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A red snowman, past the orbit of Pluto

15 February 2020 grant 0

Nature shares the wonder of Arrakoth, the object once known as 2014 MU69, in the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto, the most distant world we’ve studied up close. It was observed by the New Horizons… Read the rest “A red snowman, past the orbit of Pluto”

A stereoscopic image of Mars. Or half of a stereo image, at least.

Science Art: Ophir Chasma, ESP_062483_1755, by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory HiRise.

27 January 2020 grant 0

A stereoscopic image of Mars. Or half of a stereo image, at least.Click to embiggen vastly

This is half of a stereoscopic image of the surface of Mars. The other half is here, if you want to line them up, one in each eye, and see the Chasma in all its depth and … Read the rest “Science Art: Ophir Chasma, ESP_062483_1755, by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory HiRise.”

The High Martian Wind

18 December 2019 grant 0

(In all caps because that’s a title, isn’t it?) Science News reports on the work the MAVEN probe is doing mapping the movements of the upper atmosphere of Mars:

“Looking at how

… Read the rest “The High Martian Wind”
Scientific illustration as football uniform: the UCF Space Game 2019 uniform

Science Art: UCF Space Game football uniform, 2019

3 November 2019 grant 0

Scientific illustration as football uniform: the UCF Space Game 2019 uniformClick to embiggen vastly

UCF, the University of Central Florida, is the university closest to the Kennedy Space Center, and has a rivalry with the *other* space-launch city, Houston, that’s… Read the rest “Science Art: UCF Space Game football uniform, 2019”

Billionaire Bigelow’s Big Balloon – inflatable space station is open for visitors.

14 September 2019 grant 0

Space.com has photos and background on B333, an expandable and expansive zero-gravity habitat for the next generation of space explorers. Bottom line is it’s pretty big:

The space

… Read the rest “Billionaire Bigelow’s Big Balloon – inflatable space station is open for visitors.”

India’s moon lander went silent minutes before landing.

9 September 2019 grant 0

Nature mourns the apparent loss of India’s first lunar lander, which stopped transmitting as it descended to the Moon’s south pole:

Mission control at the Indian Space Research

… Read the rest “India’s moon lander went silent minutes before landing.”

A remarkably tidy asteroid.

28 August 2019 grant 0

Science News describes how the MASCOT asteroid lander has found the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu oddly devoid of dust:

The asteroid, thought to have formed from the breakup of a larger body

… Read the rest “A remarkably tidy asteroid.”

Phil Plait explains why nuking Mars is a bad idea.

20 August 2019 grant 0

The internet’s “Bad Astronomer” takes to SyFy.com to explain to Elon Musk and everybody else why detonating nuclear bombs on the Martian ice caps would really not be… Read the rest “Phil Plait explains why nuking Mars is a bad idea.”

A scientific illustration as a fine-art painting by Ferdinand Warren, found at the Smithsonian here: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/weather-delay

Science Art: Weather Delay, by Ferdinand Warren

4 August 2019 grant 0

A scientific illustration as a fine-art painting by Ferdinand Warren, found at the Smithsonian here: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/weather-delayClick to embiggen

From the Smithsonian Institutes’ National Air and Space Museum “Eyewitness to Space” collection, paintings from the years when NASA had fine artists… Read the rest “Science Art: Weather Delay, by Ferdinand Warren”

Venus is luring Earth explorers again.

7 June 2019 grant 0

Nature has a quite long piece (and quite sensational headline) on the way Earth’s “evil twin,” Venus, is inspiring a new generation of interplanetary explorers to … Read the rest “Venus is luring Earth explorers again.”

scientific illustration of Mariner 10 for a 10c stamp

Science Art: Mariner 10 issue of 1975, by Roy Gjerston

2 June 2019 grant 0

scientific illustration of Mariner 10 for a 10c stampClick to embiggen

Roy Gjerston was an artist who designed stamps for the US Postal Service and spaceship concept art for General Dynamics. So this stamp, commemorating the Mariner 10 probe… Read the rest “Science Art: Mariner 10 issue of 1975, by Roy Gjerston”

The Search for Martian Fettuccine

30 May 2019 grant 1

Science Daily has word from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers, who instruct us to look for life on Mars by searching out rock formations that look like fettuccine … Read the rest “The Search for Martian Fettuccine”

Scientific Illustration of NASA's Skylab

Science Art: Skylab Artist Concept, 1972

19 May 2019 grant 0

Scientific Illustration of NASA's Skylab Click to embiggen

A house in space, with a big carport. Spaceport. You get the idea.

From NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center:

This illustration Skylab shows the Apollo capsule,

… Read the rest “Science Art: Skylab Artist Concept, 1972”

Virgin Galactic is heading to New Mexico (at last).

10 May 2019 grant 0

The Las Cruces Sun News reports that, after years of planning, Richard Branson has finally announced that his space-tourism company is moving all operations from California to southern… Read the rest “Virgin Galactic is heading to New Mexico (at last).”

Eye in the sky will see how carbon really moves (which should make climate science better).

30 April 2019 grant 0

Nature shares details on NASA’s new International Space Station project – a device that can see CO2 in ways that most satellites can’t:

The US$110-million Orbiting

… Read the rest “Eye in the sky will see how carbon really moves (which should make climate science better).”

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