The instrument is mounted on a platform at the end of a 1.2-metre boom -- its own 'selfie stick' -- and by rotating around the boom can look back at the spacecraft.
The launch was delayed for about two weeks because of bad weather and a mechanical problem.
Corporations, non-profits and educational organisations interested in sponsoring the contest can send proposals to NASA.
The NASA long-duration balloon mission observed these clouds over the course of five days at their home in the mesosphere.
Launched on August 12, Parker Solar Probe, NASA's historic small car-sized probe will journey steadily closer to the Sun, until it makes its closest approach at 3.8 million miles.
NASA Home & City features about 130 spinoff technologies in a virtual space, allowing users to tour through buildings and rooms to discover common items that NASA inspired or helped improve.
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) sent the images that were captured from its initial science orbit. It will spend 2 years monitoring 26 such sectors for 27 days each.
Brown barges are cyclonic regions that usually lie within Jupiter's dark North Equatorial Belt, although they are sometimes found in the similarly dark South Equatorial Belt as well.
Initial observations show the galaxy cluster Abell 370 and a host of magnified, gravitationally lensed galaxies around it.
The satellite with a three-year mission was launched at 9.02 a.m EDT on September 15, with liftoff aboard a Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
"We're working incredibly hard not only to make sure Orion's ready to take our astronauts farther than we've been before, but to make sure they come home safely," Orion Programme Manager Mark Kirasich, said in a statement.
The satellite will provide critical observations of how ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice are changing, leading to insights into how those changes impact people where they live.
The team divided the hazards into five classifications -- radiation; isolation and confinement; distance from Earth; gravity (or lack thereof); and hostile or closed environments
The rover surveyed its surroundings after collecting a new rock sample on August 9.
The spacecraft is likely to run out of a key fuel knwon as hydrazine -- which keeps it oriented and in communication with Earth -- between September and October.
The rocket launched on Friday carried the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
"After being roused from sleep mode, the spacecraft's configuration has been modified due to unusual behaviour exhibited by one of the thrusters," NASA said in a statement on Thursday.
FOXSI (Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager) is a sounding rocket mission and it will take its third flight from New Mexico on September 7.
The challenge asks individuals, teams and organisations to design and develop technology that has the potential to be useful on Mars and on Earth.
A major dust storm deprived the rover of solar power. Now, the storm is fading.
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