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NASA ID: NHQ_2019_0626_Earth Views from the ISS Earth Views from the ISS Date Created:2019-06-26

When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope needs to move, it must be carefully packed inside a specially designed container called the Space Telescope Transporter for Air, Road, and Sea (STTARS). As the name implies, the container protects Webb during its journeys on ground, above ground, and over water. The massive container weighs approximately 165,000 pounds (almost 75,000 kilograms) and dwarfs Webb in terms of mass — the telescope weighs approximately 14,000 pounds (6,350 kilograms) here on Earth. All of that bulk is needed to keep Webb’s individual parts, and eventually the fully assembled telescope, safe during the journey to the launch pad. Date Created:2019-03-14 Center:GSFC Keywords: JWST , James Webb Space Telescope , Webb Telescope , Webb , spacecraft , telescope , technology , astrophysics , engineering , engineers , STTARS , aircraft , transport , space , universe , galaxy , star , Goddard Space Flight Center , NASA Secondary Creator Credit: Eric Villard, Michael Menzel Location:NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Photographer:Michael McClare, Sophia Roberts, Michael Menzel

NASA ID: NHQ_2018_0627_Administrator Bridenstine -NASA is Committed to Webb Telescope NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine discusses the findings of the Independent Review Board on one of our flagship missions, the James Webb Space Telescope. Despite Webb’s major challenges during the final testing and integration phase, the board and NASA unanimously agreed that Webb will achieve mission success with the implementation of the board’s recommendations, many of which are already underway. Date Created:2018-06-27 Center:HQ Keywords: Jim Bridenstine , Webb Telescope , James Webb Space Telescope , JWST

The Martian climate remains one of the solar system's biggest mysteries: although cold and dry today, myriad surface features on Mars carved by flowing water attest to a much warmer, wetter past. What caused this dramatic transition? Scientists think that climate change on Mars may be due to solar wind erosion of the early atmosphere, and NASA's MAVEN mission will test this hypothesis. Project Manager David F. Mitchell discusses MAVEN and the Goddard Space Flight Center's role in sending it to the Red Planet. Date Created:2014-06-25 Mars , MAVEN , Atmosphere , Planets and Moons , NGIMS , Magnetometer

NASA ID: Mission_Overview_MASTER-h264 The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful and most technologically challenging space telescope ever built. The Webb Telescope is so large; it must be folded like origami to fit inside its rocket fairing for the ride into space. Once in space, unfolding and readying Webb for science is a complex process that will take about six months. Webb is designed to see the most distant galaxies in the Universe and study how galaxies evolved over cosmic time. Webb will study planets orbiting other stars looking for the chemical signatures of the building blocks of life. Webb will also study planets within our own solar system. The Webb Telescope Mission is an international space telescope program led by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. This video won third-place honors for Videographer of the Year 2019 in the Production category for Michael McClare. Date Created:2020-06-12 Center:GSFC Keywords: James Webb Space Telescope , JWST , Universe , Optics , Engineering , Telescope , Northrop Grumman , Cleanroom , Infrared , Spacecraft , Deploy , Goddard Space Flight Center , Webb Telescope , Cryogenics , Exoplanets , NASA , VOTY , Videographer of the Year , Videographer of the Year 2019 Albums: Videographer_of_the_Year, Videographer_of_the_Year_2019 Secondary Creator Credit: Michael McClare Location:NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Photographer:Michael McClare Visit GSFC Website https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html

NASA ID: Social_Media_Video_Master_A Inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland the James Webb Space Telescope team completed the environmental portion of vibration testing on the telescope. A shaker table is used to shake satellites to ensure a spacecraft like Webb can withstand the shaking that comes with a ride into space on a rocket. The new vibration test system simulates the forces the telescope will feel during the launch by vibrating it from 5 to 100 times per second. For more information about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, visit: www.jwst.nasa.gov or www.nasa.gov/webb. Date Created:2019-03-15 Center:GSFC Keywords: JWST , James Webb Space Telescope , Webb Telescope , Webb , spacecraft , telescope , technology , astrophysics , engineering , engineers , science , scientists , instruments , cleanroom , testing , transport , Goddard Space Flight Center , NASA , tent cover , space , universe , galaxy , launch , rocket Secondary Creator Credit: Michael Menzel Location:NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Photographer:Michael McClare, Sophia Roberts, Daniel Alvarado Varela, Michael Menzel Visit GSFC Web https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.htmlsite

