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The next commercial cargo mission
to the space station …

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Celebrating the first year of Perseverance on Mars ...

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And the first science images
from a recently launched mission …

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a few of the stories
to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

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Our commercial partner
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo

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spacecraft is loaded
with more than 8,300 pounds of research,

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crew supplies, and hardware for the crew
aboard the International Space Station.

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The Cygnus, named in honor of late
astronaut Piers Sellers, is targeted

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for launch on Feb. 19 from our Wallops Flight Facility
atop the company’s Antares rocket.

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This is Northrop Grumman’s 17th resupply
mission to the space station for NASA.

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[And liftoff]

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A Russian Progress spacecraft

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launched to the International Space Station

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from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 
Kazakhstan on Feb. 14 at 11:25 p.m. EST,

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loaded with almost three
tons of food, fuel and supplies.

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After 34 orbits of Earth,
the uncrewed Progress arrived

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at the orbital outpost on Feb. 17

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and linked up to the Poisk
docking compartment

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on the Russian segment of the station.

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Feb. 18 marked the one-year

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anniversary of our Perseverance rover’s
landing on Mars.

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Since then, the rover has racked up
several firsts.

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It has collected Martian rock core samples
that may one day become the first

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from another planet to be returned
to Earth on a future mission.

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The rover also has served
as a base station for the first helicopter

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on Mars, tested the first prototype
oxygen generator on the Red Planet,

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and recently broken a record
for the most distance driven by a Mars

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rover in a single day.

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The Mars 2020 Perseverance
mission is part of NASA’s

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Moon to Mars exploration approach,
which includes Artemis missions

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to the Moon to help prepare for human
exploration of the Red Planet.

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The magenta color
in this image of supernova

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Cassiopeia A, represents
some of the first X-ray data

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captured by NASA’s
Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

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or IXPE since completing its month-long
commissioning phase.

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The magenta color corresponds
to the intensity of X-ray light

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observed by IXPE
and is overlayed with high energy X-ray

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data, shown in blue, from NASA’s
Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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All instruments are functioning

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well aboard IXPE,
which launched in December 2021 on a quest

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to study some of the most mysterious
and extreme objects in the universe.

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According to a new

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report by an interagency
sea level rise task force that includes

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NASA, the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, and other

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federal agencies, coastal flooding
will increase significantly by 2050

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due to a projected rise in sea level
in the next 30 years

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that could equal the total sea level rise
seen over the past 100 years.

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The report – used by government agencies
to help inform their plans

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to deal with the effects of sea level rise –

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concludes that sea levels along U.S. coastlines

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will rise between 10 to 12 inches

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on average above today’s levels by 2050.

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For more about sea level and climate
change, check out sealevel.nasa.gov/.

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That’s what’s up this week
@NASA …