This Week At NASA: Naming A Mountain On Moon, Helping Turkey And Syria Plus A Sample Wide Shot From Mars

News from NASA is always welcomed by the people. Be it stories from deep space, spectacular shots of the universe or even our own planet Earth, NASA never fails to disappoint. Naming a mountain on the Moon, watching and helping from space, and a sample wide shot from Mars, a few of the stories that made headlines from NASA this week.

A New Mountain On Moon Discovered - Mons Mouton

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A Mesa-like mountain near the Moon's south pole has been named Mons Mouton after NASA mathematician Melba Mouton. In the early days of NASA, she led a group of mathematicians whose calculations helped track spacecraft in orbit. Mons Muton is adjacent to the site at which NASA's VIPER mission will land and explore as part of NASA's Artemis program.

NASA To Help Relief And Recovery In Turkey-Syria

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Following the devastating earthquakes in southern Turkey and western Syria, NASA's Earth Observatory is working to share aerial views and data from space to help relief and recovery efforts in that region. Scientists from NASA and other agencies are using satellites to map damage caused by the devastating earthquake. Members of the disasters program area of NASA¡¯s Earth Science Applied Sciences, as well as their national and international collaborators, are in the process of sharing the damage proxy map and the data used to generate it with organizations such as the U.S. State Department, the California Seismic Safety Commission, Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief, and the World Bank. The team is also participating in ongoing coordination calls hosted by the U.S. Agency for International Development to assess the needs of stakeholders in the region and provide scientific expertise to support risk assessment and recovery efforts.

Pandora Cluster Observed From James Webb Space Telescope

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover provided a panorama of its recently completed sample depot. The panorama shows the placement on the Martian surface of the 10 sample tubes that could be recovered in the future by the Mars Sample Return Campaign. The latest deep-field image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope features a region of space known as Pandora's Cluster. A mega-cluster of galaxies there acts like a natural magnifying glass that allows much more distant galaxies in the early universe to be observed.