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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
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Just experimenting with cloud cover, trying to give some spark to an overcast day. I thought that this fit well with the futuristic Astro Orbiter.
Sunset on day 1 in Mt Cook National park. Its amazing to think the earth spins on its axis and orbits a star we call the sun. Without the sun we would be a cold unhabital planet. Sunset is the best time for a beer and some reflection.
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.
Perspektivwechsel. Orbitaler Sonnenaufgang, durch eine Lage leuchtender Nachtwolken gesehen.
Orbital sunrise seen through a layer of polar mesospheric clouds.
ID: iss056e095164
Credits: NASA/ESA-A.Gerst
Water fountain water droplet taken in a villa back in my China holiday tour. Thank you for viewing. Press "L" for lightroom view. The image looks a lot sharper in full view.
Processing:
- Digital Photo Professional; B+W conversion, sharpness increase, contrast improvement
- Photoshop CS5; crop, signature.
The ORL originally started as low orbit racing on earth, but as the Federation expanded, so did the racing.
The ORL is comprised of both space and atmospheric racing. This necessitates both accurate thrusters and air-foils. The two largest races of the season are of course around and on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
The Orbital Racing League is seen as many as the unifying factor for the system. With so much of the system now colonized, the ORL brings everyone's attention to the same race.
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As I have seen different creations from different builders, I have want to use many of the techniques and shapes. So I decided to make a theme of it. Stay tuned to see the different builders highlighted.
Orbiting at Gerdes
Something circular was placed and left on the junk yard car hood expediting its decay. Once removed, a planet was born nicely orbiting in my imagination. It brings a bit of drama in color and texture along with a sense of motion. Light nicely reveals every nuance.
Single layer (Not a composite) junk yard shot with a touch of added saturation - but not much.
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ESA’s new Sun exploring spacecraft Solar Orbiter launched atop the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET) on 10 February 2020. An ESA-led mission with strong NASA participation, Solar Orbiter will look at some of the never-before-seen regions of the Sun, such as the poles, and attempt to shed more light on the origins of solar wind, which can knock out power grids on the ground and disrupt operations of satellites orbiting the Earth. The spacecraft will take advantage of the gravitational pull of Venus to adjust its orbit to obtain unprecedented views of the solar surface.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
This picture gives a look at the camera system that was used on all five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft. On August 14, 1966, Lunar Orbiter 1 became the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
The Lunar Orbiter Program, managed by NASA's Langley Research Center, was one of three uncrewed programs undertaken by NASA to collect data and help select site for the Apollo lunar landings. The low orbits around the Moon provided extensive photographic coverage of specified areas. The program was a series of five uncrewed Lunar Orbiter missions from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface,they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 1967-L-05646
Date: June 21, 1967
Orbit Coaches NK56 KKJ
Scania Omnicity
Former Go North East 5257
Rail Replacement between Nuneaton & Leamington Spa
Nuneaton
a large space station in high orbit above earth. Digital artwork made with Midjourney and Adobe Photoshop.
#259/365 Well this picture didn't turn out so well..so how do you hide it (or try to)? With graphics. Do I like orbit gum? Not really but it was sitting on my desk at 7pm and I had to go home. Not my best work but, one more down down! I might be delayed getting to your streams tomorrow..I'll be at Disneyland!
Strobist: Ray Ring flash mounted on an sb-800
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Orbit Coaches D18ORB, a 2008 Van Hool TD921 Altano, was seen at Sheffield Interchange, whilst operating a Rail Replacement service to Stockport, on behalf of East Midlands Railway.
Following the rise of Proxies, most operators lacked the network infrastructure to conduct long range remote operations with their robotic avatars. As a solution, hackers began constructing their own networks of relays, utilizing decommissioned orbital satellite systems and abandoned radio towers. For a while, their activities remained discreet and unnoticed.
Soon, however, instances of ‘satellite jockeying’ were reported on active government and corporate satellite arrays. Attempts were made to restrict the networks, while authorities went to work tracking down and penalizing anyone caught in the act, disrupting proxy operations worldwide.
At the same time, local and federal governments around the world began heavily regulating the burgeoning proxy and remote presence movements. These included mandating licenses, permits, taxes, and a myriad of other bureaucratic red tape.
These tensions slowly built into a tinderbox within the proxy community, and many were more than willing to set it off. This culminated into what became known as ‘The Orbit Wars’, an extended period of social unrest and cyberwarfare between pro-proxy groups, corporate lobbyists, and numerous government agencies around the world. This ranged from petty civil disobedience and armed standoffs to full scale targeted cyberattacks. Disabling of network infrastructure and jamming were common on both sides. Many high-profile hackers made their mark in these years, most notably the infamous ‘Fabled Three’.
Eventually, tensions simmered as organizations attempted to appease and accommodate proxy operations. Bandwidth was partitioned to private networks, while private aerospace corporations stepped in to feed the market gap by establishing their own dedicated ‘for-lease’ satellite grids. Meanwhile, regulations on proxy operations were rolled back, though not by much.
Many veteran proxy operators still feel the heat of those days, and the distrust and ire toward authority never fully went away. Wary of government or corporate outlets, many prefer to stick with the ‘old fashioned’ means of decentralized homemade meshnets and third-party software.
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Seven seas, four billion IPs!
Platoons full of soldiers identical to me!
I can chop at the root, like the base of life's tree
Try to drop but they shoot fire shots at high speed!
Some like it hot, others screaming “WHY ME?!”
Tie the knot, you're engaged to this future like me!
Its more than foreign war, we're assured to die free
Hordin' for another tour, not the kind you sight-see!
Type keys; clear the channel history!
I SPEAK; condition anonymity!
Wide screens; projecting all the imagery
Behind these high beams to display the setting visibly!
Cold in this winter see the steam from when I breathe
Agents of these ministries lock us in this freeze!
The fight rages on while the victims mourn and grieve
The internet's the battlefield, believe we're under siege!
This is hostile!!
Never backing down!
Scorched earth policies, I'm standing my ground!
Remember and respect to the message we're bound
The path is so dangerous to find a way around
This is hostile!!
We're never backing down!
Facing scorched earth policies we're standing our ground!
Never will forget to the message we're bound
The path is too dangerous to find a way around
- "Dangerous Ways" – Dual Core
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YOU CAN SEE WHY THIS WAS TAKING SO LONG
Yeah, this image is just caked in edgy inflammatory symbolism. At the same time, I'm outrageously proud of how it turned out
I mean, it was briefly touched upon in the previous part, so that was good enough to do a whole lore piece on it. Where else am I gonna fit it in? :/
Pretty much just laying out the culture and political climate of the Proxy universe.
If you fave, comment as well!
In this image, ESA’s new Solar Orbiter spacecraft is seen during preparations for a vibration test campaign at the IABG facility in Ottobrunn, Germany, in March 2019.
While the craft is at Ottobrunn, the Solar Orbiter mission control team located at ESA’s ESOC mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, is getting ready to establish data links to the satellite.
The live links, dubbed ‘system validation tests’, will see the flight team connect their mission control system to the spacecraft, as they will in future when the control systems on ground ‘talk’ to the spacecraft in orbit via radio signals transmitted by a ground station antenna.
“The prime objective of the system validation tests for any spacecraft is to validate that the mission control system can correctly send and receive telecommands to the satellite,” says ESA’s Jose-Luis Pellon-Bailon.
“The tests also confirm that the spacecraft launch configuration is as expected by the post-launch Flight Control Procedures.”
An initial series of system validation tests were run last summer, when Solar Orbiter was still at its manufacturer, Airbus Defence & Space UK, in Stevenage.
“Since then, it has moved to Ottobrunn where we will run the next series of tests in early May and early August, lasting nine days in total and running around the clock,” says Jose-Luis.
“Solar Orbiter will then move to the US for launch from Cape Canaveral, where we will run a final series of connection tests at the end of November.”
Solar Orbiter will be launched in 2020 to study how the Sun creates and controls the heliosphere, the vast bubble of charged particles blown by the solar wind into the interstellar medium.
