Posts tagged "space"
  1. Notes: 61 / 3 months ago  from unknownskywalker
    unknownskywalker: The Future of Human Spaceflight NASA released a new interactive infographic that attempts to give a picture of future of human spaceflight activities and where NASA might be going. The new Space Launch system and the Orion MPCV figure prominently in going to future destinations such as the Moon, Mars, Asteroids and even LaGrange Points. Download larger poster version (PDF, 332 KB) | Interactive flash version.

    unknownskywalker:

    The Future of Human Spaceflight

    NASA released a new interactive infographic that attempts to give a picture of future of human spaceflight activities and where NASA might be going. The new Space Launch system and the Orion MPCV figure prominently in going to future destinations such as the Moon, Mars, Asteroids and even LaGrange Points.

    Download larger poster version (PDF, 332 KB) | Interactive flash version.

     
  2. Notes: 171 / 3 months ago  from unknownskywalker

    unknownskywalker:

    JWST Deployment

    This graphic shows how the James Webb Space Telescope will deploy after launch. There is also a video animation of deployment on YouTube: youtu.be/vpVz3UrSsE4.

    Download Original Image: 2550×7902px - JPG, 2.70 MB

  3. Notes: 29 / 3 months ago  from unknownskywalker

    unknownskywalker:

    Up the East Coast of North America

    This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 30 on board the International Space Station. The sequence of shots was taken January 29, 2012 from 05:33:11 to 05:48:10 GMT, on a pass from just southwest of Mexico to the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Newfoundland.

  4. Notes: 79 / 3 months ago  from unknownskywalker
    unknownskywalker: European nighttime Parts of a number of European nations appear in this nighttime image taken from the International Space Station in Feb. 2, 2012. The scene shows the British Isles (left, partially obstructed by one of the space station’s solar array panels) with London just right of bottom center; the English Channel, which is dark; Paris (lower right corner); and the Netherlands (right side). The greenish airglow is fairly uniform and minor until it transitions to daybreak on the right.

    unknownskywalker:

    European nighttime

    Parts of a number of European nations appear in this nighttime image taken from the International Space Station in Feb. 2, 2012. The scene shows the British Isles (left, partially obstructed by one of the space station’s solar array panels) with London just right of bottom center; the English Channel, which is dark; Paris (lower right corner); and the Netherlands (right side). The greenish airglow is fairly uniform and minor until it transitions to daybreak on the right.

     
  5. Notes: 59 / 3 months ago  from unknownskywalker
    unknownskywalker: Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area This nighttime image, photographed in Feb. 2, 2012 by one of the members of the Expedition 30 crew from the International Space Station, features the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area strung along the southwest shore of Lake Michigan. The region is partially covered by clouds, probably low-hanging, or even fog. Meteorologists say there is a fine line between low thin clouds and fog. Fog is not common in the Great Lakes area this time of the year (usually too windy), but this has been an exceptionally mild winter. The faint gold line of airglow—caused by ultraviolet radiation exciting the gas molecules in the upper atmosphere—parallels the horizon or Earth limb. Minor auroral activity (Borealis) is visible in upper right.

    unknownskywalker:

    Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area

    This nighttime image, photographed in Feb. 2, 2012 by one of the members of the Expedition 30 crew from the International Space Station, features the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area strung along the southwest shore of Lake Michigan.

    The region is partially covered by clouds, probably low-hanging, or even fog. Meteorologists say there is a fine line between low thin clouds and fog. Fog is not common in the Great Lakes area this time of the year (usually too windy), but this has been an exceptionally mild winter.

    The faint gold line of airglow—caused by ultraviolet radiation exciting the gas molecules in the upper atmosphere—parallels the horizon or Earth limb. Minor auroral activity (Borealis) is visible in upper right.

     
  6. Notes: 87 / 3 months ago  from fuckyeahspaceexploration (originally from scanzen)
    scanzen: Space Shuttle Enterprise in 1983 when a NASA delegation and the Enterprise mounted on a Boeing 747 visited the airport Cologne/Bonn in Germany. The Cologne/Bonn airport served as one of 19 non-american abort landing sites throughout the shuttle program. Photo by Frank Kehren The Space Shuttle Enterprise (which never went into orbit, it was a prototype to test the gliding characteristics) will soon be on display at N.Y.C.’s U.S.S. Intrepid see http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/shuttle/

    scanzen:

    Space Shuttle Enterprise in 1983 when a NASA delegation and the Enterprise mounted on a Boeing 747 visited the airport Cologne/Bonn in Germany. The Cologne/Bonn airport served as one of 19 non-american abort landing sites throughout the shuttle program.

