rascal
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rascal
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dholliday
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I saw the Milky Way properly for the first time ever in 2014 when we camped atop one of the highest mountains in Montenegro. It was amazing...
took some pics but can't find them right now. shooting stars in every exposure! and i took some tele-pics which when you zoomed in just revealed more and more stars...it really is endless out there.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
http://www.universetoday.com/132741/martian-spacecraft-spies-earth-moon/
Universe Today
The incredible HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter turned its eyes away from its usual target – Mars’ surface – and for calibration purposes only, took some amazing images of Earth and our Moon. Combined to create one image, this is a marvelous view of our home from about 127 million miles (205 million kilometers) away.
Alfred McEwen, principal investigator for HiRISE said the image is constructed from the best photo of Earth and the best photo of the Moon from four sets of images. Interestingly, this combined view retains the correct positions and sizes of the two bodies relative to each other. However, Earth and the Moon appear closer than they actually are in this image because the observation was planned for a time at which the Moon was almost directly behind Earth, from Mars’ point of view, to see the Earth-facing side of the Moon.
A view of Earth and its Moon, as seen from Mars. It combines two images acquired on Nov. 20, 2016, by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with brightness adjusted separately for Earth and the moon to show details on both bodies. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona.
“Each is separately processed prior to combining (in correct relative positions and sizes), so that the Moon is bright enough to see,” McEwen wrote on the HiRISE website. “The Moon is much darker than Earth and would barely show up at all if shown at the same brightness scale as Earth. Because of this brightness difference, the Earth images are saturated in the best Moon images, and the Moon is very faint in the best (unsaturated) Earth image.”
Earth looks reddish because the HiRISE imaging team used color filters similar to the Landsat images where vegetation appears red.
“The image color bandpasses are infrared, red, and blue-green, displayed as red, green, and blue, respectively,” McEwen explained. “The reddish blob in the middle of the Earth image is Australia, with southeast Asia forming the reddish area (vegetation) near the top; Antarctica is the bright blob at bottom-left. Other bright areas are clouds. We see the western near-side of the Moon.”
HiRISE took these pictures on Nov. 20, 2016, and this is not the first time HiRISE has turned its eyes towards Earth.
Back in 2007, HiRISE took this image, below, from Mars’ orbit when it was just 88 million miles (142 million km) from Earth. This one is more like how future astronauts might see Earth and the Moon through a telescope from Mars’ orbit.
An image of Earth and the Moon, acquired on October 3, 2007, by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona.
If you look closely, you can make out a few features on our planet. The west coast outline of South America is at lower right on Earth, although the clouds are the dominant features. In fact, the clouds were so bright, compared with the Moon, that they almost completely saturated the filters on the HiRISE camera. The people working on HiRISE say this image required a fair amount of processing to make such a nice-looking picture.
You can see an image from a previous Mars’ orbiter, the Mars Global Surveyor, that took a picture of Earth, the Moon and Jupiter — all in one shot — back in 2003 here.
Universe Today
The incredible HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter turned its eyes away from its usual target – Mars’ surface – and for calibration purposes only, took some amazing images of Earth and our Moon. Combined to create one image, this is a marvelous view of our home from about 127 million miles (205 million kilometers) away.
Alfred McEwen, principal investigator for HiRISE said the image is constructed from the best photo of Earth and the best photo of the Moon from four sets of images. Interestingly, this combined view retains the correct positions and sizes of the two bodies relative to each other. However, Earth and the Moon appear closer than they actually are in this image because the observation was planned for a time at which the Moon was almost directly behind Earth, from Mars’ point of view, to see the Earth-facing side of the Moon.
A view of Earth and its Moon, as seen from Mars. It combines two images acquired on Nov. 20, 2016, by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with brightness adjusted separately for Earth and the moon to show details on both bodies. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona.
“Each is separately processed prior to combining (in correct relative positions and sizes), so that the Moon is bright enough to see,” McEwen wrote on the HiRISE website. “The Moon is much darker than Earth and would barely show up at all if shown at the same brightness scale as Earth. Because of this brightness difference, the Earth images are saturated in the best Moon images, and the Moon is very faint in the best (unsaturated) Earth image.”
Earth looks reddish because the HiRISE imaging team used color filters similar to the Landsat images where vegetation appears red.
