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Desadarve III Certamen de Arte Efímero de Tudela. "Esa bruma infinita". Palacio de Marqués de San Adrián
Madrugué para que los primeros rayos del sol aparecieran por miespalda y con esa luz dorada del amanecer pusieran color, en este caso, a untrocito de la Ría de Vigo, con su inconfundible puente de Rande que forma yadesde hace décadas, del paisaje de las Rías Baixas.
A spectacular double crater dominates this scene on Mars, pictured by the CaSSIS camera on the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on 7 June 2021.
The crater duo is located in an otherwise smooth plain of Arcadia Planitia [39.1°N/174.8°E].
Double craters like these are formed when two meteorites impact the surface simultaneously and in very close proximity. The two impactors would have originated from the same object that broke apart when it entered the martian atmosphere. The two craters are of similar size, which means that the two projectiles were approximately the same size as well.
During the impact, the interaction of the two shockwaves created an ejecta blanket with a butterfly shape. The remarkable linear streaks in the ejecta material radiates around the double crater, and are an indicator of the good level of preservation of this feature.
To the north are large isolated hills that likely predate the formation of the double crater.
TGO arrived at Mars in 2016 and began its full science mission in 2018. The spacecraft is not only returning spectacular images, but also providing the best ever inventory of the planet’s atmospheric gases, and mapping the planet’s surface for water-rich locations. It will also provide data relay services for the second ExoMars mission comprising the Rosalind Franklin rover and Kazachok platform, when it arrives on Mars in 2023.
Credits: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
A veces no ves esa luz...
A veces la buscas...
Con o sin éxito...
Cuando la encuentras, la pierdes´otra vez...
Y cuando de repente un día te tropiezas con ella te come la nostalgia.
No se que es, pero me gusta
:)
Foto tomada desde polideportivo de Santurtzi ^^
Ahead of the upcoming Ariane 5 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Kourou – home to Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, an overseas department of France.
Located around 60 km northwest of the French Guianese capital Cayenne, Kourou is a coastal town in the north-central part of the country and is visible in the lower right of the image. The town lies at the estuary of the Kourou River which, after its journey of 144 km, empties into the Atlantic Ocean. Its muddy waters appear brown most likely due to sediments picked up from the surrounding forest.
Long, white sandy beaches line the town’s ocean coast, while the riverbank and inland area consists mostly of mangrove and dense tropical rainforest. The surrounding area’s economy is largely agricultural, with coffee, cacao and tropical fruits being grown.
Just northwest of Kourou lies Europe’s Spaceport – chosen as a base from which to launch satellites in 1964 by the French Government, and currently home to ESA-developed rocket families Ariane and Vega.
As Kourou lies just 500 km north of the equator, it makes it ideally placed for launches into orbit as the rockets gain extra performance thanks to a ‘slingshot effect’ from the speed of Earth’s rotation. In addition, there is no risk of cyclones or earthquakes. This launch base and the jungle that surrounds it covers 690 sq km and protects an abundance of wildlife and plants.
From here, the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched into space – the James Webb Space Telescope – is scheduled for launch. After liftoff, it will embark on a month-long journey to its destination, around one and a half million kilometres from Earth.
Following the footsteps of the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb is designed to answer questions about the Universe and to make breakthrough discoveries in all fields of astronomy. The telescope will be able to detect infrared light generated by galaxies as they formed more than 13.5 billion years ago, in the aftermath of the Big Bang. Webb will see farther into our origins – from the Universe's first galaxies, to the birth of stars and planets, to exoplanets.
In the first month after launch, Webb will unfold its sunshield, which is around the size of a tennis court, and deploy its 6.5-metre primary mirror. This will be used to detect the faint light of distant stars and galaxies with a sensitivity of a hundred times greater than that of Hubble.
Webb is a joint project between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Find out more about Webb in ESA’s launch kit and interactive brochure.
This image is also featured on the Earth from Space video programme.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet captured and berthed Japan’s HTV-6 supply craft on 14 December using the International Space Station’s 17 m-long Canadarm2 robotic arm.
