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Lives in Nitrogen-Oxygen Atmosphere
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Eats, Breathes, Thinks, Creates
Neural Network
Lives in Nitrogen-Oxygen Atmosphere
270 K - 300 K
Eats, Breathes, Thinks, Creates
What’s that behind Titan? It’s another of Saturn’s moons: Tethys. The robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn captured the heavily cratered Tethys slipping behind Saturn’s atmosphere-shrouded Titan. The largest crater on Tethys, Odysseus, is easily visible on the distant moon. Titan shows not only its thick and opaque orange lower atmosphere, but also an unusual upper layer of blue-tinted haze. Tethys, at about 2 million kilometers distant, was twice as far from Cassini as was Titan when the above image was taken. In 2004, Cassini released the Hyugens probe which landed on Titan and provided humanity’s first views of the surface of the Solar System’s only known lake-bearing moon.
Credit: APOD
An Awesome Look at Enceladus, the Jet-Powered Moon
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(via likeaphysicist)
(NASA/JPL via Wired Science) Moon Shadow Over Neptune
In 2009, amateur image processor (and philosophy professor) Ted Stryk discovered something no one had recognized before — images that show the shadow of Despina in transit across Neptune’s blue cloud tops. His composite view of Despina and its shadow is composed of four archival frames taken on 24 August 1989, separated by nine minutes. Despina itself has been artificially brightened to make it easier to see.
(via outerouterplanets)
The comet Tempel 1, photographed by Deep Impact, just after its 370kg impactor had (deliberately) crashed into the comet, 4 July 2005. There’s about 1 second between frames in the gif.
The impact speed was about 10.2 km/s, so the kinetic energy was about 20 gigajoules – about half a MOAB blast’s worth of energy. The comet’s nucleus is about 7 kilometres across.
2013/05/12
With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.
Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.
Commander Hadfield returns to Earth on Monday. What an amazing journey he has shared with us!
2013/05/12
River Deltas around the world, imaged with the ASAR radar instrument on ESA’s Envisat spacecraft. Colors in these images are generated from the differences in surface texture between flybys of each location.
(via spacelights)
NGC 4522 is a spectacular spiral galaxy that is currently being stripped of its gas content. The galaxy is 60 million light-years away in the Virgo galaxy cluster. Its rapid motion within the cluster results in strong winds across the galaxy as the gas within is left behind. Scientists estimate that NGC 4522 is moving at more than 10 million kilometres per hour. (High Res)
2013/05/09
Some Strange Things Are Happening To Astronauts Returning To Earth
(Source: itsfullofstars)
Tourmaline.
Tourmaline is a piezoelectric material. Piezoelectrics generate a voltage when compressed along a perpendicular direction. Materials optimized for these properties are commonly used in sensors, scales, speakers, motors, and microscopes.
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