NASAs Mars Odyssey probe, launched April 7, 2001, reached Mars on October 24, 2001, after a six-month and 286-million mile journey. Another breakthrough derived from WMAP data is clear evidence the first stars took more than a half-billion years to create a cosmic fog. During that span, three Chandra observations clearly show the neutron star moving away from the center of the Puppis A supernova remnant, a stellar debris field created during the same explosion in which the neutron star was created about 3700 years ago. Abus Vallis is on the left and is 66 km long (41 miles). In September, the ground team returned the spacecraft to full service after Odyssey once more put itself into the standby "safe mode" in response to a root cause that engineers have diagnosed as the same cause as for two previous safe mode entries, in 2005 and 2006: a messaging interface system that got temporarily stuck, leaving the flight computer to assume (wrongly) that an attitude control task was no longer running. The new observations collected from CloudSat combined with other A-Train observations are beginning to shed new understanding on important climate processes, in particular about (1) cloud changes in the polar regions, and the effects of these changes on the energy balance of the Arctic, their relation to weather changes and their role in sea ice change, (2) how frequently clouds rain and how much rain falls over the global oceans - thus offering insight into processes critical to the cycling of fresh water, and (3) how properties of clouds AND precipitation together change with increasing aerosol, thus offering new insights into how aerosol might indirectly affect climate. During the cruise, the spacecraft has continuously verified the health of its scientific instruments and performed trajectory correction maneuvers (TCMs). A service of: The six-wheeled rover vehicle Spirit, launched on June 10, 2003, on a Delta-2/Heavy rocket, landed on January 3, 2004 (ET) almost exactly at its intended landing site in Gusev Crater in excellent condition. Their installation plus other maintenance, servicing & inspection tasks were accomplished by the crew in four spacewalks (EVAs/Extravehicular Activities) by Reilly, Olivas, Forrester and Swanson, running up the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th spacewalk in 2007. The five-craft THEMIS fleet may help scientists to determine why auroras are more common in the spring than at other times. At end-2007, the twin rovers, nearing the fourth anniversary of their landings, were getting smarter as they got older. It is significantly younger than our 5-billion-year-old sun. Comet McNaught from New STEREO Satellite. Abus Vallis is on the left and is 66 km long (41 miles). NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center. Two funded agreements were furthermore signed with SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) and Rocketplane Kistler (RPK) for demonstrations under the COTS competition. The Voyagers owe their longevity to their nuclear power sources, called radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). At maximum thrust, each engine produces a total of 91 millinewtons -- about the amount of force involved in holding a single piece of notebook paper in your hand. The main event in 2007 for NASAs Mars program was the launch of yet another unmanned exploration probe, Phoenix, to the Red Planet, joining five other spacecraft currently studying Mars: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Express, Mars Odyssey, and two Mars Exploration Rovers. NOAA polar-orbiting satellites detect emergency beacon distress signals and relay their location to ground stations, so rescue can be dispatched. As with all channels in this region - including Mangala Valles - the flow is northward into the low elevation region south of Amazonis Mensa. These large fires are about 10 kilometers northeast of the cities of Concepcin and Talcahuano, which are veiled by a smoke from the south. Astronomers used Chandra to observe a neutron star, known as RX J0822-4300, over a period of about five years. By end-2007, ACE has been at the L1 point for more than ten years, and the spacecraft and instruments are still working very well, with the exception of the SEPICA (Solar Energetic Particle Ionic Charge Analyzer) instrument. They have increased in brightness over time, are being seen more often and appear to be occurring at lower latitudes than ever before. Also in 2007, Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI) in Baltimore, the science operations center for Hubble, entered a partnership with Google, to produce Sky in Google Earth, a new feature of the newest version of Google Earth, available free of charge. As evening twilight ends at 6:31 p.m. EST, the Moon will appear about 7 degrees above the west-southwestern horizon. Grouped stars sometimes form patterns in the sky recognized by humans known as Constellations. Microwave light seen by WMAP from when the universe was only 380,000 years old, shows that, at the time, neutrinos made up 10% of the universe, atoms 12%, dark matter 63%, photons 15%, and dark energy was negligible. The twin STEREO spacecraft were launched on October 25 on a Delta-2 7925-10L rocket from CCAFS (Cape Canaveral Air Force Station) in Florida. Shuttle Discovery launched on October 23 (11:38am EDT) on ISS Mission 10A, the 23rd assembly flight, with the crew of Commander Pamela Melroy, Pilot George Zamka and Mission Specialists Scott Parazynski, Doug Wheelock, Stephanie Wilson, Paolo Nespoli (ESA/Italy), and FE Daniel Tani who replaced Clay Anderson als ISS Flight Engineer for Exp. Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! & Michigan Tech. Both spacecraft are part of a constellation of spacecraft called the "A-Train," including Aqua, Aura and PARASOL, dedicated to studying the Earths weather and environment, with CloudSat orbiting approximately one minute behind Aqua. Scientists now believe the bursts, distant yet fleeting explosions, are related to the formation of black holes throughout the universe: the birth cries of black holes. The electrical level and Xenon fuel feed can be adjusted to throttle each engine up or down. In 2007, it entered the heliosheath on August 30 at a distance of 84 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun (1 AU is the distance between the Earth and Sun). Since the launch of AIM, significant progress has been made in achieving this goal and that progress continues at a rapid rate. The two solar-powered observatories with 3-axis-stabilization, each with a launch mass of 1,364 lbs (620 kilograms, including propellant), were developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and communicate with its Mission Operations Center via NASAs Deep Space Network. Get access to our automated daily newsletter, both of our premium newsletters and our premium news stories. NASA Official: Phillip Newman Get access to our automated daily newsletter, select from one of one of our premium newsletters, and get our premium news stories. 1971. After launch of NASA's THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) mission on February 17 on a Delta-2 rocket, the five THEMIS spacecraft were deployed into a string-of-pearls configuration on near-identical highly elliptical orbits with 31-hour periods. By end-2007, data analysis was still underway, and an agreement was reached with NASA to extend the data analysis phase through September 2008 and probably beyond. Satellite images of Earth at night have been a curiosity for the public and a tool of fundamental research for at least 25 years. Spirit (MER-A) & Opportunity (MER-B). and Heliospheric Investigation, NASA Web This makes it the most massive companion star in a binary system containing a black hole. CloudSat will complete its 22-month prime mission in 2008 (February 27), possibly to go into an extended mission phase. At the time of this posting, the cause of the fires was not known. altitude and 98.73 degrees inclination. CALIPSO was launched into orbit around the Earth along with CloudSat as part of the "A-train," a constellation of Earth observing satellites. Both rovers have found metallic meteorites on Mars. At maximum throttle, it would take Dawn's system four days to accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour. NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a riveting snapshot of the Andromeda Galaxy and the oxygen-emitting blue arcs that surround it. MRO is a multipurpose spacecraft designed to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from orbit. Today's VIS image shows the complete length of two channels in northern Terra Sirenum. CloudSat is an experimental mission conducted jointly by NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to study the effects of clouds on climate and weather with capabilities 1,000 times more sensitive than typical weather radar, using millimeter-wavelength radar to measure the altitude and properties of clouds. 15 and FE Sunita Suni Williams swapped places to join the Atlantis crew. In addition to radially branching patterns called "spiders," which had been detected by an earlier Mars orbiter, other intriguing ground textures in the area appear in the new images. On October 15, 2007, the Cassini spacecraft, in excellent health, had its Diamond Anniversary: it was ten years ago that it departed planet Earth from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and embarked on a seven-year long, circuitous journey of several billion miles across the solar system to the planet Saturn. Highlights of military space in 2007 included the launch of the first USAF Wideband Global System (WGS) broadband communications satellite which marked a major step in military capabilities, on an Atlas-5 (Oct. 11). RT @IgnazioMagnani: Guadeloupe ! Among the rovers' many other accomplishments: Opportunity has analyzed a series of exposed rock layers recording how environmental conditions changed during the times when the layers were deposited and later modified: wind-blown dunes coming and going, water table fluctuating. The glow from these stars created a thin fog of electrons in the surrounding gas that scatters microwaves, in much the same way fog scatters the beams from a cars headlights. NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (formerly called the Microwave Anisotropy Mission, MAP), launched on June 30, 2001, on a Delta-2, is now located in an orbit around the second Lagrange libration point L2. The spacecraft are now traveling at a distance where the Sun is but a bright point of light and solar energy is not an option for electrical power. From January through June, New Horizons seven science instruments made more than 700 separate observations of the Jovian system twice the activity planned at