VIRGO: vim, ze to jsou kratery, ale vidim samy vystoupliny...

Do You See a Mountain or a Crater in This Picture?
http://www.universetoday.com/118616/do-you-see-a-mountain-or-a-crater-in-this-picture/

Thanks to our brains, this is a common illusion! Depending on the angle of the Sun when the picture was taken, images of craters taken from overhead (i.e. from orbit) may appear to be a mountain. Here on Earth, we’re used to seeing sunlight coming from overhead, and our brain interprets what we see with the assumption that the sunlight *must* always come from above. Satellite photos of terrain, however usually only show shadows when the light source is nearly horizontal with the surface.

There’s an easy fix for this illusion: flip the image over so it appears the sunlight is coming from above.

Dnešní dva snímky Cerery:

tisice fotek od astronautu z misi apollo!

Project Apollo Archive
https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums

This Is the Insane Metallic World NASA Wants to Explore Next
http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-insane-metallic-world-nasa-wants-to-explore-1734047272?

NASA announced the finalists for its next round of planetary explorations. There were the usual suspects—Venus, Jupiter’s asteroids—and, then, there was this: An asteroid, composed almost entirely of (possibly magnetic) metal, with a crust literally beaten away by interstellar collisions, named Psyche. Pardon?

If you haven’t heard much about Psyche yet, there’s a good reason: We don’t know very much about it. But the things we do know are, in a word, bizarre—starting with where it came from.

Pluto’s Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-s-big-moon-charon-reveals-a-colorful-and-violent-history

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best color and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon – and these pictures show a surprisingly complex and violent history.

NASA announces five Discovery proposals selected for further study | The Planetary Society
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey-dreier/2015/09301336-discovery-downselect.html

A total of five planetary mission concepts -- three targeted at asteroids, two at Venus -- will move to the next stage of the competition: a year-long process of detailed hardware design, cost analysis, and science planning. Next year, NASA will choose one of these mission concepts to launch no later than 2021.

New Horizons: A Billion Miles to 2014 MU69 - Sky & Telescope
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/new-horizons-a-billion-miles-to-2014-mu69-10012015/

Planetary scientist Alan Stern continues his exclusive series of blogs with details of what awaits the New Horizons spacecraft when it reaches its next objective.

Moonspike: the World's First Crowdfunded Moon Rocket by Moonspike Limited — Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moonspike/moonspike-the-worlds-first-crowdfunded-moon-rocket

Moonspike | Join our adventure
http://moonspike.com/

První mini report z EPSC. Je tam jen zlomek všeho zajímavého a hrozně stručně, ale snad alespoň nástin někoho potěší.
Planetary Science Hot News, Part 1 | Julie Novakova
http://www.julienovakova.com/planetary-science-hot-news-part-1/

XCHAOS: Hlavně tahle top. mapa kráteru Occator je součástí nové topografické mapy povrchu Ceres
s desítkami nově pojmenovaných (a hlavně už schválených) oblastí. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4725

Co to v tom kráteru Occator na Cereře sakra je?

Japanese HTV-5 Cargo Vehicle: International Space Station
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Kounotori 5 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-5) is seen departing from the International Space Station.
The cargo vehicle was berthed to the orbiting laboratory for five weeks until it was released on Sept. 28, 2015. HTV-5 delivered almost five tons
of hardware and supplies.

Sol 1117 - záběr složený ze dvou snímků mastcam100

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Rush Limbaugh: water on Mars is a leftist conspiracy
Rush Limbaugh: water on Mars is a leftist conspiracy / Boing Boing
https://boingboing.net/2015/09/29/rush-limbaugh-water-on-mars-i.html

ok...

Zpráva o Marsu měla poškodit Putina, tvrdí ruský poslanec
http://echo24.cz/a/ibPPs/zprava-o-marsu-mela-poskodit-putina-tvrdi-rusky-poslanec

This is how Adobe and NASA photoshop the stars | The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/29/9413807/adobe-nasa-photoshop-stars

Even the wonders of the Universe need a touch-up every now and again. Although we marvel at pictures sent back to Earth from equipment like the Hubble Space Telescope or the Curiosity rover on Mars, there's a lot of work done on these images before they're published. As this blog post from Adobe explains, sometimes it's mostly just a case of stitching pictures to create a panorama (as with transmissions from Curiosity), but other times the process is more complicated.

Takový prachy to stálo...

strizlivejsi pohled na dnesni udalost od Emily

NASA's Mars Announcement: Present-day transient flows of briny water on steep slopes | The Planetary Society
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/09281219-nasas-mars-announcement.html

How big a deal is this story? Was all the pre-announcement hype justified? Is this just NASA discovering water on Mars for the zillionth time? What does this mean for things many space fans care about: life on Mars or future human exploration?