NASA ID: James_Webb_Space_Telescope__An_Overview_1080 The James Webb Space Telescope will be the largest telescope ever sent into space. It is the impressive result of efforts from NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency and will peer to the edges of the visible universe. This video highlights some of the Webb’s most impressive facts. Date Created:2019-03-13 Center:GSFC Keywords: JWST , James Webb Space Telescope , Webb Telescope , Webb , spacecraft , telescope , technology , astrophysics , engineering , engineers , science , scientists , universe , galaxy , space , star , exoplanet , planets , Goddard Space Flight Center , NASA Secondary Creator Credit: Sophia Roberts Location:NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Photographer:Michael McClare https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html

ASA ID: GSFC_20190718_JWST_m13165_Contributors The James Webb Space Telescope is the most complex spacecraft ever made. Over 100 different companies, and multiple NASA facilities throughout the United States have contributed to its development. Each in some way have helped to build and provide parts for the telescope, or assemble them, and many have built testing and cleanroom facilities specifically for the spacecraft. Others helped provide equipment, personnel, and supplies for testing the telescope and its various parts. As a result of this collective group effort, scientist will be able to use the world's most advance telescope to break new grounds in science, and both discover and observe new parts of space that have never been seen before. Date Created:2019-07-18 Center:GSFC Keywords: Galaxy , Neutron Star , Spacecraft , Astrophysics , JWST , Universe , Planets , Space , Engineers , Webb Telescope , Star , James Webb Space Telescope , Exoplanet , Map Secondary Creator Credit: Michael Menzel, Aaron Lepsch Location:Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA ID: NHQ_2018_0627_NASA Science Leaders - Webb Telescope Complex and Unprecedented Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, and John Mather, senior project scientist, comment on an independent review board’s findings on the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope. Webb is now targeting March 2021 as a new launch date, after the board assessed delays in integration and testing. NASA and the board unanimously agree that Webb can still achieve mission success. Date Created:2018-06-27 Center:HQ Keywords: Webb Telescope , Thomas Zurbuchen , John Mather , James Webb Space Telescope , JWST

NASA ID: NHQ_2018_0110_Webb Telescope Tested for Space, Ready for Science NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is a civilization scale mission, set to look back to the first galaxies formed after the Big Bang and help answer the question “are we alone in the universe?” After passing a key test at Johnson Space Center designed to simulate the cold vacuum of space, Webb is ready for the next step ahead of a launch in 2019 Date Created:2018-01-10 Center:HQ Keywords: James Webb Space Telescope

This is the video compliment to a presentation about the engineering history of the Webb Telescope's Optical Telescope Element (OTE). Date Created:2019-03-13 Center:GSFC Keywords: JWST , James Webb Space Telescope , Webb Telescope , Webb , spacecraft , telescope , technology , astrophysics , mirror , optics , engineering , engineers , science , CSA , ESA , NASA , Goddard Space Flight Center , Johnson Space Center , space , universe , cleanroom , testing , composite material , beryllium , infrared Secondary Creator Credit: Michael McClare Location:NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Photographer:Michael McClare

NASA ID: News Conference on the Engineering of the James Webb Space Telescope NASA held a virtual media briefing on Tuesday, Nov. 2, to discuss the engineering of the James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s largest and most powerful space science telescope. Participants discussed how the observatory’s science goals drove its design and previewed the complex series of deployments Webb will complete as it unfolds in space. The briefing participants are: Bill Ochs, Webb project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland Alphonso Stewart, Webb deployment systems lead, Goddard Begoña Vila, Webb instrument systems engineer, Goddard Krystal Puga, Webb spacecraft systems engineer, Northrop Grumman, Redondo Beach, California Mike Menzel, Webb lead mission systems engineer, Goddard The James Webb Space Telescope, an international partnership with the European and Canadian space agencies, is targeted for launch Dec. 18. It will ...more Date Created:2021-11-02

