Posts Tagged ‘space’

Elsewhere for October 13th

Monday, October 13th, 2008

These are my delicious links for October 13th:

  • Pictures of the Sun - Gorgeous collection of pictures of the Sun, as done by The Big Picture.

It’s snowing on Mars. SNOWING.

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds.  My brain has officially been blown.  This is just staggering to me.

A laser instrument designed to gather knowledge of how the atmosphere and surface interact on Mars has detected snow from clouds about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) above the spacecraft’s landing site. Data show the snow vaporizing before reaching the ground. 

I realize that the economy is doing a nose-dive, but there is no way in hell we should stop explorations like this.  Moon, Mars, all of it needs to continue.    Photo is of a Mars sunrise, taken on the 101st day of the Mars Rover.

 

Elsewhere for September 30th

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

These are my delicious links for September 30th:

Sunset on Mars

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Thank you NASA, for making this possible.

Sunset on Mars

The Earth, from space.

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Somebodys granddaughter works at NASA and had these phenomenal photos from a Shuttle mission.  They are just stunning.  They look so peaceful.  I would image the urge to just simply float away is a strong one, and that keeping focus is difficult.

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