#Ingenuity is presently experiencing some of the coldest sols since last October, with max avg abt -25°C through the week but reaching as low as -28°C max during daylight on some sols.
The animation shows a few of the last flights of the #MarsHelicopter. It's notable that all those flights occurred during max temperatures around -20°C, which might explain why #Flight51 has most probably not taken place yet. #NASA's weather feed updates lag by a few sols
Working on the space shooter taught me some new tricks with particle effects. So I quickly updated the antimatter engine plume in Cosmic Ocean. It looks and behaves a lot better.
1/ Most massive stellar #BlackHole in our galaxy found! With 33 times the mass of the Sun, this is the most massive black hole formed after the collapse of a star that we've found so far in the #MilkyWay.
ESA's Gaia mission found it via the wobble it induces on a star orbiting it, and data from ground-based telescopes helped confirm its mass and elucidate how it formed.
A safety panel highlighted the urgency of safely deorbiting the International Space Station (ISS) after it retires in 2030, warning of a catastrophe if the spacecraft were to make an uncontrolled reentry through Earth’s atmosphere....
INCREDIBLE images from China's Chang’e 6 lander, which landed on the far side of the moon late on June 1 and lifted off in an ascent vehicle with the first lunar samples from the far side of the moon yesterday.
Random question for the Fediverse. Friend looking at a #NexStar 8SE for a #telescope for a house in a great dark sky location. Opinions? Alternatives? Mainly for looking at live, but if there are good alternatives for casual astrophotography, I think they would appreciate the capability. Thanks! #astronomy#photography#space#astrophotography#telescopes
Just saw what looked to be a satellite, but it appeared to resemble two very closely packed dots instead of one. Like maybe twice the width apart than the xamidimura constellation. Checked, ISS isn't due to pass over for another half an hour, and it's on the other half of the sky.
Two craft undergoing rendezvous maybe? it was certainly something in orbit because it was going in a straight line at a constant speed. Probably a little slower than the ISS.
Roughly 6:14pm AEST, Hobart TAS, going south-westerly to north-westerly.
#introduction
I've been using Mastodon exclusively for about a week now since I've deleted elon from my life. I like this platform and the people here much more.
I'd like to round out my feed more to include more #art#nature#space and general geekiness.
I'm also looking to connect with people as friends, as I'm lgbtq and live in a rural are, which makes for few social opportunities 😂😊
New NASA cost-benefit of tracking/mitigating orbital debris finds that propulsive deorbiting and improved tracking of large debris have the best C-B ratio, while tracking of cm-size debris and removing mm-sized debris is less beneficial.
Ancient pine stumps in the French Alps record the most powerful known solar storm. It struck Earth 14,300 years ago & seeded the atmosphere with radioactive carbon-14.
It may be 1.1km away and not a clear line-of-sight to #Ingenuity, but it sure is open space and a beautiful scene of Neretva Vallis. Images from #Flight68 should now be easier to receive. That is, if the flight happened on Saturday, as planned.
Processed, undistorted, leveled, cropped NAVCAM_LEFT, looking WNW (293°) from RMC 47.4374
Sol 999, LMST: 14:37:12
I'm thinking of writing this retro-futuristic techno thriller where the US manages to put people on the #Moon using only 1960s technology, former Nazi rocket scientists etc.
A spacecraft to deorbit ISS 'not optional,' claims NASA safety panel (gizmodo.com)
A safety panel highlighted the urgency of safely deorbiting the International Space Station (ISS) after it retires in 2030, warning of a catastrophe if the spacecraft were to make an uncontrolled reentry through Earth’s atmosphere....
Existing back in time where the general temperature of space was 0 celsius?
If we copied/moved our planet and us as we are now back in time that far away, what would happen?...