Your daily reminder of the Earth’s beauty (and our relative insignificence). Thank you NASA!
Spangler's Log.
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12.23.11 1 month ago mrmattspangler
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09.16.11 5 months ago mrmattspangler
via 2020:
A crew of three Russians, one Italian, a Chinese national and a Frenchman are in a simulator trying to simulate 520 days in space, and are reaching their mental limits, with only two months left to go in the experiment.
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12.16.10 1 year ago mrmattspangler
“With over 1 million moving parts, the Space Shuttle is the most complicated piece of machinery built by human beings.”
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04.25.10 1 year ago mrmattspanglerStephen Hawking via peachfuzz
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02.20.10 1 year ago mrmattspangler
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12.23.09 2 years ago mrmattspangler
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10.28.09 2 years ago mrmattspanglerStephane Udry of Geneva University
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10.07.09 2 years ago mrmattspangler
Bomb the Moon
WHAT!? Ha.
via moulicohen:
That’s what NASA scientists have decided to do…and they’re doing it in just two days. It’s the only way to find out for sure if there’s water frozen in our beloved satellite’s asteroid impact craters. At 7:31 a.m. EDT a centaur rocket will be shot from an earth-orbiting unmanned spacecraft and collide with a crater called Cabeus, sending a plume of ejecta into the air for observation. If H+ and OH- molecules are detected, then the controversial theory that the Moon contains billions of tons of ice might be true. Amateur astronomers will be able to witness the impact firsthand, scientists say. Check out the LCROSS project’s official site to find out where and when to point your telescope.
[via Discover]
