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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.
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
Orbit Coaches NK56 KKJ
Scania Omnicity
Former Go North East 5257
Rail Replacement between Nuneaton & Leamington Spa
Nuneaton
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.
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
The Venom Orbital Shipyard, was the second decommissioned RHA Battle Station that the Venom Pirates stole under the guise of a space station recycling company. The Pirates needed a place that was dedicated to repairng thier ships and thus the older battle station was heavily modified to be a working dry dock. Over the years the station was upgraded with heavy cargo docks. All but two hyper Decimation cannons were removed to make room for extra docks for Mad Dog Class Heavy Space Tugs on the top side, and ship building room on the lower side.
The Venom Pirates were well known for stealing raw materials, and weapons smuggling, the majority of which went into building this station and maintaining and modifiying their fleet of small star ships. Later on they began building their own star fighters, and soon after that they began making capital ships. The Snake Head (featured here) was their first ever capital ship. Its second Capital ship the Hellphire was also built here.
When the Red Eye Pirates rose to power they brought their ships to the station to be outfitted with weapons, repaired, and rebuilt. They even commssioned new capital ships to be built, such as Red Eye's personal ship the Impure soul, and The Fear Class Dreadnaught. This later backfired on the Venom Pirates when Red Eye double crossed them and used these ships seize control of several Venom Pirate Smuggling posts. It was around this time that the Venom Pirates placed automated satalite turrets to protect the Ship yard.
The Venom Pirates managed to hold a majority control over the Venom Star System thanks to its fortified command center and this ship yard. In the end at the battle of Pirates Last Stand, the Venom Pirates surrenderd both stations to the RHA fleet. Today the Ship yard remains operational, with many investors looking to buy it and its assets.
A small, short range interceptor, the Orbital Pod is the workhorse of Orbital's secretive lunar takeover strategy.
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.
Another masterpiece artists’ concept of an early LEM/CSM design (ca. 1962), depicting the Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) burn of the Command/Service Module Service Propulsion System (SPS) engine. The shading, dramatic lunar terrain and overall attention to detail is amazing. Unparalleled artwork.
Kudos to Ludwik Źiemba and William A. Collopy.
8.5" x 11".
William A. “Bill” Collopy, an unexpected WIN:
starherald.com/william-a-collopy/article_936831fc-6037-58...
Credit: Star Herald website
And since the above link is likely tenuous, its content:
“SCOTTSBLUFF - William A. 'Bill' Collopy, 78, of Scottsbluff died Friday, Jan. 27, 2006, at Regional West Medical Center comforted by his wife, Kay.
A memorial service was held Jan. 31 at the First Church of God in Scottsbluff with the Rev. Curtis Germany officiating. Abiding by Bill's wishes, cremation has taken place at the Jolliffe Funeral Home in Scottsbluff…
…Bill was born Dec. 10, 1927, in Scottsbluff, to Francis John and Maude Rutz (Amalia) Collopy. He received his education in the Scottsbluff Public School System graduating from Scottsbluff High School, and continued at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, as well as attending the Scottsbluff Junior College in Scottsbluff.
Bill enlisted in the U. S. Army Air Corps on Dec. 18, 1945, and was honorably discharged in July of 1947, after achieving the rank of corporal.
Bill married Regina Kayleen "Kay" Germany on Aug. 13, 1950, in Scottsbluff. Bill spent his working years in Kansas, California, and Texas as a technical illustrator for Boeing, Convair, and Lockheed.
Following retirement in 1992, Bill returned to Scottsbluff, the boyhood home he loved so much. Bill enjoyed his retirement years locally as an activities bus driver for the Scottsbluff Public School System, as well as Western Nebraska Community College and especially enjoying his recent years at Twin Cities Baseball. Bill enjoyed woodworking and spending time with family.
Bill is survived by his wife: Regina Kayleen "Kay" Collopy of Scottsbluff; son: Brad Collopy and his wife Aggie in Gering; daughters: Brenda Momper of Alliance and Berni Holmes and her husband Rodney of Aurora, Colo.; 10 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; uncle: John Rutz; and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.
His parents: Frank and Maude; and brother: Frank Jr., preceded Bill in death.”
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
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
Orangevale, Ca
Totally cool or what...? You just don't see this kind of architecture anymore for a gas station. I'll have a few shots of this Orbit gas station I'd like to share with you.
I trekked out to Orangevale to shoot this gas station and for a little sushi lunch this morning. I'm glad I was able to add this beautiful iconic gas station shots to my list of photographs.
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
"Orbiting"
- 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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A gigantic installation work by Tomás Saraceno, entitled “in orbit,” has been assembled in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. At a height of more than 20 meters above the piazza of the K21 Ständehaus, Saraceno has suspended a net construction within which visitors can move, apparently weightlessly. This highly contemporary safety net, which covers altogether 2500 m², spreads itself out across three levels below the massive glass cupola of the K21. The levels are held apart from one another by a series of “spheres,” airfilled PVC balls measuring up to 8.5 meters in diameter.
Die Konstruktion aus Stahlnetzen, die in drei Ebenen unter der gewaltigen Glaskuppel aufgespannt ist, schwebt in mehr als 25 Metern Höhe über der Piazza des K21. Innerhalb der insgesamt 2.500 Quadratmeter umfassenden Netzstruktur sind ein halbes Dutzend "Sphären", luftgefüllte Kugeln von bis zu 8,50 Metern Durchmesser, platziert. Besucher können die transparente Installation betreten und sich auf den drei Ebenen zwischen den Kugeln frei bewegen.
Another one from the Olympic Park at the end of August.Was nearly too slow and didn't think I had the shot with this one but had seen a few planes flying across when walking around the Arcelor Mittal Orbit, the UK's tallest sculpture built for the 2012 Olympics. Designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond, I didn't go up but at 80 metres tall the views are supposed to be great.At the end of a rainy period in the UK this was another blip where the sun shone strong so in the right place at the right time in more ways than one.
As those at BFVA got a chance to see first hand, CAC has some new colors available and will be posted later today.
These are just some of the combos I was playing around with. ^_^
I was lucky enough to get tickets to see some athletics at the stadium in Straford. As I was leaving I quickly to this, not perefect but I love the sky here!
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Inspired by Gordon MacKenzie's book "Orbiting the Giant Hairball." Either that or I just wanted to play.