Two images shared on Twitter last week by cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky show the International Space Station in all its complex, multimodular glory.
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The mission will be developed with the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and is set to be a 3.6-billion-kilometer journey.
How Close Are We to Terraforming Mars?
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Bloated lakes burst their walls billions of years ago to shape the red planet we see today.
The post shared by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has given people a wonderful chance to witness the stars and galaxies in a better way.
Orbiting about 250 miles (402 kilometers) above Earth, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) enjoy a unique and enviable view of our planet.
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who’s been on the ISS since April, has regularly shared impressive images that he’s captured from the station’s Cupola, the seven-window module that offers panoramic views of Earth and beyond.
While most of Pesquet’s shots show physical features such as coastlines, cities, and the occasional oddity, he also looks out for natural phenomena such as auroras.
Today, 19:00 UTC, Bob Zubrin will present his book “The case for space”.
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Straight from the world of aquatic sports to the cosmic realm.
Some 70 years later, we are still relying on air friction, heatshields, and parachutes and landing at sea more often than not. A change could boost the commercialization of LEO.
Lazzarini.
The standout feature is, of course, the arc, or “hole deck” as Lazzarini calls it, which can be customized to each seafarer’s needs. Accessible via a door at the vessel’s bow, the sprawling space is ideal for lounging and is fitted with steps down to the ocean for requisite dips.
Shape is crowned by a glass-bottom infinity pool situated on the upper deck. It allows the swimmers above to look down on those below (or vice versa). Here, you’ll also find a helipad to facilitate the comings and goings of those onboard. At the stern, meanwhile, there is a waterside beach club with a diving platform, plus a garage for toys.
Mercury mission flies
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BepiColombo will fly by the planet’s night side, so images during the closest approach wouldn’t be able to show much detail.
The mission team anticipates the images will show large impact craters that are scattered across Mercury’s surface, much like our moon. The researchers can use the images to map Mercury’s surface and learn more about the planet’s composition.
Some of the instruments on both orbiters will be turned on during the flyby so they can get a first whiff of Mercury’s magnetic field, plasma and particles.