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A double upload of a dowitcher (never quite sure how to decide long- vs short-billed) feeding in the marsh at Coyote Hills Regional Park.
Anish Kapoor's Marsyas, a massive sculpture running along the length of the turbine hall of Tate Modern, back in 2002.
With her Air-to-Air refuelling probe deployed and the airbrakes and gear retracting, prototype Panavia Tornado F.2 ZA254 cleans-up after a 'down and dirty pass' at the 1980 Farnborough SBAC Airshow..
The F.2 was the specially developed ADV (Air Defence Variant) for the UK Air Defence role replacing the RAF's ageing Phantoms.
Beset with initial radar issues, the F.2 became the F.3 and was highly successful before being superceded by the BAE Eurofighter Typhoon.
Scanned 35mm Transparency
The final sections of the Meta Probe are the Engineering Modules and the Reactor Module. There are two Engineering Modules: the first is for the ship’s environmental control systems and the second is the ship’s navigation and propulsion control systems. The last module is for the Probe's propulsion control and monitoring. Given the design and layout, I assumed that each rocket pod had its own engine. These could be fusion-type nuclear reactors or electric-ion engines. Clearly, the Probe needs to be capable of high-speed space travel, such as hundreds of kilometres per second, in order to reach the planet Meta at the edge of our solar system in a matter of months. Deciding on a final method of propulsion is difficult!
The Meta Probe was only seen in the first episode “Breakaway.” It was intended to send two astronauts to the planet Meta. There is not a lot of information on the probe so what follows is my interpretation of the Space: 1999 spaceship based upon the episode dialogue and the sparse notes scattered across the internet.
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy common booster core is about to be offloaded from the company's Mariner ship at Port Canaveral in Florida. The Delta IV Heavy will launch NASA's upcoming Parker Solar Probe mission. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize our understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection. Liftoff atop the Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled to take place from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 37 in summer 2018.
Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
Darkday explores and probes deep into the underground via the Rose Bush brick storm drain which lies under beautiful Brisbane. She loves to take photos of her underground exploring
A pair of small multi-purpose, single-use unmanned probes designed to glide through a planet's atmosphere, analyzing the atmosphere and weather, and taking survey images on the way down before crashing in an undignified supersonic way.
Just a couple little scraps I threw together a while back...
Custom model of the famous Viper probe droid better known as the imperial probe droid.
This MOC has 5 arms, which is the correct number, unlike the officiel set which has 6 arms.
Underneath the panels are the module equipment and computers. I thought that each control unit might be a separate unit that could be added and removed as needed. Therefore, the design had to accommodate for this. In this image, you can see the orange-coloured environmental control computers and blue-coloured navigation/propulsion control computers on the top and the various other computer and control equipment slotted into the side. Again, I “dressed up” the functional connecting elements and made them part of the design.
I certainly wasn't expecting to see this, or the Granada behind it. This picture also shows some of the other more interesting cars here - at least 3 Mk3 Polos, Mk3 Astra estate, a couple of Mk2 Astras... Certainly worth a re-visit at some point.
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Crediti: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher - Processing Elisabetta Bonora / Marco Faccin / aliveuniverse.today