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QUICK FACTS Where is it? Otago region, New Zealand [-45.39649095, 170.20379599] What’s in the photo? An elongated lenticular cloud known as the “Taieri Pet” Which satellite took the photo? Landsat 8 When was it taken? Sept. 7, 2024 A peculiar “pet cloud” took center stage in a recent satellite photo of New Zealand. The freaky […]
I'm trying to make a TTRPG I am making a 'hard sci-fi' game, and I want to minimize the uses of handwaved explanations. The basic concept is the planet it takes place on has an atmosphere that naturally disrupts radio communications, but short range is possible and certain materials can by used to bypass the […]
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A Nasa astronaut who was briefly hospitalised after returning from space has been released, the space agency said Saturday. Nasa’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin, were flown to the hospital for additional medical checks on Friday after parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast on board […]
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SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast on Saturday evening (Oct. 26). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:47 p.m. EDT (2147 GMT). The first stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lands on the Just Read the […]
What would be a realistic timeframe (year) for launching Project Orion to Mars(the saturn V one) , and what would be a realistic travel time to reach Mars?(if the program wans't canceled in 1964) submitted by /u/HuBkOn [comments] Source link
Lakes have appeared in the Sahara after a cyclone brought a deluge of rain to northern Africa that drenched swathes of the largest hot desert on Earth, satellite images show. An extratropical cyclone hit parts of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya on Sept. 7 and 8, dropping around 8 inches (20 centimeters) on the affected […]
The Spruce Space Shuttle – Ben Dickow and the Columbia Memorial Space Center – YouTube Watch On On Episode 134 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Ben Dickow, executive director and president of the Columbia Memorial Space Center, about a magnificent, full-sized shuttle mockup, its history and future plans. […]
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