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Dicen que los perfumes van siempre en frasco pequeño, aunque es frecuente que algún "desaborío" afirme que también lo hace el veneno. Sea como fuere lo indudable es que la cortedad de un mercante resulta, paradojas de la vida, espectacular.
Y así ocurrió aquel día posterior a la huelga general. Tras pasar el supermegatecazo de 650 metros con doble de Traxx hizo lo propio este, a cantón.
Para mi desgracia también ha sido la última vez que han pasado frente a mí un par de japonesas... Es lo que tiene cuando se es una especie en extinción.
Alfafar-Massanassa (Valencia)
Hurricane Helene was a devastating tropical cyclone that produced a wide swath of damage and loss of life that extended from northwest Florida, US, where the storm made landfall on 26 September 2024, to Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina.
Hurricane Helene was closely monitored using Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar data to assess its wind field over the ocean surface. This technology plays a crucial role in understanding storm dynamics and predicting their impacts.
Satellite-based sensors, particularly those operating in microwave frequencies, can capture data on ocean surface wind speed and direction under various weather conditions. The Ocean Wind Field (OWI), derived from Sentinel-1, provided detailed estimates of wind vectors at 10 m above the ocean surface. This information is essential for meteorologists to analyse the storm's intensity and trajectory.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2024), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Romania’s first experiment on the International Space Station is sending drops to collide head-on at controlled speeds inside a cube. Their behaviour intrigues scientists in an environment where gravity, buoyancy, convection, and sedimentation are negligible. The Dropcoal research, short for Drop Coalescence, explores droplet formation in space and on Earth.
There is a journey of fascinating physics behind every raindrop falling to the ground on Earth. Rain is the result of the complex interaction between water and Earth’s gravity, causing drops to change their shape and merge on their way down. Scientists call it coalescence – the process of two or more droplets, bubbles or particles blending to form a single, larger entity.
Dropcoal investigates the interactions between two drops of different liquids, such as water, ethanol and methylene blue, while varying their diameters and speeds, ranging from as slow as white blood cell displacement (0.01 mm/s) to an ant’s velocity (10 mm/s). In this image, the drop on the left is coloured with methylene blue and is merging with the pure water drop coming from the right.
Monitoring how drops interact and merge in weightlessness could shed light on raindrop formation, fuel combustion and material interactions. Astronauts on long space missions could benefit from better understanding how to handle droplets when treating eye, nose and skin issues, as well as preparing injections.
Following the launch on 5 November with SpaceX’s 31st resupply mission to the Space Station, NASA astronaut Don Pettit installed the experiment in the ICE Cubes facility on ESA’s Columbus laboratory module. “This experiment looks at whether droplets merge or bounce off each other, and how fluids mix after these collisions,” explained the astronaut and chemical engineer. Watch Don Pettit talking about the experiment in this video from the International Space Station.
The experiment is already generating the first droplets in microgravity. While a high-speed camera captures images at up to 8000 frames per second, pumps and precision motors control the droplets’ movements. The software uses image recognition to command droplet generation at the right moment.
During the commissioning phase of the experiment, Romanian teams on Earth ran a series of tests to ensure all systems functioned correctly. There are at least 560 planned collisions involving two to five millimetre-sized droplets.
Dropcoal marks an important milestone for Romania, a country that became an ESA Member State in 2011. This is the first experiment developed and built by RISE, the Romanian InSpace Engineering company.
The results of the experiment will be analysed by an international science team led by experts at the National Institute for the Physics of Lasers, Plasma and Radiation in Romania, in collaboration with the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and Carnegie Mellon University in the USA.
Credits: ESA/NASA
¿Cómo compaginar
la aniquiladora
idea de la muerte
con ese incontenible
afán de vida?
¿cómo acoplar el horror
ante la nada que vendrá
con la invasora alegría
del amor provisional
y verdadero?
¿cómo desactivar la lápida con el sembradío?
¿la guadaña
con el clavel?
¿será que el hombre es eso?
¿esa batalla?
Mario Benedetti
ESA's Kiruna station supports CryoSat, Integral, the Swarm trio and Sentinel 1A. It is located at Salmijärvi, 38 km east of Kiruna, in northern Sweden. Image credit: ESA - CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
The JANUS camera onboard ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is designed to take detailed, high-resolution photos of Jupiter and its icy moons.
JANUS will study global, regional and local features and processes on the moons, as well as map the clouds of Jupiter. It will have a resolution up to 2.4 m on Ganymede and about 10 km at Jupiter.
This image of our own Moon was taken during Juice’s lunar-Earth flyby on 19 August 2024. The main aim of JANUS’s observations during the lunar-Earth flyby was to evaluate how well the instrument is performing, not to make scientific measurements.
