CLUMP: Heleď to začíná být hodně napínavé. Včera jsem na to kápnul, a dnes už velká šeptanda.
Že by třeba voda? Necháme se překvapit. Já jsem bohužel i přes st. svátek v práci, ale budu se snažit sledovat.

NASA to Announce Mars Mystery Solved
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-mars-mystery-solved

NASA will detail a major science finding from the agency’s ongoing exploration of Mars during a news briefing at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 28 at the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

Like C-beams, Glittering in the Dark Near... | BEAUTIFUL MARS
http://beautifulmars.tumblr.com/post/129868119115/like-c-beams-glittering-in-the-dark-near

– Candidate impact site, probably formed between May 2012 and September 2014. But why so bright?

VIRGO: tady v brutalne vysokem rozliseni i s komentarem o slozitem vzniku snimku:

Lose yourself in this high-resolution portrait of Pluto | The Planetary Society
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/09241425-lose-yourself-in-this-pluto.html

Enlarge this image to its full 8000-pixel-square glory and lose yourself in it. But be careful of your data plan; the full-resolution PNG is 69 MB.
http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/...9-small-bodies/2015/20150924_crop_p_color2_enhanced_release.png

If that gives you pause, here's a JPEG version of the thing at half resolution, a svelte 2 MB.
http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/...9-small-bodies/2015/20150924_crop_p_color2_enhanced_release.jpg

Nové detaily Charonu:

Ceres z výšky 1470 kilometrů:

Pluto at high phase, showing its brilliant backlit hazy atmosphere. Above: The original image after processing to enhance detail.
Below: The same image, “unwrapped” such that Pluto’s horizon has been stretched into a straight line. Radial features in the original
image appear vertical here; several of the many prominent bright radial rays are marked, candidate sunbeams cast by Pluto’s topography
in the twilight sun. Red and cyan plus symbols mark same location in both versions of the image. Many other features are visible,
including concentric haze layers in the atmosphere which appear as stacked horizontal bands.

Taky jste se někdy zamýšleli, jak na ISS v kupoli zavírají "okenice"?
Úžasné video od začátku do konce! :)
7 HOLES in the Space Station - Smarter Every Day 135
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=KSzuiqVjJg4

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015.
The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC).

dobře, Indové jsou u Marsu tak 40 let pozadu... ale někteří nejsou ani tak daleko!
http://www.isro.gov.in/...mission/celebrating-one-year-of-mars-orbiter-mission-orbit-release-of-mars
http://www.isro.gov.in/...-one-year-of-mars-orbiter-mission-orbit-release-of-mars/Mars-atlas-MOM.pdf

SUMAC: Pominu technické výdobytky časovače a samospouště, a
odpovím ti poněkud profláklým gifem (někdy loni či předloni zaplavil sociálky).
Název zněl nějak takto: "Hergot, to se na ISS dělaj parádně selfíčka v mikrogravitaci" :))

High-resolution images of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just before closest approach on July 14, 2015, are the sharpest images to date of Pluto’s varied terrain—revealing details down to scales of 270 meters. In this 75-mile (120-kilometer) section of the taken from the larger, high-resolution mosaic above, the textured surface of the plain surrounds two isolated ice mountains.

High-resolution images of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just before closest approach on July 14, 2015, reveal features as small as 270 yards (250 meters) across, from craters to faulted mountain blocks, to the textured surface of the vast basin informally called Sputnik Planum. Enhanced color has been added from the global color image. This image is about 330 miles (530 kilometers) across. For optimal viewing, zoom in on the image on a larger screen.

Full resolution: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/lorri_rider.png

Perplexing Pluto: New ‘Snakeskin’ Image and More from New Horizons
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/perplexing-pluto-new-snakeskin-image-and-more-from-new-horizons



In this extended color image of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, rounded and bizarrely textured mountains, informally named the Tartarus Dorsa, rise up along Pluto’s day-night terminator and show intricate but puzzling patterns of blue-gray ridges and reddish material in between. This view, roughly 330 miles (530 kilometers) across, combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC) on July 14, 2015, and resolves details and colors on scales as small as 0.8 miles (1.3 kilometers).

California Science Center: ON THIS DAY, 3 years ago...
Workers prepare to remove the tail cone off of the space shuttle Endeavour in a hangar
at Los Angeles International Airport, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012.Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Krásně ostrá fotka Sojuzu TMA-16M krátce po oddokování:

Výzkum Rosetty odhaluje pomocí spektrometru VIRTIS koloběh vody na povrchu 67P (a pod ním)
Rosetta reveals comet’s water-ice cycle / Rosetta / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_reveals_comet_s_water-ice_cycle
Scientists using Rosetta’s Visible, InfraRed and Thermal Imaging Spectrometer, VIRTIS, have identified
a region on the comet’s surface where water ice appears and disappears in sync with its rotation period.

Mars' Mysterious Dark Streaks Spur Exploration Debate
http://www.space.com/30618-mars-water-streaks-rsl-mystery.html

The dark, fingerlike features that creep down steep Martian slopes in warm weather continue to puzzle scientists.

These "recurring slope lineae" (RSL), which have been spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) at low and middle latitudes on the Red Planet, fade during cooler months but come back again annually at nearly the same locations over multiple Martian years.

Scientists continue to debate the true nature of the RSL phenomenon; no guess as to what they are and why they occur yet satisfies all observations. And just how RSL sites should be explored generates spirited debate, as evidenced by the discussions that emerged during the second Mars 2020 Landing Site Workshop, which was held last month in Monrovia, California.