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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
The first Space Shuttle orbiter, Enterprise is a full-scale test vehicle used for flights in the atmosphere and tests on the ground. Officially designated Orbiter Vehicle 101 (OV-101), Enterprise is not equipped for spaceflight. It has no propulsion systems and only simulated thermal tiles.
In 1977 Enterprise completed approach and landing tests at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California: It was flown atop a Boeing 747 carrier airplane and also released for piloted descents to check out its systems and performance. It later underwent launch vibration tests and fit checks at other NASA centers. Although Enterprise never flew in space, it introduced a new era in space transportation and was the flagship for a fleet of reusable shuttles. The Smithsonian acquired Enterprise in 1985.
This is a Star Wars Space Junker. It is the ship that comes in after the Separtist and the Republic get done fighting and salvige the battle.
One of a photo collection taken at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Ariznoa. They have an amazing collection, and a friendly and knowledgeable staff. We had a great day there with the whole family. The kids love it… and so do the grown-ups. I had not been since I was a child… anyway. I hope you enjoy the image.
After 20 years in service and distance traveled of 122 million miles, Space Shuttle Endeavour flying for the last time. Truly a bittersweet moment
Torre localizada na cidade de Seattle no estado de Washington nos Estados Unidos.
Existe um restaurante excelente nesta torre. O restaurante gira 360 graus no intervalo de 1 hora. Vale a pena.
ZEN MAGNETS - Neodymium Magnetic Balls (@432) - Space Cruiser Korellus
Testing out the new weapons system on an approaching earth menace ... an asteroid the size of Texas about to enter the atmosphere ... particle weapon vaporization test complete ... danger averted !
Video : www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW8eI2anaKM
Lighting Effects: Multi-color LED flashlight and red and green lasers ... all shots done in camera ... meaning no post -processing done on the shots.
This 2-Set design was fashioned using a central parallel rigid stick method with layering and adding details projecting outward from the center ... building up layers and shapes with smaller additions using pinch and slide into place techniques and on the fly symmetric sculpting. This baby will be hard to duplicate and tear down since I didn't document the build steps as I went. Sorry, no tutorial. Perhaps I could make some build steps in the future.
The 432 magnet limit proved to be a challenge to get enough distinctive definition in the overall shape. This craft was designed on-the-fly, without any reference material to go by.
Slight variation from the previous shots: the two squares on the rear body section between the fin sections are rotated to straight instead of diagonal.
This was created for the Zen Magnets Contest 18: Two Set Spaceship ...
Neptune’s moon Triton is a fascinating object of great scientific interest. When Voyager flew by it was, with a surface temperature of 33 K, the coldest body yet found in our Solar System and had volcanic activity and geysers.
Because of Tritons retrograde orbit and its composition similar to Pluto's Triton is thought to have been a dwarf planet "captured" from the Kuiper belt. This means that Triton might be KBO (Kuiper Belt Object), a leftover building block of the solar system.
Hence, a mission to explore Neptune's largest moon would provide insight in to one of the least understood and most interesting kinds of bodies in the solar system because it contains material from the outer solar system, and thus allows the study of the composition of areas of the primordial solar system that are relatively unchanged by thermal alteration processes that occur nearer to the Sun.
Of particular interest are surface deposits of tholins, organic compounds that may be precursor chemicals to the origin of life, formed by solar ultraviolet irradiation or cosmic rays from simple carbon-containing compounds such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane(CH4) or ethane (C2H6), often in combination with nitrogen (N2). Tholins are not present on the surfaces of inner solar system bodies but ubiquitous on the larger KBOs. These organic deposits may hold keys to the biochemical origin of life.
In addition to its interest as a KBO, Triton is also geological active. During a flyby, Voyager's camera captured from a distance of about 99,900 kilometres eruptions near the Tritons south pole, shooting dark particles up to 8 km high into Triton's thin atmosphere. These geysers may be a link to a hypothesized subsurface ocean. Each eruption of Tritons geysers may last up to a year, driven by the sublimation of about 100 million cubic metres of nitrogen ice.
The only detailed information we have about the surface of Triton is from the Voyager 2 fly-by in 1989, which only imaged one hemisphere of the moon. But the 40% of Tritons surface images by Voyager 2 show icy plains, craters, valleys and ridges, which may be the result of tectonic activity and icy volcanism.
55% of Triton's surface is covered with frozen nitrogen, with water ice comprising 15–35% and dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) forming the remaining 10–20%. The surface also shows deposits of tholins.
It is also believed that an ammonia-rich water ocean exists beneath the icy surface.
As an analysis of the crater density have shown, Tritons surface is very young, with regions varying from an estimated 50 million years old to just an estimated 6 million years old.
Triton is one of the few moons with a thin, but noticeable nitrogen atmosphere, which extends 800 kilometres above its surface. Tritons atmosphere is mainly composed of nitrogen, the two other known components are CH4 and CO. Other possible components of the Triton's atmosphere are argon and neon, but since they were not detected by Voyager 2 their abundances are unlikely to exceed a few percents. Tritons upper atmosphere contains significant amounts of molecular and atomic hydrogen, which is produced by the photolysis of methane.
A few kilometres above the surface, within the troposphere, nitrogen ice particles form clouds in the Moon’s troposphere, which rises to an altitude of about 8 km.
Tritons surface temperature is about 38 K, but it most likely increased by 1 K due to global warming as Triton approaches the southern-hemisphere summer. A season on Triton lasts a little over 40 years, and Triton passed the southern summer solstice in 2000.
I went to my first ever Sydney Easter Show. Not knowing much about the show - I assumed it was all farm animals and showbags... I wasn't expecting Psycho Sideshow of Anarchy...
The 19th of 25 sketch cards done for Space:1999, Series II trading card series by Unstoppable Cards.
?, as portrayed by ?, from Space: 1999 created by Gerry and Silvia Anderson in 1973
© ITC Entertainment Group
Sketch card
July 2o18
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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.
My time in Seattle is up, I will return to Vancouver this weekend. Looking forward to being back, but I will miss Seattle. I had a great 2 months here.
As 2012 began, so too did the fireworks off the Space Needle also celebrating its 50th anniversary in Seattle, Washington. This time-lapse image was captured with a tripod supporting a homemade panoramic nodal bracket holding the DSLR (digital single lens reflex) camera with vertical grip vertically set at ISO 400 and f/22 using a wide-angle zoom lens (12 to 24).
GPS: Approximate location, latitude 47° 37' 9.73" N, longitude 122° 20' 57.28" W.
Keywords: Structures, Landscape, Night, and USA.
Space Shuttle Exhibit - Restoration staff move the Space Shuttle Exhibit(CCT) into the new fourth building.jpg at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on Oct. 22, 2015.
This is an artist concept of a close-up view of Saturn's ring particles.
The planet Saturn is seen in the background (yellow and brown). The
particles (blue) are composed mostly of ice, but are not uniform. They
clump together to form elongated, curved aggregates, continually forming
and dispersing. The space between the clumps is mostly empty. The largest
individual particles shown are a few meters (yards) across. Image by Marty
Peterson, based on a 1984 image by William K. Hartmann. Hartmann's image
illustrated early research by Stuart Weidenschilling and co-workers at the
Planetary Science Insitute, on dynamical ephemeral bodies in Saturn's rings.
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 was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The
ultraviolet imaging spectrograph was designed and built at, and the team
is based at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The ultraviolet imaging spectrograph team home
page is at lasp.colorado.edu/cassini.
credit: NASA/JPL/University of Colorado