Das ganze Geld dafür wäre jetzt erstmal in die Sicherung der Lebensbedingungen unserer Kinder und Enkel hier auf der Erde sinnvoller investiert.
Was für eine technologieoffene Verschwendung.
Unser wunderschöner blauer Planet wird von uns geplündert, vermüllt und seine Artenvielfalt stirbt, aber es gibt immernoch Leute, die Mondlandungen und Marsmissionen bewundern.
So this question arises: if the plan for #Flight53 was to scout and cover 203m of ground, why did it do a straight line flight of only 142m? Even if this is a preliminary localization, still the flight seems rather abnormal.
If #Flight53 was indeed abnormal, then #Ingenuity did a marvelous job landing safely, and so did its team and the #Mars2020 team in resolving the situation AND localizing the heli.
Sorry, but you can't convince me that the test of a reusable rocket system is supposed to involve destroying the launch site—which was reusable on every prior generation of space flight technology—and launching debris thousands of feet away.
#SpaceX is not a serious company, it's a clown show, and it should not have a single dollar in government funding, much less billions.
@michaelgemar@theogrin@maxkennerly
The belief that private companies will provide vital services "cheaper" than the government has been quite the successful disinformation campaign from corporations for sure.
A good deep-dive (written pre-launch) on how the largest rocket in history was launched from a dirt-cheap site that would be substandard everywhere else in the world, including Russia and China.
This was a massive regulatory failure, everything from knowingly relying on bad data to outright evasion of review by omitting critical infrastructure.
Crew egress from #CrewDragon#Endeavour marks a successful end to 6-month #NASA#Crew6 mission for the 4 astronauts and the ground support staff. Astronauts are routinely given assistance with re-adjustment to 1G force of gravity. #SpaceX#space
@65dBnoise@andrealuck there are probably better sources explaining the polar and circumpolar winds on Mars, but this section on wikipedia mentions that conditions at these latitudes are quite periodic
During the coming solar conjunction of Mars, and the moratorium in communications, #Ingenuity will use its color camera to study the movement of sand, which poses an ever-present challenge to Mars missions.
@65dBnoise@PaulHammond51 It was nice to see another color calibrated Navcam image though to compare my processing against.
I'm happy to report they are matching quite closely.
Interesting to also notice the quantization issues in the dark part of the official image. It looks to me like the image is at one step processed in a linear brightness range with only 8bit precision.
At least I was able to create very similar artefacts that way.
This should be a very easy issue to solve.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, talk. Scratch that. Those who can't, philosophize. The spectators cheer and applaud and throw in comments.
So I do what I can, like, #TheStraightHorizonPolice 👮 . Here is the beautiful image of @stim3on from Sol 879, leveled according to its quaternion in metadata and slightly processed for my eyes. SUPERCAM was tilted -4.63°.
Only three humans have ever witnessed an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth. It happened while the Apollo 12 crew was returning home from the Moon, on November 21, 1969.
Fortunately, the astronauts filmed the moment so you can share in the experience.
Since this matters so much to you: sunsets are eclipses. Done.
I'm all in favor of having more people pay attention to the beauty of nature. If it helps to tell them that sunsets are actually solar eclipses, I'm all for it.
Tomorrow, watch Japan's attempt to land their SLIM spacecraft on the moon! The livestream link is below, and the landing will be at approximately 10:20 am ET on Friday, January 19. If they succeed, they will be the fifth country (U.S., Soviet Union, China, India) to accomplish this feat!
#Space#Muskrat launch at 9:09pm PDT. Err. I mean, #SpaceX -- #Vandenberg AFB. More #Starlink satellites (meaning either better Internet or more junk flying around blocking your view of space, depending on who you are). These were more enjoyable before the dude running that company revealed his true nature. #SantaBarbara
@ai6yr Now that we got you station working, it's time to break it!
At least two more SDR’s, plugged into a powered hub,unless the machine you're on is beefy AF (not a Pi). Another case in point, it's good to have one SDR dedicated to just scanning, while others decode.
This LNA: https://v3.airspy.us/product/upu-fp403s/ It's pricey, but's it paid dividends for me. Started picking up sondes from SpaceX Vand, and just yesterday from the aerograph mate's on military ships near catalina.
