burn 🔥👍
Tune in to the CBC Calgary EyeOpener on Monday at 7:37 am MST as I chat with host Loren McGinnis regarding the latest news on the Artemis II mission.
NASA’s Artemis II mission will be the 1st crewed mission to go around the Moon in over 50 years. Launch is scheduled to occur no earlier than April 1.
Our March General Meeting & Annual Peter Sim Public Education Lecture speaker has been announced! ✨
Professor Sara Seager will join us to present “Venus as a Potentially Habitable Planet” at TELUS Spark Infinity Dome Theatre on Saturday, March 14 at 2:30pm!
Purchase tickets via the link in bio! 💫
Last night (February 21 at 22:47 EST) I was fortunate to witness SpaceX launch another batch of Starlink satellites into Earth orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket lit up the Florida night sky. This was booster 1067’s 33rd flight. Congratulations to SpaceX and employees on this incredible achievement.
Forty years ago today the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated just 73 seconds after liftoff. Calgary EyeOpener host, Loren McGinnis, interviewed Calgary based space historian, Joel Powell, about what he remembers from that cold day in Florida. Click on the link below.
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On January 24, at 2:30 pm, there will be a public lecture at Telus SPARK. The title of the presentation is “A Cold Day at the Kennedy Space Center, A Commemoration of the Challenger Accident”. The speaker is Joel Powell. To attend this lecture, please register at:
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On January 20, we drove from Kristiansund to Molde and stopped by the Atlantic Ocean in twilight. We watched a colour and active aurora event stretching from horizon to horizon. The event was visible right over top of us and displayed rapid rippling motion. All photos were taken with an iPhone.
My time in Norway is coming to an end and it will be a trip to remember. I had 7 straight nights of Aurora activity and 4 nights were spectacular lasting for hours. The reds were so intense they were easily visible to the unaided eye.
Some of my photos using a DSLR camera are attached below.
It is wonderful to be back in Norway. On January 14 & 15, the Aurora Borealis was a spectacular sight to behold.
Here are a few images taken from a ship off the northern coast of Norway.
I finally scanned my last 6 month solar graph image.
I left a piece of photographic paper in a can (with a pinhole) for 6 months in my backyard.
It appears Calgary experienced a cloudy early summer but then a very sunny late summer & autumn.
The image was scanned, flipped horizontally & inverted.
Wow!!!
Very cool!