dwarmstrong, to opensource
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Robot Operating System (ROS) is an open source set of software frameworks for robot development. Space ROS is a variant being developed by Open Robotics in partnership with Blue Origin and NASA to meet the strict requirements and certifications of mission-critical, beyond-Earth applications:
https://space-ros.github.io/docs/rolling/

ninerjoshua, to space

Milky Way over a Turquoise Wonderland

lscottspencer, to space

James Webb telescope discovers gargantuan geyser on 's moon, blasting water hundreds of miles into space |

This is pretty interesting.

https://www.space.com/james-webb-telescope-discovers-gargantuan-geyser-on-saturn-moon

kevinmgill, to space

A monster of a dust devil vortex caught yestersol by the Mars Perseverance Rover(Sol 806)

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

kevinmgill, to space

Faint but wide dust devil in motion down in Belva Crater as captured by the Mars Perseverance Rover on sol 806 (yestersol).

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

Dust devil moving in crater, center frame

itnewsbot, to space
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JWST Discovers a Supermassive Black Hole is 'Far Larger Than Expected' - The Guardian reports that a supermassive black hole discovered at the center of an... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/05/27/221223/jwst-discovers-a-supermassive-black-hole-is-far-larger-than-expected?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

dwarmstrong, to space
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NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) is a Moon rover bound for the lunar south pole in late 2024. Its mission is to prospect for resources in the permanently shadowed areas of the region, where it is believed large concentrations of water ice may exist. Open source software is set to play a large role in the mission: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/12/1022420/nasa-lunar-rover-viper-open-source-software/

65dBnoise, to space
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The weather in Jezero, Mars, according to the MEDA instrument onboard .

Report Sol: 805

The low highs 🙂 that dominated the weather earlier this month appear to have given way to normal temperatures this past week. Max temperatures reached as high as -18.2°C while lows stayed above -78°C during the nights.

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PaulHammond51, to space
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What happened to Ingenuity?
Mars Guy Episode 112
https://youtu.be/gQ3TrmOe_sw

PaulHammond51, to space
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Odd rocks of Gale crater. Sol 3841 ChemCam Remote Micro Imager.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL

andrealuck, to space
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Mars - Frost in Utopia Planitia

Full size image: https://flic.kr/p/2oDimoo

I'm pretty sure this is the only hashtag from the surface of another planet (so far) 😂

Mission LANDER 2
Instrument: CAMERA 1
SOL 960 / 1979-05-18 local time 12:50
Raw data processed from: https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/


Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/AndreaLuck

coreyspowell, to space
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Recent observations suggest our solar system has a second Kuiper Belt -- a group of objects orbiting in the cold, dim reaches far beyond Pluto.
NASA's New Horizons probe will pass through it over the next decade!
https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/second-kuiper-belt-new-horizons-headed/

ScienceDesk, to science
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Did the universe begin with a bounce? Two new studies poke holes in the idea that the cosmos expanded and contracted before beginning again.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-universe-began-with-a-bang-not-a-bounce-new-studies-find/

TheConversationUS, to space
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⭐ Stars begin to expand when they run out of fuel and can become thousands of times larger, consuming any planets in the way. For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the star ZTF SLRN-2020 do just that. ⭐

https://theconversation.com/astronomers-just-saw-a-star-eat-a-planet-an-astrophysicist-on-the-team-explains-the-first-of-its-kind-discovery-205265

dwarmstrong, to space
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"If the Earth is a natural spaceship, then everyone on it is either a passenger or a crew member. (Former astronaut Ron Garan insists that there are no passengers, only crew members.) ... The role you play is not as important as the awareness that you are "aboard ship" and can spend the entire journey asleep in a lounge chair or wake up and participate in a voyage."
— Frank White, The Overview Effect

andrealuck, to space
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Mars - spotted an elongated cloud around Ascraeus Mons

Full size image: https://flic.kr/p/2oDddEZ

North Polar Cap ↖️
Timetag: 2021-07-10
Altitude: 33580 km
Raw Data from: https://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.a
Filters: f635+f546+f437 (f320UV used just to enhance a little bit the cloud around the Ascraeus Mons)

I love also Olympus and Arsia Mons on the Terminator!


Credit:
UAESA/MBRSC/HopeMarsMission/EXI/AndreaLuck

itnewsbot, to space
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Gravitational-Wave Detector LIGO Is Back - After three years of upgrades, the gravitational-wave detector known as LIGO, or L... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/05/26/222216/gravitational-wave-detector-ligo-is-back?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Sheril, to space
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Born in India in 1962, Dr. Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman in in 1997.

In 2003, she was on the Columbia, when insulation broke off, depressurizing the shuttle. All 7 crew members died.

7 asteroids + 7 hills on Mars were named after them.
https://www.space.com/17056-kalpana-chawla-biography.html

“When you look at the stars & the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system." - Chawla, 1997

The STS-107 shuttle Columbia crew. The image was recovered from wreckage inside an undeveloped film canister. From left (bottom row): Kalpana Chawla, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon. From left (top row): David Brown, William McCool, and Michael Anderson. (Image: NASA/JSC)

coreyspowell, to random
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Everything in this image of the Eagle Nebula is invisible to the human eye.
JWST shows the infrared glow of warm gas & dust. Chandra shows x-rays blasting from active young stars. Our technology brings the invisible universe into view.
https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2023/chandrawebb2/

coreyspowell,
@coreyspowell@mastodon.social avatar

Thought for the weekend:
Our eyes are narrowly adapted to conditions on Earth. To see reality as it truly is, we have to use instruments that go far beyond the limits of human vision.
These images merge visible light with infrared & x-rays to show a bigger universe:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/nasas-chandra-webb-combine-for-arresting-views.html

starrytimepod, to space

I love these composite images... but is anyone else getting Lisa Frank does space energy from this one?! 😄

📷 : https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2023/chandrawebb2/

stim3on, to space
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I finally managed to process my own image of the supernova in .
Crazy to think this event actually happend some 21 million years ago, but we can still observe it changing brightness in mere days.

PaulHammond51, to space
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Helicopter update:
Hide and Seek
Written by Travis Brown, Chief Engineer Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at JPL.
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/status/466/hide-and-seek/

itnewsbot, to space
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Why North and South Korea Have Big Ambitions in Space: An 'Unblinking Eye' - The two Koreas are elevating a space race aimed at modernizing how each country mo... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/05/26/1810216/why-north-and-south-korea-have-big-ambitions-in-space-an-unblinking-eye?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

ScienceDesk, to space
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What if we’ve been looking for worlds like ours in the wrong places? A team of astronomers is peering into soot lines — regions where great volumes of dust orbit a given system’s star — to find habitable worlds beyond our solar system. Gizmodo has more.
https://gizmodo.com/habitable-worlds-may-lurk-sooty-areas-star-systems-1850479366

Free_Press, to space
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'We don't know what we don't know!'

A supermassive black hole discovered at the heart of an ancient galaxy is five times larger than expected for the number of stars it contains, astronomers say.

Researchers spotted the immense black hole in a galaxy known as GS-9209 that lies 25bn light-years from Earth, making it one of the most distant to have been observed and recorded.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/26/supermassive-black-hole-galaxy-gs9209-larger-expected?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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