NASA Space Station Status Report 31 March, 2022 - Expedition 67 Officially Starts Work

Expedition 67 is officially underway following Wednesday's undocking of three International Space Station crew members.

The Sun emitted a significant solar flare on March 30, 2022, peaking at 1:35 p.m. EST.

Do you see a dome or a pit? Sometimes it is hard to tell! In this case, the answer is that we're looking at a pit, if the title didn't already give it away.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe's birth in the big bang - the farthest individual star ever seen to date.

Researchers have discovered argon trapped in air-hydrate crystals in ice cores, which can be used to reconstruct past temperature changes and climate shifts.

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei ended his record-breaking time on the International Space Station with a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, at 7:28 a.m. EDT (5:28 p.m. Kazakhstan time).

NASA has selected eight small research satellites from seven states to fly as either auxiliary payloads or deployments from the International Space Station (ISS).

After extending the record for the longest single spaceflight in history by an American to 355 days, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth on Wednesday, March 30, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov.

The Moon serves as a background for the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 21, 2022.

This well-preserved impact crater in Tyrrhena Terra, northeast of Hellas Planitia, is approximately 6 kilometers in diameter.

Scientists on NASA's New Horizons mission team have determined multiple episodes of cryovolcanism may have created some kinds of surface structures on Pluto, the likes of which are not seen anywhere else in the solar system.

Newly discovered deposits of layered ice in craters scattered around Mars' southern hemisphere provide insights into how the planet's orientation controlled the planet's climate over the past 4 million years, according to a new study.

Earthquakes do more than buckle streets and topple buildings.

Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov's handed over of the space station to NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn earlier today during a change of command ceremony.

Sunset In the Indian Ocean as seen by the Himawari-8 satellite on 26 March 2022.

This image shows material almost completely filling an impact crater to the northeast of Hale Crater, perhaps water-rich ejecta from Hale itself.

It is relatively common for ice shelves in Antarctica to spawn icebergs. It is less common for an ice shelf to completely disintegrate.

Helium-3, a rare isotope of helium gas, is leaking out of Earth's core, a new study reports.

Astrophysicists studying in unprecedented detail a red giant star named V Hydrae -- abbreviated as V Hya -- have witnessed the star's mysterious death throes.

The city of London, UK, at night captured by ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer.

Three Expedition 66 Flight Engineers are returning to Earth in less than two days as four private astronauts prepare for their mission to the International Space Station.

Image of ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer's Cosmic Kiss mission patch floating next to a replica of the Nebra Sky Disc in the seven-windowed Cupola of the International Space Station.

NASA's Juno mission captured this view of Jupiter's southern hemisphere during the spacecraft's 39th close flyby of the planet on Jan. 12, 2022.

Use the right tool for the job is an often heard saying for any technician, or home hobbyist, and in spaceflight the advice counts double.

This image was taken on 22 March 2021 in the Lunae Planum region [16.74°N, 300.9°E] of Mars by the CaSSIS camera on the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).

NASA joined the Space Launch System rocket's core stage forward assembly with the 130-foot liquid hydrogen tank for the Artemis II mission on March 18.

The Tarso Toussidé volcanic massif is featured in this false-colour composite image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Upgrade work continues outside the space station, an updated strategy for landing Artemis astronauts on the Moon, and unsealing pieces of the past... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA.

NASA's annual survey of changes in Arctic ice cover greatly expanded its reach in a series of flights that wrapped up on May 12, 2017.

There are steep scarps facing the poles of both hemispheres that expose thick (up to 100 meters or more) sections of nearly pure water ice.

BPA Bladder used to recover additional water from urine brine.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

The sunrise casts a warm glow around the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 21, 2022.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this scene around a drill hole named "Edinburgh."

This cosmic portrait - captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 - shows a stunning view of the spiral galaxy NGC 4571.

On March 15, 2022, a plume of Saharan dust was blown out of North Africa and across the Mediterranean into Western Europe.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Carrara - an Italian city known especially for its world-famous marble.

The 10 Expedition 66 crew members aboard the International Space Station wrapped up the workweek exploring ways to adapt to microgravity, cleaning up after a spacewalk, and completing robotics work.

Solar Orbiter's latest images shows the full Sun in unprecedented detail. They were taken on 7 March, when the spacecraft was crossing directly between the Earth and Sun.