“The image color bandpasses are infrared, red, and blue-green, displayed as red, green, and blue, respectively,” McEwen explained. “The reddish blob in the middle of the Earth image is Australia, with southeast Asia forming the reddish area (vegetation) near the top; Antarctica is the bright blob at bottom-left. Other bright areas are clouds. We see the western near-side of the Moon.”
HiRISE took these pictures on Nov. 20, 2016, and this is not the first time HiRISE has turned its eyes towards Earth.
Back in 2007, HiRISE took this image, below, from Mars’ orbit when it was just 88 million miles (142 million km) from Earth. This one is more like how future astronauts might see Earth and the Moon through a telescope from Mars’ orbit.
An image of Earth and the Moon, acquired on October 3, 2007, by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona.
If you look closely, you can make out a few features on our planet. The west coast outline of South America is at lower right on Earth, although the clouds are the dominant features. In fact, the clouds were so bright, compared with the Moon, that they almost completely saturated the filters on the HiRISE camera. The people working on HiRISE say this image required a fair amount of processing to make such a nice-looking picture.
You can see an image from a previous Mars’ orbiter, the Mars Global Surveyor, that took a picture of Earth, the Moon and Jupiter — all in one shot — back in 2003 here.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Fascinating footage, thanks.
You hoping that we might have won the league by then?
NASA's Apollo mission photo album on Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums/72157657350941603
https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums/72157657350941603
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Unfortunately shows the lack of ambition regarding the further exploration and possible habitation of the moon.
https://qz.com/886599/nasa-astronaut-gene-cernan-the-last-man-to-walk-on-the-moon-has-died-at-82/
The last man to walk on the moon has died
US austronaut Eugene Cernan, the last human to have set foot on the moon, died today, NASA said. He was 82.
Cernan was a Navy pilot before joining the space program, where he had an accomplished career. He went to space three times, and made two trips to the moon. His last, as commander of the Apollo 17 mission in Dec. 1972, was the one in which he walked on its surface.
Gene Cernan, the last man on the moon, touches the suit of Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. (Reuters)
Four days and many miles after launch, Cernan and fellow astronaut Harrison “Jack” Schmitt landed their lunar module. “We’d like to dedicate the first steps of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible,” Cernan said upon exiting the craft and stepping foot onto the moon. “Oh my golly! Unbelievable!”
According to his autobiography, The Last Man on the Moon, before returning to the module Cernan drove the lunar rover to a spot where he could set up a camera to capture their departure. He knelt there, and wrote the initials of his daughter, Tracy, into the moon’s surface: TDC. Because the moon has no atmosphere or liquid water to disturb the marks, they may exist nearly as long as the moon itself.
That trip was the last time NASA sent people to the moon.
https://qz.com/886599/nasa-astronaut-gene-cernan-the-last-man-to-walk-on-the-moon-has-died-at-82/
The last man to walk on the moon has died
US austronaut Eugene Cernan, the last human to have set foot on the moon, died today, NASA said. He was 82.
Cernan was a Navy pilot before joining the space program, where he had an accomplished career. He went to space three times, and made two trips to the moon. His last, as commander of the Apollo 17 mission in Dec. 1972, was the one in which he walked on its surface.
Gene Cernan, the last man on the moon, touches the suit of Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. (Reuters)
Four days and many miles after launch, Cernan and fellow astronaut Harrison “Jack” Schmitt landed their lunar module. “We’d like to dedicate the first steps of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible,” Cernan said upon exiting the craft and stepping foot onto the moon. “Oh my golly! Unbelievable!”
According to his autobiography, The Last Man on the Moon, before returning to the module Cernan drove the lunar rover to a spot where he could set up a camera to capture their departure. He knelt there, and wrote the initials of his daughter, Tracy, into the moon’s surface: TDC. Because the moon has no atmosphere or liquid water to disturb the marks, they may exist nearly as long as the moon itself.
That trip was the last time NASA sent people to the moon.
Arteta2391
Player Valuation: £30m
Moon vacations
when?
when?
Never.
There is no viable reason to go back to the moon except for maybe bragging rights, but we did that already.
It's all about Mars now. You wanna go? Sign up over at SpaceX.
Are they offering weekend breaks?
The Cowboy
Player Valuation: £60m
Maybe we could start dumping nuclear waste on the dark side?
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