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Here is another photo from Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park. It was of these cliffs that the native used to run the buffalo off in order to kill them. Today I bask in the morning sun instead.
Our final morning in the Badlands turned out to be the best to photograph. The clouds were cooperating, most of the fog had burned off and the temperature was nice.
This is really a bizarre place to hike. Walking down in ravines and valleys. It kind of felt like we were on another planet. It was so quiet and peaceful with no one in sight. Luckily the official trails were marked with red sticks every few hundred feet. You can loose your bearings very quickly as everything looks the same.
Per Wiki... Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water. They are characterized by steep slopes, minimal vegetation, lack of a substantial regolith, and high drainage density. They can resemble malpaís, a terrain of volcanic rock. Canyons, ravines, gullies, buttes, mesas, hoodoos and other such geologic forms are common in badlands. They are often difficult to navigate by foot. Badlands often have a spectacular color display that alternates from dark black/blue coal stria to bright clays to red scoria.
I composed this image during a road trip to southeast Alberta, Canada. It pictures the Red Deer River Valley as it runs through the Alberta Badlands.
Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded. They are characterized by steep slopes, minimal vegetation, lack of a substantial regolith (he layer of loose rock resting on bedrock, constituting the surface of most land), and high drainage density. Ravines, gullies, buttes, hoodoos and other such geologic forms are common in badlands.
The Red Deer River headwaters start in the Rocky Mountains of Banff National Park near Lake Louise, Alberta. The river is fed primarily by snow melt, only minimally by glacial melt, and has numerous inflowing tributaries. It is truly an Alberta born river – as soon as it crosses the Saskatchewan border it flows into the South Saskatchewan River, which becomes part of the Hudson Bay Watershed.
The river is named for the translation of a native term for the river, wâwâskêsiw sîpiy, which means "elk river" in the Cree language. "Red deer" was an alternative name for elk.
Badlands National park its dramatic landscapes span layered Rock formations, streep canyons and tavering spires
Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded.[1] They are characterized by steep slopes, minimal vegetation, lack of a substantial regolith, and high drainage density.[2] Ravines, gullies, buttes, hoodoos and other such geologic forms are common in badlands.
Badlands is een landschapsvorm, gekenmerkt door een sterk geërodeerde, uit klei bestaande ondergrond, voornamelijk in semi-woestijngebieden. Erosie door water en wind hebben tot gevolg dat in badlands geologische formaties als canyons, ravijnen en hoodoos veelvuldig voorkomen.
I composed this photograph during a recent road trip to the Horse Thief Canyon, a badlands area in southeast Alberta, Canada. In it, I attempted to portray artistic aspects of badlands topography.
Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded. They are characterized by steep slopes, minimal vegetation, lack of a substantial regolith, and high drainage density. Ravines, gullies, buttes, hoodoos and other such geologic forms are common in badlands.
Badlands are found on every continent except Antarctica. They are often difficult to navigate by foot, and are unsuitable for agriculture. Most are a result of natural processes, but destruction of vegetation by overgrazing or pollution can produce anthropogenic badlands.
Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water. They are characterized by steep slopes, minimal vegetation, lack of a substantial regolith, and high drainage density. They can resemble malpaís, a terrain of volcanic rock.
I like to get up and be out in nature at sunrise on Easter morning. As a Christian this day is an incredible celebration of Jesus rising from the dead. There is a bit of irony in this photo as it is situated in the "Badlands." Easter Sunday or Resurrection Sunday (I prefer) is a reminder to me that my relationship with Jesus is not based on me being good or bad, but what Jesus did on the cross and also rising from the dead. My relationship with Jesus is all about Him and what He has done. It is a gift I just really need to accept. Thank you Jesus.
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Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water. They are characterized by steep slopes, minimal vegetation, lack of a substantial regolith, and high drainage density. They can resemble malpaís, a terrain of volcanic rock.
Just up the street and around the corner from Artists Palette in Death Valley, Zabriskie Point offers stunning views in at least a full 180 degrees of badlands, salt flats, and mountains. My shadows were getting better by this time too.
Added from the web: Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks have been extensively eroded. They are characterized by steep slopes, minimal vegetation, lack of a substantial regolith, and high drainage density. Ravines, hoodoos and other such geologic forms are common in badlands. Badlands are found on every continent except Antarctica, being most common where there are unconsolidated, poorly cemented soils. Other badlands mentioned include Badlands NP (South Dakota), Chinle in Arizona, and Drumheller in Alberta, Canada.