Pluto with most of them coming in the eight days around closest approach to Jupiter. The largest dark feature measures at least 100,000 square kilometers (39,000 square miles), but since the radar has caught only a portion of each of these features, only their minimum size is known. GSFC Chandra may also have cracked a 45-year mystery surrounding two ghostly spiral arms in the galaxy M106 (also known as NGC 4258), a stately spiral galaxy 23.5 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. In 2007, Odyssey was in its second extended mission, continuing to perform scientific observations and also serving as the primary communications relay for NASA's Mars rovers. The increased use of satellites for communications, observations, and through the GPS navigation and high-precision weapons targeting was and is of decisive importance for the military command structure. A neighboring galaxy of M-81, called Holmberg IX, of large fluffy bluish-white material, is practically invisible to the naked human eye but is illuminated brilliantly in GALEX 's wide UV eyes. During 2007, engineers dealt with some onboard problems, such as a software error between the MRO and one of its instruments, an event which on July 17 caused the spacecraft to turn off two of its science instruments--the MCS (Mars Climate Sounder) and CRISM (Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars). Phoenix will be the first mission to touch the planet's water-ice. The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), launched on August 25, 1997, is positioned in a halo orbit around the first Langrangian libration point L1, where gravitational forces are in equilibrium. M33 X-7 orbits a companion star that eclipses the black hole every three and a half days. These two icons of the Asteroid Belt have been witness to much of our solar system's history. as it recedes from the Sun. Launched in May 2002, the 1750 kg (3858 lb) NASA satellite Aqua, formerly named EOS PM (signifying its afternoon equatorial crossing time), carrying six instruments weighing 1082 kg (2385 lb) designed to collect information on water-related activities worldwide, has been circling Earth in a polar, sun-synchronous orbit of 438 miles (705 km) altitude. 2017-08-17: Moon: Terra: MISR: 600x675x1: PIA21876: NASA Integrates Gear Motors for Robotic Arm on Future Lunar Missions Full Resolution: . The 2202-lb (999-kg) CloudSat was launched with the CALIPSO satellite by a Delta-2 from VAFB on April 28, 2006, into a polar orbit at an altitude of 438 miles (705 km). Construction projects across the agency supported the Constellation Program, which is developing next-generation spacecraft and systems to return astronauts to the moon by 2020. Searching for January 4 on the NASA Hubble birthday site reveals an incredible image of Saturn taken in infrared by Hubble in 1998, which would have been Newton's 355th birthday. Iceberg A-80A was the largest, measuring about 19 kilometers (19 nautical miles) long and 17 kilometers (9 nautical miles) wide. After two months of hard work, normal operations were reestablished by end-2007. Their discovery implies there were hundreds of millions of additional black holes growing in our young universe, more than doubling the total amount known at that distance. The ninth launch, a failure, was the second Falcon-1 rocket from SpaceX, with an USAF Demo payload. The comet tail is seen to extend at least seven degrees across the The project is a joint partnership between NASA and the German DLR (Deutsches Zentrum fr Luft- und Raumfahrt). By making accurate measurements of microwave patterns, WMAP has answered many longstanding questions about age, composition and development of the universe. The orbiting telescope has become one of the most important instruments in the history of astronomy. Published Jan 13, 2023. Solar TErrestrial Clay Anderson was transferred to the ISS as an official station crewmember of Exp. Astronomy Picture of the Day Calendar . Browse historical events, famous birthdays and notable deaths from Jan 17, 2007 or search by date, day or keyword. By using Dawn's instruments to study both asteroids, scientists can compare and contrast the two more accurately. The AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere) satellite mission was launched on April 25 from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), Calif., on a Pegasus-XL launch vehicle to its orbit 600 km (373 miles) above Earth. In 2007, the spacecraft continued to return stunning imagery from its continuing journey through the Saturnian system. There were eight successful military space launches (2006: 7; 2005: 6; 2004: 5; 2003: 11), carrying 15 payloads: one heavy Delta-4M vehicle, launching a DSP-23 early warning satellite, two Delta-2 launchers carrying two new GPS IIR navigation satellites (-17/M4 & -18/M5), four Atlas-5 rockets, one with eight individual payloads (mostly nanosatellites), two with classified NROL surveillance satellites plus one with the WGS, and one OSC Minotaur launcher with an experimental satellite (NFIRE). The swap was done to mitigate the risk of loss of thermal control over the K-band antenna horn (and subsequent spurious K-band range signal) due to atomic oxygen exposure. Late in 2007, NASA extended, for a fifth time, the activities of the two rovers, keeping the trailblazing mobile robotic pioneers active on opposite sides of Mars, possibly