The H-II Transfer Vehicle, or HTV, is also called Kounotori – Japanese for ‘white stork’. The sixth craft in the series, it was launched from Japan’s Tanegashima spaceport on 9 December.
Setting up a temporary robotics workstation in the Station’s Cupola observatory module, the astronauts monitored the approaching six-tonne craft until it stopped 10 m from the Station. Working two joysticks, Shane moved Canadarm2 to grasp HTV-6 before berthed it at the Station’s Harmony module.
The six astronauts on the Space Station have already started unloading the four tonnes of supplies, including food, equipment and new batteries to store solar-generated electricity. The batteries will be installed next month during a spacewalk.
Credit: ESA/NASA
Estos me los regalo mi madre este mismo lunes. Todavía no los he estrenado.
Creo que sobra el perfume en miniatura a la derecha y creo que hay demasiado espacio vacío en la esquina izquierda. Pero ya llevo 2 días intentando sacar algo que merezca la pena y no lo consigo. Y ya me he decidido por esta.
Se me olvidaba: el objetivo una Tamron SP 35-80mm analógico 1: 2.8-3.8. Para esta foto el diafragma esta abierto en 4.
A list of all ESA astronauts who have done spacewalks, presented in order of total time spent doing an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA).
Known to the crew as an EVA (extravehicular activity), each spacewalk provides a valuable opportunity to carry out repairs, test new equipment and even perform science experiments beyond the confines of a spacecraft. Exiting the International Space Station however brings heightened risk and activities are planned down to the minute.
This infographic was updated in July 2021 after the spacewalks of Thomas Pesquet during his Alpha mission.
Updated September 2022 to add ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti's spacewalks.
Credits: ESA
East Side Access tunnel boring machine launch March 18, 2011. Senator Malcolm Smith speaks in front of a tunnel boring machine. Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
ESA Kiruna station Credit: ESA - CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
ESA's Kiruna station, near Salmijärvi, Kiruna, Sweden, tracks Cryosat, Integral, the Sentinels and Swarm. Details: www.esa.int/kiruna Credit: ESA - CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
Los caminos se bifurcan, cada uno toma una dirección pensando que al final
los caminos se volverán a unir… pero no es así.
Desde tú camino ves a la otra persona cada vez más pequeña.
No pasa nada, estamos hechos el uno para el otro, ahí está ella, al final solo ocu-
rre una cosa, llega el invierno no hay vuelta atrás, lo sientes, y justo entonces
intentas recordar en que momento comenzó todo y descubres que todo empezó
antes de lo que pensabas…
Mucho antes…y es ahí justo en ese momento cuando te das cuenta de que las
cosas solo ocurren una vez, y que por mucho que te esfuerces, ya nunca volverás
a sentir lo mismo, ya nunca tendrás la sensación de estar a tres metros sobre el
cielo.
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The ways bifurcate, each one takes a direction thinking that ultimately the ways
will return to join … but it is not like that.
From you way you see another person increasingly small.
Nothing happens, we are done one for other one, there she is, ultimately only
a thing happens, comes the winter has not gone back, you feel it, and I joust at
the time you try to remember in that moment began everything and discover
that everything began before what you were thinking … Very much before … and
it is there just in this moment when you realize that the things only happen once,
and that for much that you strain, already you will never return to feel the same
thing, already you will never have the sensation of being to three meters on the
sky.
-Moccia-
Jezero crater, the touchdown site for NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, in context of its surroundings. It is situated between highlands, an impact basin, a volcanic province and an ancient river delta. The dark bluish-black areas are layers of ancient volcanic ash that is widely dispersed by the wind, often piling up into impressive dune fields.
This image was created from the red, green and blue channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express, combined with high-resolution data from its nadir channel, which is directed perpendicular to the surface of Mars.
The high resolution of the data processed for this image allows for greater enlargement, enabling a closer look at individual details of the landscape. Small gaps in the image mosaic were interpolated.
Find out more about Jezero crater and its surrounds, here.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.