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Earlier this year, the the city of Malargüe in Argentina held their annual Spring Festival with music concerts, traditional food and a parade.
The week prior to the event, there was a workshop for people interested in wall painting – ‘murales’ in Spanish. On a lovely spring morning, many people – mostly groups of school students – began working on their murales, to be drawn on certain walls where the owners had granted permission.
When the day was done, one of the walls was finished with a wonderful painting showing a satellite together with ESA’s 35 m-diameter deep-space tracking station, opened in December 2012 and sitting just a few kilometres outside the city.
The student artists who created this ‘space mural’ called themselves the ‘Trio Payun’, comprising Hugo Orlando Aravena, Lucas Martin Cerda and Iván Garcia y Ramos, all from the Escuela 3-034 Maestro Julio Andrés Mercado school, Malargüe. The team worked under the supervision of an adult, Omar Riquelme.
The painting includes the students’ initials, as well as the messages ‘Naturaleza y desarrollo’ (Nature and development) and ‘Cuidemosla’ (Let’s take care of it!).
The trio said their artistic aim was to, “Show the economy, flora, fauna and also the ‘big importance’ that this place has for the people of Malargüe.”
Congratulations and sincere thanks to the artists for their excellent work!
Credit: ESA/Telespazio Argentina S.A./Federico Romero
The Cassini spacecraft surveys Saturn's outstretched ring system in the
infrared from a vantage point high above the planet's northern latitudes.
Nearly the full expanse of the main rings is visible here -- from the C
ring to the outer edge of the A ring (in the upper left corner).
Ring shadows are visible on the planet at lower left, and two large storms
swirl near center.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 52
degrees above the ringplane.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using a
combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light
centered at 752 (red channel), 890 (blue channel) and 728 (green channel)
nanometers. The view was acquired on April 5, 2007 at a distance of
approximately 1.4 million kilometers (900,000 miles) from Saturn. Image
scale is 81 kilometers (51 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at ciclops.org.
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
On the wreck of a merchant spaceship, lies in wait a dastardly pirate... Ready to steal off any scavengers who want his prize!
For the Eurobricks Space Pirate Contest, it was built in conjunction with Phred's classic pirate set on the same topic: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=108865
Generally pretty satisfied with it, it's very different to other stuff I've made and it was fun adding the ATV, rock, and figures to make it more like a set. There's a light-up brick in the engine block, which is a V8 - who says space ships have nothing to learn from muscle cars?
Made my first visit to Warhammer World in around 15-16 years. It’s safe to say it has changed a lot. I wish I had had my camera with me but my phone came to the rescue. I love the heroic stature/scale of the old Space Marine models, it carries a certain nostalgia for me.
It was my second time out with Jackie Grundy in her new wheelchair. The building and exhibition was accessible and the staff were helpful. It was a learning experience but most importantly it was a nice day out with my Mother 😊
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
The artwork in the Out of Order Exhibit was created in a warehouse for a one day, one time exhibit in Santa Rosa, CA. The exhibit was free and the crowds were part of the experience. They came and went, stopping to admire, petting a dog, sitting and talking. It was a community event.
I liked this upper room for the lighting challenge it posed, a single harsh light in one corner and a window to the larger space.
Catalog #: 08_00834
Title: Space Shuttle Program
Date: 1981-2010
Additional Information: shows an example of a mission control room
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
A busy time for ESA’s ESTEC Test Centre in the Netherlands, seen in this vintage photo from March 1977.
The first Italian telecommunications satellite, SIRIO-1 (Satellite Italiano per la Ricerca Industriale Orientata), is seen about to be placed in the Test Centre’s Heat Balance Facility 2 – the cylindrical thermal vacuum chamber laying open behind it.
The 400-kg satellite went on to be launched into geostationary orbit by a US Delta 2312 launcher in August that year. SIRIO-1 tested novel frequency bands from orbit for commercial use, helping pave the way for Europe’s telecom satellite industry.
Historical space photographs and publications from 1977 have just been added to ESA’s Space Heritage Image Project, SHIP. Collections from extra years are being added every few months, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of European cooperation in space.
In 1964 the first European space organisations were founded: ELDO (the European Launcher Development Organisation) and ESRO (the European Space Research Organisation). These forerunners of ESA were merged after just over a decade, in 1975, to form today’s European Space Agency.
Credits: ESA - S. Burden / P. Sjoedin
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
Model: Gisele "Alandria"
Cosplay: Ulala
From: Space Channel 5
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The water wall at the old skyway building, colorfully lit up at night. The colors are constantly changing, so just wait for the colors you like best and snap away. I love Tomorrowland at night, it has wonderful theming.
With Smoking Tongue and Late City Edition - Live review can be read on www.giggingni.com - Photos by Robert J E Simpson
Space Needle with MoPOP: Museum of Pop Culture (formerly, EMP: Experience Music Project) in the foreground.
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I asked my guitar building friends to help inspire an automotive art project. I asked Chris Szarek to give me a decade or a year and he suggested the 80s because he said he’s stuck in the 80s. (He really is!) Next I asked Alex Moll to come up with an automotive make and model. He said, well since Chris picked the 80s can I be greedy and suggest my 1989 Ford F-150 4x4 short bed? I said yepper. Lastly I asked Nancy Wilson Chang to suggest a theme and she definitely didn’t disappoint with “Space Vikings”. This led me to researching 80s movie posters, the art of Frank Frazetta and, just for good measure, a few Motörhead album covers. I went with an arctic blue paint scheme for the truck and installed a catapult in the bed. The traction on the tires makes the truck reminiscent of a siege weapon. A Nordic boar graphic adorns the side while massive pipes and a snarling red-eyed skull makes it an over-the-top hellish ride. Add a rugged fiery space landscape, throw in a few mighty Vikings, planets and pterodactyls, add my guitar building friend’s names into the credits and you have yourselves the makings of what clearly would have been the best 80s movie in the history of the world ever. Suck it, E.T.!