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On this map, the north is not at the top, as is usually the case on maps, but I think it's clearer this way...
I wish a beautiful weekend to everyone and the sun in your soul :)
map: Luane's World - Le Monde Perdu - Autumn
flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/luanes_world/
Lucerne City Centre, Switzerland - August 2014
"A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected." - Reif Larsen
1. Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, 2. Kloster Arnsburg, 3. Visiting Wetzlar, 4. sunset view, 5. Globe Thistle, 6. falling water in black and white, 7. cottage, 8. Windows,
9. Season's Greetings, 10. Cobra, 11. Boat, 12. Bentley, 13. Street and crane, 14. Mudskipper, 15. Bulletholes, 16. Moth,
17. Flower and stuff, 18. Wood and Iron, 19. Rose and wall, 20. 3D-Map, 21. In St. Goar, 22. 1.2 Bokeh, 23. I'm coming!, 24. Office Peace,
25. Office Peace, 26. Elwood Fire Dept., 27. McLaren, 28. Air Inter, 29. evening sky, 30. Am Feldrand, 31. Sehet die Lilien..., 32. Raspberry,
33. Erdbeeren 1, 34. Half a Leica lens, 35. Shake!, 36. Spannung, 37. Zum Meer, 38. looking at you, 39. Spiegel, 40. flickr.com/photos/63121580@N06/7379622486/,
41. Blaumeise
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1. Eriocapitella hupehensis or Anemone hupehensis - Herbstanemone, 2. Blue Dragonfly, 3. Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, 4. Kloster Arnsburg, 5. Visiting Wetzlar, 6. sunset view, 7. Globe Thistle, 8. falling water in black and white,
9. cottage, 10. Windows, 11. Season's Greetings, 12. Cobra, 13. Boat, 14. Bentley, 15. Street and crane, 16. Mudskipper,
17. Bulletholes, 18. Moth, 19. Flower and stuff, 20. Wood and Iron, 21. Rose and wall, 22. 3D-Map, 23. In St. Goar, 24. 1.2 Bokeh,
25. Office Peace, 26. I'm coming!, 27. Office Peace, 28. McLaren, 29. Elwood Fire Dept., 30. Air Inter, 31. evening sky, 32. Sehet die Lilien...,
33. Am Feldrand, 34. Raspberry, 35. Half a Leica lens, 36. Erdbeeren 1, 37. Shake!, 38. Spannung, 39. Zum Meer, 40. looking at you,
41. Spiegel, 42. flickr.com/photos/63121580@N06/7379622486/, 43. Blaumeise
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Gradually I became aware that Ali was leaning forward, peering at me from her position on the other side of the sofa. Then her eyes flickered back to the television, so I followed her gaze. And if you’ve been working non stop for the last forty odd years and were wondering (Ok, you probably weren’t, but run with it) whether daytime TV had improved since Eamonn Holmes was a fresh faced tea boy in the staff canteen, well, erm no, things are no better in today’s balm of mediocrity on the screen in the corner of the living room. It seemed that the latest piece of breakfast attention deficit filler had caught Ali’s attention. A crack team of hungover students with no essays to hand in until next Tuesday had apparently used the latest artificial intelligence software to create a portrait of what they declared to be the archetypal love rat. Quite how they’d done this was of about as much interest to me as it was of use to anyone else in the world, but what did rather surprise me was that the picture on the screen could have been my twin brother. Ok, perhaps my twenty years younger twin brother, but the resemblance was quite striking.
Whether this bombshell was about to change Ali’s view on our relationship remained to be discovered, so I shrunk ever so slightly in my half of the sofa and went back to examining the 3D map of the south west coast of Ireland on Google Earth, looking for interesting sea stacks in remote places. Just as all love rats surely do - in their coffee stained pyjamas at eleven in the morning. Sometimes it’s more than enough work maintaining one significant other in your life. All of that deceit seems like an awful lot of effort to me. I’d fall at the first hurdle and get my burner phones mixed up. And frankly, when you get to an age of ahem cough, you’re lucky to have one person out there who still loves you. Well she says she does anyway. Even though she’s had a tracker fitted to my car now. I consoled myself in the knowledge that half the men in the country of my current demographic look very similar to me. Quite frankly I have neither the energy nor the guile to enter a life of duplicity, so I reassured her that there was no need for alarm. At least not until the day Louise Redknapp comes knocking on the front door asking whether anyone in the house can teach her about seascape photography, that is.