through 2009. Tue 17 Jan 2023 11.55 EST Last modified on Tue 17 Jan 2023 15.41 . Operators were encountering some noisy housekeeping telemetry, with no significant impact on science data. Discover the cosmos! On this day, Saturn interceded between the Sun and Cassini, shielding Cassini from the Sun's glare. There were 28 NASA, DOD, and commercial launches, out of 29 attempts (2006: 22 of 23 attempts, 2005: 16 of 16, 2004: 19 of 19; 2003: 26 of 27 [loss of Columbia]). During its first Venus flyby, no scientific observations were made since Venus was at superior conjunction, placing it on the opposite side of the sun from Earth, which resulted in a two-week radio contact blackout between the spacecraft and its operators. The spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Saturn on June 30, 2004. July 19, 2007. There were four EVAs, conducted by Parazynski, Wheelock and Tani. On August 23, Spirit maneuvered into position for driving up to the top of a rock platform called Home Plate, its long-term destination in a range of hills that were on the distant horizon from its landing site, and in September climbed onto this a plateau of layered volcanic bedrock bearing clues to an explosive mixture of lava and water. MESSENGER will be the first probe to visit the innermost planet in almost 33 years. Launched on March 17, 2002, on a Russian Rockot carrier, the twin satellites GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment), named "Tom" and "Jerry", in 2007 continued to map the Earth's gravity fields by taking accurate measurements of the distance between the two satellites, using Global Positioning System (GPS) and a microwave ranging system. Also in 2007, HST provided strong evidence that white dwarfs, the burned-out relics of stars, are given a "kick" when they form. WMAP measures a remnant of the early universe - its oldest light. The approximately 1.2-ton (1,100-kilogram) spacecraft is in a solar orbit, a 4.9-billion mile (7.9-billion kilometer) journey that includes 15 trips around the sun. Hubble was and is making discoveries at a rate that is unprecedented for a single observatory, and its contributions to astronomy and cosmology are wide-ranging. Launched on January 12, 2003, on a Delta-2 Expendable Launch Vehicle (ELV) into a near polar orbit at an altitude of 600 km with an inclination of 94 degrees, the spacecraft in 2007 continued to provide data from its one instrument,- the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS). One of the many diplomatic gifts presented to the Queen was a poster commemorating John Smith's voyage of discovery in 1607 using data from Landsat 7, MODIS, and EO-1. Hubble Views a Young and Dynamic Elliptical Galaxy. The robotic lander is scheduled to arrive at the Red Planet on May 25, 2008, and begin a close examination of Mars' northern polar region. The International Space Station (ISS), which is the largest modular space station in low Earth orbit was launched back on 20 November 1998. The operational weather satellite POES-M (Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites-M) was launched from VAFB on a commercial Titan 2 rocket on June 24, 2002. However, the objective of the 4th spacewalk changed in order to repair a solar array, inadvertently torn during deployment, and the 5th spacewalk was transferred to the station crew to perform after the shuttles departure. In addition, the RA (Robotic Arm) has been modified from the '01 lander version. & Jerry Bonnell NASA Technical Rep.: Phil Newman Specific rights apply. Discovering the cause of the change will provide scientists with important details on how the planet's magnetosphere works and the important Sun-Earth connection. You can sponsor Brandon and the NASA EDGE Team by the meter. Constellation Program: In 2007, NASA began laying the foundation for the future of space exploration. NASA informed that the evening after the full Moon, which is January 7, the moon will rise around 7 degrees on the other side of the bright star Pollux. This region is the outer layer of the bubble surrounding the sun, and no one knows how big this bubble actually is. Images. NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. GOES-N, to be renamed GOES-13, is the latest in a series of Earth monitoring satellites which provide the kind of continuous monitoring necessary for intensive data analysis. The findings are also the first direct evidence that most, if not all, massive galaxies in the distant universe spent their youths building monstrous black holes at their cores. It was the 119th shuttle mission, the 20th of Endeavour, and the 65th landing at KSC. javascript is enabled. The $720 million spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin under the supervision of NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). During the year, when Odyssey reported that a power processing component of the backup, or "B-side," systems had stopped working, engineers examined whether onboard backup systems never used by the 6-year-old spacecraft could still be available if needed: the component, the high-efficiency power supply, has a twin that is continuing to serve the "A-side" hardware, which is operating normally. Throughout its eighth year of operation, Chandra continued to provide scientists with views of the high-energy universe never seen before which potentially revolutionize astronomical and cosmological concepts. With