Credit: ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / SSO / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA / Daniel Macháček.

Curiosity Sol 1190
http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MSL/sol/01190.html

Našli další planetu ve vnějších končinách Sluneční soustavy? | Exoplanety.cz
http://www.exoplanety.cz/2015/12/13/nasli-dalsi-planetu-ve-vnejsich-koncinach-slunecni-soustavy/

Světovými médii prošla zpráva o možném objevu planety či dokonce hnědého trpaslíka ve vnějších částech Sluneční soustavy. Jak je to doopravdy?

Po snímcích slečny Curio je to jak páchat harakiri, ale jedna krásná vzpomínková z roku 1971,
kdy se mise Apollo 15 vracela domů. Velitel Alfred Worden popadl legendární Hasselblad, a blejsknul, co viděl.
Jen pro pobavení - snímek má poetický název “AS15-99-13487” :)

VIRGO: tohle je taky super fotka:



vyrez z pruhu http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/largesize/PIA20168_hires.jpg

News | NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Reaches Sand Dunes
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4787
Curiosity is using its wheels, as well as its science payload, to investigate sand that forms active dunes on Mars.
Plans call for the rover to scoop up and sieve sand for onboard laboratory analysis.

JPG (1.761 MB): http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20169

Sonda LISA PF zachycena 8.12. ve 20:50 UT teleskopem oblohové prohlídky DeSS Deimos Sky Survey ve Španělsku:



LPF úspěšně provedla i pátý zážeh, zbývá jen poslední manévr.

nyni i v barvach:

Zooming in on Pluto’s Pattern of Pits
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/zooming-in-on-pluto-s-pattern-of-pits

On July 14 the telescopic camera on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took the highest resolution images ever obtained of the intricate pattern of “pits” across a section of Pluto’s prominent heart-shaped region, informally named Tombaugh Regio. Mission scientists believe these mysterious indentations may form through a combination of ice fracturing and evaporation. The scarcity of overlying impact craters in this area also leads scientists to conclude that these pits – typically hundreds of yards across and tens of yards deep – formed relatively recently. Their alignment provides clues about the ice flow and the exchange of nitrogen and other volatile materials between the surface and the atmosphere.

An animation of Jupiter using the images from Voyager 1 (1979) and Cassini (2000)
SVS: Jupiter Cloud Sequence from Voyager 1
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003611/index.html
SVS: Jupiter Cloud Sequence from Cassini
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003610/index.html
NOTE: This animation is not accurate in some aspects, such as the timescale, lighting, object size, etc.

mickey mouse :)

Tahle momentka se povedla:

Akatsuki's first UVI image of Venus after orbit insertion | The Planetary Society
http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/venus/akatsukis-first-uvi.html

JAXA held a press briefing today to confirm the successful arrival of Akatsuki into Venus orbit -- an even lower orbit than they'd hoped to achieve. Akatsuki is Japan's first successful planetary orbiter. It's been a long time coming: today's announcement came twelve years to the day after Japan had to abandon efforts to put Nozomi into Mars orbit. The presenters were project manager Masato Nakamura (中村), trajectory engineer Chikako Hirose (廣瀬), and project scientist Takeshi Imamura (今村). There were three main topics: Akatsuki's orbital trajectory, new images, and science plans.

Fakt Vánoce za rohem...
A Cygnus Christmas Delivery | International Space Station
Kjell: "Day 257. A delivery in time for Christmas decked with festive lighting. Goodnight from Space Station!"
Credit: NASA/JSC, U.S. Astronaut Scott Kelly. Release Date: December 9, 2015

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No extraterrestrial laser pulses detected from KIC 8462852, SETI reports
http://phys.org/news/2015-12-extraterrestrial-laser-pulses-kic-seti.html

The anomalous star KIC 8462852 has baffled astronomers with its erratic dimming, causing some to speculate that it's orbited by a massive structure built by an extraterrestrial civilization. To help evaluate that possibility, scientists searched for brief laser pulses from the distant star, but found none, as reported in a paper submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

News | New Clues to Ceres' Bright Spots and Origins
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4785

Ceres reveals some of its well-kept secrets in two new studies in the journal Nature, thanks to data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. They include highly anticipated insights about mysterious bright features found all over the dwarf planet's surface.

In one study, scientists identify this bright material as a kind of salt. The second study suggests the detection of ammonia-rich clays, raising questions about how Ceres formed.



This representation of Ceres' Occator Crater in false colors shows differences in the surface composition. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA