And in 3-D!
Behold Endurance! 3-D
Approaching Endurance 3-D
Almost There! 3-D
Paramour Rupes in 3-D
Lermontov in 3-D!
Waters in 3-D!
Catullus in 3-D
The Pantheon in 3-D
3-D Clouds
Peaking Out -- in 3-D!
Landing Trail in 3-D
Mercury - in 3-D!
New QuickMap Feature: 3-D!
3-D View of Mars Particle
Northern Terra Meridiani Rocks and Cliffs in 3-D
A 3-D View of Saturn Clouds and Hazes
Slipher Crater: Fractured Moon in 3-D
Rugged Terrain on Europa in 3-D Stereo
One View, Two Craters 3-D
Opportunity Landing Spot Panorama 3-D Model
Preparing for Lights Out on Mars 3-D
Student interns and NASA personnel cluster in front of PRANDTL-D No. 3 following a crash on Rosamond Dry Lake. The radio-controlled glider was built to validate a new spanload.
This video clip shows a visualisation of the three-dimensional structure of the Pillars of Creation within the star formation region Messier 16 (also called the Eagle Nebula). It is based on new observations of the object using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. The pillars actually consist of several distinct pieces on either side of the star cluster NGC 6611. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Read more: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/pillars-of-creation-revealed-in-3-d" rel="nofollow">www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/pillars-of-creation-re...</a> <b><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html" rel="nofollow">NASA image use policy.</a></b> <b><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html" rel="nofollow">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b> enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. <b>Follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a></b> <b>Like us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a></b> <b>Find us on <a href="http://instagrid.me/nasagoddard/?vm=grid" rel="nofollow">Instagram</a></b>
This anaglpyh from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows Caparronia crater on asteroid Vesta. The 3-D effect of the anaglyph highlights the large ridge running across the base of Caparronia crater. You will need 3-D glasses to view this image.
This image depicts a vast canyon of dust and gas in the Orion Nebula from a 3-D computer model based on observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and created by science visualization specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md. A 3-D visualization of this model takes viewers on an amazing four-minute voyage through the 15-light-year-wide canyon. Credit: NASA, G. Bacon, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (STScI/AURA) Go here to learn more about Hubble 3D: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/hubble_imax_premiere.html" rel="nofollow">www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/hubble_imax_premier...</a> or <a href="http://www.imax.com/hubble/" rel="nofollow">www.imax.com/hubble/</a> Take an exhilarating ride through the Orion Nebula, a vast star-making factory 1,500 light-years away. Swoop through Orion's giant canyon of gas and dust. Fly past behemoth stars whose brilliant light illuminates and energizes the entire cloudy region. Zoom by dusty tadpole-shaped objects that are fledgling solar systems. This virtual space journey isn't the latest video game but one of several groundbreaking astronomy visualizations created by specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, the science operations center for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The cinematic space odysseys are part of the new Imax film "Hubble 3D," which opens today at select Imax theaters worldwide. The 43-minute movie chronicles the 20-year life of Hubble and includes highlights from the May 2009 servicing mission to the Earth-orbiting observatory, with footage taken by the astronauts. The giant-screen film showcases some of Hubble's breathtaking iconic pictures, such as the Eagle Nebula's "Pillars of Creation," as well as stunning views taken by the newly installed Wide Field Camera 3. While Hubble pictures of celestial objects are awe-inspiring, they are flat 2-D photographs. For this film, those 2-D images have been converted into 3-D environments, giving the audience the impression they are space travelers taking a tour of Hubble's most popular targets. "A large-format movie is a truly immersive experience," says Frank Summers, an STScI astronomer and science visualization specialist who led the team that developed the movie visualizations. The team labored for nine months, working on four visualization sequences that comprise about 12 minutes of the movie. "Seeing these Hubble images in 3-D, you feel like you are flying through space and not just looking at picture postcards," Summers continued. "The spacescapes are all based on Hubble images and data, though some artistic license is necessary to produce the full depth of field needed for 3-D." The most ambitious sequence is a four-minute voyage through the Orion Nebula's gas-and-dust canyon, about 15 light-years across. During the ride, viewers will see bright and dark, gaseous clouds; thousands of