In my spare time I like to browse the vast #NASA image archives to create #3D models and #animations like this one.
Back on #birdapp I really enjoyed connecting with engineers and scientists from around the world. I hope we can build an even better community over here!
In 2022, NASA's DART spacecraft rammed an asteroid at high speed. But it probably didn't leave a mark!
Most likely, DART changed the shape of the entire asteroid -- an important thing to know before we need to deflect a dangerous space rock away from Earth.
So basically we give a crap ton of money to a Nazi’s personal space program (where he takes a large chunk for himself) so they can explode giant rockets instead of continuing to fund NASA properly, like we used to do, so that they can successfully launch rockets because…I’m losing the thread here.
Saturn, when viewed in the near-infrared methane absorption band, appears blue. You're able to peer through the upper hazes into the clouds below and the bands and belts start to take shape. It's still false color, but almost looks like a whole new planet.
Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
#NASA 's #Juno
Perijove (orbit) 45
Altitude: 412 km
North on the left
Time: 2022-09-29T09:36
Camera: Stellar Reference Unit
File name: SRU_1_2022272T093649_45_V01
Out of many boring news stories eulogizing or lamenting #Ingenuity, here is a fascinating piece by Eric Berger about how the #MarsHelicopter came to be.
It's always the visionary people who in spite of difficulties persevere and make those great leaps forward. And those visionaries include many non technical roles like managers, administrators, and indeed, politicians.
I love the excitement of seeing a new world for the first time. Yesterday, NASA's Lucy Mission flew past an unexplored asteroid named Dinkinesh. Today, it sent back images showing that Dinkinesh is a double asteroid!
STS-31, the #SpaceShuttle mission that deployed the #Hubble Space Telescope, launched #OTD in 1990: April 24.
However, the astronauts didn't deploy the observatory until April 25.
My view -- which is not held by the good folks at STScI -- is that Hubble's birthday is thus the 25th; I liken it to April 24th is when Hubble's parents drove to the hospital / went into labor, but the 25th is when it was born. #Astrodon#HistoryOfAstronomy#NASA
To celebrate the recovery of communications with #Voyager2, here is a bunch of classic Science Magazine, Nature, and Nature Astronomy covers featuring the adventures of the epic spacecraft, now located 19.9 billion kilometers away from Earth 🌍 📡 🚀
Astronomers using JWST have just identified the earliest, most distant galaxy known. This image shows JADES-GS-z14-0 as it was when the universe was 2.2% its current age.