3.1415…It’s #PiDay and we’ve rounded up some numbers on @NASA’s research aboard @Space_Station:
3: number of new patents for familiar household products
14+: amount of plant varieties grown
15 hundred+: total flames ignited during the ACME experiment
☁️ Just clouds drifting through the Martian sky. These wisps were ~50 miles (80 km) above me & the height suggests they’re made of carbon dioxide ice. These digitally-enhanced images from one of my navigation cameras were put together into 8-frame GIFs. https://t.co/msDbzywWMP
I’ve now been on Mars for a full (Earth) year! Many firsts on an ambitious to-do list:
✅ Collected first rock cores from another planet
✅ Served as base station for #MarsHelicopter
✅ Extracted oxygen from thin Martian air
✅ Set driving records
More: https://t.co/ycR7IcZe0m
“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.”
- Cooper
#Interstellar#March#Space#Mars#Saturn#venus
Here's what’s up in March!
Mars, Saturn, and Venus are catching up mid-month, our closest open star cluster makes an appearance, and suns in other solar systems get time to shine.
For more of what’s high in the sky, visit: https://t.co/9et9DVB24J