Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
The Orion spacecraft, the Moon, and the Earth — all in one frame.
This image was captured during the sixth day of the Artemis II mission as our astronauts successfully circled the Moon.
The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens.
These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years.
Flight rate will grow exponentially from there, with the goal of building a self-sustaining city in about 20 years. Being multiplanetary will vastly increase the probable lifespan of consciousness, as we will no longer have all our eggs, literally and metabolically, on one planet.
🚨Attention TRAPPIST-1 fans 🚨
We just published the first JWST spectrum of one of the TRAPPIST-1 planets!
Our findings could have important implications for the planets in the habitable zone.
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Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
🇮🇳Vikram soft-landed on 🌖, again!
Vikram Lander exceeded its mission objectives. It successfully underwent a hop experiment.
On command, it fired the engines, elevated itself by about 40 cm as expected and landed safely at a distance of 30 – 40 cm away.
Importance?: This 'kick-start' enthuses future sample return and human missions!
All systems performed nominally and are healthy. Deployed Ramp, ChaSTE and ILSA were folded back and redeployed successfully after the experiment.
#Chandrayaan_3
#Ch3
NASA still has plans to install a radio telescope inside a crater on the far side of the Moon
With no disruption from Earth's atmosphere, it could see further than the James Webb telescope ✨
Using two telescopes and over 280,000 individual photos, I captured my most detailed image of our moon. The full size is over a gigapixel. Trust me, you’ll want to zoom in on this one.
The iconic Earthrise image, captured during the Apollo 8 mission, reveals the Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon.
Artemis continues to build on the legacy of Apollo for all humanity. #EarthDay
Soviet cosmonauts used the Globus INK to track their position above the Earth. In use from 1967 into the 21st century, the Globus is an analog computer, crammed full of tiny gears. I reverse-engineered the Globus and can explain how these gears compute the orbit. 🧵