stars, including a grouping of bright, hefty stars called the Trapezium; and embryonic planetary systems. The tour ends with a detailed look at a young circumstellar disk, which is much like the structure from which our solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago. Based on a Hubble image of Orion released in 2006, the visualization was a collaborative effort between science visualization specialists at STScI, including Greg Bacon, who sculpted the Orion Nebula digital model, with input from STScI astronomer Massimo Roberto; the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. For some of the sequences, STScI imaging specialists developed new techniques for transforming the 2-D Hubble images into 3-D. STScI image processing specialists Lisa Frattare and Zolt Levay, for example, created methods of splitting a giant gaseous pillar in the Carina Nebula into multiple layers to produce a 3-D effect, giving the structure depth. The Carina Nebula is a nursery for baby stars. Frattare painstakingly removed the thousands of stars in the image so that Levay could separate the gaseous layers on the isolated Carina pillar. Frattare then replaced the stars into both foreground and background layers to complete the 3-D model. For added effect, the same separation was done for both visible and infrared Hubble images, allowing the film to cross-fade between wavelength views in 3-D. In another sequence viewers fly into a field of 170,000 stars in the giant star cluster Omega Centauri. STScI astronomer Jay Anderson used his stellar database to create a synthetic star field in 3-D that matches recent razor-sharp Hubble photos. The film's final four-minute sequence takes viewers on a voyage from our Milky Way Galaxy past many of Hubble's best galaxy shots and deep into space. Some 15,000 galaxies from Hubble's deepest surveys stretch billions of light-years across the universe in a 3-D sequence created by STScI astronomers and visualizers. The view dissolves into a cobweb that traces the universe's large-scale structure, the backbone from which galaxies were born. In addition to creating visualizations, STScI's education group also provided guidance on the "Hubble 3D" Educator Guide, which includes standards-based lesson plans and activities about Hubble and its mission. Students will use the guide before or after seeing the movie. "The guide will enhance the movie experience for students and extend the movie into classrooms," says Bonnie Eisenhamer, STScI's Hubble Formal Education manager. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) and is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Md. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) conducts Hubble science operations. The institute is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Echocardiography uses sound waves to image the heart and other organs. Developing a compact version of the latest technology improved the ease of monitoring crew member health, a critical task during long space flights. NASA researchers plan to adapt the three-dimensional (3-D) echocardiogram for space flight. The two-dimensional (2-D) echocardiogram utilized in orbit on the International Space Station (ISS) was effective, but difficult to use with precision. A heart image from a 2-D echocardiogram (left) is of a better quality than that from a 3-D device (right), but the 3-D imaging procedure is more user-friendly.
This image taken by the microscopic imager on NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the powdery soil of Mars in 3-D. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took this 3-D navigation camera mosaic of the crater called Bonneville. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
Laser Provides First 3-D View of Mars North Pole
3-D Color Digital Elevation Map of AFM Sample
NASA Model Provides 3-D Look at L.A.-area 5.1 Quake
3-D Audio Laboratory N-262 (rm194) Human Factors Research. Druand 'Randy' Begauldt in sound booth.
3-D Audio Laboratory N-262 (rm194) Human Factors Research. Sound Booth with dummy.
3-D Audio Laboratory N-262 (rm194) Human Factors Research. Tom Lee (subject) and Durand 'Randy' Begauldt in sound booth
RODNEY GRUBBS, PROGRAM MANAGER FOR NASA'S IMAGERY EXPERTS PROGRAM AT THE MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, DISPLAYS THE 3-D CAMERA THAT WAS RETURNED FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. THE MONITOR BEHIND HIM SHOWS THE 3-D VIDEO THAT WILL NEED SPECIAL GLASSES TO VIEW CORRECTLY.
This stereo anaglyph shows the parachute and back shell that helped guide NASA Curiosity to the surface of Mars. You need 3-D glasses to view this image.
NIKKI WERKHEISER AND QUINCY BEAN, MEMBERS OF THE 3-D PRINTER TEAM EXAMINE PARTS PRODUCED ON A PROTOTYPE OF THE FIRST 3-D PRINTER TO BE SENT TO THE ISS
NIKKI WERKHEISER AND QUINCY BEAN, MEMBERS OF THE 3-D PRINTER TEAM EXAMINE PARTS PRODUCED ON A PROTOTYPE OF THE FIRST 3-D PRINTER TO BE SENT TO THE ISS
This 3-D image shows the upcoming science destination for NASA Mars rover Curiosity, a region dubbed Glenelg, where three different types of material seen from orbit come together.