Nice steady seeing conditions on the evening of the 31/05 allowed me to image the 9 day, almost 70% illuminated, gibbous moon.
This is a lunar mosaic of individual section images taken with my ASI 224MC camera ( each 1304x976 pixels). These images were then assembled into the final image shown here using Microsoft ICE ( Image Composite Editor).
Imaged with a Skywatcher Esprit 120ED and a ZWO 224MC fitted with an IR cut filter.
Colours have been slightly boosted ( like to be as subtle as possible - hate gaudy over saturation!) to indicate different composition of lunar regolith.
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Badlands, with their extensively eroded softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils, create a unique and arid terrain. These remarkable landscapes are marked by steep slopes, sparse vegetation, minimal regolith, and a dense network of drainage. Commonly found in badlands are ravines, gullies, buttes, hoodoos, and other captivating geologic formations. Immerse yourself in this inviting badlands nature photography landscape, enticing you to embark on a thrilling hiking and exploration adventure.
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Another aspect of the beautiful gibbous moon of the 4th April here.
Slight enhancement of subtle variations of colour on the moon's surface. These highlight the difference in mineral composition between the more iron rich regolith areas (brown coloured) and those regolith areas richer in Titanium (blue coloured).
Imaged with a Skywatcher ED72 and a Nikon D5300 camera.
Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water. They are characterized by steep slopes, minimal vegetation, lack of a substantial regolith, and high drainage density. They can resemble malpaís, a terrain of volcanic rock.
NATO codename "Fishpot". The Russian Su-9 was a two-person attack mecha (one pilot and one navigator), utilising an antigrav (антигравитационный) engine which allowed the vehicle to hover a few inches above the regolith. These craft were thus restricted to the relatively flat terrain of the lunar maria. Owing to their compact design, the Fishpots could be aligned in a row to form a defensive wall against the American forces.
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One of my earliest attempts at Star Trails was taken from this crater in Lanzarote last year. Then there was a high wind and quite a few clouds around. This time it was a crystal clear sky with little wind. Another difference was using the fisheye lens to get more of the Crater Rim in the image which I think gives a more dramatic look
This was taken from the floor of the crater Montana Cuervo near Masdache, Lanzarote. It is not as well visited as many places on the Island. It requires an easy 20 minute flat walk on a footpath from the road to the base of the Crater. Round the right hand side there is a great gash in the Crater wall permitting easy access to the crater floor. There are large numbers of rocks scattered across the Crater floor.
I used my Interval Timer and set the camera at ISO 200 and bulb and the timer at 2 minutes at f3.5. I set the timer for 1 hour 45 minutes but did not use the last 30 minutes due to condensation on the lens building up. This is a really big advantage of blending a number of exposures for Star Trails rather than one long exposure.
I locked the Tripod in one place, well pushed the legs down in the regolith. The foreground image was taken as an HDR while there was still some light. With the camera in the came place the star trail images were started when it was dark enough. The final blended star trails image was pasted as a selection into the HDR landscape.
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at 49.5% practically in the first quarter, our natural satellite can be seen again, in this HDR composition we can see in considerable detail the vast number of craters that stand out in the terminator, together with this the high saturation in the image allows us to discern the different mineralogy that populates the regolith on the lunar surface, it is worth mentioning that these colors are very subtle and only a photo with this technique can reveal them.
Gear: Nexstar 8SE + 7D Mark II
130 images stacked, process PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax and Photoshop CC 2022
I really enjoy spending time discovering Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park in Alberta. Here is another photo from this nearby park.
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This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust). Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (the European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these cached samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis. The Mars 2020 mission is part of a larger program that includes missions to the Moon as a way to prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Los coloridos estratos del Sorocayense se encuentran ubicados unos kilómetros al sur de la localidad de Calingasta (San Juan, Argentina).
ENGLISH: "Sorocayense" The colorful hills of the Sorocayense are located a few kilometers toward the south of Calingasta (San Juan, Argentina).
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A rover useful for collecting rare trace elements from the top layer of regolith. Is this Basic-tron? I started off with a blue and yellow rover but the red was too hard to resist.
Asteroid Bennu's boulder-covered surface gives it protection against small meteoroid impacts, according to observations of craters by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft.
Bennu is a “rubble-pile” asteroid, meaning that it formed from the debris of a much larger asteroid that was destroyed by an ancient impact. Fragments from the collision coalesced under their own weak gravity to form Bennu.
