Space In General

  • Thread starter Thread starter BubbleBelly542
  • 4,718 comments
  • 340,925 views
At 1pm you're not going to see anything other than the moon or the sun and definitely not North East. The line of planets are all to the south.
 
Another Version 2 Starship dies prematurely. Except much earlier than the others as this one has exploded on the test stand in preparation for an engine static fire. At this point I will say that V2 ships are cursed and the faster they can get to V3 the better...

1750308424372.png
 
If V3 follows the trend that V1 and V2 have set then they'll be self-destructing on the factory floor.

Edit: I shouldn't be mean, I know this stuff is harder than it looks and I kinda feel sorry for the engineers. At some point you can only learn stuff by sticking it on a pad and seeing what happens. It is kinda funny though.
 
Last edited:
This is pretty cool:
www.nasa.gov

NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year - NASA

A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life. Taken
www.nasa.gov www.nasa.gov

While not confirmation of life on Mars, it's definitely adding to the idea that there was life on Mars at one time.
 
“This finding by Perseverance, launched under President Trump in his first term, is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars. The identification of a potential biosignature on the Red Planet is a groundbreaking discovery, and one that will advance our understanding of Mars,” said acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy."
Click to expand...

I like how he's (Sean Duffy) is trying to frame this as a Trump achievement when it was concieved and green-lit when Obama was president. Not that presidents have much to do with these things other than potentially cancelling projects.
 
Last edited:
TheCracker
I like how he's (Sean Duffy) is trying to frame this as a Trump achievement when it was concieved and green-lit when Obama was president. Not that presidents have much to do with these things other than potentially cancelling projects.
Click to expand...
Hey, if stroking Trump is what it takes to maintain NASA, then they probably need to stroke away.

But ya, nothing about Perseverance is Trump's achievement.
 
It heckin' wimdy on Mars, and that is making space agencies rethink how future missions will be conducted.

Landers and rovers on the surface have long observed the dust devils. Encounters with them were a factor in the extraordinary longevity of NASA's Opportunity rover, in which "cleaning events" blew dust from the trundlebot's solar panels and contributed to its more than 14-year lifespan.

The new research utilizes imagery from orbit, allowing the motion of many more of these twisters to be tracked. In addition, researchers have been able to show that the strongest winds on Mars can blow much faster than thought, up to 158 km/h. That said, the atmosphere on Mars is so thin that a human would barely notice a wind of 100 km/h.
Click to expand...

Kinda crazy to think that wind gusts capable of causing notable damage to buildings on Earth would be almost unnoticeable on another planet.
 

Latest Posts

Back