<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><header style="margin: 30px 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible;"><h1 style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 34px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;">Hi all,</font></h1><div><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;"> I</span>’<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">ve been trying to get this out for </span>a few<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;"> days</span>…<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">in case any astronomers don</span>’<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">t know about this opportunity</span>…I am not an astronomer but I know so many who are fascinated with it…I remember the first time I looked through a telescope to see another planet…I thought it was amazing…everything going excellent…sorting out visits to schools in Oklahoma the beginning of April, the end of April heading to Brazil for three weeks…it has been an interesting start to the year…trips to Pakistan, Brazil, and Australia all got postponed…I have been super busy at home so it is all great…I have been getting a lot done, which has been fun, have also had visitors stopping by KSC and my house…which is so awesome…w</font><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: large;">e have launches every week…it never gets old…I love sharing them with visitors...</span></div><div><font face="Gill Sans"><font size="4"> </font></font><span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">We have to stay positive and always be thankful… remembering to do our best, enjoy everything we do, believe in ourselves, and let those we care about most know (I always say this, we all need to take it to heart…hugs and smiles. STAY SAFE, TAKE CARE, Love ya, Gabe</font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit;"> </div><h1 style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 28px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 34px; vertical-align: baseline;">5 planets will align on March 27 and you won't want to miss it. Here's where to look.</h1><div class="byline-social" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="byline" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;"><div id="slice-container-authorByline" class="slice-container slice-author-byline authorByline slice-container-authorByline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; --author-byline__text--letter-case: none;"><div class="author-byline author-byline--basic-layout" data-reactroot="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: var(--author-byline__text--letter-case); clear: both;"><br></div></div></div><p class="strapline" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28px; font-size: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The moon and star cluster M35 will also be getting in on the action.</p><nav class="socialite-widget box less-space" data-contexturl="https://www.space.com/5-planet-alignment-march-2023-viewing-opportunity" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: table; clear: both; width: 602px;"></nav></div></header><section class="content-wrapper" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; 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font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">(Image credit: brightstars via Getty Images)</span></font></figcaption></div><div class="left-rail-area" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; position: fixed; top: 0px; left: 0px; z-index: 100000; overflow: auto; width: 135px; height: 200vh; pointer-events: none; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></div><div id="article-body" class="text-copy bodyCopy auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; position: relative; word-break: break-word; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-size: 20px;">On March 27, a planetary parade made up of Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Uranus will march across the sky.</font></p><div id="ad-unit-1" class="ad-unit" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-size: 20px;">At this particular time of the year, amateur astronomers are participating in the Messier Marathon. Originally conceived by the late comet hunter, <a href="https://www.space.com/comet-observer-don-macholz-tribute" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Don Machholz</u></a>, it takes place around the time of the <a href="https://www.space.com/17561-new-moon-explained-lunar-phases.html" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">new moon</u></a>, and within a week or so of the Vernal <a href="https://www.space.com/what-is-an-equinox.html" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Equinox</u></a>. </font></p><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; --black: #1b1b1b; --white: #fff; --yellow: #ffd800; --green: #3c8d0d; --orange: #ff6f28; --red: red; --pink: #e6248a; --light-blue: #97edfc; --mid-grey: #333; --light-grey: #eaeaea; --grey: #adadad; --dark-grey: #545454; --light-mid-grey: #ccc; --prime-blue: #00aeef; 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--deal-hero-promo-color-progressive: #d21f26; --deal-widget-hero-box-shadow-color: #e9e9e93b; --sticky-promo-color: #e19c42; --terms-conditions: #c0464a; --voucher-promo: #c0464a; --promotion-primary-color: var(--white); --promotion-secondary-color: var(--light-mid-grey); --promotion-cta-background: var(--site-color); --promotion-cta-text-color: var(--black); position: relative; width: 100%;"></aside></font></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-size: 20px;">It is during this particular time of year, that all 110 of the various deep sky objects cataloged by the French astronomer, Charles Messier, come into view. Those with telescopes and a good knowledge of the sky, will stay up from dusk to dawn, looking for and logging as many Messier objects as they can. Sometimes, there are organized marathons scheduled, such as at the recent <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yucwzmbx" data-url="https://tinyurl.com/yucwzmbx" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">International Star Party</u></a> in Flagstaff, Arizona. Even for assiduous amateur astronomers, the Messier Marathon poses a significant observing challenge </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-size: 20px;"><br></font></p><div data-testid="copy_headline" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); padding-bottom: 5px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/qdniCKojllDvtMALCifPauBWcNkVaK?format=multipart" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><font color="#000000">Relativity Space's 3D-printed rocket fails to reach orbit</font></span></a></div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 15px; padding-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 3px; margin-right: 15px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-right: 15px !important;"><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/qdniCKojllDvtMALCifPauBWcNkVaK" style="color: rgb(49, 103, 197);"><img src="cid:1228D718-DF33-451B-AAE4-43BC05FF6BB2" height="380" border="0" alt="Relativity Space's 3D-printed rocket fails to reach orbit.jpeg" class="scale_full_width" style="max-width: 570px;"></a></td></tr><tr><td width="570" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 15px !important;"><div style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 9px; line-height: normal;">(Relativity Space)</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div id="article-body" class="text-copy bodyCopy auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; position: relative; word-break: break-word; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">Relativity Space made history late Wednesday with the launch of Terran 1, the world's first 3D-printed rocket. But something went wrong with the rocket's upper stage.