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    Aug 3
    What sparked your love of flight? ✈️ Celebrate National Aviation Day on Aug. 19 by sharing your aviation story! Share: 📸 The Spark – The photo that inspired your love of aviation. 📸 The Journey – A recent photo showing where that spark has taken you. ✍️ Add a short
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    Aug 7
    Over a billion‑pixel view👀 Our Advanced Supercomputing facility’s hyperwall is one of the largest and most powerful visualization systems in the world. The 300-square foot display can show supercomputer-scale visualizations of the massive datasets produced by NASA
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    Aug 5
    A hazy Pluto. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this image just minutes after its closest approach in 2015.
    NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took this stunning image of Pluto only a few minutes after closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image was obtained at a high phase angle –that is, with the sun on the other side of Pluto, as viewed by New Horizons. Seen here, sunlight filters through and illuminates Pluto’s complex atmospheric haze layers. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
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    Jul 28
    Oh, deer! It’s that time of year 🌕🦌 Look up to the skies tomorrow! The Buck Moon is set to reach peak illumination in the early morning hours but your best viewing opportunity will be in the evening shortly after sunset. Where do you plan to moongaze from?
    A full moon hangs above the blue glow of Earth's atmosphere in this image captured from the International Space Station. The image is rotated right, with the Moon on the right side of the image and Earth's glow to the left. Credit: NASA
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    Jul 24
    Behind‑the‑scenes magic @NASAAmes ✨ This week, we welcomed creators for a tour where they got an inside look at VIPER mission control, ARMADAS autonomous technology and robots, Orion heat shield instruments, and our simulated Lunar Lab, where they met experts who are helping
    Creators pause for a group photo outside the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) Multi-Mission Operations Center (MMOC) N240, with astronaut Matt Dominick and the VIPER staff as part of their behind-the-scenes tour of the world-class research facilities at NASA Ames.
    Creators tour the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) Multi-Mission Operations Center (MMOC) in N240, for a behind-the-scenes tour of the world-class research facilities at NASA Ames.
    Creators tour the Automated Reconfigurable Mission Adaptive Digital Assembly Systems (ARMADAS) at the Roverscape, for a behind-the-scenes tour of the world-class research facilities at NASA Ames.
    Matt Switzer opens furnace to reveal glowing material heated to 2,000 degrees.