This image shows asteroid Bennu’s boulder-covered surface. It was taken by the PolyCam camera on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on April 11, 2019 from a distance of 2.8 miles (4.5 km). The field of view is 211 ft (64.4 m), and the large boulder in the upper right corner of the image is 50 ft (15.4 m) tall. When the image was taken, the spacecraft was over the southern hemisphere, pointing PolyCam far north and to the west.
Image credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
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“This is Surveyor III as seen by Apollo 12 astronauts launched from the Kennedy Space Center on November 14, 1969. Surveyor III, launched from Cape Kennedy on April 17, 1967 made a soft landing on the Moon’s Ocean of Storms on April 19, 1967. Details of the crater’s western wall are obscured by the brilliant rays of the rising sun. Portions of the Surveyor were removed by Astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean and returned to Earth for study.”
In this photograph, taken by Alan Bean, Surveyor III's no. 2 footpad, upon which the the soil clod was deposited by the sampler arm, is facing toward Bean. In fact, the clod can be seen as the darkened area atop the right side of the footpad, along with evidence of the trenches dug by the sampler, also seen as the darkened/shadowed regolith to the right of the footpad.
Regolith had had to kill people in his profession. He never liked doing it, but he had his orders. 3 of these souls had been ended for no reason by his superiors. They haunted his dreams nightly but today they are haunting him at the Lonely Outpost in the wee hours of the morning. Day 1338 Y4D242 pict 2
Europe’s next step towards exploring Mars hand-in-hand with NASA took place this week with a drop of a first sample tube, imaged above.
The Mars Perseverance Rover deposited the chalk-size core of igneous rock, taken from a region of Mars’ Jezero Crater in January 2022, that could be considered for a trip to Earth as part of the joint ESA-NASA Mars Sample Return (MSR) campaign.
The MSR campaign is made of several missions to return the first scientifically selected samples from the surface of another planet to Earth.
The plan is this: NASA’s Perseverance Rover, which has scouted 13 kilometres of the martian surface and acquired 17 rock and regolith samples and one atmospheric sample since its arrival in 2021, will deliver samples to the NASA Sample Retrieval lander (SRL). The SRL is quipped with an ESA 2.5 m Sample Transfer Arm and a rocket for launching the sample container into martian orbit. Once there, an ESA spacecraft will capture the container and bring it safely to Earth.
The backup plan is to create a depot of samples by early 2023, should the rover be unable to deliver the samples itself to lander in 2030. This reconfiguration of the campaign now includes two recovery helicopters that will be deployed from the lander to fetch the tubes.
The first of the 10 tubes that will make up the backup depot was deposited at a designated site called ‘Three Forks,” a carefully selected patch of the martian surface. Dropping the sample is a well orchestrated process whereby Perseverance retrieves the sample from its belly, inspects it with an internal camera, and finally drops it from roughly 90 centimeters onto the designated site. The process took the rover an hour.
Mission engineers not only needed to confirm the drop but also inspect the position of the tube using the camera on the rover’s robotic arm to ensure the tube landed on its side rather than its end and that it hadn’t rolled into the path of a rover wheel.
“Choosing the first depot on Mars makes this exploration campaign very real and tangible. Now we have a place to revisit with samples waiting for us there,” says David Parker, ESA’s director of Human and Robotic Exploration.
For all of the samples acquired so far, Perseverance always obtained two samples from each Mars rock – one sample to be left on the surface in the backup depot, and a second sample that is held within the belly of the rover to be directly transferred to NASA’s Sample Retrieval Lander.
“The first depot of Mars samples can be considered as a major risk mitigation step for the Mars Sample Return campaign,” points out David.
Watch a short animation featuring key moments of the Mars Sample Return campaign: from landing on Mars and securing the sample tubes to launching them off the surface and ferrying them back to Earth.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx completed its last flyover of Bennu around 6 a.m. EDT (4 a.m. MDT) April 7 and is now slowly drifting away from the asteroid; however, the mission team will have to wait a few more days to find out how the spacecraft changed the surface of Bennu when it grabbed a sample of the asteroid.
This image shows a top-down view of asteroid Bennu, with a portion of the asteroid’s equatorial ridge and northern hemisphere illuminated. It was taken by the PolyCam camera on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on March 4, 2021, from a distance of about 186 miles (300 km). The spacecraft’s cameras are pointed directly at Bennu’s north pole. Two large equatorial craters are visible on the asteroid’s edge (center and center left). The image was obtained during the mission’s Post-TAG Operations phase, as the spacecraft slowly approached Bennu in preparation for a final observational flyby on April 7.