So in the full knowledge that my car was under hourly surveillance, I headed out in my other vehicle, a low slung rakish sports model with a soft top, I mean an elderly red mud spattered van, and set off for the woods. It was a perfect day for the woods. Not much chance of bumping into anyone there today - I’m really not helping myself here am I? - but with a soft misty rain filling the still grey sky, here was an opportunity to try the contents of the package that had landed on the doorstep while we were on holiday in Menorca. And if you’re still dwelling on the first paragraph, no it wasn’t a bucket of Lynx Africa, guaranteed to make angels fall from the sky. It was a new filter that I’d decided to add to the armoury to try on a grungy day in the forest. With a firm intention not to meet anyone at all - including unattached ladies - I arrived at an almost completely deserted Ladock Wood, a few miles on the other side of Truro, nodded to an elderly man who appeared to have forgotten what he was doing here, said hello to a couple walking back towards the car park in the company of a very nervous looking poodle, and disappeared into the canopy, where I saw not a single soul for more than two hours.
If any wandering female with amorous intentions had decided this was the place for an assignation with a tall dark and handsome stranger, she’d have been disappointed to discover the only person in the forest was a short, balding middle aged love rat-alike, wearing a pair of sludge covered wellies, looking confused and ferreting about his backpack only to produce a circular piece of smoked glass instead of a bunch of red roses and vouchers for an all you can eat breakfast at Smokey Joe’s. She might have been equally dismayed to discover that instead of angels falling, his “bouquet” was rather more likely to have them turning pale and passing out. I think it’s fair to surmise that this wasn’t really the place for funny business. Not unless you count standing in the rain taking pictures of trees as funny business that is.
So hopefully you’re now assured that despite looking like several male members of the cast of Eastenders, which last time I watched it appeared to be a love rat merry go round, I’m not really the type for furtive shenanigans in the forest. At least not unless Louise Redknapp suddenly makes an appearance wielding a bag full of camera equipment and demanding tuition, which I accept is quite unlikely. It was difficult enough trying to find the stand of Alder trees that had caught my eye three years ago. When I did eventually stumble across them, I discounted them almost immediately. But I did like this grouping. The black mist filter did too. I wonder if those boozy science students have ever tried to create an AI photofit of an oddball in the woods. I’d probably look like him too. Mind you, don’t all photo fits look a bit like the oddball in the woods rather than the ageing Lothario?
My first shot for 100x: The 2023 edition. This is the first time I have taken on any kind of photography challenge. My 100x will all be taken “out walking”, either locally or on holidays.
I love the concept of this toposcope that not only gives distances to places in the surrounding area but also a 3D map of the immediate location.
1/100
1. Blue Dragonfly, 2. Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, 3. Kloster Arnsburg, 4. Visiting Wetzlar, 5. sunset view, 6. Globe Thistle, 7. falling water in black and white, 8. cottage,
9. Windows, 10. Season's Greetings, 11. Cobra, 12. Boat, 13. Bentley, 14. Street and crane, 15. Mudskipper, 16. Bulletholes,
17. Moth, 18. Flower and stuff, 19. Wood and Iron, 20. Rose and wall, 21. 3D-Map, 22. In St. Goar, 23. 1.2 Bokeh, 24. I'm coming!,
25. Office Peace, 26. Office Peace, 27. Elwood Fire Dept., 28. McLaren, 29. Air Inter, 30. evening sky, 31. Am Feldrand, 32. Sehet die Lilien...,
33. Raspberry, 34. Erdbeeren 1, 35. Half a Leica lens, 36. Shake!, 37. Zum Meer, 38. Spannung, 39. looking at you, 40. Spiegel,
41. flickr.com/photos/63121580@N06/7379622486/, 42. Blaumeise
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1. Kloster Arnsburg, 2. Visiting Wetzlar, 3. sunset view, 4. Globe Thistle, 5. falling water in black and white, 6. cottage, 7. Windows, 8. Season's Greetings,
9. Cobra, 10. Boat, 11. Bentley, 12. Street and crane, 13. Mudskipper, 14. Bulletholes, 15. Moth, 16. Flower and stuff,
17. Wood and Iron, 18. Rose and wall, 19. 3D-Map, 20. In St. Goar, 21. 1.2 Bokeh, 22. I'm coming!, 23. Office Peace, 24. Office Peace,
25. Elwood Fire Dept., 26. McLaren, 27. Air Inter, 28. evening sky, 29. Sehet die Lilien..., 30. Am Feldrand, 31. Raspberry, 32. Half a Leica lens,
33. Erdbeeren 1, 34. Shake!, 35. Spannung, 36. Zum Meer, 37. looking at you, 38. Spiegel, 39. flickr.com/photos/63121580@N06/7379622486/, 40. Blaumeise
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School is also back in session for ESA astronaut Andrea Mogensen (right) and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins. Together with European Astronaut Centre engineer Robin Eccleston (far left), the trio are taking part in this year’s Pangaea field training campaign to become better field scientists.
