Interdimensional Breakthrough

NASA: Solar eruption as viewed by STEREO COR1 B satellite from the far side of the Sun

View of Saturn from Cassini

Homeland Your Mission Is Accomplished

jtotheizzoe:

Hello, beautiful!

The Curiosity rover grabbed a special self-portrait last week. The Mars Hand Lens Imager (or MAHLI) is situated on the long arm used to gather samples. It turned around and snapped this shot of the mast head (the one that houses the cool laser-eye ChemCam) tinted via its dirty dust-cover.

Well, Emily Lakdawalla at The Planetary Society has invited everybody to meme-ify it. I’d like to see what you come up with. Here’s one from Matt Francis.

I especially like this one that I made.

Got a caption?

explorationimages:

Curiosity: Another Mastcam image of the rover’s arm, 9/12/12. They appear to be taking photos of the instrument turret from every possible angle.

framesandflames:

Enceladus, Raw.

Raw images from the Cassini orbiter show Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth largest moon. Shown are the geysers at the south pole which erupt water ice out into space. Only alterations I made to the raw files was some darkening of overexposed frames.

Image credt: NASA/JPL

urhajos:

Jared Stumpenhorst

mudwerks:

 (by wackystuff)

n-a-s-a:

The Sun Unleashed

NASA / Goddard / SDO AIA Team

n-a-s-a:

Centaurus Radio Jets Rising

Credit: Ilana Feain, Tim Cornwell & Ron Ekers (CSIRO/ATNF)

laboratoryequipment:

Good Data Results from Curiosity’s 500 Laser Shots

Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team, including Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, squeezed in a little extra target practice after zapping the first fist-sized rock that was placed in the laser’s crosshairs. Much to the delight of the scientific team, the laser instrument has fired nearly 500 shots so far that have produced strong, clear data about the composition of the Martian surface.

“The spectrum we have received back from Curiosity is as good as anything we looked at on Earth,” says Los Alamos National Laboratory planetary scientist Roger Wiens, Principal Investigator of the ChemCam Team. “The entire MSL team was very excited about this and we popped a little champagne.”

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2012/08/good-data-results-curiositys-500-laser-shots

world-shaker:

Farewell, Neil Armstrong

super high quality version available here