What is the resolution of the MAHLI camera from a 3cm distance? 🔍 0.017mm/pixel

That, and more, in the new #Curiosity report: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/9491/sols-3964-3965-double-drt-for-a-soliday/

Did you know what a "soliday" is? 🤔
For the answer: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/9308/sols-3667-3668-back-to-the-marker-band/

#MSL #NASA #Solarocks #Space

Sols 3964-3965: "Double DRT for a Soliday" – NASA Mars Exploration

Welcome to another weekend in Gale crater, Mars! As Abigail Knight described in Wednesday’s blog, we elected not to drive last plan while we waited for the workspace imaging from Navcam and Mastcam to arrive on Earth.

^{NASA Mars Exploration}

Stepping on your food appears to be allowed on Mars 🤣

#Perseverance moved about 8m to the west by driving over the rock it had just cored.
Processed, undistorted NAVCAM_RIGHT
Sol: 925, RMC: 45.0086, LMST: 15:15:53
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00925/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NRF_0925_0749067083_550ECM_N0450086NCAM03925_01_195J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

#UMPlus - Sh2-16 by Gary Imm

https://www.universomagico.net/2023/09/sh2-16-por-gary-imm.html

The image by astronomer Gary Imm shows a visible emission nebula in the Sagittarius Constellation and located at a distance of about 4,890 light years from the Solar System. Called Sh2-16, RCW 137 and Gum 70 among other designations, it is located on the edge of the constellation very close to.....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography

Picture of an obsolete B32Lyz #spaceship arriving from #space in the dawn, taken near the Lacksuss spaceport and very recognizable by its bulky shapes and oversized volume.

#ballpoint #doodle with digital color overlay.

#scifi #scifiart #spaceship #art

#UMPlus - Galactic collision at Arp 107

https://www.universomagico.net/2023/09/colision-galactica-en-arp-107.html

This image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows Arp 107, a celestial object comprising two galaxies in the midst of a collision. On the right appears dusty LEDA 32628 and on the left is the brighter galaxy UGC 5984, named in 1966 by Halton Christian Arp in his.....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography

The SatNOGS project - a global, open source network of DIY satellite ground stations pioneered by the Libre Space Foundation - announced the community has reached its eight millionth observation. SatNOGS counts over 240+ fully operational ground stations and 150+ in testing mode:
https://satnogs.org/2023/09/13/8-million-observations-for-the-satnogs-network/

#foss #space #satnogs #satellites

Survived seven years in #space. Took samples from a surface that was nothing like what they expected. Handled 32g deceleration and temperatures as high as those on the surface of the sun. And made it safely home.

That's a truly epic mission right there -- and it continues, too: after dropping off their priceless sample as casually as I drop off dry cleaning, they're zooming to another asteroid (Apophis) next.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-asteroid-samples-landing-osiris-rex-bennu/

NASA capsule brings home asteroid samples dating back to the birth of the solar system

In a dramatic 13-minute plunge back to Earth, the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule safely landed in Utah after seven years in space.

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#UMPlus - Hickson 61

https://www.universomagico.net/2023/09/hickson-61.html

Hickson 61 is a compact group of galaxies formed by 4 members that are located in the direction of the Coma Berenices Constellation and are located at a distance of between 55 and 197 million light years from the Milky Way. NGC 4169 is a lenticular Seyfert 2 type galaxy that has.....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography

#UMPlus - Galaxy LEDA 54493

https://www.universomagico.net/2023/09/galaxia-leda-54493.html

This image taken by the Advanced Research Camera on board the Hubble Space Telescope shows a beautiful barred spiral galaxy known as PGC 54493 or LEDA 54493, which is located in the direction of the Serpens Constellation. This galaxy is part of a galaxy cluster that has been studied by astronomers exploring an....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography

Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart walks in space, March 6, 1969.

#photography #space

Interpolated video of #MarsHelicopter Flight 57. Towards the end of the video the Heli turned to the side to image a science target. Then it autonomously selected a landing spot on a nearby sand ripple.

Ingenuity has a history of landing on sand ripples. Their smooth surface appears safe to the hazard avoidance algorithm. However, this time it also decided to land close to nearby rocks 😬

https://flic.kr/p/2p3ciy6
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß
#Ingenuity #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

NASA panel suggests agency appoint a director of #UAP research and take a lead role in studying the issue of unidentified objects in air & space.

This is pretty big IMO. NASA has assiduously avoided this topic since its founding.

Harder and harder for the science community to wave this issue away as nothing but birds and balloons.

Noted astrophysicist David Spergel led the group that made the recommendations.

#NASA #science #space

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-shares-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-independent-study-report

NASA Shares Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Report

In response to a recommendation by an independent study team for NASA to play a more prominent role in understanding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), the agency announced Thursday it is appointing a director of UAP research.