With all eyes set on the Moon, the three-week campaign has increasingly focussed on lunar geology. Now in its fourth edition, the course kicked off this week with background lessons by top planetary scientists on identifying rock samples of interest for exploration.
In this image Andreas and his fellow students use a microscope to analyse samples.
Later, the class went on a field trip to the Bletterbach canyon in the Italian Dolomites. The eight-km long and 400-m deep gorge contains around 10 billion tonnes of rock transported to the valley since the end of the glacial age, around 18 000 years ago.
The gorge is the result of sedimentary processes quite similar to those found on Mars and is an ideal site to put classroom knowledge into practice.
In later sessions, the trainees will also visit the Ries Crater in Germany and the volcanic landscapes of Lanzarote, Spain, to unravel not only lunar but also martian features on Earth. They will use more sophisticated tools that will allow them to explore their geography from the microscopic to the macroscopic level.
The participants will wear a virtual reality headset to immerse themselves in a real martian landscape. Together with images and dozens of 3D maps, the trainees will see a combination of ground truth information and satellite images with the PLANetary MAPping project (PLANMAP) running behind the scenes.
Follow Pangaea on social media for live updates and on the blog for more in depth articles.
Credits: ESA–A. Romeo
Who doesn’t like Cake? There was lots to go round at Helens mums 70th on Thursday it was a 3D map of her much loved garden.
When it arrived at the table it was like they’d brought Madonna out on a tray, gasps and camera flash to the max!
Checkout the cute EOS 40D owned by Helens Aunt :)
It’s been a while since I’ve uploaded I lost my Flickr mojo after my 365, is this normal?
So selective colour is the order of the day I always find it a tough call when to use it but I think it works best with red?
Tatty-tar Flickr peeps :)
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The Golden Gate Park in San Francisco has a lot of diversity. Besides museums and car-free zones there is a lot of greenery. When we walked through the park I found this interesting pattern on a tree trunk, looking almost like a 3D map.
I processed a paintery HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and carefully pulled the curves.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC7797_hdr1pai1f
On 27 June, this last glimpse of ESA’s Euclid space telescope was caught right before it was encapsulated by a SpaceX Falcon 9 fairing, meaning that the nose of the rocket was installed over the spacecraft.
Euclid is 4.7-m tall and 3.7-m in diameter, fitting nicely in the Falcon 9 fairing with height of 13.1-m and width of 5.2-m.
The Euclid satellite is getting ready for the target launch date of 1 July 2023 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA. The Falcon 9 fairing will keep Euclid safe and clean during the last days before lift-off and it will protect the spacecraft against Earth’s atmosphere during launch. Euclid’s telescope and instruments are extremely sensitive and must be kept very clean. To protect them from degradation during launch a special request was made for a brand-new fairing.
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the dark Universe and uncover the great cosmic mystery of dark matter and dark energy. The space telescope will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. This wealth of new data will chart how matter is distributed across immense distances and how the Universe has expanded, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Find out more about Euclid in ESA’s launch kit
Credit: SpaceX
ESA’s latest astrophysics mission, Euclid, lifted off on a Space X Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, at 17:12 CEST on 1 July 2023.
Euclid has now started its month-long journey to Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, located 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, in the opposite direction from the Sun.
The telescope will survey one third of the sky with unprecedented accuracy and sensitivity. By observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, it will create the most extensive 3D-map of the Universe, with the third dimension representing time.
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe. Euclid will chart how the Universe has expanded and how large-scale structure is distributed across space and time, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Four weeks after launch, Euclid will enter its orbit around L2. Once in orbit, mission controllers will start the activities to verify all functions of the spacecraft, check out the telescope and finally turn the instruments on.
Following this, scientists and engineers will be engaged in an intense two-month phase of testing and calibrating Euclid’s scientific instruments, and preparing for routine observations. The telescope begins its early phase of the survey of the Universe three months after launch.
Find out more about Euclid in ESA’s launch kit
Credit: ESA - S.Corvaja
We forgot to bring our binoculars, so were unable to spot any climbers on El Capitan. Apparently, they look like ants crawling on this 3,000+ foot monolith. It must have been exciting to witness the ascent of the 2 climbers in January.
Visit this site for a very cool 3D map of the route.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/09/sports/the-dawn-wa...
ESA’s latest astrophysics mission, Euclid, lifted off on a Space X Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, at 17:12 CEST on 1 July 2023.
