A ~140m drive on Sol 1175 has brought the rover at the outskirts of the exposed light colored bedrock which will be the field for proximity science and sampling for the next month(s). The new RMC is 53.0000.
The location shown is a triangulation estimate. The path is a guess.
“The universe is expanding, and faster now than it did in the past. Scientists don't know why, but the leading explanation is that the universe contains something that has a repulsive gravitational effect - it pushes the universe apart instead of pulling it back together. This phenomenon is called dark energy.”
NASA, image by the Euclid European #Space Agency telescope ✨
Credits:
Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY
Image data: INAF/LargeBinocularTelescope Observatory/Georgia State University
IRV-band observations by SHARK-VIS@LBT [P.I. F. Pedichini]
Ex-Astronaut verunglückt: "Earthrise"-Fotograf Anders gestorben
"Earthrise", also Erdaufgang, heißt eines der berühmtesten Fotos der Erde. Geschossen wurde es von Astronaut William Anders an Heiligabend 1968. Nun ist der Apollo-8-Teilnehmer bei einem Unfall gestorben.
#PPOD: Let's end the week looking back at this picture of Jupiter, which was created by Kevin Gill using images captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its 23rd close flyby of Jupiter back in 2019. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @kevinmgill
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft headed to space yesterday and the crew expressed gratitude to the hardworking engineers and ground crews for their hard work and gave thanks to Boeing’s Executives for not having them killed as whistleblowers.
Starship hit the water, mostly intact, I think the flap made it, and landing burn initated successfully. Wow. It looked like a soft landing. I’m…shocked. I was very prepared to call this flight a failure, or a mixed success. I need to go back through the data, but...I think this was definitely a success.
Preparations for NASA’s Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test Launch are in progress.
Launch time: 12:25 pm ET
"The two NASA astronauts aboard, flight commander Butch Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams, will test the end-to-end capabilities of the Starliner system, including launch, docking, and return to Earth. After a one-week stay docked to the International Space Station, the Starliner and crew will land under parachutes in the western United States."
Starliner launch is now scheduled for 10:52 a.m. EDT Wednesday, June 5.
"The ULA team identified an issue with a single ground power supply within one of the 3 redundant chassis that provides power to a subset of computer cards controlling various system functions, including the card responsible for the stable replenishment topping valves for the Centaur upper stage."
The faulty chassis have been replaced with a spare unit.
#PPOD: This detailed image came from Cassini's close encounter with Mimas, one of Saturn's moons. Mimas is less than 400 kilometers in diameter, creating ripples in Saturn's rings with its gravity. This disruption separates the A and B rings with the Cassini Division. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/ @kevinmgill
This morning, Boeing Starliner successfully launched to the ISS for its crewed flight test. Here's an overview of what happened, what the implications for this flight are, and what's next:
