The mission to retrieve a Mars sample is running into turbulence.
@theverge reports: "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is already running over budget and behind schedule. But it may also be our best chance of finding extraterrestrial life."
#Perseverance drove 10m on Sol 1150, to RMC 52.2638. As mentioned earlier, this appears to be the most difficult part of the descent to the ancient riverbed of Neretva Vallis, on the way to Bright Angel, a rock formation of geological interest.
The maps were drawn with @QGIS, using data from #NASA's #MMGIS, imagery from #HiRISE and DTMs from #USGS
"The sun produced its biggest flare in nearly two decades Tuesday, just days after severe solar storms pummeled Earth and created dazzling northern lights in unaccustomed places."
AP reports: "The good news is that Earth should be out of the line of fire this time because the flare erupted on a part of the sun rotating away from Earth."
Looking Back on NASA’s Vivid 1970s Visions of Space Living
Feast your peepers on these artistic interpretations of a colonized cosmos.
by Evan Nicole Brown November 13, 2018
"...The team of scientists devised multiple approaches to space habitation, so Guidice dreamt up several illustrations as a way to visualize them. “Gerard O’Neill wanted [the habitats] to look like an English countryside,” Guidice remembers. “Not very dense.” Full-color renderings, drawn and hand-painted with acrylics, were presented to the scientists on large-scale illustration boards, but were initially thought of as purely auxiliary material rather than art.
“What’s interesting is that the paintings at the time were just illustrations in support, and later on they’ve taken on a life of their own—they’re what most people recognize,” Guidice says. “It tells a story for them..."
I totally love what the #JWST is able to see, such as this new and exciting image of the Horsehead Nebula, where you can see loads of galaxies.
Absolutely amazing!
The image from #ESA even contains a very detailled description, and #astronomical metadata in the AVM format, which my NeoFinder for macOS software of course catalogs, displays, and allows you to search.
New location for #Perseverance on Sol 1148, RMC 52.2540
The rover is now approaching the most difficult part of the descent, but apparently it has no problem negotiating the steep slope at a slower pace.
The maps show the estimated new location along with the guessed drive path and a number of predictions for its coming drives. It seems it will reach Bright Angel sometime between Sol 1156 and 1160, assuming no pauses.
And here is a possible path to the next stop, a point where the two alternatives, one through the nearby ripples and the other along the rocky riverbank, will start to be more visible.
Processed, undistorted, leveled, cropped NAVCAM_RIGHT quick mosaic
looking WNW (300°) from RMC 52.2540
Sol 1148, LMST: 13:00:01
As someone who keeps her children (born and unborn) away from data detection, I know how catastrophic the #MOMS bill’s national #pregnancy database is.
But I am also a scholar who studies #NASA, so I know a government handout bill when I see one.
Look past the website to Title II, section 1a, eligibility for government grants for maternal support.
This is a #handout for pro-life nonprofits, with restrictions against funding for orgs like #PlannedParenthood , dressed up as maternal support.
NASA destroys asteroid, impact of explosion could be dangerous to Mars (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
One way to stop them from hitting Earth is to change its course by hitting it with a spacecraft
Mysterious Picture crowd of giant spiders on Mars, what's that? (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
The European Space Agency's (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter satellite has discovered a strange structure they call the "martian spider mark".