Euclid has now started its month-long journey to Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, located 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, in the opposite direction from the Sun.
The telescope will survey one third of the sky with unprecedented accuracy and sensitivity. By observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, it will create the most extensive 3D-map of the Universe, with the third dimension representing time.
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe. Euclid will chart how the Universe has expanded and how large-scale structure is distributed across space and time, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Four weeks after launch, Euclid will enter its orbit around L2. Once in orbit, mission controllers will start the activities to verify all functions of the spacecraft, check out the telescope and finally turn the instruments on.
Following this, scientists and engineers will be engaged in an intense two-month phase of testing and calibrating Euclid’s scientific instruments, and preparing for routine observations. The telescope begins its early phase of the survey of the Universe three months after launch.
Find out more about Euclid in ESA’s launch kit
Credit: ESA - S.Corvaja
ESA’s Gaia is surveying stars in our Galaxy and local galactic neighbourhood in order to build the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way and answer questions about its structure, origin and evolution.
Launched in 2013, Gaia has already generated its first catalogue of more than a billion stars – the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date.
To achieve its scientific aims, it points with ultra-high precision, and to enable the control team to monitor spacecraft performance, Gaia regularly reports to the ground information about its current attitude and the stars that have been observed.
These engineering data have been accumulated over 18 months and combined to create a ‘map’ of the observed star densities, from which a beautiful and ghostly virtual image of our magnificent Milky Way galaxy can be discerned, showing the attendant globular clusters and Magellanic clouds.
Where there are more stars, as in the Galactic centre, the map is brighter; where there are fewer, the map is darker. The map includes brightness data corresponding to several million stars.
More information on Gaia mission operations.
Editor’s note: On 21 November, at 15:00 GMT / 16:00 CET, the Gaia mission team will host a live ‘Ask Me Anything’ chat. Details will be posted via ESA social media channels later.
Credit: ESA
3D map of the Oksbøl Refugee Camp. It was the largest camp for German refugees in Denmark after World War II.
Oksbøl, Denmark
On Friday 30 June, a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying ESA’s Euclid space telescope left the Astrotech site and was transferred to the launchpad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida (USA) with a planned launch for 1 July 2023.
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the dark Universe and uncover the great cosmic mystery of dark matter and dark energy. The space telescope will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. This will chart how the Universe has expanded and how large-scale structure is distributed across space and time, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Find out more about Euclid in ESA’s launch kit
Credit: SpaceX
Astronauts from five space agencies around the world are taking part in ESA’s CAVES training course – Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills.
The two-week course prepares astronauts to work safely and effectively in multicultural teams in an environment where safety is critical.
As they explore the caves of Sardinia they will encounter caverns, underground lakes and strange microscopic life. They are testing new technology and conducting science – just as if they were living on the International Space Station. The six astronauts relying on their own skills, teamwork and ground control to achieve their mission goals – the course is designed to foster effective communication, decision-making, problem-solving, leadership and team dynamics.
This year is the first international space cooperation to involve astronauts from China, Russia, Japan, ESA and America, with cosmonaut Sergei Vladimirovich, ESA astronaut Pedro Duque, taikonaut Ye Guangfu, Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide and NASA astronauts Ricky Arnold and Jessica Muir taking part.
This picture was taken on the second day underground for the ‘cavenauts’. They will spend six nights without sunlight, setting up basecamp in the Sa Grutta cave in Sardinia, Italy. As with any astronaut mission, science and technology are an important part of the undertaking. The astronauts are making 3D maps of the caves they explore using photograph-based measurements.
Follow CAVES via twitter @ESA_CAVES or with #CAVES2016 or on the CAVES blog.
Credit: ESA-V.Crobu
ESA’s Euclid satellite sets sail from the port of Savona, Italy to the port near its launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The ship is expected to reach its destination at the beginning of May, getting ready for launch no earlier than this July on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida, USA.
Euclid will travel 1.5 million km from Earth, in the opposite direction to the Sun, to the Lagrange point L2. From there, ESA's Euclid mission will begin the detective work of exploring the dark Universe.
Euclid will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the Universe ever. It will observe billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. With this map, Euclid will reveal how the Universe has expanded and how large-scale structure has evolved over cosmic history. And from this, we can learn more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Credits: Thales Alenia Space / ImagIn
After being encapsulated in the SpaceX Falcon 9 fairing, on 29 June 2023 ESA's Euclid was transported to the Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) in Florida, USA.
ESA’s new cosmological mission Euclid is getting ready for lift-off with a target launch date of 1 July 2023.
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the dark Universe and uncover the great cosmic mystery of dark matter and dark energy. The space telescope will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. It will chart how the Universe has expanded and how large-scale structure is distributed across space and time, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Find out more about Euclid in ESA's launch kit www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Eucl...
Credit: SpaceX
Macro Mondays: Knot
The Catalan flag, or Senyera, on a 3D map of the Canigou, our most beautiful mountain. Legend has it that the flag dates back to the siege of Barcelona in the 9th century. Guifred el Pelut (or Wilfred the Hairy), Count of Barcelona, was fatally wounded in battle and the Frankish king rewarded him by giving him a coat of arms, sliding Guifred's four blood-stained fingers on a copper shield, hence the "blood and gold" colours that symbolize Catalonia.
(Dimension: roughly 6 cm)
Technology image of the week:
ESA’s light-studded Rover Autonomy Testbed vehicle does a twirl during night testing in Tenerife, intended to simulate the low light environment of the lunar poles.
The testbed, operated by a team from GMV in Spain, plus ESA’s Heavy Duty Planetary Rover, overseen by ESA’s planetary robotics team, have travelled to the Canary Islands for day and night testing in the volcanic, Moon-like environment of Teide National Park.
The two rovers carry navigation aids to work in both light and dark, including stereo cameras, lights, GPS, laser rangers and radar-like lidar. They can build digital 3D maps from these various sensors for both autonomous and teleoperated steering.
Credit: Fernando Gandía/GMV
On Friday 30 June, a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying ESA’s Euclid space telescope left the Astrotech site and was transferred to the launchpad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida (USA) with a planned launch for 1 July 2023.
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the dark Universe and uncover the great cosmic mystery of dark matter and dark energy. The space telescope will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. This will chart how the Universe has expanded and how large-scale structure is distributed across space and time, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Find out more about Euclid in ESA’s launch kit
Credit: SpaceX
On Friday 23 June, Euclid was secured to the adaptor of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Engineers fastened the satellite to the adaptor that will be placed on the upper stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, which will launch Euclid into space. ESA’s new cosmological mission Euclid is getting ready for lift-off with a target launch date of 1 July 2023 from Cape Canaveral in Florida (USA).
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to help us uncover the great cosmic mystery of dark matter and dark energy. The space telescope will observe more than a third of the sky with unprecedented sensitivity and accuracy. It will chart the shape, position and movement of billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years to create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the Universe across space and time. This will reveal how matter is distributed across immense distances and how the expansion of the Universe has evolved over cosmic history, enabling scientists to pin down the properties of dark energy and dark matter and uncover their elusive nature.
Find out more about Euclid in ESA’s launch kit
Credit: SpaceX
There is never a dull day for participants of the CAVES campaign, ESA’s field training adventure that hones the communication, problem solving and teamwork skills an international crew will need to explore the tough, uncharted terrain of the Moon and Mars.
This week six astronauts turned ‘cavenauts’ from five space agencies headed underground in Slovenia, where they are currently living and working for the week. To keep the element of exploration, astronauts themselves do not know the exact location.
The goal is to run scientific experiments while managing the psychological toll of being in an extreme environment with a multinational crew.
Following a week’s training above ground, including lectures from experts and practical exercises, the team is now underground searching for signs of life that have adapted to the extreme conditions in the caves.
One of the team’s main scientific objectives is to follow the water, a vital resource on- and off- our planet.
Caves are usually formed by running water and ESA picked a cave where rivers flow underground for this training expedition. For the first time, the team will be on the lookout for microplastics. They will also test water chemistry and learn to find and interpret waterways in a cave system.
Trainees are also sampling and analysing microbes that have managed to survive in such inhospitable conditions. Geochemistry, meteorology and other environmental studies are on the list. Read more about the science happening beneath the surface.
If it sounds like a lot to ask of astronauts in a two-week period, fear not. The cavenauts are well prepared and supported.
The astronauts are also using an upgraded version of the Electronic Field Book. This all-in-one, easy-to-use application will allow them to deliver science and video logs while checking procedures and cue cards on a tablet.
Above ground, mission control will track their progress with a 3D map generated on the app as they explore the cave. Scientists can locate the astronauts’ scientific observations paired with pictures, and send their comments back to the cave.
The six cavenauts of this edition of CAVES are ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Jeanette Epps, Roscosmos’ cosmonaut Nikolai Chub, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Josh Kutryk and JAXA’s Takuya Onishi. Chub and Gerst are serving as co-commanders of the expedition.
