Space exploration: Where do we go from here?

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Actually, now that I think about it, the easiest way for Poots to punish them is to just issue them uniforms & equipment and send them to the Ukrainian Front. Being defenestrated somehow sounds preferable...

[Kepler]

All the Roscosmos engineers who led the program had better stay at ground level and skip afternoon tea going forward.

NASA take note.

The lunar mission was Russia’s first since 1976, when it was part of the Soviet Union. Only three countries have managed successful moon landings: the Soviet Union, the United States and China.

“The negative experience of interrupting the lunar program for almost 50 years is the main reason for the failures,” Borisov said, adding “it would be the worst decision ever” for Russia to end the program now.

Ahem.

[Kepler]

India sticks the landing.

First soft landings by body

Moon:

1966 USSR
1966 USA
2013 China
2023 India

Who's next?


Mars:

1971 USSR
1975 USA
2003 UK/ESA, maybe (no comms)
2021 China


Venus:

1970 USSR
1978 USA


Other:

Titan 2005 ESA
Eros 2001 USA
Itokawa 2005 Japan (1 second soft grab and go)
Ryuga 2018 Japan; 2018 France/Germany
Bennu 2020 USA
Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko 2014 ESA

[Kepler]

Little sh-t just misses it.

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Little sh-t just misses it.

I wouldn't be able to sleep for weeks out of frustration if I was bending over to pick up car keys and missed something like that.

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So JWST potentially found traces of dimethyl sulfide on an exoplanet. Apparently this is a substance produced primarily by life.

[aparch]

They found cabbage?

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They found cabbage?

No moron. Beets.




;-)

[Kepler]

So JWST potentially found traces of dimethyl sulfide on an exoplanet. Apparently this is a substance produced primarily by life.

The atmosphere is "mostly hydrogen." Um.



BTW, by "primarily" they mean that thus far, the only way we know of to produce this is by life. But the only place we know of it is Earth.

Bonus: it is one of the products of brewing beer.

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What's the UFL of hydrogen? No Hindenburg if you're above that

[Kepler]

What's the UFL of hydrogen? No Hindenburg if you're above that

Either 40 or 70 percent volume by air, depending whom you ask, but that's at 20 degrees C and atmospheric pressure. This place is the size of 8 Earths so surface level pressure has gotta be pretty crushing.

I assume it's safe because if it wasn't it would be a very short-lived planet.

[Slap Shot]

Pleasant surprise greets scientists opening asteroid sample dropped from space

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Time lapse of Earth's rotation caught with a stabilization camera.

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Webb telescope spots never-before-seen feature in Jupiter’s atmosphere

Researchers used Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, to takea series of images of Jupiter 10 hours apart, applying four different filters to detect changes in the planet’s atmosphere. Infrared light is invisible to the human eye, and the Webb telescope’s unprecedented capabilities have been used over the past year to spot many newly observed celestial features, such as megaclusters of young stars and unexpected pairs of planetlike objects.

The astronomers spied a high-speed jet stream in Jupiter’s lower stratosphere, an atmospheric layer about 25 miles (40 kilometers) above the clouds. The jet stream, which sits over the planet’s equator, spans more than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) wide and moves at 320 miles per hour (515 kilometers per hour), or twice the rate seen with sustained winds of a Category 5 hurricane on Earth.

“This is something that totally surprised us,” said Ricardo Hueso, lead author of the study published October 19 in the journal Nature Astronomy, in a statement. Hueso is a physics lecturer at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain.

“What we have always seen as blurred hazes in Jupiter’s atmosphere now appear as crisp features that we can track along with the planet’s fast rotation,” he said.

[Kepler]

Apparently Jupiter's weather repeats and can be predicted, although it is insanely complicated.

Huh.