Why is Methane Seeping on Mars?

The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater — has scientists scratching their heads.

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/mars/why-is-methane-seeping-on-mars-nasa-scientists-have-new-ideas/

#Mars #curiosity #rover #methane #GaleCrater #geology #geophysics #regolith #soil #salt #chemistry #astrodon #space #science #STEM

Why is Methane Seeping on Mars? NASA Scientists Have New Ideas - NASA Science

The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater — has scientists scratching their heads. Living creatures produce most of the methane on Earth.

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I love science - NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

#NASA #Science #Space

Up Close With the Completed 3.2-Gigapixel #LSST #Camera

Engineers at the #SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have completed work on the Legacy Survey of #Space and Time camera. The device is the world's largest digital camera and will be the centerpiece of a 10-year mission to map the night sky from the Vera C. Rubin #Observatory in #Chile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8We0FtSJ6D4

Up Close With the Completed 3.2-Gigapixel LSST Camera

Engineers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have completed work on the Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera. The device is the world's largest di...

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“The budget proposal is functional first step to begin internalizing the externalities wrought from private space flight—the short-term costs are unquestionably most evident in air traffic control. Using the internalization of that cost as a wedge to pursue broader policy initiatives that ensure the ongoing low-Earth congestion caused by increased satellite deployment is calculated and compensated for is a long-term solution.”

#space #spacex #tax @law

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewleahey/2024/04/22/do-we-need-a-property-tax-for-space

Do We Need A Property Tax For Space?

Considering a proposal for a property tax-like policy for the deployment of near-Earth satellites.

^{Andrew Leahey (Forbes)}

Would you like to see #OrsonWelles talking about alien life, along with contributions from various scientists including #CarlSagan ?

NASA did a weird documentary in 1975 which is exactly that. As NASA films are public domain, I've uploaded it to PeerTube and you can watch it at:

https://fedi.video/w/kDCK9DJg5Q5CAkEU5YVdKc

#Aliens #NASA #Space #SETI #Science @space

Fedi.Video on PeerTube

2024-04-22 13:11:14

Who's Out There? (1975)

NASA documentary on extraterrestrial life presented by Orson Welles, with contributions from various scientists including Carl Sagan.

The documentary is public domain, as are almost all videos released by NASA.

NASA documentary on extraterrestrial life presented by Orson Welles, with contributions from various scientists including Carl Sagan.

The documentary is public domain, as are almost all videos released by NASA.

These four captivating photos were taken from space, offering breathtaking perspectives of our planet Earth. Each image provides a unique view that invites viewers to marvel at the beauty and complexity of our world from a perspective that few ever get to experience firsthand.

#EarthDay #EarthDay2024 #Earth #Science #Astronomy #Astrodon #Space #PaleBlueDot #HappyEarthDay

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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Transitions Into Stationary Testbed

#space #ingenuity #mars #marshelicopter #hackaday
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Brian Ó Donnell / pod_feeder_v2 · GitLab

Publishes RSS/Atom feeds to Diaspora*

^GitLab

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft – headed to Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa in October 2024 – will carry a laser-etched message that celebrating humanity’s connection to water with laser-engravings of the word for water in 103 languages from around the world.

https://theconversation.com/nasas-mission-to-an-ice-covered-moon-will-contain-a-message-between-water-worlds-225771
#space #NASA

NASA's Galileo spacecraft captures a flames of an active volcano on Jupiter’s Io moon. #Space

via Brian Roemmele from Twitter

I'm so excited about this upcoming space mission.

NASA has just confirmed that the Dragonfly octocopter will launch in July, 2028. When it arrives, it will spend at least two years flying over the organic-rich sands of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Resources/news/20231128.php #space #science #nasa #life #tech

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.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2408/

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space

Most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy found

Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy.

^www.eso.org

Imagine what could have been done if some guy didn't waste $44b on a stupid social network and instead utilized the money for the benefit of humanity and science.

"the agency’s current plan to bring the first samples collected by the Mars rover Perseverance could cost up to $11 billion and would likely not be achievable until 2040."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24131341/nasa-mars-sample-return-mission-elon-musk-space-x

#space #nasa #mars

NASA needs a cheaper, faster way to bring Mars dirt back to Earth

NASA’s Bill Nelson says the agency will solicit ideas for cheaper and faster ways to perform a Mars sample-return mission, aiming to bring the samples back in the 2030s.

^{Amrita Khalid (The Verge)}

ESA accelerates the race towards clean energy from space

ESA accelerates the race towards clean energy from space

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Earth and the Moon taken a few years ago by the NASA OSIRIS-REx probe, from a distance of 63 million km. #Space

via Brian Roemmele from Twitter

The astronauts aboard the ISS were amazed by the April 8 solar eclipse, just like the rest of us, and went crazy snapping photos from orbit.

They got some amazing views of the Moon's shadow sweeping across southern Canada & Maine, seen from 420 km (261 miles) above: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/with/53645140833 #space #eclipse #space #astronomy

#PPOD: The Moon's shadow, or umbra, is pictured covering portions of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick and the American state of Maine in this photograph from the International Space Station as it soared into the solar eclipse from 420 kilometers above the surface of Earth. The diameter of the shadow is 160 km. Credit: NASA

#eclipse #photography #space #science #scicomm

New Solution To The Fermi Paradox Suggests The Great Filter Is Nearly Upon Us

https://www.iflscience.com/new-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox-suggests-the-great-filter-is-nearly-upon-us-73774

#space #spaceexploration #spacetech #spacetechnology #searchforlife #aliens #extraterrestrial #astrophysics #astrobiology #ai #artificialintelligence

New Solution To The Fermi Paradox Suggests The Great Filter Is Nearly Upon Us

Is this why we haven't heard from aliens?