Credits: ESA/Juice/JANUS; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
The European Space Agency will soon be releasing a new, cost efficient way of keeping a low-orbit manned presence in space. The whole unit is carried to orbit by an ESA rocket. A nuclear missile is housed in the rear, and the solar panel and engine/comm array detach from the habitation vessel. They re-attach to form a satellite that is left in orbit, while the pilot returns to earth!
The 11th annual ESA Open Day at ESA’s technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, took place on the weekend of 1 and 2 October 2022. On 1 October, visitors with disabilities had the opportunity to follow the tour at their own pace. On both days visitors were able to meet astronauts, space scientists and engineers and learn all about the work carried out at Europe’s largest space establishment.
Credits: G. Porter
ESA's technical heart, ESTEC, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, opened its gates to visitors on 2 October 2016 for the annual Open Day.
Credit: ESA-SJM Photography
On 7 October 2018 we opened the doors of ESTEC, our technical heart in the Netherlands, and welcomed more than 7600 people on a day full of activities including meet-and-greet with astronauts, tours around our test rooms, learning about the science in science fiction, and about the activities ESA does in all its establishments around Europe and beyond.
Credits: ESA–G. Porter
The ESA space pavilion at the 52nd international Paris Air and Space Show 2017, Le Bourget
Credit: ESA/D. Scuka
The Orion spacecraft will ferry astronauts to the Moon on NASA's Artemis missions. The European Service Module is ESA’s contribution to Orion and provides electricity, water, oxygen and nitrogen as well as keeping the spacecraft at the right temperature and on course. In case of a problem during launch the European Service Module can also activate to fly the astronauts to safety. This infographic shows the steps of a targeted abort.
Credits: ESA
As part of the East Side Access megaproject, the MTA is building a new concourse for the Long Island Rail Road under Grand Central Terminal. This photo shows progress as of October 2013.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
ESA Council Ministerial 2022 begins with opening statements in Paris on 22 November 2022.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
ESA's newly selected astronaut candidates of the class of 2022 arrived at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, on 3 April 2023 to begin their 12-month basic training.
The group of five candidates, Sophie Adenot, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Rosemary Coogan, Raphaël Liégeois, and Marco Sieber, are part of the 17-member astronaut class of 2022, selected from 22 500 applicants from across ESA Member States in November 2022.
The astronaut candidates will be trained to the highest level of standards in preparation for future space missions. During basic training, this includes learning all about space exploration, technical and scientific disciplines, space systems and operations, as well as spacewalk and survival training.
This image shows the candidate Raphaël Liégeois on his first day at the European Astronaut Centre, ready to embark on their journey to become certified ESA astronauts.
Credits: ESA-S. Corvaja
At the invitation of ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson attended the ESA Council at ESA’s establishment ESTEC in the Netherlands on 15 June 2022.
ESA is currently working with NASA on many areas, from science such as the James Webb Space Telescope to exploration such as Mars Sample Return, Artemis and the International Space Station, to Earth observation.
At the ESA Council, a framework agreement between ESA and NASA for a strategic partnership in Earth System Science was signed, as well as a memorandum of understanding between ESA and NASA on the Lunar Pathfinder mission.
Credits: ESA-S.Corvaja
Segolene Royal, COP21 President, together with Jan Woerner, ESA Director General; Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA Director of Space Transportation; Claudie Haigneré, Advisor to the Director General of ESA; ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet; and Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of CNES; at the ESA Pavilion, during the Paris Air and Space Show, on 19 June 2017.
Credit: ESA-Philippe Sebirot
ESA's technical heart, ESTEC, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, opened its gates to visitors on 2 October 2016 for the annual Open Day.
Credit: ESA-SJM Photography
The third Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite, Sentinel-1C, has launched aboard a Vega-C rocket, flight VV25, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 5 December 2024 at 22:20 CET (18:20 local time).
Sentinel-1C extends the legacy of its predecessors, delivering high-resolution radar imagery to monitor Earth’s changing environment, supporting a diverse range of applications and advance scientific research. Additionally, Sentinel-1C introduces new capabilities for detecting and monitoring maritime traffic.
The launch also marks Vega-C’s ‘return to flight’, a key step in restoring Europe’s independent access to space. Vega-C is the evolution of the Vega family of rockets and delivers increased performance, greater payload volume and improved competitiveness.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja
Ever daydreamed about owning your own spaceship? As the next best thing – thanks to a free app launching today – anyone with an Apple Vision Pro or Meta Quest 3 or 3S VR headset can have ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence turn up in their own living room.
