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According the online information,
the first footprints put on the moon will probably be there a long, long time — maybe almost as long as the moon itself lasts.
Unlike on Earth, there is no erosion by wind or water on the moon because it has no atmosphere and all the water on the surface is frozen as ice. Also, there is no volcanic activity on the moon to change the lunar surface features. Nothing gets washed away, and nothing gets folded back inside.
However, the Moon is exposed to bombardment by meteorites, which change the surface. One little space rock could easily wipe out a footprint on the moon. And since the Moon has no atmosphere, it is exposed to the solar wind, a stream of charged particles coming from the sun, and over time this acts almost like weather on Earth to scour surfaces on the moon, but the process is very, very slow.
It's nice out and it's Friday night so you really don't want to look at photos of bands on a screen, do you? Well, I don't know..maybe that's your favorite thing like how I love cats and psychedelic music and Indian food. Maybe that's how you feel about concert photography. Hm. Not sure.
Funny story...when I shot Coachella one year, this band called The Lumineers was playing. I had waited all weekend to shoot them because I mixed them up with The Lumerians. The Lumerians are from a galaxy far far away. They are space aliens that play psychedelic music that some people call "space rock" but I mean, that's a no-brainer because THEY ARE FROM OUTER SPACE PEOPLE HELLO!?! Other people just settle for saying it's indescribable which I like even better. Any time you admit human language has failed you, you're ready to join a psychedelic alien band yourself (probably).
I digress. The Lumineers are actually not from a different planet. They are very much from planet Earth and have unfortunately been a part of several mainstream transmissions that people listen to convincing themselves they have taste.
So, I was encouraging everyone I knew to go photograph this great band, The Lumineers, because I mixed them up with The Lumerians and when I got into the photopit, I was like "Who the h*!@ are these people?!" So, suffice it to say I didn't take a single photograph because I don't take photos of bands I don't like. I mean, generally speaking...if I was being held up by Russian KGB agents and they told me "Take photos of The Lumineers or you will DIE!" I honestly think I'd choose photographing them over death. I can't say it wouldn't be close, though, because you know, reality.
Did I mention you should get outside and not click this link to listen to The Lumerians? Ok, so go ahead and don't not do that now or later or sometime. It doesn't matter really though because we're all just drifting through a black hole anyway. In an alternate reality, neither The Lumineers nor Donald Trump nor mainstream radio exists and we all eat Indian food and listen to psychedelic music with cats on our laps every day.
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Leftovers from many previous groups and, also, from a previous age, these old friends (Irrational Numbers) still play cutting edge rock and roll.
Today my son and I went to see our rocket launch buddy Steve Jurvetson at Future Ventures in Los Altos, California. He turned his venture capital office into a space museum, which more than doubled in size since I took a video a year ago. Today I took take two, I'll post the video later on YouTube.
Besides space artifacts from Gemini to Apollo to SpaceX, Steve also collects rocks from outer space. I am holding a Mars rock in my hand! How cool is that?
How did it get to Earth? A big meteor crashes into Mars, which jettisons rocks into space. Some fall back onto Mars, some orbit around the sun. And this rock got caught by the gravity of Earth and hit the ground. Imagine the odds of this happening! This rock is more rare than diamonds.
How can they verify that this rock is really from Mars? Mars rovers analyzed rocks, and sent the data back to Earth. Each celestial object has a typical signature of elemental and isotopic composition, and this rock is a match for Mars. In addition, Mars landers and rovers measured the composition of gases in the atmosphere. This rock has gases trapped in tiny holes, which match the atmosphere of Mars.
See Steve's notes on his Mars rock: flic.kr/p/Dyq6AX
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The photo shows Mercedes Lalakakis, the bassist of the German rock band Daily Thompson. They play great sounds between alternative and grunge, stoner riffs and spacerock anthems, marvellous to listen to if you love guitar rock.