^{Claire O’Shea (NASA)}

interesting research update on Kuiper Belt - a hidden planet with a mass about 1.5–3 times that of Earth could be lurking at the edge of the solar system, according to computer simulations done by researchers in Japan. Certainly not a new basic concept, but some interesting new approaches nonetheless
🔗 https://physicsworld.com/a/earth-sized-planet-could-be-lurking-at-the-edge-of-the-solar-system-simulations-suggests/

the article also contains a cautious endorsement from Mastodon's resident planetary scientist @sundogplanets: "this work is on the way to explaining a lot of things that we can’t currently explain"

#space #science #astronomy

Earth-sized planet could be lurking at the edge of the solar system, simulations suggest – Physics World

Planet could explain strange properties of trans-Neptunian objects

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#UMPlus - Comet C/2023 P1 (Nishimura)

https://www.universomagico.net/2023/09/cometa-c2023-p1-nishimura.html

Comet C/2023 P1 (Nishimura), seen here in an excellent image by astronomer Bernhard Hubl, is a long-period comet discovered by Hideo Nishimura on August 12, 2023. The comet's orbital period is estimated at 434 years. An eccentricity of 0.996 gives the comet a semimajor axis, average distance from.....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography

A detailed tutorial that combines a Raspberry Pi with an SDR (Software Defined Radio) and a custom-built antenna to receive data from weather satellites. Open source software raspberry-noaa-v2 decodes this data and constructs images of current weather conditions:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/tutorials/build-your-own-weather-satellite-receiving-station/

#foss #space #raspberrypi #sdr #satellites

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#UMPlus - Supernova remnant RCW 114

https://www.universomagico.net/2023/09/remanente-de-supernova-rcw-114.html

The image by the Atacama Photographic Observatory APO team of astronomers, composed of astronomers Thierry Demange, Richard Galli and Thomas Petit, shows a stellar and nebulous landscape located in the direction of the Scorpius Constellation, on the border with the.....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography

#UMPlus - Star birth in Ara

https://www.universomagico.net/2023/09/nacimiento-estelar-en-ara.html

The protostellar object called OH 339.88-1.26 is hidden in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is located at a distance of about 8,900 light years from Earth and is located in the direction of the Ara Constellation. The field of view is crossed by sinuous lines of dark dust, which is.....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography

In 2017 a man, after some thought, had a simple but genius idea and took a camera on a Southwest flight from Portland, Oregon to St. Louis and captured one of the most breathtaking images of all time.

Jon Carmichael's "108" is probably my favorite #eclipse image and provokes introspection every time I see it.

#space #astronomy #astrophotography #photography

Even in low orbit these people find the way to leave their marks.

Notebook rough doodle with digital color overlay.

#SciFi #ScifiArt #ScienceFiction #Space #spaceship #MastoArt #artistsonmastodon

This picture of Saturn, taken by the Cassini spacecraft, is the most dazzling thing I’ve seen in a very long time.

#Saturn #Cassini #Space

Martian Timelapse - 833 Sols of Curiosity

#science technology #space #mars #curiosity

https://www.minds.com/archive/view/400062315010985984

This is what it looks like when a supernova explodes and blasts its guts into interstellar space.

Supernova 1987A lit up Earth's skies 36 years ago. Now JWST has provided an extreme close-up of the chaos it unleashed. Heavy elements ejected by the star will help seed the next generation of stars and planets. https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-136
#space #science #astronomy

1/ The pulsar J1023 (a dense and rapidly spinning stellar corpse) started feeding off a companion star a few years ago. But since then it has been behaving oddly!

Sometimes the pulsar gives off bright X-ray, UV and visible light, and other times it emits more radio waves, switching between these two states every few seconds/minutes.

A new result involving several telescopes worldwide has provided new clues:

➡️ https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2315/

📷 ESO/M. Kornmesser

#astrodon #astronomy #space #scicomm

ESA just released some beautiful #JWST images of M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy.

In the near-infrared image, dark red features trace the filamentary warm dust, while colors of red, orange, and yellow show gas ionized by recently formed star clusters.

In the mid-infrared image, dust grains and molecules glow, heated by starlight. Empty cavities and bright filaments alternate, giving the impression of ripples propagating from the spiral arms.

More https://esawebb.org/images/potm2308c/
#Astronomy #Space #Galaxy

#UMPlus - CNGC 3199 by Ken Crawford

https://www.universomagico.net/2023/08/ngc-3199-por-ken-crawford.html

NGC 3199, also cataloged as Gum 28 and RCW 48 and seen here in an excellent image by astronomer Ken Crawford, is an emission nebula located in the constellation of Carina. It is an arc shock surrounding the central star WR 18, an energetic Wolf-Rayet star. Wolf-Rayet type stars, abbreviated as WR, are.....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography

We saw an interesting 'white rock' behind a sand dune the other sol: https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/110922666969829073

Now #Perseverance's SUPERCAM instrument (that's the one with the laser) targeted a pebble that could be similar in composition with that previous white rock and just 1.5m WNW away from the rover.

Processed to bring out texture SUPERCAM_RMI
Sol: 895, RMC: 44.0000, LMST: 11:25:42
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00895/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_0895_0746389670_303EBY_N0440000SCAM01895_0100I6J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

#UMPlus - Arches Cluster

https://www.universomagico.net/2023/08/cumulo-arches.html

This Hubble Space Telescope image features the Arches cluster, the densest known star cluster in the Milky Way. It is located at a distance of about 25,000 light years from Earth and is located in the direction of the Sagittarius constellation, near the heart of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Like its.....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography

What to expect next from Chandrayaan-3? A little Moon rover 😀 ! Notice the two Nav cameras.

Images from: https://www.isro.gov.in/Chandrayaan3_Details.html

#Chandrayaan3 #ISRO #Solarocks #Space