Developed by Italian startup DIVE in cooperation with ESA’s Hera mission team, the “Guardians of Earth” app allows users to peer within a virtual spacecraft, learn about how it works, assemble its elements and follow its journey through space to its target asteroid.
“The availability of this app makes for a great Christmas gift, allowing people to learn about and interact with our mission in a totally new and immersive way,” notes Hera mission manager Ian Carnelli. “This was a dream project for DIVE founder Luca De Dominicis, who sadly recently passed away, yet whose vision for making space exploration accessible to everyone continues through this collaboration.”
DIVE CEO Michaelangelo Mochi adds: “Partnering with ESA is a journey we cherish deeply, akin to astronauts venturing into the unknown. We are proud to work alongside an organisation that shares our vision and commitment to exploration.”
Launched last October, Hera is ESA’s first planetary defence mission, on its way to visit the first asteroid to have had its orbit altered by human action. By gathering close-up data about the Dimorphos asteroid, which was impacted by NASA’s DART spacecraft in 2022, Hera will help turn asteroid deflection into a well understood and potentially repeatable technique. Hera is currently on its way to a ‘swingby’ of Mars next spring which will set on course towards Dimorphos.
With Guardians of Earth, users can engage with the Hera spacecraft in remarkable detail through augmented reality. They can choose to put it together piece by piece, discover its advanced instrumentation and experience key space travel technologies. Through the involvement of video game studio 34BigThings, the app offers a 360-degree immersive experience, projecting users into the cosmos with Hera, bringing them face-to-face with celestial bodies encountered along the way.
From today, the app is available for free on Apple Vision Pro from the App Store and for Meta Quest 3 and 3S.
Want to know more about the Hera mission? Try asking the mission ‘directly’, through Hera Space Companion, an interactive AI-powered assistant providing facts about the mission and real-time data from space. The Hera Space Companion has been developed by Terra Mater Studios, Impact AI, and Microsoft Austria in collaboration with ESA.
Credits: ESA/Terra Mater
On 7 October 2018 we opened the doors of ESTEC, our technical heart in the Netherlands, and welcomed more than 7600 people on a day full of activities including meet-and-greet with astronauts, tours around our test rooms, learning about the science in science fiction, and about the activities ESA does in all its establishments around Europe and beyond.
Credits: ESA–G. Porter
Vega-C on the launch pad with Earth-observer Sentinel-1C at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, 5 December 2024.
Earth-observer Sentinel-1C is set to launch on Vega-C rocket flight VV25. At 35 m tall, Vega-C weighs 210 tonnes on the launch pad and reaches orbit with three solid-propellant-powered stages before the fourth liquid-propellant stage takes over for precise placement of Sentinel-1C into its orbit.
Carrying advanced radar technology to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface, the ambitious Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has raised the bar for spaceborne radar.
The mission benefits numerous Copernicus services and applications such as those that relate to Arctic sea-ice monitoring, iceberg tracking, routine sea-ice mapping, glacier-velocity monitoring, surveillance of the marine environment including oil-spill monitoring and ship detection for maritime security as well as illegal fisheries monitoring.
Europe’s Vega-C rocket can launch 2300 kg into space, such as small scientific and Earth observation spacecraft. Vega-C is the evolution of the Vega family of rockets and delivers increased performance, greater payload volume and improved competitiveness.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja
Un fin de semana en una casita en el río...Donde no había nada más para fotografiar que justamente el río, árboles y niños, que ya me miraban con cara de pocos amigos...
Aún no llegó la primavera a Argentina, por lo tanto, no había más flores que este pequeño ramito al lado de un árbol y otra flor que encontré abandonada por ahí, en una mini selva...
Soy horrible fotografiando paisajes, de todas maneras, saqué muchas fotos intentando practicar un poco y conocer un poquito más mi cámara ( si me animo subo alguna).
Quería incluir un poco de color a las fotos y todo lo que encontré para ello, fue una manzana que rescaté de las "garras" de los niños que arrasaban con todo.
Me aferré a ella como la [ ARDILLA DE LA ERA DEL HIELO A SU BELLOTA ] y la usé para hacer esta serie de fotos, que intentan ser algo así como una historieta, donde la protagonista es la esa maldita manzana y la actríz secundaria es una pequeña linternita que uso como lúz de lectura
Locuras mías de un fin de semana "campestre", intentando sobrevivir sin mi notebook :P
CONTINUARÁ...
Artist's impression of ESA's Earth Return Orbiter.