Thousands of people, for almost two decades, accomplished the construction of the telescope element of the largest space telescope ever created. The optical and science segment of the James Webb Space Telescope stands complete in one of the largest cleanrooms in the world, located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Date Created:2019-03-15 JWST , James Webb Space Telescope , Webb Telescope , Webb , spacecraft , telescope , technology , astrophysics , engineering , engineers , science , scientists , instruments , optics , cleanroom , mirrors , space , universe , galaxy , star , exoplanet , planets , NASA , Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history when it achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet – and it’s inspiring future aerial exploration of the Red Planet, too. In this Mars Report, Ingenuity Team Lead Teddy Tzanetos at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides an update on the helicopter’s achievements and future plans. This video shows testing for Sample Recovery Helicopters, which could serve as a backup retrieval system for Mars Sample Return, a campaign that intends to retrieve samples taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover for study here on Earth. These next-generation helicopters would be able to pick up and carry sample tubes in flight and also drive on the Martian surface. Another future helicopter concept is the Mars Science Helicopter, a proposed six-rotor “hexacopter” that would be about the size of the Perseverance rover. It would bring important payloads to areas of Mars that are not currently accessible. For more information on Ingenuity, go to: mars.nasa.gov/ingenuity NASA , Jet Propulsion Laboratory , JPL , Ingenuity , Mars , helicopter , Ingenuity flight , flight test , rover , rovers , testing , Red Planet , exploration , robots , robotic exploration , tech , technology , robotics , engineering , space , science , Mars exploration , flying , Perseverance , tech demo , technology demonstration , flying on Mars , Mars Science Helicopter , Mars Sample Return

he Mars Helicopter is a technology demonstration that will fly as a secondary payload with the Mars 2020 mission. It will demonstrate the potential of aerial flight on Mars, which may enable more ambitious missions in the future. Date Created:2018-05-11 NASA , Mars , Mars helicopter , technology , demonstration , test flight , Mars rover , Mars 2020 , aircraft , aerial drone , chopper , vertical flight , experimental flight test , whirlybird , rotorcraft Albums: Mars_2020_Perseverance

This video shows the first 360-degree view of the landing site of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars, as captured by the rover’s color Navigation Cameras, or Navcams. The Navcams are on the remote sensing mast (or “head”) of the rover. Perseverance possesses the most cameras of any Mars rover to date, with 19 on the rover. Perseverance landed on Mars’ Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021. These images were obtained on February 20, 2021. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.

Compilation of b-roll for media. Collecting samples from Mars and bringing them back to Earth will be a historic undertaking that starts with the launch of NASA's Perseverance rover, part of the Mars 2020 mission. Perseverance will collect samples and leave them on Mars for a future mission to retrieve and return to Earth. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are solidifying concepts for this Mars sample return campaign. The current concept includes a lander, a fetch rover, an ascent vehicle to launch the sample container to Martian orbit, and a retrieval spacecraft with a payload for capturing and containing the samples and then sending them back to Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, ESA, NASA/GSFC and NASA/GRC For more information, visit https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-sample-return-msr/

This Earth Day, NASA invites you to share how you #PictureEarth. For inspiration, NASA collected some of the best and most inconic satellite images and data visualizations capture over the last year. NASA's space-based view of our planet, and the way it's changing, helps humans understand Earth better. Date Created:2019-04-19

Earth views from the International Space Station. City lights, auroras, sunsets, oceans, moon on the horizon an other beauty shots of our planet from space. Date Created:2015-04-07

returning to the Moon to stay, and preparing to go beyond #ExploreWithNASA