How’s this for 2020 vision 👀?⁣
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This panorama of Mars,
made up of a crisp 1.8 billion pixels,
is our Curiosity rover's most detailed view of its hometown to date!
It required more than 6 1/2 hours over four days for Curiosity to capture the individual shots.
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Since landing in 2012 to assess whether Mars was ever able to support microbial life,
our Curiosity rover has given us striking glimpses of the Red Planet.
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Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS⁣
⁣ #Mars #Planets #Curiosity #Explorer #Rover #adventureseeker

Without the women of NASA,
space exploration would be just a dream.
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This #InternationalWomensDay join us in celebrating the women whose grit,
ingenuity and talent drives us forward in our mission to boldly expand frontiers in air and space.
Thank you for pushing boundaries,
serving as role models and shaping space,
science and discovery every day!
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Image Credit:
NASA⁣
⁣ #Women #NASA #WomensHistoryMonth #RoleModel #Inspirational #Space #Science

From blessings to breakfast –
you don’t mess with spaceflight rituals.
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Whether you’re an athlete,
a performer or an astronaut,
one thing stays the same –
traditions before the big day are taken seriously!
Ever since Yuri Gagarin’s first Earth orbit in 1961,
astronauts have been racking up rituals to perform before they rocket to space.
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A Russian tradition is for the astronauts and cosmonauts,
plus their rocket,
to receive a traditional blessing from a Russian Orthodox priest prior to their launch.
During the Apollo days,
astronauts ate a hearty breakfast of steak and eggs with their backup crew and the chief astronaut.
In the Shuttle era,
the crew had to beat their commander in a game of cards before being cleared for liftoff.
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We’re launching astronauts from American soil THIS YEAR for the first time in almost a decade,
and we’ll need some new rituals.
Comment a tradition you would add below!
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⁣ #Artemis #NASA #Tradition #GameTime #Astronaut ⁣#Explore