Bringing samples from Mars is the logical next step for robotic exploration and it will require multiple missions that will be more challenging and more advanced than any robotic missions before. Accomplishments in robotic exploration in recent years have increased confidence in success – multiple launches will be necessary to deliver samples from Mars.
ESA is working with NASA to explore mission concepts for an international Mars Sample Return campaign between 2020 and 2030.
Three launches will be necessary to accomplish landing, collecting, storing and finding samples and delivering them to Earth.
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will explore the surface and rigorously document and store a set of samples in canisters in strategic areas to be retrieved later for flight to Earth.
Two subsequent missions are foreseen to achieve this next step.
A NASA launch will send the Sample Retrieval Lander mission to land a platform near the Mars 2020 site. From here, a small ESA rover – the Sample Fetch Rover – will head out to retrieve the cached samples.
Once it has collected them in what can be likened to an interplanetary treasure hunt, it will return to the lander platform and load them into a single large canister on the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV). This vehicle will perform the first liftoff from Mars and carry the container into Mars orbit.
ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter will be the next mission, timed to capture the basketball-size sample container orbiting Mars. The samples will be sealed in a biocontainment system to prevent contaminating Earth with unsterilised material before being moved into an Earth entry capsule.
The spacecraft will then return to Earth, where it will release the entry capsule for the samples to end up in a specialised handling facility.
ESA and NASA are exploring the concepts for these missions, with ESA assessing the Sample Fetch Rover and Earth Return Orbiter. These will provide input to ESA’s 2019 council at ministerial level, where approval will be sought for the missions.
Credits: ESA/ATG Medialab
Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission on 2 March 2024. The Thwaites Glacier is one of the most unstable glaciers in Antarctica. It is mainly impacted by warm ocean water flowing underneath the ice shelves, causing them to melt from below. As the ice shelves thin, glaciers speed up, sending more ice into the ocean and raising sea levels.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2024), processed by ESA; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
SpaceX Crew-2 with ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet arrive at NASA's Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on 16 April 2021.
French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is returning to the International Space Station on his second spaceflight. The mission, which is called Alpha, will see the first European to launch on a US spacecraft in over a decade. Thomas is flying on the Crew Dragon, alongside NASA astronauts Megan MacArthur and Shane Kimbrough, and Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide.
The Crew-2 launch is scheduled for 22 April at 11:11 BST/12:11 CEST.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
Progress continues on the East Side Access project as of February 12, 2013.
This photo shows work on the caverns underneath Grand Central Terminal that will house a future concourse for arriving and departing Long Island Rail Road trains.
Eight tunnels will allow trains to reach four platforms in two adjacent caverns.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
-¿Dónde vamos?
Esa fría mañana se despertó decidida.
“Sí, le llevaré al descampado. Allí nadie podrá observar lo ocurrido”
-Pues es que este barrio es horrible para dar un paseo, pero más abajo hay un camino que lleva al árbol del tiempo sin tiempo.- respondió ella
Él asintió y sin nada más que añadir, la siguió mientras se liaba un cigarrillo. Aquel tipo de aspecto mercenario heredero de Sanjurō, se merecía el disparo…
Cruzaron el puente de lo eterno y mutable, bajaron por el sendero Aedea y finalmente, llegaron al árbol del tiempo sin tiempo.
-Sitúate allí y ¡ponte de perfil!- ordenó ella con voz escarchada.
Sacó el arma, apuntó y..
…la imagen polaroid lo atrapó..
Dicen que el efecto mágico de ésta, por lo menos, durará dos noches..
...en esas noches, el mercenario, logrará dormir y descansar en un sueño de musas, buena música y gatetes!!
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Americana de tomo y lomo. Una imponente maquina por donde se mire. Una verdadera maravilla que circula por la red norte de Chile. Ahora, adaptada para poder circular en vías métricas, sigue cumpliendo sus labores de ir y venir con las tolvas cargadas con mineral de hierro acompañanada de su fiel Slug.
P.K . 724.
ESA Astronauten mit Trainer
Alexander Gerst (D), Timothy Peake (UK),
Samantha Cristoforetti (I),
Thomas Pesquet (F),
Luca Parmitano
Progress continues on the East Side Access project as of February 12, 2013.
This photo shows work on the caverns underneath Grand Central Terminal that will house a future concourse for arriving and departing Long Island Rail Road trains.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
The Orion spacecraft will ferry astronauts to the Moon on NASA's Artemis missions. The European Service Module is ESA’s contribution to Orion and provides electricity, water, oxygen and nitrogen as well as keeping the spacecraft at the right temperature and on course. In case of a problem during launch the European Service Module can also activate to fly the astronauts to safety. This infographic shows the steps of an untargeted abort.
Credits: ESA