    Photo by Frank Kehren


    The Space Shuttle Enterprise (which never went into orbit, it was a prototype to test the gliding characteristics) will soon be on display at N.Y.C.’s U.S.S. Intrepid see http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/shuttle/
     
  7. Notes: 56 / 3 months ago  from fuckyeahspaceexploration (originally from infinitespaceandtime-deactivate)
    spacematterandtime: Space Shuttle Night Launch by !VistaDude

    spacematterandtime:

    Space Shuttle Night Launch by !VistaDude

     
  8. Notes: 365 / 3 months ago  from fuckyeahspaceexploration (originally from readingroomcovers)
    miss-mary-quite-contrary: Operating manual for spaceship earth by Buckminster Fuller Operating manual for spaceship earth is a short book by R. Buckminster Fuller, first published in 1968, following an address with a similar title given to the 50th annual convention of the American Planners Association in the Shoreham Hotel, Washington D.C., on 16 October 1967 The book relates Earth to a spaceship flying through space. The spaceship has a finite amount of resources and cannot be resupplied. Fuller would later partner with the Walt Disney Company to consult on an attraction at EPCOT Center called Spaceship Earth, which opened with the park in 1982. Copy of the manual at futurehi.net

    miss-mary-quite-contrary:

    Operating manual for spaceship earth by Buckminster Fuller

    Operating manual for spaceship earth is a short book by R. Buckminster Fuller, first published in 1968, following an address with a similar title given to the 50th annual convention of the American Planners Association in the Shoreham Hotel, Washington D.C., on 16 October 1967

    The book relates Earth to a spaceship flying through space. The spaceship has a finite amount of resources and cannot be resupplied.

    Fuller would later partner with the Walt Disney Company to consult on an attraction at EPCOT Center called Spaceship Earth, which opened with the park in 1982.

    Copy of the manual at futurehi.net

    (Source: readingroomcovers)

     
  9. Notes: 10 / 3 months ago  from fuckyeahspaceexploration

    fuckyeahspaceexploration:

    The Guardian report on Felix Baumgartner’s planned jump from the edge of space. Set to be the first man to break the sound barrier in freefall, he will break three other records in one fell swoop.

  10. Notes: 31 / 3 months ago  from northernaviator (originally from saturnoverjupiter)

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  11. Notes: 182 / 3 months ago  from northernaviator (originally from fishfingersandjam)
    northernaviator: saw this for the first time when i was around 13. never looked at life the same way again.

    northernaviator:

    saw this for the first time when i was around 13. never looked at life the same way again.

     
  12. Notes: 44 / 3 months ago  from unknownskywalker

    unknownskywalker:

    ISS Night Flight in Real Time

    Time-lapse video from the ISS on Jan. 30, 2012. These sequences of frames were taken at the rate of one frame per second, therefore the slower speed of the video represents nearly the true speed of the International Space Station.

    (Source: universetoday.com)

  13. Notes: 44 / 3 months ago  from unknownskywalker
    unknownskywalker: Large X-class Flare Erupts on the Sun On Jan. 27, 2012, a large X-class flare erupted from an active region near the solar west limb. X-class flares are the most powerful of all solar events. Seen here is an image of the flare captured by the X-ray telescope on Hinode. This image shows an emission from plasma heated to greater than eight million degrees during the energy release process of the flare.

    unknownskywalker:

    Large X-class Flare Erupts on the Sun

    On Jan. 27, 2012, a large X-class flare erupted from an active region near the solar west limb. X-class flares are the most powerful of all solar events. Seen here is an image of the flare captured by the X-ray telescope on Hinode. This image shows an emission from plasma heated to greater than eight million degrees during the energy release process of the flare.

     
  14. Notes: 35 / 3 months ago  from unknownskywalker
    unknownskywalker: Not-So-Bright Bulbs This artist’s concept shows the dimmest star-like bodies currently known — twin brown dwarfs referred to as 2M 0939. The twins, which are about the same size, are drawn as if viewed from one side. Brown dwarfs are neither planets nor stars. They form like stars out of collapsing clouds of gas and dust, but they don’t have enough mass to ignite nuclear burning in their cores and become full-blown stars. They are similar to Jupiter in that they are cool balls of gas, but they are warmer and heavier. The universe is littered with these cosmic misfits, but because they are so dim, they are hard to find. Spitzer Space Telescope’s infrared eyes can detect the minute glow of these cool objects. Both of the brown dwarfs making up 2M 0939 are the dimmest known, and their atmospheres are also among the coolest known for any brown dwarf (565-635 Kelvin or 560-680 °F). The term “brown dwarf” comes from the fact that these objects change color over time, and therefore do not have a definitive color. The 2M 0939 brown dwarfs, if we could see them directly with out eyes, would glow a very dark magenta color, due to their cool temperatures and the presence of water, methane and ammonia gases in their atmospheres.

    unknownskywalker:

    Not-So-Bright Bulbs

    This artist’s concept shows the dimmest star-like bodies currently known — twin brown dwarfs referred to as 2M 0939. The twins, which are about the same size, are drawn as if viewed from one side.

    Brown dwarfs are neither planets nor stars. They form like stars out of collapsing clouds of gas and dust, but they don’t have enough mass to ignite nuclear burning in their cores and become full-blown stars. They are similar to Jupiter in that they are cool balls of gas, but they are warmer and heavier.

    The universe is littered with these cosmic misfits, but because they are so dim, they are hard to find. Spitzer Space Telescope’s infrared eyes can detect the minute glow of these cool objects. Both of the brown dwarfs making up 2M 0939 are the dimmest known, and their atmospheres are also among the coolest known for any brown dwarf (565-635 Kelvin or 560-680 °F).

    The term “brown dwarf” comes from the fact that these objects change color over time, and therefore do not have a definitive color. The 2M 0939 brown dwarfs, if we could see them directly with out eyes, would glow a very dark magenta color, due to their cool temperatures and the presence of water, methane and ammonia gases in their atmospheres.

     
  15. Notes: 52 / 3 months ago  from fuckyeahspaceexploration (originally from howsuperduper)
     
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