</span><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">Still, the company is thrilled to have made it through Max-Q. "We just completed a major step in proving to the world that 3D-printed rockets are structurally viable," the company's Arwa Tizani Kelly said.</span></div><div id="article-body" class="text-copy bodyCopy auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; position: relative; word-break: break-word; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="title-bar" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 739.953125px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.2em; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1;">NASA, Canadian Space Agency to Assign Artemis II Moon Astronauts</h1></div></div><section id="ember29" class="collapsible opened ember-view" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="dnd-atom-wrapper type-image context-full_width" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/artemis_ii_graphics.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="cid:0AEDE013-125A-40C5-BC68-BAC2EA164066" height="554" alt="Artemis II is the first crewed flight test on the agency’s path to establishing a long-term scientific and human presence on the lunar surface. .jpeg" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;"></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 11px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Artemis II is the first crewed flight test on the agency’s path to establishing a long-term scientific and human presence on the lunar surface.</div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Credits: NASA</div><div class="link" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color: inherit; padding: 0px; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit;"></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">NASA and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) will announce during an event at 11 a.m. EDT (10 a.m. CDT) on Monday, April 3, from NASA Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston, the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon. Traveling aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft during <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">Artemis II</a>, the mission is the first crewed flight test on the agency’s path to establishing a long-term scientific and human presence on the lunar surface.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">The event will air on NASA Television, the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/connect/apps.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">NASA app</a>, and the agency’s <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/live" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">website</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">Media are invited to attend the event and speak with the astronauts about their assignments. Other experts working on Artemis missions also will be available. Additional opportunities to interview crew remotely will be available on Tuesday, April 4.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">International media wishing to attend must contact NASA no later than 5 p.m. CDT Friday, March 17. U.S. media must contact NASA no later than 5 p.m. Monday, March 27. Media can RSVP to the Johnson newsroom by calling 281-483-5111 or emailing: <a href="mailto:jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">Artemis II is the first crewed mission aboard NASA’s foundational human deep space capabilities: the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, and the ground systems needed to launch them. The approximately 10-day mission will test and stress the Orion spacecraft’s life-support systems to prove the capabilities and techniques required to live and work in deep space in ways only humans can do.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">The crew will include three NASA astronauts and one CSA astronaut, demonstrating the agency’s commitment to international partnerships through the Artemis program. Artemis II builds on the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/analysis-confirms-successful-artemis-i-moon-mission-reviews-continue" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">successful</a> Artemis I flight test, which launched an uncrewed Orion, atop the SLS rocket, on a 1.4 million-mile journey beyond the Moon to test systems before astronauts fly aboard the systems on a mission to the Moon.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">Learn more about Artemis at:</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><p align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/artemis/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">https://www.nasa.gov/artemis/</strong></a> </font></p><div class="title-bar" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 739.953125px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.2em; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1;"><br></h1><h1 class="title" style="font-size: 2.2em; font-family: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.1;">NASA’s Dragonfly Team Soars through Major Design Review </h1></div></div><section id="ember24" class="collapsible opened ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">Before it can fly its revolutionary rotorcraft over the organic dunes of Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission team needs to navigate a series of independent reviews to demonstrate the flight project is on track. </font><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 1em;"> </font></p><div class="dnd-atom-wrapper type-image context-full_width" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/dragonfly-onsurface_c_0.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="cid:B5B37C32-5733-4F18-8C7F-B9BF501F3CAA" height="554" alt="Artist’s impression of the Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander on the surface of Titan.jpeg" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;"></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 11px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Artist’s impression of the Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander on the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon and a major target in NASA’s quest to assess habitability and search for potential signs of life beyond Earth on worlds across the solar system.</div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben</div><div class="link" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color: inherit; padding: 0px; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit;"><a href="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);"></a></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">Led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, the team recently crossed a major milestone on that path, successfully passing all the technical requirements and standards of the weeklong Preliminary Design Review (PDR) that wrapped up on March 3. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">“I am very proud of the entire Dragonfly team,” said Bobby Braun, head of APL’s Space Exploration Sector. “APL, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Lockheed Martin, and all of our partners really came together to deliver a credible technical baseline. The fidelity and thought that went into each decision was clearly communicated and forms a solid foundation upon which the team can build.” </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">The PDR – a requirement for all NASA missions – covers topics such as spacecraft design, mission requirements, science plans, schedule, cost, and risk. Held at APL, which manages the mission and will build and operate the Dragonfly lander, the PDR included more than 60 presentations to a panel of external experts tasked with evaluating and assessing mission progress for NASA.