year later. let go to ohio. transportation secretary, pete buttigieg is there looking at cleanup efforts and damage. the ntsb will release the first report today and we ll give that to you. the web telescope is making a remarkable discovery this morning as something strange washes up on the beach in japan. what the heck is it? what are we looking at here? hopefully neil has answers for us. hi neil, we ll see you after the break. what s going o on? where s regina? hi, i m ladodonna. i invest in invesco qqq, a fund that gives me access to the nasdadaq-100 innovation, like real time cgi. okay. yeah. oh. don t worry i got it! become an agent of innovation with invesco qqq
perhaps carry passengers to the moon and perhaps mars. and then nasa s mission, the spacecraft slamming into a small astroid called dimorphos. it s a success if nasa needs to deflect an astroid away from earth. but the most visual space achievement in 2022 were those spectacular images from the deep space james web telescope using infrared cameras, and we re looking at light billions-year-old, and the creation of the universe, the stars and the galaxy, and begging the question are we
and spacex is now working overtime on its starship that will carry astronauts to the moon. then perhaps mars in the late 2030s. another huge success in 2022, nasa s dart mission. and we have impact. reporter: the spacecraft in time lapse traveling at 14,000 miles per hour, slamming into a small asteroid named dimorphos 7 million miles from earth and pushing it ever so slightly off its orbit. a critical success if nasa hopes to one day deflect an incoming planet-killing asteroid away from earth. now, this is a watershed moment for planetary defense and a watershed moment for humanity. reporter: but the most visual space achievement in 2022 were those spectacular images from the deep space james web telescope using infrared cameras
well, you know, it would look really bad if something bad happened. so you have to take every care that you can. so, you know, before you say, hey, you know, it s like the wright brothers, right? you don t just build a plane and jump off a cliff. you want to go down a gentle slope first to make sure everything is going to work as expected. it been. and so the other thing is there s a lot of new technology that s been brought to bare and make sure you. now, the web telescope is further out in space. and why is this data considered
james web telescope was selected for the cover. why that one? what we do every year is we look for images that not only mark the big moments of the year but also delight or surprise. and that image basically does all of that. it was the first image released by the james webb we were seeing something for the first time together. it was rare and quite magical. indeed, it was. why did you choose this one showing the devastation left behind hurricane ian? so this was a picture that really struck us. it s a woman outside of home basically waiting to assess the damage and it s really the purple chair that kind of stands out. it s a very ordinary household object and it s a reminder that lives are turned upside down so