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"visualize curiosity's journey on mars since 2012, including every image it has sent back to earth every day for the past 13 years!"
- mort_6
Saturn's north pole.
The hexagon is nearly 30,000 km (20,000 miles) wide. This is large enough that two Earths could fit inside the storm with room to spare.
It is a standing atmospheric wave created by a powerful jet stream that wraps around the pole. Winds along its edges can exceed 300 km/h (about 220 mph).
At the very center of the hexagon lies a deep, dark polar vortex that extends hundreds of kilometers down into Saturn's atmosphere.
Spacecraft/Mission: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI (Space Science Institute).
- there lives a giant bee swarm with giant bees somehwereneverscared
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- I think Trump should bomb it.Ianbolton
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- One of the most amazing pieces of geometry!ChrisKeegan
- God doesn't build in straight lines!
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- PonyBoy4
To the moon!
Artemis II launches as early as this afternoon (6:24pm EST)... sending 3 'mericans and one canuck 10 days in space around the moon and back (further out in space than any humans have ever been).
We occasionally can see launches all the way up the east coast but this one looks to be out of view pretty quick...
- feels like this is pretty useless and needlessly dangerous. They can do this with an unmanned ship. do it 10 times until they perfect it and then send humans_niko
- I get it that it'll pave the way for sending humans to mars but don't think it's necessary at this point. risks far outweigh any benefits._niko
- Artemis I already covered / proved the basics... but a few more rounds w/bots etc to work out the kinks isn't a bad ideaPonyBoy
- I was going to watch it live, but the broadcast is at midnight, and since I have a few days off, well, I think I'll probably be asleep... good luckOBBTKN
- Ah I see pony, yeah forgot about Artemis I but still, modern astronauts are like modern djs. https://i.makeagif.c…_niko
- ...but strapped to a million gallons of explosive fuel._niko
- argh, I don't know, I just have so much anxiety about the whole thing. godspeed to the crew_niko
- saw the launch from the oceancanoe
- Can't afford my groceries
Their bombing iran
... And whiteys on the moonwoowahesque - lol woo_niko
- Victor does look pissed at times... https://www.nasa.gov…PonyBoy
- sarahfailin0
Curiously missing from most of the Artemis II coverage is much about the goals of the mission. I did some digging and supposedly this is a step towards building a moon base and then using that to send people to Mars... but that seems pretty absurd to me.
- Watching that thing go up last night really brought it home just How Much Resource/Energy would be required to get even hundreds of people up there.Nairn
- I've stopped paying so much attention to Spaces, but even if the super heavy works... It's mind-boggling how much Stuff is needed to make it all workNairn
- Gotta love NASA for pulling it off though. Incredible engineering.srhadden
- neverscared1
Relief for astronauts as fault fixed on Nasa’s $30m Artemis II toilet
Mission control confirms ‘toilet go for use’ after glitch sorted
- Gardener5
How great would it be if the folk greeting the crew of the spaceship when it lands were all dressed as apes to freak out the astronauts.
- Gardener0
meanwhile, aboard Artemis II
- You posted this just moments after the crew became the most distant humans ever from earthPonyBoy
- and this is what's going on, of courseGardener
- houston we have an orgyneverscared
- Akagiyama4
Dark Side of the Moon
- Looks pretty lit.palimpsest
- you can't call it the dark side any more. it's the FAR sidehans_glib
- The Gary Larson side of the moon.Akagiyama
- There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact, it's all dark.fooler
- looks like asspango
- I'm going to dork out, but here we go: This is an older photo, and there's no "dark side of the moon. This blotch is the largest lunar maria..garbage
- ..which are ancient lava fields that render the rocks less reflective than the others. What you're seeing is named "Ocean of Storms"..garbage
- ..because it is potmarked with impact zones. It has stared at humanity since we have existed, and spawned countless superstitions / faiths.garbage
- That ancient lavabed is literally the man in moon. /spacenerdgarbage
- What kind of flash do you think they used?Ianbolton
- Thanks garbage, I enjoyed that (not sarcasm).slappy
- Absolutely. Bonus bit: that bright white zit you see there is the Aristarchus crater. It's about 25 miles wide, 2 miles deep.garbage
- Any bright spot is an impact crater that hasn't yet been covered up by lunar weather patterns. It's relatively fresh impact (estimated 450 million years ago).garbage
- All this to say, I have a hunch we might be tiny.garbage