Saturn potato-shaped moon Prometheus is rendered in three dimensions in this close-up from NASA Cassini spacecraft. You will need 3-D glasses to view this image.
This graphic shows a 3-D model of 98 geysers whose source locations and tilts were found in a NASA Cassini imaging survey of Enceladus south polar terrain by the method of triangulation.
NASA Mars Pathfinder forward rover ramp can be seen successfully unfurled in this image, taken in stereo by the Imager camera. 3-D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail.
NIKKI WERKHEISER EXAMINES THE RAW MATERIAL USED IN THE FIRST 3-D PRINTER TO BE SENT TO THE ISS WHICH IS DESIGNED TO BE A TEST BED FOR MANUFACTURING SMALL AS ARTICLES AS NEEDED.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 121. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic taken by the navigation camera on NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on sol 82 shows the view south of the large crater dubbed Bonneville. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
NASA Mars Pathfinder forward rover ramp can be seen successfully unfurled in this image, taken in stereo by the Imager camera. The large rock dubbed Wedge is at lower right. 3-D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail.
This view of Cilix impact crater on Europa was created in 2013 using 3-D stereo images taken by NASA Galileo spacecraft, combined with advanced image processing techniques.
NASA Mars Pathfinder forward rover ramp can be seen successfully unfurled in this image, taken in stereo by the Imager camera. The large rock dubbed Wedge is at lower right. 3-D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail.
Wispy fractures cut through cratered terrain on Saturn moon Rhea in this high resolution, 3-D image from NASA Cassini spacecraft. 3D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 103. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 127. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
Many prominent rocks near the Sagan Memorial Station are featured in this image, from NASA Mars Pathfinder. Wedge is at lower left; Shark, Half-Dome, and Pumpkin are at center. 3-D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail.
Nathan Gelino, a NASA research engineer at Kennedy Space Center in Florida displays a 3-D printed cylinder used for compression testing. Engineers at the center’s Swamp Works measured how much force it takes to break the structure before moving on to 3-D printing with a simulated lunar regolith, or dirt, and polymers. Next, Gelino and his group are working on a Zero Launch Mass 3-D printer that can be used for construction projects on the Moon and Mars, even for troops in remote locations here on Earth. Zero launch mass refers to the fact that the printer uses these pellets to prove that space explorers can use resources at their destination instead of taking everything with them, saving them launch mass and money. Gelino and his team are working with Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop a system that can 3-D print barracks in remote locations on Earth, using the resources they have where they are.
Nathan Gelino, a NASA research engineer at Kennedy Space Center in Florida displays a 3-D printed cylinder used for compression testing. Engineers at the center’s Swamp Works measured how much force it takes to break the structure before moving on to 3-D printing with a simulated lunar regolith, or dirt, and polymers. Next, Gelino and his group are working on a Zero Launch Mass 3-D printer that can be used for construction projects on the Moon and Mars, even for troops in remote locations here on Earth. Zero launch mass refers to the fact that the printer uses these pellets to prove that space explorers can use resources at their destination instead of taking everything with them, saving them launch mass and money. Gelino and his team are working with Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop a system that can 3-D print barracks in remote locations on Earth, using the resources they have where they are.
This anaglyph from images captured by NASA Cassini spacecraft shows a dramatic, 3-D view of one of the deep fractures nicknamed tiger stripes on Saturn moon Enceladus which are located near the moon south pole, spray jets of water ice.
This 3-D image shows the region where NASA Deep Impact mission sent a probe into the surface of comet Tempel 1 in 2005. This picture was taken six years after the Deep Impact collision. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
This 3-D, microscopic imager mosaic of a target area on a rock called Diamond Jenness was taken after NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity ground into the surface with its rock abrasion tool for a second time. 3D glasses are necessary.
This 3-D image captured by NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity rear hazard-identification camera shows the now-empty lander that carried the rover 283 million miles to Meridiani Planum, Mars. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 123. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
Many prominent rocks near the Sagan Memorial Station are featured in this image, from NASA Mars Pathfinder. Flat Top and Little Flat Top are at center. 3-D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 110. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
This anaglyph shows the topography of Vesta eastern hemisphere; equatorial troughs are visible around asteroid Vesta equator and north of these troughs there are a number of highly degraded, old, large craters. You need 3-D glasses to view this image.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 93. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 107. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
This sprawling look at the martian landscape surrounding the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is the first 3-D stereo image from the rover navigation camera. Sleepy Hollow can be seen to center left of the image. 3D glasses are necessary.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 122. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 101. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
This stereo anaglyph shows NASA Mars rover Curiosity where it landed on Mars within Gale Crater, at a site now called Bradbury Landing. You need 3-D glasses to view this image.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 109. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
NASA Sojourner was still latched to one of the lander petals, waiting for the command sequence that would execute its descent off of the lander petal. 3-D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail.
