Le rover Curiosity a brisé une roche en roulant dessus, dévoilant des cristaux clairs et laiteux. La zone étant riche en sulfates, il est très probable que ce soit des cristaux de gypse, parmi les plus beaux que je vois depuis le début de la mission ! 1/3
Après d'innombrables heures de conception étalées sur 6 mois, voici mon MOC de l'atterrisseur martien InSight à l'échelle 1:14 !
Plus qu'à commander les pièces manquantes pour l'assembler.
Comparaison de screens avec le modèle 3D NASA dans ce thread 1/7
For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity’s most distant spacecraft in the cosmos.
Clever intricate diagnosis and remedial work by spacecraft engineers has restored the telemetry transmission functionality of the Voyager 1 probe, 22+ light-hours from Earth. They hope soon to have it returning science data on the Interstellar Medium.
Like Voyager 2, Voyager 1 was launched FORTY-SIX YEARS ago.
Seems like this was the best value-for-money Extended Warranty ever offered.
NASA’s Network of Small Moon-Bound Rovers Is Ready to Roll
Construction and testing are complete on the CADRE rovers, which will map the lunar surface together as a tech demo to show the promise of multirobot missions.
Presenting DUST OF OSIRIS, watercolor and ink, 12x12”. Inspired by the Egyptian decorative motifs, the Egyptian Revival movement, and a high-res photo of the opened OSIRIS-REx sample container, containing dust from asteroid Bennu. This has been a labor of love for me, I hope you enjoy it!
Voici Valinor Hills, le champ de dunes qui tapisse le fond de l'ancienne rivière Neretva où repose pour toujours Ingenuity 🚁
Cette mosaïque de 3 images a été acquise ce matin par la caméra SuperCam 🇫🇷🇺🇸 à bord du rover Perseverance.
Ce matin, la caméra RMI de l'instrument SuperCam a photographié Ingenuity 🚁 sur le champ de dunes Valinor Hills, d'où il ne redécollera plus.
Etrange de voir les deux pales inférieures mais une seule pale au-dessus 😢
Nearly done with the ink/gold portion of the #osirisrex#wip. Next up, decorative precious stone inlay (in paint, both figuratively and LITERALLY thanks to my Daniel Smith PrimaTek #watercolors), a golden center, and finally, asteroid samples!
#NASA’s #Mars Exploration Lab Lays Off 570 Workers Because #Congress Can’t Get It Together
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory put robots on Mars, but Congressional foot-dragging is forcing the #space agency to lay off hundreds of workers. “After exhausting all other measures to adjust to a lower budget from NASA, and in the absence of an #FY24 appropriation from Congress, we have had to make the difficult decision to reduce the #JPL workforce through #layoffs.” https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjyb5/nasa-jpl-layoff-workers-congress-cant-get-it-together
The Ingenuity team has nicknamed the spot where the helicopter completed its final flight “Valinor Hills” after the fictional location in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novels, which include “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
As much as we love our science and tech, the nature of human politics is such that we can ill afford to dwell on just our interests. The layoffs at NASA/JPL are why we should always pay attention to our daily politics, and be prepared to participate in it when the situation calls for it.
In the most direct sense, people are losing their jobs because Congress is fighting over the budget of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) project.