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On the night of June 17, 2006 Eugene Eubanks was watching Judge Judy VHS tapes in preparation for his entrance into Ole Miss Law school. Suddenly he heard a shattering noise behind him. In the kitchen floor of his mobile home he discovered a smoldering hole in the linoleum. Dust drifted down from a corresponding hole in the ceiling. Eugene grabbed his shotgun and scurried outside, believing he was under mortar fire from Al-Qaeda or LSU.
The crickets began to chirp in the muggy summer night, and Eugene went back inside to continue his legal research. The next morning he became curious and crawled underneath his mobile home to find what had passed through it. In a crater in the dust he found a strange rock, still warm from it's intergalactic travels.
Eugene placed the rock on a shelf inside his trailer and decided to invite in the tourist trade. He dubbed the dense meteorite "Space Rock #1" and invested his savings in Ronco meteorite attracting panels throughout his property in hopes he would receive another stone from space. Unfortunately no further rocks fell from space and Eugene finally resolved to enter law school. In 2015, he became the twenty-third person to receive a certificate in Remote Sensing, Air, and Space Law from the University of Mississippi School of Law.
With his new credentials, Eugene returned to Manigotapi to open the Manigotapi Space Rock Observatory and Research Facility. In the shed out back he gives legal advice and performs tooth extractions. Eugene endeavors to someday go into space to collect his own rocks, thereby expediting the growth of his research facility.
We're Here! : Rocks, gems, pebbles, & stones
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i know the Flaming Lips are known for their live shows and i tried to refrain from looking at other photos of them. But I came across the one where he's inside the ball so that kind of spoiled it but i still was pretty impressed at the entire spectacle. The crowd wasn't as into the Lips as i thought they would be - not sure if it had anything to do with playing in between the Hip and Tom Petty.
They played "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Part 1" - awesome.
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer tweeted this photograph from the International Space Station on June 3, 2017, writing, "Never had a corner office with a view, but I must admit, I like it… a lot! #SpaceRocks"
Fischer, a member of the 2009 astronaut class now on his first mission in space, has been living and working aboard the orbiting laboratory since April 20, 2017 and is scheduled to return to Earth in September. The Expedition 52 crew is conducting science investigations in fields such as biology, Earth science, human research, physical sciences and technology development.
Image Credit: NASA
Shot taken For Saturday Self Challenge 28/08/2021 - Pick Two .
So I have picked from group A -- Curved/Round
and from group B -- Jewellery .
A new item recently purchased from Jewellery Maker ( a TV shopping channel ) and it is called a Universe Bead Pendant
( see first comment box ).
Well being called something like that got the mind racing and quite quickly a shot was captured - biggest issue was reflections of the illuminating light under the spotlight and other reflections taking the shot outside under sunlight . After a shot to fit the bill I put it through SerifCraftArtist cut out programme and allowed it to be not a perfect cut out and over laid the image onto a macro of another gemstone with many speckles within it's body . So we see one Universe within another Universe - however , this promts the question ---- . Is our universe just the atoms and molecules of an even larger Universe and then are we made up of tiny tiny Universes within ourselves ?? And continuing in this train of thought - from a couple of simple macro shots , we now find ourselves traveling the vast realms of space and time !! Getting into the realms of my brain hurts thinking about these theories so let us unwind with a bit of Space-Rock and Hawkwind with " Master of the Universe " - think this was made just before Lemmy did his stint with the band . Some of you advert junkies may recognise this track as being used for the Ford B-Max - the car with no B-Pillars and some one diving through the car into a swimming pool !!
Time for Lift Off---
Now dive into the advert --------
The rocks appear to be from Saturn or Jupiter or somewhere out of this world. Interestingly enough they were found along the Southern Oregon Coast.
I love working with finds like this. Behind me was a beautiful landscape scene yet sometimes it's the intimate abstract comps that pull you in. I played with this set for 20 to 30 minutes before I was happy with what I would walk away with. This was the final comp before putting my camera away.
Nikon F90x
Nikon AF NIKKOR 50mm 1:1.4 D
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Tetenal Colortec C-41, 4:00 minutes @ 38℃
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019
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Flying Saucer Attack
Various CD albums, compilations and CDEPs.