This image is a 3-D view in front of NASA Curiosity rover captured by the rover front left Hazard-Avoidance camera. The image is cropped but part of Mount Sharp is still visible rising above the terrain.
This image is a 3-D view behind NASA Curiosity rover. The anaglyph was made from a stereo pair of Hazard-Avoidance Cameras on the rear of the rover. It has been cropped.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 151. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 108. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 115. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 153. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 100. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
This 3-D cylindrical-perspective mosaic was created from navigation camera images that NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured on on sol 124. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
UAH ENGINEERING STUDENT ROBERT HILLAN TALKS TO SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS ABOUT HIS WINNING 3-D PRINTED TOOL DESIGNED FOR USE ON ISS, AND IS INTERVIEWED BY LOCAL MEDIA
UAH ENGINEERING STUDENT ROBERT HILLAN TALKS TO SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS ABOUT HIS WINNING 3-D PRINTED TOOL DESIGNED FOR USE ON ISS, AND IS INTERVIEWED BY LOCAL MEDIA
UAH ENGINEERING STUDENT ROBERT HILLAN TALKS TO SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS ABOUT HIS WINNING 3-D PRINTED TOOL DESIGNED FOR USE ON ISS, AND IS INTERVIEWED BY LOCAL MEDIA
RAYMOND G. (CORKY) CLINTON WITH A WORKING MODEL OF THE FIRST 3-D PRINTER TO BE SENT TO THE ISS, ALONG WITH OTHER PRODUCTS FROM THE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING LAB IN BUILDING 4707.
This 3-D anaglyph, from NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows a microscopic image taken of soil featuring round, blueberry-shaped rock formations on the crater floor at Meridiani Planum, Mars. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
This 3-D anaglyph, from NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows a microscopic image taken of soil featuring round, blueberry-shaped rock formations on the crater floor at Meridiani Planum, Mars. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
Researchers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are developing a Zero Launch Mass 3-D printer at the center's Swamp Works. The printer can be used for construction projects on the Moon and Mars. Zero launch mass refers to the fact that the printer uses pellets made from simulated lunar regolith, or dirt, and polymers. This will prove that space explorers can use resources at their destination instead of taking everything with them, saving them launch mass and money. The Kennedy team is working with Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop a system that can 3-D print barracks in remote locations on Earth, using the resources they have where they are.
A Zero Launch Mass 3-D printer is being developed by researchers in Swamp Works at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The printer can be used for construction projects on the Moon and Mars. Zero launch mass refers to the fact that the printer uses pellets made from simulated lunar regolith, or dirt, and polymers. This will prove that space explorers can use resources at their destination instead of taking everything with them, saving them launch mass and money. The Kennedy team is working with Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop a system that can 3-D print barracks in remote locations on Earth, using the resources they have where they are.
A Zero Launch Mass 3-D printer is being tested at the Swamp Works at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The printer can be used for construction projects on the Moon and Mars. Zero launch mass refers to the fact that the printer uses pellets made from simulated lunar regolith, or dirt, and polymers. This will prove that space explorers can use resources at their destination instead of taking everything with them, saving them launch mass and money. The Kennedy team is working with Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop a system that can 3-D print barracks in remote locations on Earth, using the resources they have where they are.
