Things Getting Chilly for Spirit
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The skies over Mojave, California’s Air and Space Port have seen significant suborbital traffic recently. On March 20th, Masten Space Systems flew their automated Xombie craft to its highest altitude yet: 1,046 feet. That test hop above the desert landscape is a...On Brontosauri and Dark Asteroids
From NASA Imagine you’re a Brontosaurus with your face in a prehistoric tree top, munching on fresh leaves. Your relatives have ruled planet Earth for more than 150 million years. Huge and strong, you feel invincible. You’re not. Fast forward about 65...Russians Unveil Rassvet
From Universe Today Russian space managers unveiled a science beauty today (March 25) in Florida, namely the ‘Rassvet’ research room which serves as Russia’s newest contribution to the International Space Station. Although ‘Rassvet’ was...Opportunity Finds Something New
From MSNBC NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has found a Martian rock covered in weird material as its odometer hit a major milestone this week, with the long-lived robot completing equivalent to a half-marathon on the Red Planet. Opportunity, now in its seventh...Opportunity is Thinking
From Discovery Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) Spirit and Opportunity have surpassed their designed mission lifespan by an astonishing six years, but don’t let that fool you into thinking their mental capacity is suffering. Far from it. With help from the MER...NASA Encounters More Questions Over Constellation’s Cancellation From House Panel
President Obama’s proposal to cancel NASA’s Constellation Program encountered another round of stiff, bi-partisan opposition from a House oversight panel on Wednesday, as an agency official and an outside aerospace expert painted an uncertain picture of...Shuttle Tech
From Motherboard tv Watching astronauts repair one of the most complex machines ever built while flying 300 miles above the Earth in the new IMAX film Hubble 3D may be a ‘religious experience’. But the vehicle they took to get up there can sometimes feel...Mars Gale Crater Flyover
From Universe Today The videos are created using actual, high-resolution data from the HiRISE camera – DEM (Digital Elevation Model)- also known as DTM Digital Terrain Model files. “The videos were produced using software I originally designed to visualize...Space Talk
As air flows around iced wings ✈️🧊
Using NASA’s LAVA framework, engineers created this simulation of air flowing around ice buildup on a Common Research Model wing, helping predict how ice formation could impact aircraft performance.
As air flows around iced wings ✈️🧊
Using NASA’s LAVA framework, engineers created this simulation of air flowing around ice buildup on a Common Research Model wing, helping predict how ice formation could impact aircraft performance.
This is incredible. The new @NASA image release from #Artemis includes a sequence of 'Hello World' still photographs.
I've been processing / animating them and here's what the original didn't show us:
Satellites, including their solar arrays, lightning storms
and dancing aurora!
@Erdayastronaut Huge respect Tim. I can’t wait to watch, this is going to be a great video no matter what.