Image credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
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Light armoured multi-wheel sub-surface data packet collector.
Tiny amounts of data from Futuron, Space Police and M-Tron subspace transmissions can sometimes adhere to subatomic muons and duons. On distant moons, Sprius SPYR-KOLEKTA rovers scan the regolith, hoping to collect and aggregate these data fragments into usable intell...
Uh, I can't find my old Spyrius minfig. They are a shifty faction I guess...
Captured on Oct. 20, 2020 during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles (321 million km) away from Earth. The sampling event brought the spacecraft all the way down to sample site Nightingale, touching down within three feet (one meter) of the targeted location. The team on Earth received confirmation at 6:08 p.m. EDT that successful touchdown occurred. Preliminary data show the one-foot-wide (0.3-meter-wide) sampling head touched Bennu’s surface for approximately 6 seconds, after which the spacecraft performed a back-away burn.
Image credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
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GSO 200/1000, HEQ5, QHY5-IIc, 2,25x-Barlow. Usually I don't take any photos of the moon surface, but I've seen amazing pictures of Plato today, so I had to try it on my own.
As NASA works towards sending astronauts to the Moon through Artemis missions, one of the agency’s primary goals is to establish a long-term presence on the lunar surface. Resources like oxygen are crucial building blocks for making that vision a reality. In addition to using oxygen for breathing, it can also be used as a propellant for transportation, helping lunar visitors stay longer and venture farther.
During a recent test, scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil. Lunar soil refers to the fine-grained material covering the Moon’s surface. This was the first time that this extraction has been done in a vacuum environment, paving the way for astronauts to one day extract and use resources in a lunar environment, called in-situ resource utilization.
NASA’s Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) team conducted the test in conditions similar to those found on the Moon by using a special spherical chamber with a 15-foot diameter called the Dirty Thermal Vacuum Chamber. The chamber is considered “dirty” because unclean samples can be tested inside.
The team used a high-powered laser to simulate heat from a solar energy concentrator and melted the lunar soil simulant within a carbothermal reactor developed for NASA by Sierra Space Corp., of Broomfield, Colorado. A carbothermal reactor is where the process of heating and extracting the oxygen takes place. Carbothermal reduction has been used for decades on Earth to produce items like solar panels and steel by producing carbon monoxide or dioxide using high temperatures.
This image showsa a high-powered laser and a carbothermal reactor located inside the testing chamber of NASA’s Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Image credit: NASA/Brian Sacco
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Rusty leads Rocky and Regolith through a crack in exposed bedrock on the eastern edge of the Dune Sea...
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Space Science image of the week is this striking perspective view from ESA’s Mars Express. It shows an unnamed but eye-catching impact crater on Mars. This region sits south-west of a dark plain named Mare Serpentis (literally ‘the sea of serpents’), which in turn is located in Noachis Terra (literally ‘the land of Noah’).
Noachis Terra is one of the oldest known regions on the Red Planet, dating back at least 3.9 billion years— in fact, the earliest martian era, the Noachian epoch, is named after it. Noachis Terra is representative of ancient Mars’ surface, which is characteristically peppered with craters that have been preserved for billions of years, although many have degraded over time.
The crater visible on the top right of this image is around 4 km deep and 50 km in diameter. At its very centre is a small depression known as a central pit. These are common in craters on rocky worlds throughout the Solar System, especially on Mars, and are thought to form as icy material explosively vaporises and turns to gas in the heat of the initial crater-forming collision.
The outer walls around the crater are slightly raised above its surroundings. These stacked deposits may have formed during the impact that carved out the crater itself. As a rocky impactor slammed into the surface of Mars it likely compacted the loose and powdery material — small-grained dust and soil dubbed ‘regolith’ — to form a small plateau that has stood the test of time.
Just within the crater walls are channels and valleys threading and weaving down the inner slope — these are thought to have been carved and sculpted by running water. This water, locked up within the soil as groundwater and ice, would have melted as the Sun illuminated the crater walls, driving fluvial erosion processes and sketching thin lines down towards the centre of the crater.
This image was created using data from the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera’s stereo channels (resulting in this oblique perspective) as well as its colour and nadir channels (creating the colour). The data were obtained on 29 July 2015 during orbit 14680. The resolution is approximately 14 m per pixel and the image is centred at 37° East and 35° South.