Researchers demonstrate a Zero Launch Mass 3-D printer in Swamp Works at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The printer can be used for construction projects on the Moon and Mars. Zero launch mass refers to the fact that the printer uses pellets made from simulated lunar regolith, or dirt, and polymers. This will prove that space explorers can use resources at their destination instead of taking everything with them, saving them launch mass and money. The Kennedy team is working with Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop a system that can 3-D print barracks in remote locations on Earth, using the resources they have where they are.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., the STEREO observatory "B" will undergo testing. STEREO, which stands for Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, consists of two spacecraft whose mission is to take measurements of the sun and solar wind in 3-D, for the first time. This new view will improve our understanding of space weather and its impact on the Earth. Preparations are under way for a liftoff aboard a Delta rocket no earlier than July 30. Photo credit: NASA/George Shelton
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., technicians prepare to deploy the solar panel on the STEREO observatory "A." STEREO, which stands for Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, consists of two spacecraft whose mission is to take measurements of the sun and solar wind in 3-D, for the first time. This new view will improve our understanding of space weather and its impact on the Earth. Preparations are under way for a liftoff aboard a Delta rocket no earlier than July 30. Photo credit: NASA/George Shelton
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., engineers perform testing on the solar panel on the STEREO observatory "A." STEREO, which stands for Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, consists of two spacecraft whose mission is to take measurements of the sun and solar wind in 3-D, for the first time. This new view will improve our understanding of space weather and its impact on the Earth. Preparations are under way for a liftoff aboard a Delta rocket no earlier than July 30. Photo credit: NASA/George Shelton
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., the deployed solar panel on the STEREO observatory "A" undergoes testing. STEREO, which stands for Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, consists of two spacecraft whose mission is to take measurements of the sun and solar wind in 3-D, for the first time. This new view will improve our understanding of space weather and its impact on the Earth. Preparations are under way for a liftoff aboard a Delta rocket no earlier than July 30. Photo credit: NASA/George Shelton
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., the solar panel on the STEREO observatory "A" has been deployed for testing. STEREO, which stands for Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, consists of two spacecraft whose mission is to take measurements of the sun and solar wind in 3-D, for the first time. This new view will improve our understanding of space weather and its impact on the Earth. Preparations are under way for a liftoff aboard a Delta rocket no earlier than July 30. Photo credit: NASA/George Shelton
DARIAN BRYANT, LEFT, AND MELISSA HOPPER, STOWAGE ENGINEERS WITH THE PAYLOAD OPERATIONS INTEGRATION CENTER AT NASA'S MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER WORK WITH NASA ASTRONAUT BARRY "BUTCH" WILMORE TO CALIBRATE THE FIRST 3-D PRINTER FLOWN ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
Nathan Gelino, a NASA research engineer at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is working on a Zero Launch Mass 3-D printer in the center's Swamp Works that can be used for construction projects on the Moon and Mars, and even for troops in remote locations here on Earth. Zero launch mass refers to the fact that the printer uses pellets made from simulated lunar regolith, or dirt, and polymers to prove that space explorers can use resources at their destination instead of taking everything with them, saving them launch mass and money. Gelino and his team are working with Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop a system that can 3-D print barracks in remote locations on Earth, using the resources they have where they are.
Research engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are working on a Zero Launch Mass 3-D printer at the center's Swamp Works. The printer can be used for construction projects on the Moon and Mars, and even for troops in remote locations on Earth. Zero launch mass refers to the fact that the printer uses pellets made from simulated lunar regolith, or dirt, and polymers to prove that space explorers can use resources at their destination instead of taking everything with them, saving them launch mass and money. The group is working with Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop a system that can 3-D print barracks in remote locations on Earth, using the resources they have where they are.
Pellets made from simulated lunar regolith, or dirt, and polymers are being used to test a Zero Launch Mass 3-D printer in the Swamp Works at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The printer can be used for construction projects on the Moon and Mars, and even for troops in remote locations on Earth. Zero launch mass refers to the fact that the printer uses these pellets to prove that space explorers can use resources at their destination instead of taking everything with them, saving them launch mass and money. The group is working with Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop a system that can 3-D print barracks in remote locations on Earth, using the resources they have where they are.
Research engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are working on a Zero Launch Mass 3-D printer at the center's Swamp Works. The printer can be used for construction projects on the Moon and Mars, and even for troops in remote locations on Earth. Zero launch mass refers to the fact that the printer uses pellets made from simulated lunar regolith, or dirt, and polymers to prove that space explorers can use resources at their destination instead of taking everything with them, saving them launch mass and money. The group is working with Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop a system that can 3-D print barracks in remote locations on Earth, using the resources they have where they are.
A Zero Launch Mass 3-D printer is being tested at the Swamp Works at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The printer can be used for construction projects on the Moon and Mars, and even for troops in remote locations on Earth. Zero launch mass refers to the fact that the printer uses pellets made from simulated lunar regolith, or dirt, and polymers to prove that space explorers can use resources at their destination instead of taking everything with them, saving them launch mass and money. The group is working with Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop a system that can 3-D print barracks in remote locations on Earth, using the resources they have where they are.