All original CD issues not reissues.
Flying Saucer Attack is an English experimental space rock band formed in Bristol in 1992, led by songwriter David Pearce. Rachel Brook (now Rachel Coe) of Movietone was a member during the band's early incarnation; other musicians contributing to the group's recordings and live performances included Rocker (ex-the Flatmates), Matt Elliott (aka the Third Eye Foundation) and Sam Jones (of Crescent).
Drawing on krautrock, folk and dream pop, the group referred to their DIY sound as "rural psychedelia" and were associated with bands of the contemporary post-rock and shoegazing scenes. The band was able to create a small but enthusiastic fanbase, and were notable for recording most of their output at home, avoiding recording studios. (Source: Wikipedia)
Only 17 left, win one of these #spacerocks patches. Next chance Tuesday at 19:00 GMT: www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Principia/sp...
Credits: ESA/NASA
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*** David Gilmour Art. 🎤🎼🎨💖🎵🎶🎸
🎵...There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves...🎶
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Hawkwind at Rock City on 9/8/2024. Rumours suggest it might be their final tour, I first saw them in 1972 and many times since.
My friends from leftover bands from the 70's and 80's have been playing again, this time at The Circle Bar in New Orleans. This is Randy, here showing the young people in the audience how to dial up some deamons...:)
They now call themselves, "Irrational #'s"
Pink Floyd / The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Side one:
- "Astronomy Domine" - 4:12
- "Lucifer Sam" - 3:07
- "Matilda Mother" - 3:08
- "Flaming" - 2:46
- "Pow R. Toc H."(Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason) - 4:26
- "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" (Roger Waters) - 3:05
Side two:
- "Interstellar Overdrive" (Barrett, Waters, Wright, Mason) - 9:41
- "The Gnome" - 2:13
- "Chapter 24" - 3:42
- "The Scarecrow" - 2:11
- "Bike" - 3:21
(All songs written and composed by Syd Barrett unless otherwise noted.)
Syd Barrett – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion, vocals
Roger Waters – bass guitar; slide whistle, percussion, gong, vocals
Richard Wright – Farfisa Combo Compact organ, piano, tack piano, Hammond organ, harmonium, celesta , cello, Lowrey organ, vibraphone, Hohner Pianet, violin, percussion, vocals
Nick Mason – drums, percussion
Recorded: February – May 1967 at EMI Studio, London
sleeve design: cover photography by Vic Singh
(Vic Singh was hired to photograph the band for the album cover. Singh shared a studio with photographer David Bailey, and he was friends with Beatles guitarist George Harrison. Singh asked Jenner and King to dress the band in the brightest clothes they could find. Vic Singh then shot them with a prism lens that Harrison had given him. The cover was meant to resemble an LSD trip, a style that was favoured at the time. In 2017, the lens was displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, as part of the Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains exhibition.)
Label: EMI Records / 1967
ex Vinyl-Collection MTP
More Hawkwind fuelled OCD LP from the classic '75 "Warrior On The Edge Of Time" album.
Hit L for audience space flight participation.
LED Eddie's photos on Flickriver
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBKcl4qLiPE
Check out Nik Turner's sax from 3:24 !
The golden void speaks to me
Denying my reality
I lose my body, lose my mind,
I blow like wind, Flow like wine
Down a corridor of flame,
Will I fly so high again
Is there something wrong with me,
I cannot hear, I cannot see
Down a corridor of flame
Down a corridor of flame
Down a corridor of flame
Down a corridor of flame
So you think the time is past,
The life you lead will always last
Chaotic fusions of your soul,
Down below that rocky knowle
Through the clouds an open sky,
The wind flows through your watering eyes
The sounds are pitched to draw you on
Your never ending journey on
The edge of time,
On the edge of time,
On the edge of time
On the edge of time
On the edge of time
On the edge of time
The edge of time
I was not standing on the edge of time, but in a home made light tunnel balanced on the end of a jetty so as to avoid spark fall on the floor in front of me. The decision to sport a full face pig mask was questionable as it only increased the risk of a dunking in a frozen lake miles from anywhere ! The set up was excruciating to say the least. CWB of 5560K to richen it up.
