Posts tagged science
On march 7, Dutch astronaut André Kupiers took this picture from the ISS, showing the 50 kilometers wide rock formation called Eye of Africa. The structure sits in Mauritania, at the Sahara desert, and can only be seen from space.
Source: NASA, ESA.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist - finished :)
It’s really easy to learn about science when the person teaching it is so passionate about it. I wish that there were more people like Dr. Tyson out there.
Anyway, here are some pertinent links:
- Visit Neil deGrasse Tyson’s website
- Listen to Star Talk
- Track the Science Tag here on Tumblr
- Find this portrait and more on my Deviant Art account
Apollo 14 prime crew.
Luna 3 took these images on 7 October 1959, the very first views of the far side of the moon. It took 29 pictures for 40 minutes. The film was developed, dried, then scanned by a cathode ray television system inside the probe itself. Images were eventually received on earth two weeks later, 17 of the 29 actually useable. Earlier attempts were made but the probe was too far away and the images noisy.
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1,468 posts and I still cannot comprehend the fact that we have sent people into space.
Rocky III was a prototype planetary exploration rover developed by NASA’s JPL in 1991. Doesn’t it just look so 90s?
Szkafanderba öltöztetett bábu A szovjet tudomány és technika 50 éve kiállításon. Bojtár Ottó felvétele. Élet És Tudomány, 1967. IX. 15.
Dummy wearing space suit at the exhibition “50 years of the soviet science and technology”, Budapest, 1967. (Cover of hungarian monthly magazine “Life And Science”)
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What Does Space Smell Like?
When astronauts return from space walks and remove their helmets, they are welcomed back with a peculiar smell. An odor that is distinct and weird: something, astronauts have described it, like “seared steak.” And also: “hot metal.” And also: “welding fumes.”
Our extraterrestrial explorers are remarkably consistent in describing Space Scent in meaty-metallic terms. “Space,” astronaut Tony Antonelli has said, “definitely has a smell that’s different than anything else.” Space, three-time spacewalker Thomas Jones has put it, “carries a distinct odor of ozone, a faint acrid smell.”
Space, Jones elaborated, smells a little like gunpowder. It is “sulfurous.”
Read more. [Image: Shutterstock/1971yes]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7exwc7Vv01qcokc4o1_400.jpg)
When astronauts return from space walks and remove their helmets, they are welcomed back with a peculiar smell. An odor that is distinct and weird: something, astronauts have described it, like “seared steak.” And also: “hot metal.” And also: “welding fumes.”
Our extraterrestrial explorers are remarkably consistent in describing Space Scent in meaty-metallic terms. “Space,” astronaut Tony Antonelli has said, “definitely has a smell that’s different than anything else.” Space, three-time spacewalker Thomas Jones has put it, “carries a distinct odor of ozone, a faint acrid smell.”
Space, Jones elaborated, smells a little like gunpowder. It is “sulfurous.”
Read more. [Image: Shutterstock/1971yes]
“Dammit! I told you boys to bring back a Moon rock, not the whole fucking Moon!”