^{James Felton (IFLScience)}

Hunter Rogerson The Spellsinger (Choirs) Kontakt Decent Sampler

[FREE]https://music-society.de/hunter-rogerson-the-spellsinger-choirs-kontakt-decent-sampler-free/samples/musicus/

#Decent #Kontakt #Samples #ambient #Decent #free #gentle #HunterRogerson #Kontakt #Library #looping #loops #lost #Mic #Moon #old #pianobook #Pitch #sampler #Samples #space #Stereo #Time #Voices

Today's dose of cosmic beauty: Comet Pons-Brooks, photographed from southern Spain by Fritz Helmut Hemmerich.

The eerie green glow is from diatomic carbon. The ripples show the flow of the solar wind.

https://www.facebook.com/fritzhelmut.hemmerich/ #space #science #astronomy #nature

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Apple TV+ rolls out "Fly Me to the Moon" trailer.

- Star studded cast, including Scarlet Johansson and Channing Tatum
- Focused on the race to the moon

Can't help but think this will fuel a LOT of conspiracy theories for folks who already think the moon landing was faked. 🙄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW7enw6mFxs
#NASA #Space #Rocket #Apple #AppleTV #AppleTVPlus

FLY ME TO THE MOON - Official Trailer (HD)

The whole world will be watching. #FlyMeToTheMoon starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum – coming exclusively to movie theaters this July.Visit Our W...

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My best close up. I wish I had exposed for more corona... But mostly this time I put the cameras down and just enjoyed the full 4 minutes.

Once again, celestial dynamics imposed a sense of the realest really real reality upon me! I did some tears.

I hope you got to experience totality OR can see the next one.

#photography #eclipse #space

My astronaut-girlfriend left me. She apparently needed some space...

#humor #jokes #puns #space #moon #breakup #girlfriend #aiart #digitalart

Eclipse news from 3,246 years ago:

The earliest well-established observation a solar eclipse was recorded on March 5, 1222 BCE. It was inscribed in a clay tablet from Ugarit, a city in modern-day Syria.

https://theconversation.com/archeoastronomy-uses-the-rare-times-and-places-of-previous-total-solar-eclipses-to-help-us-measure-history-222709 #space #science #astronomy #eclipse

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/04/engineers-pinpoint-cause-of-voyager-1-issue-are-working-on-solution/

Wow, so Voyager 1 is currently fifteen billion one hundred twenty-seven million twenty-four thousand four hundred eleven miles from earth.

And despite that mind boggling, incomprehensible difference, engineers have been able to debug why the probe has stopped responding.

This is yet another moment where I see humanity's boundless potential expressed in a feat of technical prowess.

I now return you to your First World Problems currently in progress :)

#space #technology #nasa

Coyote, a stowaway on the spaceship Ares that brought the First Hundred to Mars, was a prominent figure of the underground resistance in #KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy.

Here we see one of his hideouts, on the other side of the Neretva Vallis riverbank 🙃 🤣

#FreeAssociation

Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking NW (319°) from RMC 51.2390
Sol 1109, LMST: 11:47:39

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01109/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1109_0765388746_706EBY_N0512390ZCAM09130_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#KSR #SciFi #Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Phobos over Mars

Full size 3570x2000: https://flic.kr/p/2pHBL86

I was kinda tired of seeing this epic photo online only in black and white, so I decided to jazz it up with some colours!

ESA Mars Express HRSC
Orbit 7982
Time: 2010-03-26
Filter ND - H7982_0000_ND3.IMG
Image created using data processed from: https://psa.esa.int

Link to my Phobos album here: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvrQL

Credit: ESA/ @DLR /FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

#Space #Astronomy #Astrodon #Spacetodon #Phobos #Mars #ESA

Amazing research out today:

The DESI survey has created the largest-ever 3D map of the structure of the universe.

It has also found intriguing (though tentative) evidence that cosmic "dark energy" is not what we thought -- a hint of new, unknown physics.

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/04/04/desi-first-results-make-most-precise-measurement-of-expanding-universe/ #science #astronomy #space #tech

Seriously, how cool is this?

Cosmologists have now measured how the expansion of the universe changes over time, to an accuracy of 1%.

They did it by finding frozen sound waves from the Big Bang, and then tracking them across 11 billion years. People can do these things!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoOyOAAj4iY #science #nature #astronomy #space

The first-ever view of a solar eclipse from the surface of the Moon. That's the Earth eclipsing the Sun!

Images captured by NASA's Surveyor 3 lunar lander on April 24, 1967.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140407.html #science #astronomy #space #nasa

Only three humans have ever witnessed an eclipse of the Sun by the *Earth*. It happened while the Apollo 12 crew was returning home from the Moon, on November 21, 1969.

Fortunately, the astronauts filmed the moment so you can share in the experience.

https://archive.org/details/Apollo1216mmOnboardFilm [at the 4:50 mark] #space #science #nasa #eclipse

Here's a beautiful oddity: This nebula was created by a very rare type of supernova that HALF-exploded 800 years ago.

Two white dwarf stars collided & detonated, lighting up Earth's skies. Somehow one of the white dwarfs survived, leaving behind the hottest star in our galaxy.

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/03/Marvel_at_stunning_echo_of_800-year-old_explosion?rand=771654 #space #science #astronomy #nature

Elon Musk uses sci-fi dreams like colonizing Mars to distract us his real business goals and how SpaceX has trampled workers’ rights and the environment to achieve them.

If we ever hope to build a better future, we need to stop falling for false futures.

https://disconnect.blog/what-if-we-never-live-on-mars/

#tech #space #mars #spacex #elonmusk

What if we never live on Mars?

Tech billionaires sell us the dream of realizing sci-fi fantasies, but that distracts us from building a better society on Earth

^{Paris Marx (Disconnect)}