National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization (NOAA), sits at the altitude of 22,000 miles (36,000 km) above Earth's surface. GOES 16, or the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, operated by the U.S. Tereza Pultarova Storm Henri's lightings flicker in a view from spaceįriday, August 20, 2021: The flickering of lighting produced by the swirling tropical storm Henri can be seen in this video captured by the GOES 16 satellite as the cyclone strengthened above the Atlantic Ocean. Since July 13, the fire has destroyed nearly 1,800 square miles (3,000 square kilometers) of land and forest. The Dixie Fire, the worst blaze in California’s history, continues to spread after more than five weeks, fuelled by dry and hot weather. The Caldor fire, which erupted over a week ago near Lake Tahoe, has devoured about 100,000 acres of land and forest. The satellite’s TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) recorded carbon monoxide concentrations of 0.08 mol/m2 near San Francisco on Friday (Aug 20) as fire crews continued battling multiple blazes in the area. Monday, August 23, 2021: A cloud of carbon monoxide produced by wildfires ravaging California covers an area greater than 1.2 million square miles (3 million square kilometers) in this image based on measurements from the European satellite Sentinel 5P.Īccording to data from the European Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, which uses the Sentinel imagery, carbon emissions from the ongoing Californian wildfires are the highest recorded since 2003 for this period of the year. Tereza Pultarova Curiosity takes an upside down selfie on Mars In future long duration missions, such as trips to Mars, astronauts will have to grow most of their food as regular resupplies will not be possible. Fresh produce is a welcome change in the sometimes dull diet. Currently, astronauts mostly rely on food with long shelf life that is regularly brought from Earth. Hatch chile peppers have been chosen for the experiment because of their nutritional value. Since there are no bees in space, a special fan installed in the high-tech growing box will take care of the task.Ī team of scientists monitors the experiment remotely from Earth, controlling watering, lighting, and other environmental conditions. The plants are now almost ready for pollination. The plants, part of the Plant Habitat-04 experiment, are placed inside the Advanced Plant Habitat, the largest of the three plant chambers currently aboard the space station. Since then they have been growing in baked clay, being fed a fertilizer specially formulated for peppers and released in a controlled way. The 48 Hatch chile pepper seeds arrived at the orbital outpost with the SpaceX Dragon CRS-22 commercial resupply mission.
Wednesday, August 25, 2021: Pepper seeds delivered to the International Space Station in early June have grown into plants and recently started flowering, NASA announced on Twitter. Tereza Pultarova Pepper plants flower on Space Station In addition to its scientific program, it will also provide communication with Earth for the delayed ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover, expected to land on the Red Planet in 2023.
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The orbiter's full science mission began in 2018.
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter arrived at Mars in 2016 together with the failed Schiaparelli lander. The exact area from where the mass collapsed is not visible in this image. The image shows interesting geomorphological features including flow ridges that extend throughout the length of the landslide.
However, ESA said in a statement, that the landslide is not recent and it is impossible to accurately date it. The image, taken on April 13, 2021, but only released on August 25, captures a mass of material shorn off the rim of the 22-mile-wide (35 km) crater. Thursday, August 26, 2021: The European Space Agency's (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spotted a 3-mile-long (5 km) landslide at the edge of a crater in the Aeolis region on Mars.
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