... NoWave,garage inter(cellar) post rock, atonal punk, somewhat discordant, experimetal, intergalactic improv, funfunfunk, music therapy from/for the soul...
Members: Alex G, Todd S, GL3 (and occasional guest players Jen O and such..)
Genre: No-wave garage spacerock improv situationist post-rock avant-garde punksters
Hometown: Portland, OR
ESA’s plans to deploy a network of asteroid-detecting ‘Flyeye’ telescopes has come one step closer to reality. Last week, the Agency signed an agreement with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to locate the first-ever Flyeye telescope atop the 1865-metre Monte Mufara mountain in Sicily.
The revolutionary Flyeye design is similar to that of a fly’s compound eye — it uses multiple cameras and optics, splitting a section of the sky into 16 smaller images, to expand the telescope’s field of view.
This telescope, nestled within the building in the artist’s illustration above, will be the first in a potential network of four telescopes across the globe, that together will have the ability to run nightly surveys of the entire sky, automatically scanning for near-Earth objects — potentially hazardous space rocks that could impact our planet.
With this agreement, ASI becomes responsible for developing the overall infrastructure going to the site — including the access road and power, water and data links — and ESA will deliver the telescope itself and prepare the building, including the telescope dome and associated structures.
In early 2016, ESA awarded a contract for the development of the Flyeye telescope to a consortium led by OHB Italy, in Milan, with the participation of industry from seven European countries.
Credit: ESA
Two small fragments of Northwest Africa 7831 Diogenite meteorite. The larger fragment weighs 0.55 grams.
For scale, the black cube has sides of 1 cm.
Found: Saguia el Hamra, Western Sahara, March 2013.
[Latitude: 27.307°N, Longitude: 12.083°W].
Classification: Diogenite.
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The Northwest Africa 7831 meteorite (NWA 7831) was found buried in the ground near Chouichiyat, Saguia el Hamra, Western Sahara in March 2013.
[Latitude: 27.307°N, Longitude: 12.083°W].
The single large mass (weighing at least 20 kg) was composed of yellow-green crystalline material with pale orange weathering products along numerous fractures. However, on excavation from the ground, much of the material disintegrated into fragments.
According to the Meteoritical Bulletin, NWA 7831 is composed almost entirely of translucent, yellow-green orthopyroxene with very sparse, tiny included grains of Ni-free metal, troilite, chromite, anorthite, silica polymorph and clinopyroxene. Secondary pale orange, clay-like deposits from terrestrial weathering are present along thin fractures.
The Meteoritical Bulletin gives the following geochemistry for NWA 7831:
Orthopyroxene (Fs 28.1 - 28.3 Wo 3.0 - 3.3; FeO/MnO = 29 - 31), clinopyroxene (Fs 10.9 Wo 43.1, FeO/MnO = 26).
NWA 7831 is classified as HED achondrite (Diogenite).
Shock stage: low
Weathering grade: moderate.
Diogenites are a type of achondrite (i.e. without chondrules) meteorite believed to originate from deep within the crust of an asteroid, most probably asteroid '4 Vesta'. As such they are part of the HED (howardite - Eucrite - diogenite) meteorite clan.
Diogenites are composed of igneous rocks that have slowly solidified deep within the asteroid's crust, forming crystals that are larger than in eucrites.
In camera double trouble with a crop.
Classic Hawkwind track from the '73 Space Ritual LP featuring Lemmy before he was unceremoniously dropped from the line-up to form the legend that is Motorhead.
Hit L to enter space rock mode and crank up the volume to lose yourself in this 10min cerebral journey.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhWArBhPWu0
"I've got an Orgone Accumulator
It makes me feel greater
I'll see you sometime later
When I'm through with my Accumulator
It's no social integrator
It's a one man isolator
It's a back brain stimulator
It's a cerebral vibrator
Those energy stimulators
Turn your eyeballs into crators
But an Orgone Accumulator
Is a superman creator
It's no social integrator
It's a one man isolator
It's a back brain stimulator
It's a cerebral vibrator
I've got an Orgone Accumulator
And it makes me feel greater
I'll see you sometime later
When I'm through with my Accumulator"
Dave Brock and Robert Calvert.