Japan's Kibo laboratory module, with its robotic arm, logistics module, and exposed facility, is pictured as the International Space Station orbited 267 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America.

Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi's (NYUAD) Center for Space Science have discovered a new set of waves in the Sun that, unexpectedly, appear to travel much faster than predicted by theory.

Like a time capsule that was sealed for posterity, one of the last unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo 17 has been opened under the careful direction of lunar sample processors and curators in the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Can the neutrino eyes of humanity, observatories such as the IceCube in Antarctica, really see neutrinos coming from deep space?

It looks like fireflies flickering in the darkness. Slowly, more and more amass, lighting up the screen in large chunks and clusters.

The Expedition 66 crew is turning its attention to the departure of three crew members late next week following the completion of a pair of spacewalks.

An amazing aspect of Mars that is captured in many HiRISE images is geologic diversity within a small area.

Asteroids hold many clues about the formation and evolution of planets and their satellites.

NASA is preparing to send humans to Mars sometime in the 2030s. The 3-year mission will expose astronauts to a long period of microgravity, which will cause them to lose bone mass.

The study, in which the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Estatal Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Júlio de Mesquita Filho Paulista State University) (UNESP) of Brazil are participating, analyses the surface and dynamics of Apophis, an asteroid that will pass close to Earth in 2029.

Expedition 66 Flight Engineers Raja Chari of NASA and Matthias Maurer of ESA (European Space Agency) concluded their spacewalk at 3:26 p.m. EDT after 6 hours and 54 minutes in preparation for upcoming solar array installation.

Arctic sea ice appeared to have hit its annual maximum extent on Feb. 25 after growing through the fall and winter.

Astronomy's newest mystery objects, odd radio circles or ORCs, have been pulled into sharp focus by an international team of astronomers using the world's most capable radio telescopes.

The Astrobee and Project CIMON (Crew Interactive MObile companioN) robots had their first photo shoot in space after more than two years of working separately aboard the International Space Station.

Rooftop gardens and greenery can help ease some of the severe heat in cities, according to research from climate scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

Mission managers have given the go for two astronauts to exit the International Space Station on Wednesday for a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk.

Editor Marc Boucher recently had the opportunity to speak with Marc Bell, CEO of Terran Orbital for the Space Economy podcast.

Not so long ago, we lived in a universe with only a small number of known planets, all of them orbiting our Sun.

The dark sand dune at the center of this observation is covered in a blanket of white seasonal ice in the winter.

Research conducted aboard the International Space Station is helping scientists answer questions about the formation of the universe and origins of life on Earth.

UNLV researchers have discovered a new form of ice, redefining the properties of water at high pressures.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover looks back at its wheel tracks on March 17, 2022, the 381th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

The International Space Station is hosting 10 individuals after the Soyuz MS-21 crew ship arrived Friday carrying three new crew members.

Matthias took these Moon shots from the International Space Station's seven-windowed Cupola. He posted these images to his social media on 17 March 2022 with the caption:

This area, on the western edge of Milankovic Crater on Mars, has a thick deposit of sediment that covers a layer rich in ice. The ice is not obvious unless you look in color.

Asteroid 2022 EB5 was too small to pose a hazard to Earth, but its discovery marks the fifth time that any asteroid has been observed before impacting into the atmosphere.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover looks out at an expanse of boulders on the landscape in front of a location nicknamed "Santa Cruz" on Feb. 16, 2022, the 353rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

The Yukon River Delta (along with the Kuskokwim River) is one of the largest in the world.

Preparing the space station for solar array upgrades, rolling out the spacecraft for our Artemis I mission, and the Webb Space Telescope team reaches another milestone... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA.

The Chinese Zhurong rover landed on Mars in May 2021. (It was 14 May in the United States, but 15 May China.)

Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are around other stars.

This finely detailed image shows the heart of NGC 1097, a barred spiral galaxy that lies about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Fornax.

With its recent 21st flight complete, the Red Planet rotorcraft is on its way to setting more records during its second year of operations.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft atop arrived at Launch Pad 39B at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida Friday in preparation for a final test before its Artemis I Moon mission.

Every winter, a layer of carbon dioxide frost (dry ice) forms on the surface of Mars.