It's our #birthday today! 🎉 @NASA officially began operation 66 years ago #OTD in 1958.
As part our continuing mission to explore the unknown in air and space, we've learned and accomplished so much over the years. And so many more astounding discoveries are yet to come.
ALT Workers install the NASA “meatball” logo on the front of the Flight Research Building, or hangar, at Lewis Research Center (now NASA Glenn) in 1962.
We’re presenting AlphaProteo: an AI system for designing novel proteins that bind more successfully to target molecules. 🧬
It could help scientists better understand how biological systems function, save time in research, advance drug design and more. 🧵 dpmd.ai/3XuMqbX
Congratulations to Dr Olivia Wilkins @LivWithoutLimit for winning the 2024 ACS Astrochem @ACSAstrochem Outstanding Dissertation Award, and to Dr Divita Gupta @Divs_astrowise for an honorable mention for their two outstanding dissertations. Cheers!
BREAKING🚨: Evidence of huge reservoirs of liquid water beneath the surface of Mars detected, says NASA
The amount of groundwater could cover the entirety planet to a depth of 1 mile (1.6 km).
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Have you heard the news about caves on the Moon?
Re-analyzed data from our Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter found evidence for a cave extending hundreds of feet from a lunar pit—and it may not be the only one: go.nasa.gov/4d7wwZQ
ALT Ten images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing a collection of pits detected on the Moon. The images are in a grid five images wide and two deep; each image covers an area about 728 feet wide, and has its name in small text in the upper-left corner. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
📢 Call for Papers 📢 This Special Issue honoring the legacy of Harold Linnartz will feature a broad range of contributions on all aspects of molecular astrophysics. Submit your manuscript by January 1, 2025. 🔗 go.acs.org/9XC
From @TheAthletic: In one of the biggest shocks in cricket history, the USA defeated Pakistan in the T20 Cricket World Cup.
The scores were level after 20 overs, meaning the game was decided by a super over, a single-over shootout. nyti.ms/3Vdmqzp
ALT A U.S. cricket player celebrates. Headline: USA Upsets Pakistan in T20 Cricket World Cup.
Astrochemists mark your calendars! We will be hosting a symposium in honour of Eric Herbst at the spring ACS meeting in San Diego astro.phys-acs.org/symposia/…
On the cover of @ScienceMagazine this week: an infrared image of part of the Orion Nebula, taken by the PDRs4All project using #JWST. Hot ionised plasma (upper right) and cool molecular gas (lower left) are separated by the Orion Bar (orange).
science.org/toc/science/383/…
🎵 You might as well be walking on the Sun… 🚶 ☀️ 🎵
But it would be far too hot and may look something like this simulation of the Sun’s surface that was run on our Pleiades supercomputer.
ALT GIF simulation of the Sun's surface from a height of 6,200 miles (10,000 kilometers). The point of view scans over a writhing floor of red, orange and white set against a black horizon with occasional flame-like spurts rising up from the surface. Credit: NASA/University of Oslo/Mats Carlsson
Using data collected by our Cassini mission, scientists have discovered phosphorus – an essential chemical element for life – inside ice grains ejected into space from Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus. go.nasa.gov/42FCiwn
ALT The curving horizon of Saturn's moon Enceladus as seen from space by the Cassini spacecraft. The surface has a rough, wrinkled texture. From fissures in the surface, misty plumes are seen rising.