NASA Will announce a new discovery about the moon from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (Sophia) On Monday, October 26 at 12 noon EDT on a media teleconference. Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on the agency’s website.
This new discovery contributes to NASA’s efforts to learn about the moon in support of NASA space research. Under NASA’s Artemis program, the agency will send the first woman and next man to the lunar surface in 2024, ready for its next giant leap – human research Mars In the early 2030s. Understanding the science of the moon also helps to bring together a comprehensive history of the inner solar system.
This color picture is a mosaic assembled from 18 images taken by a green filter through Galileo’s imaging system. The left side of this picture shows the dark, lava-filled Mere Embrium (upper left); Mere serenititis (middle left side), Mare tranquilitis (lower left side), and Mere Crisium, dark rounded feature towards the bottom of the mosaic. Credit: NASA / JPL / USGS
Brief participants are:
- Paul Hertz, Director of Astrophysics at NASA Headquarters, Washington, Washington
- Leading research scientist Jacob Blatter for the Directorate of Human Exploration and Operations at NASA Headquarters
- Casey Honnibal, Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
- Naseem Rangwala, Sophia Mission Project Scientist, NASA’s AIIMS Research Center, Silicon Valley, California
As the world’s largest aerial observer, Sofia is an improved mod 747 that flies high in the atmosphere, providing its nearly 9-foot telescope with a clear view of the universe and objects objects in our solar system. Flying above 99% of the atmosphere’s opaque water vapor, Sofia observes at infrared wavelengths and can detect the impossible phenomenon of seeing with visible light.
