On Friday 1st November, 2024 ESA’s General Support Technology Programme (GSTP) and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA), Norway, have signed a contract to develop the Arctic Ocean Surveillance precursor (AOS-p) mission.
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Torrential rainfall causing deadly flash floods has hit southern and eastern Spain in regions including the Costa del Sol, where the city of Malaga is located, and Valencia in the east. As these areas struggle to cope with the aftermath, satellite technology has played a crucial role in assessing the damages of the affected areas.
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The structure of the first Copernicus Sentinel CRISTAL satellite is now ready to be equipped with the hardware that will allow it to function in orbit. Then, engineers will be able to install the advanced instruments that will provide ‘crystal clear’ insights into environmental changes in the world’s remote icy regions.
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Image: Moon waves goodbye to Hera
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Source: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad77d7
Images from the #Voyager 2 mission revealed the small Uranian #satellite Miranda to be a complex, dynamic world. This is exemplified by signs of recent geological activity, including an extensive fault system and the mysterious coronae. This has led to speculation that Miranda may have been tectonically active within the geologically recent past and could have hosted a subsurface #liquid water ocean at the time. In this work, we aim to constrain the thickness ranges for the ice shell and potential subsurface ocean on Miranda.
We can't be living in a simulation because General Relativity simply forbid it. End of story :)
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=-yzdjziS-bo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yzdjziS-bo
Both shitwitter abd TikTok protect these accounts and refuses to take them down.
Das Bild zeigt die Erde über dem Mond-Horizont - aufgenommen während der Mission Apollo 17 aus der Mond-Umlaufbahn.
Im Vordergrund die Mondoberfläche gesehen aus der Umlaufbahn. Sie ist relativ kontrastarm in matten Grautönen wiedergegeben und füllt den unteren Bereich des Bildes aus, wobei der Horizont als Diagonale von links unten nach rechts oben durchs Foto verläuft. Darüber das Schwarz des Alls und knapp über dem Horizont die Erde als bläuliche Sichel mit dem Bogen nach oben, also wie ein Torbogen und nicht wie eine Badewanne - falls jemand dieser komplizierten Bildbeschreibung noch folgen kann. Die rechte Spitze der Erdsichel grenzt dabei ganz fein an den Mondhorizont - tatsächlich liegen natürlich rund 400.000 Kilometer dazwischen.
#Science #Astronomy #Astronomie #Astrofotografie #Moon #Mond #Erde #Earth #Apollo #NASA #Photography #Wissenschaft
Week in images: 28 October - 01 November 2024
Discover our week through the lens
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A quotation from Tuchman, Barbara
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature, dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. The are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world, and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) American historian and author
“The Book,” Lecture, Library of Congress (1979-10-17)
#quote #quotes #quotation #books #history #civilization #library #literacy #literature #meme #reading #science #writing
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/tuchman-barbara/28912/
When disaster strikes, maintaining communication is critical. Yet, terrestrial (ground) networks are often compromised, leaving civilians stranded and first responders without access to vital information. Limited bandwidth can severely delay crisis management efforts, potentially costing lives. Recent events around the world, including devastating floods and wildfires, underscore the increasing relevance and urgency for advanced disaster response technology.
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The 2025 ESA internship opportunities are now live! Positions are open in a wide range of fields, including engineering, science, IT, natural and social sciences, business, economics, and administrative services. This is your chance to launch your career in the extraordinary world of space exploration—don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to gain hands-on experience with one of the world’s leading space organisations!
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The Space Resources Challenge was launched last week, an opportunity for innovators to pioneer the technologies that will help humankind live and work sustainably on the Moon.
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Image: The icy landscape of Ross Island in Antarctica is featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image from 3 February 2024, during the austral summer.
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Prof. #RobertTemple | A New #Science of #Heaven | Origins Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AbTU9MBre0
The talk begins with an update on #Esna #Temple Project in #Egypt which Robert has been funding. In the main part of the talk Robert shares new knowledge from the most recent advances in a little-known area of science and how this matches many accounts surviving down the ages from #mystics, meditators, people who have survived near-death experiences, inspired sages and shamans, and experiences from dreams and trance states. Robert takes the view that it is reasonable to be sceptical, but can understand how these altered states may have been used in the past to access awareness of the elusive and apparently immaterial ‘Other World’ by shamans and seers over the millennia. Scientific progress is now sufficiently advanced to enable a world of the spirit to be described and explained in a rigorous fashion for the first time. The advances made in the plasma physics in recent years provides a mathematical and physical basis to describe the #soul, or #spirit. These advances make it possible to understand ghosts, for complex plasmas can pass through walls and emerge the same on the other side (Indeed, they can pass through each other and survive intact as well). The ‘Other World’ is material, but it is a different kind of #matter.
#Plasma
Prof. Temple is author of a dozen challenging and provocative books, commencing with the international best-seller, The Sirius Mystery. His books include The Sphinx Mystery, Netherworld, The Crystal Sun, and The Genius of China. He is visiting Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and previously held a similar position at an American university. For many years he was a science writer for the Sunday Times, the Guardian, and writer for Time-Life, Nature and The New Scientist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and has been a member of the Egypt Exploration Society since the 1970s. With his wife, Olivia, he is co-author and translator of the first complete English version of Aesop’s Fables. He has done archaeometric dating work and exploration of closed sites in Egypt and his research into historical accounts of the Sphinx is the first comprehensive survey ever undertaken. http://www.robert-temple.com
Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly ‘stare’ of their searing eye-like cores shines out into the supreme cosmic darkness.
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