Credits: ESA–A. Romeo
After being secured to the SpaceX Falcon 9 adaptor, on Friday 23 June, Euclid was mounted on top of the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF). Before launch, Euclid on the PAF will be encapsulated in the Falcon 9 rocket. ESA’s new cosmological mission Euclid is getting ready for lift-off with a target launch date of 1 July 2023 from Cape Canaveral in Florida (USA).
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the dark Universe and uncover the great cosmic mystery of dark matter and dark energy. The space telescope will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. It will chart how the Universe has expanded and how large-scale structure is distributed across space and time, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Find out more about Euclid in ESA's launch kit.
Credit: SpaceX
On 27 June, ESA’s Euclid space telescope was encapsulated in a SpaceX Falcon 9 fairing, meaning that the nose of the rocket was installed over the spacecraft.
Euclid is 4.7-m tall and 3.7-m in diameter, fitting nicely in the Falcon 9 fairing with height of 13.1-m and width of 5.2-m.
The Euclid satellite is getting ready for the target launch date of 1 July 2023 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA. The Falcon 9 fairing will keep Euclid safe and clean during the last days before lift-off and it will protect the spacecraft against Earth’s atmosphere during launch. Euclid’s telescope and instruments are extremely sensitive and must be kept very clean. To protect them from degradation during launch a special request was made for a brand-new fairing.
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the dark Universe and uncover the great cosmic mystery of dark matter and dark energy. The space telescope will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. This wealth of new data will chart how matter is distributed across immense distances and how the Universe has expanded, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Find out more about Euclid in ESA’s launch kit www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Eucl...
Credit: SpaceX
On 27 June, this last glimpse of ESA’s Euclid space telescope was caught right before it was encapsulated by a SpaceX Falcon 9 fairing, meaning that the nose of the rocket was installed over the spacecraft.
Euclid is 4.7-m tall and 3.7-m in diameter, fitting nicely in the Falcon 9 fairing with height of 13.1-m and width of 5.2-m.
The Euclid satellite is getting ready for the target launch date of 1 July 2023 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA. The Falcon 9 fairing will keep Euclid safe and clean during the last days before lift-off and it will protect the spacecraft against Earth’s atmosphere during launch. Euclid’s telescope and instruments are extremely sensitive and must be kept very clean. To protect them from degradation during launch a special request was made for a brand-new fairing.
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the dark Universe and uncover the great cosmic mystery of dark matter and dark energy. The space telescope will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. This wealth of new data will chart how matter is distributed across immense distances and how the Universe has expanded, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Find out more about Euclid in ESA’s launch kit
Credit: SpaceX
Space Science image of the week:
This colourful streamer is created from real data that represents the viewing direction of ESA’s Gaia satellite as it scans across the sky.
Gaia’s mission is to make the largest, most precise 3D map of our Galaxy by surveying more than a thousand million stars. This goal relies on the systematic and repeating observation of star positions in two fields of view to detect any changes in an object’s motion through space. As such, Gaia is rotating slowly, sweeping its two telescopes, which are separated by 106.5º, across the entire celestial sphere to make four complete rotations per day.
At the same time, its spin axis changes orientation around the Sun with a period of about 63 days, allowing different parts of the sky to be scanned. This approach builds up an interlocking grid of stellar positions and motions.
While star maps have provided the focus of previous image releases, this image represents the motion of the satellite itself across the full sky.
Gaia’s attitude is plotted every second with two dots: one to represent each of the two telescopes at that moment in time. The positions are plotted in celestial coordinates: right ascension (horizontal axis) and declination (vertical axis), which can be imagined as lines of longitude and latitude printed on the inside of the celestial sphere.
The colours indicate the direction of the scan, the key for which is indicated in the border of the image. The direction of the scan with respect to north (up) can be found by starting in the centre of the image and moving towards the border to the appropriate colour. Each colour around the border covers a range of 18º.
Zooming in reveals first a cross weave-like pattern, and ultimately the individual dots. The highest density of overlapping pattern represents the areas of sky that have been scanned multiple times in different directions already, while the lower density regions were scanned fewer times and in fewer different directions. Eventually the gaps will close, as Gaia makes more and more repeated scans of the sky.
Gaia was launched on 19 December 2013 and began routine operations in July 2014. The first catalogue of more than a billion stars, based on the first 14 months of scanning, was published in September 2016. The image shown here was created from Gaia’s movements between 1 October 2014 and 31 May 2016. This corresponds to the period that includes the second data release, which is scheduled for April 2018.
Credit: ESA/Gaia
Several key science payloads will be delivered to the International Space Station (ISS). Among these is a biomedical investigation that focuses on the mechanisms behind neuroinflammation, a condition associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and multiple sclerosis. This study will utilize 3D brain models derived from patient stem cells to explore potential treatments.
