Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA discussed life and work aboard the orbital outpost during an in-flight interview October 25 with former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino and the Columbia University Columbia Space Initiative. Pettit is in the midst of a long-duration mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration flights as part of NASA’s Moon and Mars exploration approach, including lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program.
Credit: NASA
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Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA discussed life and work aboard the orbital outpost during an in-flight interview October 25 with former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino and the Columbia University Columbia Space Initiative. Pettit is in the midst of a long-duration mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration flights as part of NASA’s Moon and Mars exploration approach, including lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program.
Credit: NASA
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![Ten Years at Mars with NASA’s MAVEN Mission
On September 21, 2014, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmospheric and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft entered orbit around Mars, beginning its ongoing exploration of the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere. The mission has produced a wealth of data about how Mars’s atmosphere responds to the Sun and solar wind, and how these interactions can explain the loss of the Martian atmosphere to space. Now, as MAVEN continues its mission, we can look back on the remarkable discoveries of its first ten years at Mars.
Read about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/maven/celebrating-10-years-at-mars-with-nasas-maven-mission/
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Dan Gallagher: Producer/Narrator
Shannon Curry: Scientist
Willow Reed: Public Affairs
Nancy Jones: Public Affairs
Greg Shirah: Data Visualizer
Cindy Starr: Data Visualizer
Kel Elkins: Data Visualizer
Walt Feimer: Animator
Michael Lentz: Animator
Chris Smith: Animator
Jonathan North: Animator
Brian Monroe: Animator
Lisa Poje: Graphic Designer
Adriana Manrique Gutierrez: Graphic Designer
Kim Dongjae: Graphic Designer
Ernie Wright: Support
Aaron E. Lepsch: Technical Support
Universal Production Music: “Executive Deceit” by Samuel Karl Bohn [PRS], Chalk Music [PRS]; “Quasar” by Ross Stephen Gilmartin [PRS], Chappell Recorded Music Library Ltd [PRS]; “Modular Odyssey” and “Synthology” by Laetitia Frenod [SACEM], Koka Media [SACEM]
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![NASAs Illuminate: Largest Sunspot in Almost a Decade
This is the biggest sunspot we’ve seen in almost a decade!
Sunspots are cooler, darker areas on the solar surface where the Sun’s magnetic field gets especially intense, often leading to explosive solar eruptions. This sunspot was so big that nearly 14 Earths could fit inside it! The eruptions from this sunspot resulted in the historic May 2024 geomagnetic storms, where the aurora borealis, or northern lights, were seen as far south as the Florida Keys.
NASA’s Illuminate: Out-of-this-world images shining light on our Sun and solar system.
Music Credit: “Chronicle of Time” by Guy Skornik [SACEM] and Elisabeth Skornik [SACEM] via Universal Production Music
Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Beth Anthony (eMITS)
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