Around the world in 80 days? When Jules Verne wrote the novel, that seemed an impossible speed, but almost 150 years later, a NASA team has reduced the trip to minutes for data coming from some of today’s spacecraft. Based out of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (awesome feed BTW, NASAGoddard), the Near Earth Network serves as a conduit for info from spacecraft in low-Earth/geosynchronous/lunar orbits to the #scientists who will study and use it on the ground. Pictured here is NASA’s newest antenna AS-3 in the foreground and AS-1 in the background, both at the Alaska Satellite Facility operated by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Credits: NASA #NASA #Goddard #SpaceComm #space #communications #Alaska