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These are water drops from the irrigation system trapped in spider webs that are in the succulent plants near our front door. They sparkle like jewels in the light, so I decided to exploit them. I placed a 36mm extension tube on my Nikon 70-200 f/4 lens so that I could close focus on the drops.
I lit this with one YN560 in an 8.6 inch soft box, hand held at camera left. The flash was in manual mode, and was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I have an album of drops and bubbles images called, creatively enough, Drops/Bubbles that has different kind of drops and bubble pictures in it, if you like that sort of thing. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157625432239555/
Built for Space Jam 2021
I’ve been itching to try out some realistic space stuff ever since I came across Finn Roberts' incredible builds. The carrier category sparked the idea of a tug boat in space - A tiny capsule with manipulator arms and docking capability. Primarily used for towing and positioning space station modules but also less routine missions like retrieving wayward satellites.
A star orbital that shimmers and rotates around your avatar's head.
It can be resized, recolored, it can have its rotation speed and shimmering speed changed with just a few buttons. You can make it shine as bright as you want.
Everything is controllable by the included HUD.
Come check it out in-world!
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Billed as the "tallest art structure in Britain" the Orbit is a 115m tall "sculpture" by Anish Kapoor next to the Olympic Stadium.
This week in 2004, the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft was launched aboard a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Designed and built by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, MESSENGER was the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. Protected from the intense heat of the Sun by an innovative ceramic-cloth sunshade, MESSENGER provided the first images of the entire planet and collected information on the composition and structure of Mercury's crust, geologic history, atmosphere, magnetosphere, and the makeup of its core and polar materials. The spacecraft arrived at Mercury on March 17, 2011, and impacted the planet's surface April 30, 2015. MESSENGER was part of the Discovery program, managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center for the agency's Science Mission Directorate. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating, and preserving NASA's remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological, and scientific aspects of NASA's activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA's history, visit the Marshall History Program's webpage.
Image credit: NASA
Envisioned as a last response measure, the Artemis-class is a rapid but inefficient orbiter designed to fight in planetary orbit.
A two-stage design, the entire stack consists of 4 solid rocket boosters flanking a liquid-fuelled rocket, which detaches from the second stage when expended. The second stage is powered by 4 conventional liquid-fuelled rockets, each with a drop tank of extra fuel which can be discarded when empty. There are also 4 RCS thrusters on the main stage, and 4 smaller nozzles on the crew module.
Concealed during takeoff by large protective panels, the craft loses these after breaking through the atmosphere. Along with the first stage rockets, they are in designed to be reusable, allowing them to be mated to another starfighter.
Once in planetary orbit, the Artemis can use its many thrusters to force itself into different orbits and engage hostile forces. For this purpose, 8 missiles are loaded, along with two autocannons that fire caseless ammunition. A large magazine, designed only to dispense bullets when the guns have fully deployed, sits in between them. Directly between the missiles is the fire suppression system, which can freeze with liquid nitrogen any malfunctioning ordnance.
The craft is powered by two large batteries, but auxiliary power can be generated by the solar panels on the opposite side of the craft. While not particularly efficient, it is an adequate backup.
Much internal space is taken up by the RCS fuel tank and the attached compressor. Opposite this piece of vital equipment is the communications array, which allows the crew of two to liaise with Earth-based command and control personnel, as well as detect enemies.
Up front in the detachable pilot's module, the two-man crew split their responsibilities between piloting and target acquisition. The module is equipped with a separate life-support and fire suppression system.
When the mission is complete (or the ordnance is expended), the piloting module can detach itself and return to Earth. Similar to the Space Shuttles of old, the underside of the module is covered in black heat-resistant tiles.
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Very happy with this. Threading those pneumatic tubes around the model was one of the most fun parts. Making realistic use of as much of the framework space was an interesting challenge.
Orbit run an immaculate fleet near Leicester, their Volvo Olympian R247NBV has recently seen the paint brush from green, and how smart it now looks.
iss067e375885 (Sept. 20, 2022) --- Hurricane Fiona is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 259 miles above the Atlantic Ocean north of Puerto Rico. In the foreground, the Soyuz MS-21 crew ship docked to the Prichal module is silhouetted above the storm.
Here was Go North West Wrightbus Volvo B7RLE Eclipse 6153 WA12 ACZ was seen approaching into Cheetham Hill, Tesco working a route 52 to Failsworth. This former Plymouth City Bus as 106 has now carried the Orbits livery like their ADL Enviro 200s. Presumably the rest of the Ex Plymouth Eclipse's to arrive to Manchester would go the same as this one in photo. 18/02/20
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Details of the Magic Kingdom's Astro Orbiter in Tomorrowland. I took the shot from the Tomorrowland Transportation Authority PeopleMover.
6:36 AM (ET). United Launch Alliance launching the Boeing CST-100 Starliner on its orbital test flight to the International Space Station for NASA's commercial crew program. Over the ocean and through the clouds to the International Space Station we go.
Went out to the beach to get a photo of the ULA launching the Boeing Starliner crew capsule for a test. It will dock with the International Space Station later today. The weather was better at the launch site than it was here. There was heavy cloud cover and it was spitting rain as we are under a gale warning. Caught just a glimpse before it was obscured by the cloud cover.
UPDATE: Apparently Boeing's Starliner spacecraft failed to stay on course and will be unable to dock with the International Space Station. A setback for Boeing.
The Astro Orbiter in action as viewed from the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover in the Magic Kingdom.