Additionally, the mission will carry the Multi-Resolution Scanner (MRS), which will use the Astrobee autonomous robot aboard the ISS to create detailed 3D maps of the space environment. This technology could have significant applications in future space exploration, allowing for automated assessments of spacecraft damage and other remote monitoring tasks
These research initiatives are part of NASA's ongoing efforts to leverage space-based research for both Earth-based health advancements and the development of future spaceflight technologies.
The launch date was Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 2:29 AM (UTC).
Located at Ráðhús Reykjavíkur (Reykjavík's City Hall), featuring the huge relief map of Iceland in the exhibition hall.
ESA’s Rover Autonomy Testbed rover is being run in near darkness by Spain’s GMV company to simulate the low Sun angles experienced at the Moon’s poles.
Permanently shadowed craters around the lunar north and south poles are tempting targets for future robotic missions, seeking water ice and other volatiles believed to be deep frozen in the soil.
Laboratory testing took place as part of ESA’s Lunar Scenario Concept Validation and Demonstration (Lucid) project. Now, as a next step, this and a second rover – ESA’s Heavy Duty Planetary Rover – have travelled to Tenerife in the Canary Islands for day and night testing in the volcanic, Moon-like environment of Teide National Park.
The two rovers carry navigation aids to work in both light and dark, including stereo cameras, lights, GPS, laser rangers and radar-like lidar. They can build digital 3D maps from these various sensors for both autonomous and teleoperated steering.
To follow the progress of the Lucid testing in Tenerife, follow the Twitter hashtag #DarkRover.
Credit: GMV
N162DE - deHavilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter - Rampart Aviation
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
c/n 429 - built in 1974 and operated by Ross Aviation for United States Department of Energy -
reg. 09/2011 to Corvaire Inc. / Rampart Aviation
Aircraft is equipped with surface mapping & geophysical survey instruments for oil and mineral survey and sensors to generate 3D maps for use in subsurface
photographic studies of this beautiful 35m tracking station I had the privilege to photograph this weekend for ESA! Pictured here facing east, the antenna was in operation communicating with the GAIA mission and slowly tracking across the sky! GAIA is doing detailed measurements to create a 3D map of the Milky Way.
1600 Tokina 11-16mm
Credit: D. O’Donnell/ESA – CC BY-SA 3.0
This picture shows the Cirque de Cilaos, an impressive basin on La Réunion, which is dominated by the majestic Piton des Neiges (3,069 meters), the highest mountain in the Indian Ocean. When the sun is just right, the rays break through the cloud cover and create a unique interplay of light and shadow over the village in the valley. The window of opportunity for this spectacle is small - a little too early and the sun is too high, a little too late and the entire village sinks into shadow. Without the surrounding mountains, this special atmosphere would not be possible.
I didn't have a photo template for this, I don't think a similar photo exists, but I can use a tool to calculate and display the position of the sun and the shadows cast on a 3D map.
I occasionally use this tool to determine a specific point in time and display the length and course of the shadows.
Hello y'all !!!!
i'm here again ! Vacations are always too short... but.. ah... i was missing the scrappy stuff and you all !!!!!
So, this time, this is me who challenge the girls at "Le Labo de Scrap" with this LO ! Each lil' photo of Paris is held by the brads and get up to realize a 3D map over the subway map !
Hope you'll love it, and TFL !! ;)
Oh.... and we finally decided to create a BLOG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Coucou tout le monde !!!!
ça y est, je suis reviendue de vacances !!! C'est trop TROP court, toujours d'ailleurs... lol ! Mais quel plaisir de vous retrouver, et de retrouver mon matos de scrap ! ;)
Donc, voici une ptite page pour "challenger" les filles du "Labo de Scrap"... chaque petite photo de Paris est maintenue par un brad, et se relève pour former (une fois toutes les photos libérées) un petit plan 3D de Paris, avec la carte de métro en fond ! Et les monuments sont à leur place, ce qui n'a pas été une mince affaire... lol !!!
Sur ce... bonnes vacances à celles qui y sont encore et bon courages à celles qui sont revenues... ;)
Oh... et nous nous sommes enfin décidés à créer...un BLOG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After being secured to the SpaceX Falcon 9 adaptor, on Friday 23 June, Euclid was mounted on top of the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF). Before launch, Euclid on the PAF will be encapsulated in the Falcon 9 rocket. ESA’s new cosmological mission Euclid is getting ready for lift-off with a target launch date of 1 July 2023 from Cape Canaveral in Florida (USA).