Being a bounty-hunter can be a be hard work, it is not just shooting and hunting, bombing and tracking, not only fast speed flight through astroid-field and so on...
there is a lot of calculation needed, what size of speeder can I afford and how much soup does it drink and also calculations like is it worth going all the way to Andromeda for 100.000 kredits? you will have to make budgets and calculations, some hire an accountant but this is also an expense that will have to be calculated (hopefully not by another accountant)
Most Bounty-hunters call all this part of their work for "Paper-time" still most of their time is actually out on the field, most are syndicated some are freelancers and some are parts of guilds and unions...
Most B-H´s are free on Sat & Sun or have an extra taxation-rate when working on their normally free days, the B-H Unions have seen to this...
So on Fridays most B-H are happy to have a free weekend and often celebrate together with other B-H´s at small exclusive B-H Clubs or guild bars, in the Aganon B-sector it is Often the minor planet known as the hard Space-rock Café here they can drink while droids service their ships and speeders while their owners brag and gossip about old glories or what happened last week...
we have place a small spy-drone-fly on an un-CTV protected spot... Let´s hear some genuine B-H´s talk...
- So Screw-Boink I promise you this is the truth, and nothing but the truth and if I am lying may the B-H patron saint strike me down with a evaporator-laser smack in my eye-head...
- Hey Iball stop making a five day poem about the truthfulness of you claims and get to the point tell us the story an let us be the judge if there is any truth to the story...
- Ok, so I was looking for this lost star-pilot, the Pink one, the contract was about 100k Kreds! so I was really eager to find this lost dot... so I looked on a space-map on where she was last spotted... and it was close to a planet I once visited where a group of male-human cavemen lived, well human males that want to go back to the primitive way of life they think their ancestors the dinosaurs lived...
- Ok, so did you find her there?
- Yeah tell us, please!!!
- Yes, I found her crashed ship on this very planet, and I looked about, saw some smoke from some huts further away so I went there...
- Ok, What happened then??
- Was the human Pilot there?
- Well I went up to the largest hut and peeked inside, my jawless-face dropped my jaw, the most horrible sight I have ever seen reached my eye, they were all naked and connected inside, I don´t like the sight of humans fully clothed but this was so revolting I still feel noxious and ill...
- So You got the reward? for finding her???
- No I didn´t, well not yet, because when I was standing there peeping like an uncle what do you call it? Tom!!!
Yes Tom... well when I stood there all the sudden the female was missing, so I was gonna turn to see where she was, but then I found a gun pressed to my eye, she had gotten dressed and like a Ninja-turtle moved in the darkness and caught me by surprise!
- So what happened then, obviously she didn´t kill you??? or did she?
- Yes what did she do? what did she do???
- Well she said: I Know why you are here, but I am sorry dear Bh-Friend I am not ready to return yet, I kind of like this planet, they worship me here... I am gonna make a deal with you, Her is a personal Id-contactor, I will call you when I feel bored with these males and then you can have the money for finding me... if you agree I will let you live and if you don´t, yeah well you get it...
- Ok, so what did you do???
- Well I agreed off cause and now you guys think that I am stupid enough to tell you where I found her!!! ha, ha, ha but I am more clever than that, I have boobytrapped the only path to this planet... so I can assure you that anyone trying to steal my bounty is gonna die for certain...
then you ask, how??? well, I am not telling you... ha, ha, ha...
- I don´t even believe in this story, why would a single woman want to spend all that time with human dinosaurs...
- Yeah, they will only force her to lay eggs and sit on them until they hatch that is why human women don´t like to reproduce... I have heard that from a victim I kidnapped and she was half-human!!!
The legendary sax player of Hawkwind fame who sadly passed this week, here with the Hawklords at HRH Prog VIII, at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, on 27 October 2019.
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