How we make a space mission
ESA is Europe’s space agency, enabling its 22 Member States to achieve results that no individual nation can match. ESA combines space mission development with supporting labs, test and operational facilities plus in-house experts covering every aspect of space, supported through the Agency’s Basic Activities.
Credit: ESA - S. Corvaja
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Long time readers of my photoblog may remember that I did a set of images from around the Olympic Park in London while we were hosting that magnificent event. Those who take far too big an interest will also remember my image of Orbit. If you do remember these things then, please, stop paying so much interest in me. It’s a little creepy to be honest…what’s next, telling me that you know what time I shower in the morning?
Just kidding, of course.
I don’t shower.
Anyhoo – this is my exiting Orbit via the staircase after enjoying the sights of London from the viewing area which is at the top of it. It’s the place I was while taking yesterday’s image of the skyline and rain over London.
I’m off to Beijing tomorrow for a week of work followed by a few days leisure. I’ll be scheduling Monday – Friday posts to go up on my photoblog site so check me out there if you stalkers don’t want to miss my daily updates.
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- fresh from the new Light Paint Live Mercury 2.0 Version.
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The shown picture is SOOC - straight out of the camera (1080p webcam).
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Apollo 12 looks back at the Earth at the start of its 4 day journey to the moon. The shot includes the Lunar Module adapter panels shortly after jettison.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: AS12-50-7326
Date: November 14, 1969
A weightless applesauce tube floats free following a snack by astronaut John Glenn in the course of his first orbit during the Mercury "Friendship 7" mission on February 20, 1962.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 62-MA6-216
Date: February 20, 1962
iss067e090349 (May 27, 2022) --- The International Space Station soars above an aurora as it orbits 270 miles above the Indian Ocean north of Antarctica. Prominent station components pictured include (from left) Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter, the cupola, and the Rassvet module.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket delivered Thales Alenia Space's TurkmenÄlem52E/MonacoSat satellite to a geosynchronous transfer orbit on April 27, 2015 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The satellite was deployed approximately 32 minutes after liftoff.
r = \frac{1}{u} = \frac{ h^2 / GM }{1 + e \cos (\theta - \theta_0)}
The above really is one of the orbital dynamics equations :-)
This image is a macro of an acrylic art piece that Mrs Mail bought a few months ago. I keep thinking about how to do a wider view of it, but wanting to do something special, yet haven't decided, so I have so far done a couple of macros, and find it quite mesmerising when looked at closely.
Watch this space.
Black and White (In Colour) Theme
Jim at Mere Mailbox
With all my ❤️ I thank you for your ⭐ or 💬 or just for 👀 it.
A 📷 taken by me + Camera Raw
THIS PHOTO IS NOT AI 📀
You can look at the Exif data on your right ➡️ (on PC) or below the comments 👇.
A simple glass sphere becomes a miniature universe. Suspended between light and darkness, it seems to float like a distant planet surrounded by luminous rings. The vibrant blues, greens, and golden reflections transform an everyday object into a cosmic vision, where imagination travels beyond the limits of reality.
Light bends, colors dance, and the fragile sphere captures an entire galaxy within its transparent surface. A reminder that wonder can often be found in the smallest details.
This diagram shows Webb's trajectory from Earth into its orbit around the Second Langrange point. Webb's orbit is quite large and on the order of magnitude of the Moon's orbit around Earth.
Webb’s orbit around L2 is a tilted oval shape about 500,000km (in the X direction, away from the Sun) by 1,500,000km (in the Y direction, ‘side-to-side’ of the Sun) by 800,000km (in the Z direction, ‘above and below’ the Sun). The Moon’s orbit is much closer to circular with a diameter of about 770,000km (i.e., a mean radius of about 384,000km) and essentially coincident with the ecliptic plane (the ecliptic plan is the plane of Earth’s orbit around the Sun). So, if you put Webb’s orbit and the Moon’s orbit in the same plane then Webb’s orbit would completely contain the Moon’s orbit – a little wider in one direction and nearly twice as wide in the other and would be more saddle-shaped.
Graphic credit: NASA/Steve Sabia