Space

65dBnoise, 4 days ago

Meanwhile, "boring" #NASA keeps on operating a very real rover (actually two , including #Curiosity) on another planet.

Here, the rover appears to have reached a rocky milestone on its way to its next science target, Bright Angel:

Quick NAVCAM_RIGHT mosaic
looking W (270°) from RMC 52.7624
Sol 1174, LMST: 14:40:13

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01174/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NRF_1174_0771169741_566ECM_N0527624NCAM03174_01_195J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

65dBnoise, 4 days ago

New location for #Perseverance, bringing it to just ~80m from its next target: Bright Angel.

Map made with #QGIS using data from #NASA's #MMGIS along with imagery and DTMs from #USGS and #HiRISE

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 4 days ago

#NASA #neeto

3 min

seeing the microscopic from space

https://youtu.be/JyjjiEQq6uI

andrealuck, 4 days ago

Noctis Mons 🌋 and Labyrinthus

Click to zoom in as the image is 4500x2531!
Full size & all info https://flic.kr/p/2pWe2KL

ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission
2015-01-20 Altitude: 10392 km
Bayer Filter
This is a mosaic of 4 images

Credit: ISRO/ISSDC/MOM/AndreaLuck
Product IDs:
20150120T151200449
20150120T150101436
20150120T144959422
20150120T143859409

Image created processing data publicly available on: https://mrbrowse.issdc.gov.in/MOMLTA/

#Mars #Space #Astronomy #Mangalyaan #Solarocks #Astrodon

penguin42, 5 days ago

#NASA starting off a tour of #Starliner by reminding the astronauts to make sure the SD card is in the camera, and not to film open laptops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnRdIMklPow

Sheril, 5 days ago

“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 ✨

vectorz3r0, 5 days ago

👨‍🚀 𝔾𝕄 𝕨/ #𝕊𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖 🪐

video/mp4

tagesschau, 5 days ago German

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.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/earthrise-fotograf-anders-gestorben-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#NASA #Earthrise #Anders

br00t4c, 5 days ago

Nasa 'Earthrise' astronaut dies at 90 in plane crash

#nasa

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw99wj5e5q8o

br00t4c, 5 days ago

NASA is commissioning 10 studies on Mars Sample Return--most are commercial

#nasa #spacex

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2029984

liederbach, 5 days ago

What Are You Looking At? https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/ksc00pp0306orig/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #NASA #IOTD #Space

65dBnoise, 5 days ago

Mars sample return:
Back to the drawing board

NASA is moving forward with 10 studies to examine more affordable and faster methods of bringing samples from Mars’ surface back to Earth. The following companies and proposals were selected:

• Lockheed Martin
• SpaceX
• Aerojet Rocketdyne
• Blue Origin
• Quantum Space
• Northrop Grumman
• Whittinghill Aerospace
• NASA centers
• JPL
• JH/APL

More: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-exploring-alternative-mars-sample-return-methods

#MSR #NASA #Solarocks #Space

setiinstitute, 5 days ago

#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

#jupiter #space #science #citizenscience #scicomm

mrundkvist, 6 days ago

The Chinese #space programme is impressive. A robotic probe of theirs just sent back the first samples from the far side of the Moon.

andrealuck, 6 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

My catch of Io as seen from Earth by LBTO!

Full size & More info: https://flic.kr/p/2pVYYA6

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]

North is Up
Time: January 9, 2024
Filters:
I 685-825 nm
R 552-687 nm
V 495-605 nm
Study and more info: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL108609

#Io #Jupiter #Space #Astronomy #Astrodon #Solarocks