After some more manual adjustments to compensate the halos I was able to seamlessly merge the SuperCam images into this Mastcam-Z 110mm image: https://flic.kr/p/2pUujxN
Next #SETILive: TODAY, 2:30 pm PDT
James Webb Telescope Unveils Wild Weather on WASP-43 b
Join communications specialist Beth Johnson in an exciting chat with lead author and researcher Taylor Bell from the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute as they discuss these amazing findings and what they mean in the search for habitable worlds.
This ensures that more big, bright #satellites are coming: "A Block 1 satellite would have 10 times the capacity of the company’s 1,500-kilogram BlueWalker-3 prototype; [Block2] would be twice as big and have 10 times the capacity of a Block 1 BlueBird." (via @spacenews_inc)
(Also, a reminder that this comms mode is potentially very harmful to ground-based radio astronomy.)
ETA: This event has been postponed. We will notify followers of a new date once the event is rescheduled.
In an era where the boundaries of innovation and exploration are constantly being pushed beyond the imaginable, the upcoming Aero+Space Summit emerges as a pivotal platform to converge minds, technologies, and visions for the future. Dr. Franck Marchis, senior planetary astronomer at the SETI Institute, will be one of the speakers.
You first go slow - less than 100m/s (360kph, or 220mph) for the first stage, up to around 30-40km. This gets you above the thickest atmosphere. Then the second stage can take over with an engine more optimized for vacuum.
In PFC, Cutty's mom is basically conducting a heist on the decommissioned Titan Station, so there isn't time to do much ISRU. But she and Cutty can prepare things along the way.
Right now, I'm thinking that they use an X-15 like shuttle but it's not designed to land. It only glides down to 40km to meet Cutty's mom in an EVA suit. Designing and testing a good landing system is rather non-trivial, so the easiest solution is to avoid landing altogether.
#PPOD: Korolev is an ice-filled impact crater in the Mare Boreum quadrangle of Mars, located at 73° north latitude and 165° east longitude. The crater is 81.4 kilometers in diameter and contains about 2,200 cubic kilometers of water ice, comparable in volume to Great Bear Lake in northern Canada. Taken by the HRSC onboard ESA's Mars Express spacecraft. Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck
New, on @TheConversationUS:
I'm an Astrophysicist mapping the Universe with data from #ChandraXRay: Clear, sharp photos help me study energetic black holes.
If you’ve been looking at everything NASA is doing and wondering “ok but when are we ACTUALLY going back to the moon, and what’s the plan here?” this video is for you.
Here’s a rough timeline of the Artemis program, along with context:
#Perseverance's location in the middle of the Neretva Vallis riverbed offers a unique perspective of the ancient river and its riverbanks. A 360° panorama captured from this location would be epic.
This view also offers a nice background for drawing possible future drive paths; here is one going west to Bright Angel, the rover's next target.
Processed, undistorted, leveled NAVCAM_RIGHT mosaic
looking WNW (288°) from RMC 52.4312
Sol 1162, LMST: 14:39:15
The current launch date of June 1 seems to be holding. The NASA/Boeing/ULA team will hold a flight readiness review today to ensure that the spacecraft and launch vehicle are ready, and there will likely be a media telecon tomorrow.
@avirr As do I. But I fear that the Artemis Accords preclude them from doing so. (Not that I find any direct conflict between Artemis and the ZDC, but one is American and the other is European, so...)