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NASA + Peru: Partners for rocket science! 🆕 🚀 Yesterday, both parties signed a memorandum of understanding including safety training, a feasibility study, and more to look at the possibility of launching NASA sounding rockets from Peru. More: go.nasa.gov/3UVrOYF
Together, the @NASA #SpaceApps community set new records. On Oct. 5-6, 2024, 93,520 participants from 163 countries/territories came together and addressed challenges in the largest annual global hackathon! 📊🥳 Learn more in our latest blog post: bit.ly/3O94y5z
NASA's Illuminate video series highlights marvels of our Sun and solar system caught on camera. Next up in the series: A comet makes a very flashy dive by the Sun! ☄️ ☀️
This photo was captured with a phone! 👇 🤩 Whether you have a manual camera or a smartphone, check out our tips for getting great shots of auroras: go.nasa.gov/48Mj64y 📸: NASA/Lacey Young
Just in! 🆕 The twin spacecraft for NASA’s TRACERS mission have been completed. Scheduled to launch in 2025, TRACERS will study solar wind at Earth's magnetosphere and how magnetic reconnection can shoot solar wind particles into our atmosphere. More: go.nasa.gov/3UNn87a
🚀 🚀 ‼️ The final two rockets of the VortEx mission launched on Nov. 10, 2024, from Andøya Space in Norway. Flying through the upper atmosphere, they looked for vortices, or giant hurricane-like swirls, to understand their causes: go.nasa.gov/3NL9Wfi 📸 NASA/Garon Clark
The seasons of the Sun 🌿☀️🍂❄️ Just as Earth has seasons, our Sun moves from times of frequent eruptions to stretches of relative quiescence. It’s all part of the roughly 11-year solar cycle. Learn more in this new installment of NASA’s Illuminate series! 👇
Hurricane Helene made landfall on Sept. 26, roaring across the Gulf Coast of Florida. New imagery from NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment reveal that the hurricane’s effects also reached the edge of space. More: go.nasa.gov/4ffQdA9 🖼️: Utah State University
Two solar eclipses, widespread auroras, massive solar flares — has our active Sun sparked your creativity? ☀️ NASA’s Space Place has a new art challenge for kiddos: Show us a memory you have of the Sun this year! Submissions due Nov. 30: go.nasa.gov/38tHU3K
New month, new #HelioBigYear theme! November’s theme is “bonus science,” featuring ways that Heliophysics missions contribute to other areas of science. A timely example: Parker Solar Probe will be observing Venus as it flies by on Nov. 6! 👇 More: go.nasa.gov/45ruX56
Launched in 1994: -The Lion King (in theaters) 🎬 -Friends (on TV) 📺 …and NASA’s Wind spacecraft (into space!) 🛰️ Today, on Wind’s 30th launch anniversary, mission leaders reflect on its accomplishments – and recall what they were up to in 1994: go.nasa.gov/3YM7GKK
Are you afraid of monsters? 🎃 Well this monster solar flare was the strongest of this solar cycle! ☀️💪 On October 3, 2024, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this X9.0 flare erupting from the Sun. Minutes later, radio blackouts swept over the Atlantic Ocean. 👇
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