I’m going to miss the live reveal, but here’s a thread to talk about it or anything else on your mind. LESS. THAN. ONE. HOUR. AWAY. Tune in starting at 2pm ET to see us unveil video of a rover recording itself while landing on another planet: https://t.co/mzKW5uV4hS. You don't want to miss what @NASAPersevere …
Respite Open Thread: NASA Needs You
NASA needs your help to improve its space laser pic.twitter.com/owsiC3VIPi — The Verge (@verge) May 23, 2019 I posted this in a thread earlier, but I’ll drop it here, too. We are all that little boy at the beginning of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfYCfxxwsGk Bonus Pearl: She’s doing great and fully integrated with her fowl siblings. …
Open Thread: NASA Juno Mission Images
#CitizenScience collaboration ??? : I send home raw pictures of Jupiter, and talented people around the world turn them into everything from detailed scientific imagery to beautiful works of art. Full video: https://t.co/YIwpDufF6Q pic.twitter.com/ogkYKdw7HO — NASA's Juno Mission (@NASAJuno) April 24, 2019 Jovian close encounter. A multitude of magnificent, swirling clouds in #Jupiter's dynamic …
Mammal And Dinosaur Tracks At NASA
A slab of rock unearthed at NASA’s Goddard Flight Center has lots of mammal and dinosaur tracks, and maybe even a pile of fossilized poop. There are sauropod, theropod, and baby nodosaur tracks. There are mammal tracks, possibly with toe beans. There eighty or more footprints on the stone. The article has a nice diagram …
Late Night Side-Eye Open Thread — Trump to NASA: “To the MOON, Alice!”
Trump orders NASA to send American astronauts to the Moon, Mars https://t.co/RN5ilGlhgM — CNBC (@CNBC) December 11, 2017 I was too young for the Honeymooners, but I’ve read that in 1956, young Donald Trump was trying to buy friends with the lure of his parents’ still-novel rec-room television. So, yeah, hurrah for a new Space …
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Open Thread: NASA, Still Awesome
It’s not quite Time for the Stars, but my inner sf geek is still thrilled. Per the Washington Post, the awesomeness as “Half a pair of twins leaves for a year in space“: When Astronaut Scott Kelly volunteered to spend a year in space, he asked NASA scientists whether they’d take advantage of the near-perfect …
We’re NASA and We Know It
This is pretty funny: