Space stuff

[CentralTexasCrude]

So, Tuesday, just before noon, some Japanese company is going to land a rover on the moon. I hadn't heard of this before reading today. Evidently, this is a private company doing it and the rover was built by an Arab country. The mission was started on a SpaceX rocket in a December 2022 launch and its been flying around waiting to land ever since. This rover is only 22 lbs, so that doesn't sound very big. And this company is a "for profit" company, so I'm not sure what their profit from this will be.

And.....just like that. Houston, we have a problem!

The Japanese/Arab lunar lander has been lost. "Lost" is a code word for "crashed into the moon". They were in the process of landing and lost contact and can't get it back.

Must have been looking for goats.

Another dallas news headline?

No, Arabs

[disco.moon]

Everyone has been talking about these Northern Lights and I had no idea. There's great pictures on the internet. I'm not gonna post them.

[stonedmegman]

Everyone has been talking about these Northern Lights and I had no idea. There's great pictures on the internet. I'm not gonna post them.

Pfft, pictures do not do them justice.

[Bluespruce1964]

[Bluespruce1964]

[Animal]

i somehow thought a car falling on uranus would look different than that.

[stonedmegman]

NASA spacecraft spots stunning flow of ice on Mars

Mars, a world that once gushed with water, is today 1,000 times drier than Earth's driest desert. Yet some ice still flows, slowly, on the Martian ground.

NASA's Mars-orbiting satellite, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, carries a powerful camera called the High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) that captures rich imagery of the Red Planet's surface (it's the "most powerful camera ever sent to another planet," the HiRISE team explains). Recently, planetary scientists used HiRISE to snap an image of a glacier-like "icy flow," taken from 184 miles above Mars' surface. Frozen ice doesn't only exist in the frigid Martian poles.

"The surface of Mars is littered with examples of glacier-like landforms," Mike Mellon, a Mars geologist and co–investigator of the HiRISE project, explained online. "While surface ice deposits are mostly limited to the polar caps, patterns of slow, viscous flow abound in many non-polar regions of Mars."


https://mashable.com/article/mars-nasa-ice-glacier

[CentralTexasCrude]

NASA spacecraft spots stunning flow of ice on Mars

Mars, a world that once gushed with water, is today 1,000 times drier than Earth's driest desert. Yet some ice still flows, slowly, on the Martian ground.

NASA's Mars-orbiting satellite, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, carries a powerful camera called the High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) that captures rich imagery of the Red Planet's surface (it's the "most powerful camera ever sent to another planet," the HiRISE team explains). Recently, planetary scientists used HiRISE to snap an image of a glacier-like "icy flow," taken from 184 miles above Mars' surface. Frozen ice doesn't only exist in the frigid Martian poles.

"The surface of Mars is littered with examples of glacier-like landforms," Mike Mellon, a Mars geologist and co–investigator of the HiRISE project, explained online. "While surface ice deposits are mostly limited to the polar caps, patterns of slow, viscous flow abound in many non-polar regions of Mars."


https://mashable.com/article/mars-nasa-ice-glacier

Very cool

[stonedmegman]

Nasa will have to wait till 2178 to see if Pluto has said fuck off!

[stonedmegman]

NASA shares pictures of a dumpling-shaped object in space that turns out to be a...



The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has shared pictures of a space object that looks like a dumpling.

"Ravioli, pierogi, empanada? No, that... What do you see? No wrong answers," NASA asked in an Instagram post.

The space agency then clarified that the object is actually the innermost moon of Saturn.


NASA revealed that its Cassini spacecraft took the images from 15,300 miles (24,600 km) which happens to be its closest encounter with the moon, which is called Pan.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/new-up ... 980289.cms

[stonedmegman]

Stunning photo of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is our best in decades


https://www.newscientist.com/article/23 ... nt=bullets

[Animal]

Try opening this in a new tab:

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/Vault/ ... 1693251476

[Animal]

https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/moons/io/

[Bluespruce1964]

https://www.partycelebs.com/videos/1621 ... ?play=true

[CentralTexasCrude]

Stunning photo of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is our best in decades


https://www.newscientist.com/article/23 ... nt=bullets

Actually. When one of the 2 Voyager probes flew by Jupiter in the late 1970's with their 1960's ancient technology and photographed volcanoes spewing on Io, it was one of the greater scientific finds of the 20th Century. Stunned the scientific world who thought that only happened on Earth
About the same time they photographed sea vents on the ocean floor supporting life without the Sun.

[Antknot]

The moon may be 40 million years older than thought.


https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2023/1 ... 698072068/

[stonedmegman]

Who can confirm.

[Biker]

Who can confirm.

Still radio silence from Who

[peterosehaircut]

Who can confirm.

Still radio silence from Who

Probably as dead as smurph and harrybutt

[CentralTexasCrude]

Could not believe 2-3 weeks ago that I only saw the briefest mention in the press that Frank Borman died. Commander of Apollo 8. That crew was the first creatures from Earth ever to leave the gravity of Earth and see the "Dark side of the Moon".

[CentralTexasCrude]

[Reservoir Dog]

Could not believe 2-3 weeks ago that I only saw the briefest mention in the press that Frank Borman died. Commander of Apollo 8. That crew was the first creatures from Earth ever to leave the gravity of Earth and see the "Dark side of the Moon".

As always, Mr. Always Wrong is always wrong.

[Animal]

Could not believe 2-3 weeks ago that I only saw the briefest mention in the press that Frank Borman died. Commander of Apollo 8. That crew was the first creatures from Earth ever to leave the gravity of Earth and see the "Dark side of the Moon".

As always, Mr. Always Wrong is always wrong.

FIRST CREATURES EVER!!!!!!!!

[stonedmegman]

Is it still Sunday?

[CentralTexasCrude]

Could not believe 2-3 weeks ago that I only saw the briefest mention in the press that Frank Borman died. Commander of Apollo 8. That crew was the first creatures from Earth ever to leave the gravity of Earth and see the "Dark side of the Moon".

As always, Mr. Always Wrong is always wrong.

FIRST CREATURES EVER!!!!!!!!

Would you prefer "life forms". I think some early earth rocks were blasted into space a few billion years ago. Almost as long ago as Texas A&M having a top tier football program.