A family portrait
Posted 2 months ago
NASA is one of the few institutions I know that can inspire 5-year-olds
Jeff Bezos, in his 3/28/12 blog post detailing the discovery of the Apollo 11 rocket boosters off the coast of Florida (http://www.bezosexpeditions.com/engine-recovery.html)
Posted 8 months ago
ISS Pass over Eastern Asia to Philippine Sea and Guam
This pass begins over Mongolia, looking towards the Pacific Ocean, China, and Japan. As the video progresses, you can see major cities along the coast and the Japanese islands on the Philippine Sea. The island of Guam can be seen further down the pass into the Philippine Sea, and the pass ends just to the east of New Zealand. A lightning storm can be seen as light pulses near the end of the video.
(Source: unknownskywalker)
Posted 10 months ago
Juno Spacecraft to Carry LEGOs to Jupiter Orbit - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
LEGO MINIFIGS ARE GOING TO JUPITER!
Wut.
Posted 10 months ago
Wow. It’s choppy (I expect more soon, Dawn!) but awesome. You know there might be an ocean on Ceres? Can’t wait to get there.
Why don’t we have about a hundred robotic explorers like this out there? Cost about as much as a few bombers or aircraft carriers…
In this movie, strung together from a series of images provided by the framing camera on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, we see a full rotation of Vesta, which occurs over the course of roughly five hours. These images were obtained on July 24, 2011, from a distance of about 3,200 miles (5,200 kilometers).
Video: NASA
Posted 10 months ago
Vesta Sizes Up
This composite image shows the comparative sizes of nine asteroids. Up until now, Lutetia, with a diameter of 81 miles (130 kilometers), was the largest asteroid visited by a spacecraft, which occurred during a flyby.
Vesta, which is also considered a protoplanet because it’s a large body that almost became a planet, dwarfs all other small bodies in this image, with its diameter sizing up at approximately 330 miles (530 kilometers).
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JAXA/ESA
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