No form of the attraction existed in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World until 1974, three years after the park's opening, when Tomorrowland underwent a massive expansion including the creation of Space Mountain, a new location for the Disneyland-attraction, Carousel of Progress, and the WEDWay PeopleMover. Star Jets was considered the focal point of Tomorrowland due to its soaring, spinning rockets and central location.
This version of the attraction was based on the Disneyland version, in both location (on top of the PeopleMover platform) and in style (both feature a large Saturn V rocket). However the attraction vehicles were different than any other previous form as they were much larger and featured a flatter back-end and larger tail fins. Each of the 12 open-air vehicles was attached to the central axis by a 20 foot arm. The vehicles held up to two passengers who circled round and round, 80 feet above the ground, while controlling their ascent and descent with a metal control stick.
In 1994, the attraction was re-designed and re-opened as the Astro Orbiter, part of the complete renovation of the park's Tomorrowland section. The attraction featured a highly stylized iron-work tower in lieu of the center rocket along with various planets on the outside of the attraction as to appear as if the rockets were weaving between the planets. The ride at the Magic Kingdom does 11 rotations per minute and averages 1.2 million miles a year.[2] In the narration for the Tomorrowland Transit Authority, the ride is referenced as the "League of Planets Astro Orbiter."
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The SpaceX Falcon Heavy making it's way to the southeast past onlookers on the beach in Vero Beach. Here you can see the two boosters splitting away to make their way back to the landing sight at Cape Canaveral. The Falcon Heavy delivered two classified payloads into geostationary orbit for the U.S. Space Force. This is only the fourth time the Falcon Heavy has been launched.
Over the weekend Rosie and I had a binge watching session of The 100, a post apocalyptic series in which humans have evacuated a radiation contaminated Earth. After orbiting in a space station for a century, 100 juvenile delinquents are sent back to Earth to test the air. This is the kind of stuff I love and, much to my delight, it turns out Rosie does too. She recently started checking out the science fiction section of my bookshelf as well. Starting off with Wool a post apocalyptic trilogy by Hugh Howey and she's really enjoying it so far. I used to journey to the center of the earth and far galaxies on my own. It's great to now have a traveling companion.
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The Revolution of thought as the mind spins in circles... an idea is given birth, which fills the space and defines its magnitude and velocity, creating its own Orbit !!
My buddy darksyntax got me interested in MFZ and Intercept Orbit in particular, so I built this fleet. My ships are based off of some of the work I did for SHIPtember 2013 flickr theme month last year. I figure I'll probably end up tweaking them for specific systems for the game once the rules are known.
The frame aces and companies are DRevD's awesome design with just very minor alterations due to my parts availability.
Check out the Mobile Frame Zero website: mobileframezero.com/
The combination of morphological and topographic information from stereo images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, as well as compositional data from near-infrared spectroscopy has been proven to be a powerful tool for understanding the geology of Mars.
Beginning with the OMEGA instrument on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter in 2003, the surface of Mars has been examined at near-infrared wavelengths by imaging spectrometers that are capable of detecting specific minerals and mapping their spatial extent. The CRISM (Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars) instrument on our orbiter is a visible/near-infrared imaging spectrometer, and the HiRISE camera works together with it to document the appearance of mineral deposits detected by this orbital prospecting.
Mawrth Vallis is one of the regions on Mars that has attracted much attention because of the nature and diversity of the minerals identified by these spectrometers. It is a large, ancient outflow channel on the margin of the Southern highlands and Northern lowlands. Both the OMEGA and CRISM instruments have detected clay minerals here that must have been deposited in a water-rich environment, probably more than 4 billion years ago. For this reason, Mawrth Vallis is one of the two candidate landing sites for the future Mars Express Rover Mission planned by the European Space Agency.
This image was targeted on a location where the CRISM instrument detected a specific mineral called alunite, KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6. Alunite is a hydrated aluminum potassium sulfate, a mineral that is notable because it must have been deposited in a wet acidic environment, rich in sulfuric acid. Our image shows that the deposit is bright and colorful, and extensively fractured. The width of the cutout is 1.2 kilometers.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
iss069e005732 (April 28, 2023) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Stephen Bowen is pictured in his Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or spacesuit, outside the International Space Station during his eighth career spacewalk. He and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi (out of frame) would spend seven hours and one minute in the vacuum of space routing cables and installing insulation readying the orbital outpost for its next set of roll-out solar arrays due to be installed after their delivery on the next SpaceX Dragon cargo mission.
I think this looks at its very best at night.
The ArcelorMittal Orbit (often referred to as the Orbit Tower or simply just the Orbit) is a 114.5-metre-tall (376 ft) sculpture and observation tower in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. It is Britain's largest piece of public art, and is intended to be a permanent lasting legacy of London's hosting of the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, assisting in the post-Olympics regeneration of the Stratford area. Sited between the Olympic Stadium and the Aquatics Centre, it allows visitors to view the whole Olympic Park from two observation platforms.
The satellite on the left is the communication satellite. It is equipped with several com dishes and antennae in order to help coordinate efforts for the Nokirian people. In addition to the communication capabilities, the satellite also has an extremely powerful laser for destroying enemy satellites.
The spy satellite on the right has a large camera with a focusing crystal in the center which allows for pictures to be taken at high resolution even from space. It also is equipped with a small laser gun to shoot down missiles or other space craft that get too close.
Flying high over Tomorrowland at 2:15am - this is definitely a ride that looks best at night.
I seem to recall hearing (maybe from the behind the scenes tour, I can't remember for sure) that Astro Orbiter is the fastest ride in the Magic Kingdom, but I can't seem to find any numbers to corroborate that. Anyone know? It doesn't make the "fastest rides in WDW" lists but I wonder if that's just because the speed isn't regularly published.