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">“I’m excited to see all of the Dragonfly mission's design components coming together,” said Lori Glaze, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This mission team's hard work has resulted in the technical design for a spacecraft that can conduct compelling science to increase our understanding of Titan.” </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">NASA will consider the board’s findings in a confirmation review later this year, examining Dragonfly’s cost, schedule, and the recommended baseline plan forward. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">Learn more about the mission at <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/dragonfly" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">www.nasa.gov/dragonfly</a>.</font><span style="font-size: 1em; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="font-size: 1em; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><br></p><div class="title-bar" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Titillium Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 739.953125px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.2em; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1;">NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes Mars Sample Depot</h1></div></div><section id="ember24" class="collapsible opened ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="dnd-atom-wrapper type-image context-full_width" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia25681-figure-a-selfie-1-1041.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="cid:310B03C7-C34E-4885-82F8-74684B82B4B0" height="922" alt="NASA’s Perseverance took this selfie of itself looking down at one of 10 sample tubes.jpeg" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;"></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 11px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">NASA’s Perseverance took this selfie of itself looking down at one of 10 sample tubes deposited at the sample depot it created in an area nicknamed “Three Forks.” This image was taken by the WATSON camera on the rover’s robotic arm on Jan. 22, 2023, the 684th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.</div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS</div><div class="link" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color: inherit; padding: 0px; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit;"></div></div></div><p style="font-size: 1em; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ten sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on Mars’ surface so they could be studied on Earth in the future.</em></p><blockquote style="font-size: 17.5px; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 8px 10px 20px; margin: 1em 0px 0em 40px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-style: italic; max-width: 40%; float: right;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-perseverance-rover-completes-mars-sample-depot/https" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Watch a video about Mars Sample Return </strong></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-perseverance-rover-completes-mars-sample-depot/https" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Get details on the rock samples Perseverance has collected </strong></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-perseverance-rover-completes-mars-sample-depot/https" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Listen to JPL’s ‘On a Mission’ podcast season about Mars rovers </strong></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-perseverance-rover-completes-mars-sample-depot/https" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Explore Mars with Perseverance in 3D </strong></a></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">Less than six weeks after <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9323/nasas-perseverance-rover-deposits-first-sample-on-mars-surface/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">it began</a>, construction of the first sample depot on another world is complete. Confirmation that NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover successfully dropped the 10th and final tube planned for the depot was received around 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST) Sunday, Jan. 29, by mission controllers at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. This major milestone involved precision planning and navigation to ensure the tubes could be safely recovered in the future by the NASA-ESA (European Space Agency) <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/msr/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">Mars Sample Return campaign</a>, which aims to bring Mars samples to Earth for closer study.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">Throughout its science campaigns, the rover has been taking a pair of <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-rock-samples/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">samples</a> from rocks the mission team deems scientifically significant. One sample from each pair taken so far now sits in the carefully arranged depot in the “Three Forks” region of Jezero Crater. The depot samples will serve as a backup set while the other half remain inside Perseverance, which would be the primary means to convey samples to a <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/msr/spacecraft/sample-retrieval-lander/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">Sample Retrieval Lander</a> as part of the campaign.</font></p><p style="font-size: 1em; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><div class="dnd-atom-wrapper type-image context-side_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; margin: 0.5em 0em 3em 2em; max-width: 320px; float: right; clear: right; width: 320px;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia25340-e1-last-tube-1041.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="cid:473D4DD4-E0BF-4087-9086-E6E3A8BE7523" height="428" alt="The Perseverance rover’s WATSON camera took this image of the 10th and last tube to be deployed.jpeg" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;"></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="3">The Perseverance rover’s WATSON camera took this image of the 10th and last tube to be deployed during the creation of the first sample depot on another world, on Jan. 28, 2023, the 690th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.</font></div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="3">Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS</font></div><div class="link" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color: inherit; padding: 0px; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit;"><a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia25340-watson-documents-final-tube-dropped-at-three-forks-sample-depot" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);"><font face="Gill Sans" size="3">Full image and caption</font></a></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">Mission scientists believe the <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9252/nasas-perseverance-makes-new-discoveries-in-mars-jezero-crater/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">igneous</a> and <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9261/nasas-perseverance-rover-investigates-geologically-rich-mars-terrain/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">sedimentary rock</a> cores provide an excellent cross section of the geologic processes that took place in Jezero shortly after the crater’s formation almost 4 billion years ago. The rover also deposited an atmospheric sample and what’s called a <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/sample-handling/#Witness-Tubes" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">“</a><a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/sample-handling/#Witness-Tubes" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">witness” tube</a>, which is used to determine if samples being collected might be contaminated with materials that traveled with the rover from Earth.