three units, of which only one thruster is operating at any given time, the ion propulsion system has enough thruster lifetime to complete the mission and still has adequate reserve. It represents an important step in an evolving process toward a comprehensive global approach. Many of the close-up observations focused on studying the strange 20-kilometer high (12 mile) mountain ridge that gives the moon a walnut-shaped appearance. Dawn's science instrument suite will measure elemental and mineral composition, shape, surface topography, and tectonic history, and will also seek water-bearing minerals. The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) camera on New Horizons should have been able to spot moons down to a diameter of about 1 kilometer. Scan by Kipp Teague. S71-51308 ( 113k or 741k) The two-year mission of the two nearly identical space-based observatories, one ahead of Earth in its orbit around the sun (STEREO-A, for ahead), the other trailing behind (STEREO-B, behind) on April 23 provided the first-ever 3D images and stereoscopic measurements of the Sun, to study the nature of its coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, violent eruptions of matter from the Sun that can disrupt satellites and power grids. NASAs six-ton (5.4-metric-ton) spacecraft Cassini continued its epic 6.7-year, 3.2-billion-km journey inside the planetary system of Saturn. Total thrust time through the mission will be about 2,100 days, considerably in excess of Deep Space 1's 678 days of ion propulsion operation. The scientists combined atmospheric models with actual measurements of ozone, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide in Earth's lower atmosphere. Traveling at a speed of about one million miles per day, Voyager 1 could cross into interstellar space within the next 10 years. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. The gas arcs, shown in blue, were discovered and first confirmed by amateur astronomers just last year. Swift has become a key tool not only in studies of GRBs, but also in studying galaxies, quasars, supernova, novae, black holes and neutron stars in our Galaxy, along with active stars, and even comets. Hatches were open at 5:04pm, and the new crew was welcomed aboard the ISS and given the mandatory safety briefing (5:25pm). The mean inter-satellite separation is usually bound between 170 and 270 km, but the closer mean separation is expected to enhance the high-frequency signal content in the K-band range measurements. Primary focus contin ues on GRB research, but about half the time is being spread among the other science areas. On September 10, Cassini flew by Saturn's two-toned moon Iapetus and returned pictures which revealed the moon's Yin and Yang nature: a white hemisphere resembling snow, and the other as black as tar. The black hole is part of a binary system in M33, a nearby galaxy about 3 million light years from Earth. Voyager 2 actually crossed the boundary five times and was directly observed (unlike Voyager 1) making the passage three of those times. 08/01/2023. NASA's Swift satellite, launched on November 20, 2004 aboard a Delta-2 rocket from Cape Canaveral, was designed and built with international participation (England, Italy) to solve the 35-year-old mystery of the origin of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). This is because the ion propulsion system will operate for thousands of days, instead of the minutes during which the Delta performs. NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a stunning picture of stars and their clusters in the vast expanse of space in the constellation Perseus. 1980 - FLTSATCOM 3 launch. Authors & editors: January 17, 2008. With the objective to improve weather forecasting and monitor environmental events around the world, NOAA-18 continued in 2007 to collect data about the Earth's surface and atmosphere. In another discovery, astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away. The two main origin hypotheses for the arcs are that they really are close to Andromeda ( M31 ), or that they are just coincidentally placed gas filaments in our Milky Way galaxy. The framework also allows individual nations to share their strategies and efforts so all can achieve their exploration goals more effectively. Each unit is movable in two axes to allow for migration of the spacecraft's center of mass during the mission. The Observatory carries an 85-cm cryogenic telescope and three cryogenically cooled science instruments capable of performing imaging and spectroscopy in the 3.6 to 160 micron range. But they faced their biggest challenges yet: for nearly a month, mostly during July, a series of severe Martian summer dust storms affected Opportunity and, to a lesser extent, Spirit. Pre-Flight Crew and Equipment Photos. The Moon will set about 45 minutes later at 7:17 p.m. The low point occurred in August & September when Swift was largely off-line due to hardware/software problems on the spacecraft: one of the 3 dual-gyro modules on the spacecraft exhibited anomalous behavior (occasional glitches inits readings), requiring a switch to the backup unit. ICESat (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite), also an Earth Observing System (EOS) spacecraft, is the benchmark mission for measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics. 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