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the dark Universe and uncover the great cosmic mystery of dark matter and dark energy. The space telescope will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. It will chart how the Universe has expanded and how large-scale structure is distributed across space and time, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Find out more about Euclid in ESA's launch kit.
Credit: SpaceX
The second data release of ESA’s Gaia mission, made in April, has marked a turning point in the study of our Galactic home, the Milky Way. With an unprecedented catalogue of 3D positions and 2D motions of more than a billion stars, plus additional information on smaller subsets of stars and other celestial sources, Gaia has provided astronomers with an astonishing resource to explore the distribution and composition of the Galaxy and to investigate its past and future evolution.
The majority of stars in the Milky Way are located in the Galactic disc, which has a flattened shape characterised by a pattern of spiral arms similar to that observed in spiral galaxies beyond our own. However, it is particularly challenging to reconstruct the distribution of stars in the disc, and especially the design of the Milky Way’s arms, because of our position within the disc itself.
This is where Gaia’s measurements can make the difference.
This image shows a 3D map obtained by focusing on one particular type of object: OB stars, the hottest, brightest and most massive stars in our Galaxy. Because these stars have relatively short lives – up to a few tens of million years – they are mostly found close to their formation sites in the Galactic disc. As such, they can be used to trace the overall distribution of young stars, star formation sites, and the Galaxy’s spiral arms.
The map, based on 400 000 of this type of star within less than 10 000 light-years from the Sun, was created by Kevin Jardine, a software developer and amateur astronomer with an interest in mapping the Milky Way using a variety of astronomical data.
It is centred on the Sun and shows the Galactic disc as if we were looking at it face-on from a vantage point outside the Galaxy.
To deal with the massive number of stars in the Gaia catalogue, Kevin made use of so-called density isosurfaces, a technique that is routinely used in many practical applications, for example to visualise the tissue of organs of bones in CT scans of the human body. In this technique, the 3D distribution of individual points is represented in terms of one or more smooth surfaces that delimit regions with a different density of points.
Here, regions of the Galactic disc are shown with different colours depending on the density of ionising stars recorded by Gaia; these are the hottest among OB stars, shining with ultraviolet radiation that knocks electrons off hydrogen atoms to give them their ionized state.
The regions with the highest density of these stars are displayed in pink/purple shades, regions with intermediate density in violet/light blue, and low-density regions in dark blue. Additional information from other astronomical surveys was also used to map concentrations of interstellar dust, shown in green, while known clouds of ionised gas are depicted as red spheres.
The appearance of ‘spokes’ is a combination of dust clouds blocking the view to stars behind them and a stretching effect of the distribution of stars along the line of sight.
An interactive version of this map is also available as part of Gaia Sky, a real-time, 3D astronomy visualisation software that was developed in the framework of the Gaia mission at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Further details including annotated version of the map: Mapping and visualising Gaia DR2
Credits: Galaxy Map / K. Jardine
Spacecraft are not so different to humans – whilst the Sun can be a great source of vital energy, both people and machines must also be protected from its harmful effects.
In this image, taken on 23 May 2022, engineers at Thales Alenia Space in Turin are attaching a combined sunshield and solar panel module to the main body of ESA’s Euclid spacecraft. The module has two functions: whilst the solar panels will provide the spacecraft with power, the sunshield will shade the instrument-carrying payload module from the Sun’s intense radiation.
Euclid is a space telescope designed to explore the dark Universe. It will make a 3D-map of the cosmos (with time as the third dimension) by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. In doing so, Euclid will tackle some of the most fundamental questions in cosmology – questions like: How did the Universe originate? Why is the Universe expanding at an accelerating rate? What is the nature of dark matter? What is dark energy?
The previous step in Euclid’s journey, taking place on 24 March 2022, involved attaching Euclid’s payload module to its supporting service module. Next up, engineers will add the communications antenna and then Euclid will be complete. Finally, Euclid will be taken to Cannes where the complete spacecraft will be tested to check that it is ready for launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
Credit: ESA - S. Corvaja
ESA’s Euclid satellite sets sail from the port of Savona, Italy to the port near its launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The ship is expected to reach its destination at the beginning of May, getting ready for launch no earlier than this July on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida, USA.
Euclid will travel 1.5 million km from Earth, in the opposite direction to the Sun, to the Lagrange point L2. From there, ESA's Euclid mission will begin the detective work of exploring the dark Universe.
Euclid will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the Universe ever. It will observe billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. With this map, Euclid will reveal how the Universe has expanded and how large-scale structure has evolved over cosmic history. And from this, we can learn more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Credits: Thales Alenia Space / ImagIn