NASAさんのインスタグラム写真 - (NASAInstagram)「NASA just announced the plan for our astronauts to return to the surface of the Moon by the year 2024. And this time we’re visiting new territory – the South Pole. Here are five ways NASA Goddard science is already supporting the #Moon2Mars initiative: 🌑 Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera, as well as the data from other instruments aboard the spacecraft, provide scientists and engineers the means to study the lunar surface at high-resolution so that future missions can take advantage of the truly rich geology of the Moon. ☀️ To understand this complex environment, heliophysics has placed critical, well-thought-out missions to observe and understand the flow of energy and particles throughout space, from Parker Solar Probe studying the source of the solar wind at the Sun to Voyager exploring interstellar space. 🛰️ In 2005, NASA used the Hubble Space Telescope to search for important resources that may be essential for sustained human presence on the Moon. Hubble’s ability to “see” ultraviolet light allowed the telescope to search for oxygen-bearing minerals at several lunar sites, including the Apollo 17 landing region. 🌧️ The James Webb Space Telescope will observe the full disk of Mars to study processes that cover the global Martian atmosphere and its changes. Webb will be able to study global dust storms and water ice variability on Mars. 🌎 A number of locations on Earth with extreme conditions, like the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, Kilauea Crater in Hawaii and the Atacama Desert in Chile, are analogs to current or ancient conditions on Mars. NASA scientists visit these locations to test instruments and drills for future missions to Mars, and to better understand if and how life could have once emerged on the Red Planet. 🚀 Read more: nasa.gov/moontomars #nasagoddard #moon2mars #space #science」3月27日 6時22分