Vast, unidentified, structures have been spotted by satellites in the barren Gobi desert, raising questions about what China might be building in a region it uses for its military, space and nuclear programmes.
A video visualization of Earth’s fires from Space.
Via Fast Company Coexist.
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9/11 From Space: An Astronaut’s Perspective
From Aug. 12 to Dec. 15, 2001, astronaut Frank Culbertson was aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Two hundred fifty miles above the Earth’s surface, Culbertson was the only American not on the planet at the time of the terrorist attacks. He — along with two Russian cosmonauts — witnessed the horrific events of Sept. 11, as well as the invasion of Afghanistan a month later, from space.
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9/11 From Space: An Astronaut’s Perspective
From Aug. 12 to Dec. 15, 2001, astronaut Frank Culbertson was aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Two hundred fifty miles above the Earth’s surface, Culbertson was the only American not on the planet at the time of the terrorist attacks. He — along with two Russian cosmonauts — witnessed the horrific events of Sept. 11, as well as the invasion of Afghanistan a month later, from space.
“Bird’s eye view of this morning’s space shuttle traffic jam.”
Via @NASAKennedy
“I spent most of my life developing the shuttle,” said Mr. Moser, who retired from NASA in 1989 after 25 years with the agency. “I was there from sketch pad to launch pad.”
Thomas Moser, quoted in this New York Times article about how pieces of the flag that is on the Moon are being auctioned off, and the expected selling price: $100,000.
Mr. Moser’s flag shreds are the star lot of an extensive space memorabilia auction being held in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday. Other notable items include the astronaut Deke Slayton’s handwritten training notes from the Mercury program and dozens of heat shields, crew patches and other ephemera that once transcended earthly bounds.
Magnificent blue and gold Saturn floats obliquely as one of its gravity-bound companions, Dione, hangs in the distance. The darkened rings seem to nearly touch their shadowy reverse images on the planet below.
See more images of Saturn from the Casini-Huygens Mission at Daily Rings.
“Whenever I speak to people who have influence, politicians and so on, they sometimes ask me ‘Why should I invest in physics pure research?’. And I sometimes say to them: ‘Do you use a mobile phone? Some of that technology came about by black hole research’.”
Monash University’s School of Physics astrophysicist, Dr Kevin Pimbblet, in an article about how:
A 22-year-old Australian university student has solved a problem which has puzzled astrophysicists for decades, discovering part of the so-called “missing mass” of the universe during her summer break.
Undergraduate Amelia Fraser-McKelvie made the breakthrough during a holiday internship with a team at Monash University’s School of Physics, locating the mystery material within vast structures called “filaments of galaxies”.
“Advanced civilizations may live safely inside the supermassive black holes,” contends physicist Vyacheslav Ivanovich Dokuchaev. “Stationary observers may exist just as anywhere on the planet Earth … . The only thing needed is to put your vehicle or your planet to a stable periodic orbit inside the black hole.”
Beyond the Point of No Return: Is There Life in Black Holes?:
In a paper recently written for theJ ournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Russian physicist Vyacheslav Ivanovich Dokuchaev proposes just such a possibility.
From physorg.com:
New visualizations of the Earth from space provide a unique image of how the Earth has changed over the past 750 million years.
The Visible Paleo-Earth (VPE), the first collection of photorealistic visualizations of our planet from space in the last 750 million years, was created by The Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo (UPR Arecibo). The VPE visualizations show in real true colors the changes of land and vegetation experimented by Earth in thirty frames starting from 750 million years ago to today. This was the period where simple life forms were restricted to the oceans, and later became complex and larger populating the land areas.
The Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Final Launch seen from a commercial plane window, captured by Stefanie Gordon.
Stunning.
This is not CGI, but thousands of pictures from the Cassini Spacecraft that flew by, around and near Saturn.
From io9.com:
This is a demo reel for a future IMAX film called Outside In, which recreates a journey through the solar system using only images taken from actual spaceflights - made by satellites visiting our neighboring planets.
What is Drums and Space and why do the Grateful Dead play it every night?
-Laguna Seca Recreation Area on 1988-07-29