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">The titanium tubes were deposited on the surface in an intricate zigzag pattern, with each sample about 15 to 50 feet (5 to 15 meters) apart from one another to ensure they could be safely recovered. Adding time to the depot-creation process, the team needed to precisely map the location of each 7-inch-long (18.6-centimeter-long) tube and glove (adapter) combination so that the samples could be found even if covered with dust. The depot is on flat ground near the base of the raised, fan-shaped ancient river delta that formed long ago when a river flowed into a lake there.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">“With the Three Forks depot in our rearview mirror, Perseverance is now headed up the delta,” said Rick Welch, Perseverance’s deputy project manager at JPL. “We’ll make our ascent via the ‘Hawksbill Gap’ route we previously explored. Once we pass the geologic unit the science team calls ‘Rocky Top,’ we will be in new territory and begin exploring the Delta Top.”</font></p><p style="font-size: 1em; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><p style="font-size: 1em; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Next Science Campaign</strong></p><p style="font-size: 1em; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">Passing the Rocky Top outcrop represents the end of the rover’s <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9170/nasas-perseverance-rover-arrives-at-delta-for-new-science-campaign/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">Delta Front Campaign</a> and the beginning of the rover’s Delta Top Campaign because of the geologic transition that takes place at that level.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">“We found that from the base of the delta up to the level where Rocky Top is located, the rocks appear to have been deposited in a lake environment,” said Ken Farley, Perseverance project scientist at Caltech. “And those just above Rocky Top appear to have been created in or at the end of a Martian river flowing into the lake. As we ascend the delta into a river setting, we expect to move into rocks that are composed of larger grains – from sand to large boulders. Those materials likely originated in rocks outside of Jezero, eroded and then washed into the crater.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">One of the first stops the rover will make during the new science campaign is at a location the science team calls the “Curvilinear Unit.” Essentially a Martian sandbar, the unit is made of sediment that eons ago was deposited in a bend in one of Jezero’s inflowing river channels. The science team believes the Curvilinear Unit will be an excellent location to hunt for intriguing outcrops of sandstone and perhaps mudstone, and to get a glimpse at the geological processes beyond the walls of Jezero Crater.</font></p></div></section><p style="font-size: 1em; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><br></p><h1 style="font-size: 36px; font-family: "Titillium Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 10px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope</h1><div id="ember17" class="ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="static-landing-page__body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">The dawn of a new era in astronomy has begun as the world gets its first look at the full capabilities of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency). The telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data were released during a televised broadcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. These listed targets below represent the first wave of full-color scientific images and spectra the observatory has gathered, and the official beginning of Webb’s general science operations. They were selected by an international committee of representatives from NASA, ESA, CSA, and the Space Telescope Science Institute.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">These first images from the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope demonstrate Webb at its full power, ready to begin its mission to <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/first-science-images-packet" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">unfold the infrared universe</a>.</font></p><p style="font-size: 15.4px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Press release: <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-reveals-webb-telescope-s-first-images-of-unseen-universe/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen Universe</a></strong></p><p style="font-size: 15.4px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="font-size: 15.4px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="font-size: 15.4px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">For more about Webb’s current status, visit the <a href="https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">“Where Is Webb?” tracker.</a></p><div class="bootstrap-tab" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="tabnav" style="font-size: 15.4px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"><select class="tabs-mobile-dropdown hide" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; 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text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="cid:118AAFD1-ACE5-4784-8E9A-95A307A5F441" height="570" alt="an undulating, translucent star-forming region in the Carina Nebula is shown in this Webb image, hued in ambers and blues; foreground stars with diffraction spikes can be seen, as can a speckling of background points of light through the cloudy nebula.jpeg" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;"></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 11px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI</div><div class="link" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; 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Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">Called the Cosmic Cliffs, Webb’s seemingly three-dimensional picture looks like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening. In reality, it is the edge of the giant, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, and the tallest “peaks” in this image are about 7 light-years high. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image</font><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15.4px;">.</font></p><ul style="font-size: 15.4px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-reveals-cosmic-cliffs-glittering-landscape-of-star-birth" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Learn more about this image</strong></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-031" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Download the full-resolution, uncompressed version and supporting visuals from the Space Telescope Science Institute</strong></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/34/2405-Image.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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