It's a comparison of the horizon from the sol 1100 Mastcam panorama (stretched vertically by a factor of 2) to an "unwrapped" orbital view. After spending too long staring at it I decided that we can't see the Murray Buttes yet, just the ridge of washboard terrain that splits the barchan dunes that Curiosity will be exploring next. I hadn't realized until making this how much of a ridge the hematite ridge actually is. The light blue dots mark a rough outline of Curiosity's future path.

zdroj: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=7988&view=findpost&p=226622

VLA reveals spectacular 'halos' of spiral galaxies
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-vla-reveals-spectacular-halos-spiral.html

A study of spiral galaxies seen edge-on has revealed that "halos" of cosmic rays and magnetic fields above and below the galaxies' disks are much more common than previously thought.

China has had a telescope on the moon for the past two years | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/...n28323-china-has-had-a-telescope-on-the-moon-for-the-past-two-years/

Hubble Maps Jupiter in 4k Ultra HD
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=12021

These new maps and spinning globes of Jupiter were made from observations performed with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. They are the first products to come from a program to study the solar system’s outer planets – Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and, later, Saturn – each year using Hubble. The observations are designed to capture a broad range of features, including winds, clouds, storms and atmospheric chemistry. These annual studies will help current and future scientists see how these giant worlds change over time.

NASA | Jupiter in 4k Ultra HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3afEX8a2jPg

RED 4K Video of Colorful Liquid in Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKk_7NIKY3Y

Jedna hezká momentka z poslední cesty Endeavouru:
Space Shuttle Endeavour Move (201210120010HQ) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/8317938065/in/album-72157631751578369/

Ruska lunarni mise v kerbal space programu:

Советская лунная программа Н1-Л3 в Kerbal Space Program. Soviet manned lunar programs N1/L3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEQmzHkUvLg

vyborna prednaska sefa pluta vcetne zajimave sekce otazek a odpovedi na zaver...

New Horizons: The Exploration of the Pluto System
Stream on Livestream
http://livestream.com/ualberta/eps-oct5-15/videos/101200034

a FREE public talk by Dr. Alan Stern
Principal Investigator of the New Horizons Mission to Pluto

Dr. Stern will describe the history of this mission, the science behind it, the capabilities of payload, our encounter with planet Pluto, and the major scientific discoveries made to date. He will also briefly outline the extended mission to fly across the Kuiper Belt.

New Evidence Suggests Mars Had Lakes Of Water For Thousands Of Years | IFLScience
http://www.iflscience.com/space/mars-had-lakes-water-thousands-years-says-study

A new paper in the journal Science suggests that large impact craters like Gale were capable of storing water for thousands of years in the Martian past. The theory is based on studying clinoforms, the ordering of sediments on the bed of the ancient lake. The paper suggests that the surface of the crater basin rose over time, caused by the deposit of sediment. Some of this would have come from the northern crater wall, where gravel and sand were moved south in shallow streams. And eventually, wind-driven erosion dumped deposits in the center of the crater, forming Mount Sharp.

“This intracrater lake system probably existed intermittently for thousands to millions of years, implying a relatively wet climate that supplied moisture to the crater rim and transported sediment via streams into the lake basin,” the researchers wrote in the paper.

Naprostá paráda! Všechny části hlavní konstrukce, segmenty zrcadla, dokonce i přídavné součásti pro montáž zrcadel JWST jsou už
na jednom místě v Greenbeltu v Goddardově středisku. V příštích týdnech a měsících se můžeme těšit na další velký krok -
začne montáž 18 segmentů primárního zrcadla k nosné konstrukci! Když vše půjde dobře, příští rok začnou kompletní testy.

Think of this: consider the area of a sphere with the radius of the Kuiper Belt. And consider that even with a very low density of planetoids, given the area of the sphere there are potentially hundreds or even thousands of Pluto-, Charon-, Eris- or Sedna-class objects in existence. Greatly outnumbering the population of the terrestrial or gas-giant planets. So the conditions we are seeing at Pluto and Charon are to be considered the norm, and our rocky sun-huggers are the anomalies.

My esoterica for the month...

--Bill

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=8071&view=findpost&p=227137

New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto
http://www.nasa.gov/nh/nh-finds-blue-skies-and-water-ice-on-pluto

The first color images of Pluto’s atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft last week, reveal that the hazes are blue.

“Who would have expected a blue sky in the Kuiper Belt? It’s gorgeous,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colorado.



In a second significant finding, New Horizons has detected numerous small, exposed regions of water ice on Pluto. The discovery was made from data collected by the Ralph spectral composition mapper on New Horizons. 

The tech billionaires are wrong. We are never going to have cities on Mars. | Fusion
http://fusion.net/story/209348/no-life-on-mars/

The absurdity of building cities on Mars or in orbit is not a strictly technical one. In fact I do not doubt that it will be within our grasp in the not-so-distant future. The problem is not whether Buzz Aldrin’s plan for gravity-assisted transit to Mars (aka the Aldrin Cycler) is feasible or not; instead, it’s a matter of history and sociology. Getting to Mars may be within our grasp in the not-so-distant future, but the idea that people will want to go en masse is highly unlikely. It is not the engineering or the astronautics of space colonization that deserves dismantling, but its very premise.

SNC's Dream Chaser® Cargo System: A Transportation System to Deliver Cargo to the ISS for NASA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHvBUqfWDRs

CLUMP:
ESOcast 77: Mysterious Ripples Found Racing Through Planet-forming Disc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hF3irBxMSM