The image is a perspective view from a series that includes a colour nadir view, a colour-coded digital terrain model and a 3d anaglyph.
Credit:ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
After analyzing data gathered when NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, scientists have learned something astonishing: The spacecraft would have sunk into Bennu had it not fired its thrusters to back away immediately after it grabbed dust and rock from the asteroid’s surface.
It turns out that the particles making up Bennu’s exterior are so loosely packed and lightly bound to each other that if a person were to step onto Bennu they would feel very little resistance, as if stepping into a pit of plastic balls that are popular play areas for kids.
This image is a view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on Jan. 19, 2019.
Image credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin
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The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security -- Regolith Explorer spacecraft (OSIRIS-REx) will travel to a near-Earth asteroid, called Bennu, and bring a sample back to Earth for study. The mission will help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth.
OSIRIS-REx is scheduled for launch in late 2016. As planned, the spacecraft will reach its asteroid target in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023.
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NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer, OSIRIS-REx, spacecraft executed its first deep space maneuver Dec. 28, 2016, putting it on course for an Earth flyby in September 2017. The team will continue to examine telemetry and tracking data as it becomes available at the current low data rate and will have more information in January.
Image credit: University of Arizona
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On April 9, 2021, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft took one last look at Bennu, the asteroid from which it scooped up a sample last October. Slated for return to Earth in 2023, the mission is on track to deliver a sample of pristine material left over from the formation of our solar system into the hands of researchers on Earth.
This image, the last one taken by the spacecraft, shows crescent Bennu with its night side merging with the complete black of space as the spacecraft pushed away from Bennu.
For two years, OSIRIS-REx studied the asteroid, revealing the many secrets of this ancient body and delivering clues about its rubble-pile-like consistency and surface terrain, which turned out to be much rockier and more rugged than initially expected from the observations of ground-based telescope.
On May 10, 2021, the spacecraft embarked on its return voyage to Earth. On Sept. 24, 2023, the spacecraft will jettison the sealed capsule containing the sample and send it onto a trajectory to touch down in the Utah desert.
Image credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona; Writer Daniel Stolte, University of Arizona
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The Moon is thought to have formed about 4.51 billion years ago, not long after Earth. The most widely accepted explanation is that the Moon formed from the debris left over after a giant impact between Earth and a Mars-sized body called Theia.
In preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, recovery teams tour the projected landing ellipse in the Utah desert on July 17, 2023. The sample, collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, will return to Earth on September 24, 2023. The rocks and dust collected from the asteroid will offer scientists a window into the time when the Sun and planets were forming about 4.5 billion years ago.
The team has rehearsed portions of the recovery operation many times this year, but this was the most realistic rehearsal yet. See highlights from the rehearsal on the OSIRIS-REx blog.
Image credit: NASA/Keegan Barber
A serving tray with signatures from the NASA Perseverance Mars rover team is seen in mission control, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
This view of sample site Nightingale on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on March 3. These images were captured when the spacecraft performed an 820-foot (250-meter) reconnaissance pass over site Nightingale, which at the time was the closest the site had been imaged. The low-altitude pass provided high-resolution imagery for the OSIRIS-REx team to identify the best location within the site to target for sample collection. Sample site Nightingale is located in the relatively clear patch just above the crater’s center – visible in the center of the image. The large, dark boulder located at the top right measures 43 feet (13 meters) on its longest axis. The mosaic is rotated so that Bennu’s east is at the top of the image. Nightingale is the primary sample collection site for the OSIRIS-REx mission. OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to make its first sample collection attempt at site Nightingale on Oct. 20.
Image credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
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Re-processing a shot of five years ago, to learn the technique for processing the so-called "Mineral Moon".
Our moon has its own rich colors due to the variety of minerals which compose it– these colors are invisible to the human eye but they can be revealed through specific post-processing techniques, increasing the saturation and decreasing the color noise. The result is often referred to as the Mineral Moon because the difference in orange and blue hues are due to the different concentration of minerals in the regolith. Blueish areas are high in titanium, possibly as high as 10%, compared to on Earth where titanium is approximately 1% of the soil content, while the orange and purple colors show regions relatively poor in titanium and iron.
Viewing at full size, you can also see two Jupiter's moons: Europe and Callystus, at the right of the planet.
Jupiter was merged with a second shot @1/25s. (same ISO)
Lens: William Optics Zenithstar 61 APO