2022.05.11 | “This thin blue line of atmosphere that blankets and protects us all”

12/05/2022 52 min

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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 11 May 2022: 
Space Show News:

NASA’s CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) spacecraft is in transit from California to Rocket Lab’s launch complex 1B on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand 
A report on the first two years of Yutu-2, the robotic lunar rover component of CNSA's Chang'e 4 mission to the far side of the Moon
Hayabusa2 (the asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese state space agency JAXA) sample analysis reveals the presence of organic material (amino acids), the building blocks of life
Ingenuity helicopter successfully completes 28 flights across Mars


Features:

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer aboard the International Space Station
James Webb Space Telescope imaged by Gaia


Planet Earth - Episode 37: 

AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on NASA's Aqua satellite)
Reduced air pollution during the COVID-19 pandemic and a sharp decline in precipitation in the western United States
OCO (Orbiting Carbon Observatory) 2 and 3 
Carbon Mapper 
Gavin Schmidt, Acting Senior Climate Advisor at NASA
Astronaut reflections on seeing the Earth from space: “The only border that matters is this thin blue line of atmosphere that blankets and protects us all” ~ Nicole Stott

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