Cet été, j'ai eu la chance de visiter le JPL, ce centre de la NASA où sont conçues, assemblées et testées la plupart des sondes et rovers américains qui explorent le Système solaire. Un récit de ma visite pour vous emmener dans cet endroit mythique. 1/37 @nasajpl@NASA#NASA#JPL
A cover of Science Magazine that is very dear to me, featuring the 10-meter telescope of the Whipple Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Arizona. That's the telescope I used for my PhD! I spent 40 nights of data-taking there back in 1996-97.
Let’s take a look at the recent announcement of the “astonishing” discovery of a global subsurface ocean on Saturn’s “Death Star” icy moon Mimas.
The discovery is based on new modeling/simulation of Mimas’s "wobble" (libration) around its axis, its orbital shift over 13 years and Mimas’s tidal heating. It rules out the alternate hypothesis of an oval shaped rocky core. There is no direct evidence of liquid water.
Does the presence of water and tidal heating on Mimas imply life?
The search for life, especially on planets and moons with liquid water, has been the holy grail of astrobiology. So far, we have not detected life, past or present, on any world outside ours, even those with water and organic molecules, and those with more favorable conditions.
The chemical ingredients for life seem to be everywhere but no sign of life within our limited time span.
Here is a list of planets and moons known to have oceans -
Earth
Dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt
Jupiter's moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto
Saturn's moon Titan and Enceladus
Neptune's moon Triton
Pluto
Mimas now joins the club.
Except on earth, these oceans are subsurface. There are plenty of other icy worlds, which may harbor subsurface oceans, if they contain heat sources like radioactive elements or tidal forces.
@spaceflight@nyrath … And 52 expendable FH launches would put 3536 tons of payload into LEO, or enough mass to run about 30 Apollo-class lunar surface missions, or nearly ONE A MONTH during the SLS delay.
Yup. Three years of delays to SLS could have bought an Apollo class lunar mission every 5 weeks. But instead all we've got is pork barrel politics and another season of "For All Mankind".
"the #mainstream media doesn’t cover #SpaceExploration and #SpaceScience with the same questioning 🔍 rigor that they reserve for politics. People writing about #SpaceExploration are mostly cheerleaders 🥳 for the cause, rather than independent observers keeping a watchful eye 👀 on how our national monies are spent."
Hope Mars Mission
Time: 2023-05-23 00:33
Orbit 377
Filters: f635+f546+f437, f320 used to slightly enhance the orographic cloud over Ascraeus Mons
Processed from: https://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae
@andrealuck I'm officially in love with the way you process these EXI images Andrea! These are the colors I've come to expect for orbital Mars images. 🤩
I'm still curious how it will look once I try to make a color calibration for such images, but I don't think it would look very different to this.
@stim3on oh I’m glad an expert eye like yours is in love with my manual processing :) of course it’s only based on my gut so I’d be really happy to see if you do something more accurate with EXI data
How does "The first robotic servicing mission on the surface of Mars" sound to y'all?
Well, if you're #NASA#JPL, this awesome headline could be yours for the low cost of a few nitrogen puffs!
This thread is just me fantasizing how Perseverance could potentially use its gDRT to clean the dusty solar panel and camera lens on Ingenuity and make history with this extraordinary servicing operation! 🧵
Let's back up a bit, when Ingenuity was deployed on the surface over two years ago, its solar panel was mostly clean, but since then it has steadily accumulated fine dust on top of it. (Seen here on Sol 46 and in this recent picture from sol 871)
It’s incredible that Ingenuity is still going, after flying more than 10 times the expected number of flights it was designed for. It survived a cold and dusty Martian winter and lost a sensor to the cold. And with some servicing from Perseverance, this amazing success story could continue for even longer!
#BBC 📆 3 March 2023 #ESA said the measures needed to address the failure meant that #Vega-C would not fly again until later this year.
The #Ariane-5, #Europe's biggest rocket 🚀, has only two more flights this year before it is withdrawn. And the Ariane-6 follow-on is not yet ready to fly 🥱.
The shortage of rides recently prompted the #ESA 🇪🇺 to purchase two American launches.
The #EU 🇪🇺 is having to seek assistance 🙏 to launch new versions of its navigation #satellites 🛰️ because the #Ariane 5 rocket, developed by #France 🇫🇷-based #ArianeGroup and launched from French #Guiana, is to be retired in the next months.
