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    COMMANCHEDobyvani vesmiru a kosmonautika 🚀🛰️👩🏼‍🚀
    VIRGO
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    DARKMOOR: To potrvá ještě čtvrt století, než bude eLISA měřit.
    Ale za chvilku bude v Itálii hotový projekt VIRGO (po upgradu), pak LIGO India,
    a pak Japonci, co na to jdou ještě jinak. LIGO jsou zatím na třetinovém výkonu,
    za chvíli je opět zavřou, a provedou další upgrade. Tak za dva roky bude husto.
    DARKMOOR
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    ARCHIMEDES: To budou hodně zajímavé výsledky až gravitační vlny zachytí LIGO i LISA. Jsou od sebe kus cesty, tak se bude krásně určovat pozice zdroje. To budou žně :)
    ARCHIMEDES
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    NECROMAN: Zatím byly počítané (cokoliv jiného než triviální případy vyžaduje právě ten velký výpočetní výkon) a pozorované jen nepřímo, jako interptetace zkracování oběžné doby rádiových pulzarů (a už na tohle padla jedna Nobelova cena).
    Tohle je první PŘÍMÁ detekce gravitačních vln a první pozorování (a charakterizace) nějakého objektu výhradně pomocí nich.
    Je to myslím srovnatelné s tím, když H.Hertz přímo prokázal existenci elektromagnetického vlnění. A technicky je to jako by se povedlo v jaderné fúzi překonat "breakeven" (energie vydaná > vložená). Taky se ví, že to musí jít, ale až se to OPRAVDU povede, bude to důvod pro velkou party.
    Mimochodem, LIGO teď projektu LISA namastilo schody (LISA nebude první) a zároveň pomohlo (je jasné, že bude užitečné a ne jen drahá hračka).
    NECROMAN
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    Zajimave, jiz radu let jsem pocital v programu Einstein@home a mel jsem za to, ze gravitacni vlny jsou hotova vec. Tak me celkem prekvapil ten humbuk ted kolem toho
    Einstein@Home
    http://www.einsteinathome.org/
    VIRGO
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    Nejsladší čtvrtek této dekády!



    CLUMP
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    I found a couple of neat HRSC images from May and June 2014 showing some really high altitude clouds. I really don't know what to make of them, I haven't seen clouds like them in Mars images before. These images are through the instrument's green filter. There are corresponding blue filter images, although for whatever reason that color channel is a lot noisier than the green. I've tried to brighten the clouds without overexposing the surface; I still need to figure out where the spacecraft was looking when it took these images...



    Hi-res: https://www.flickr.com/photos/132160802@N06/24829566772/



    Hi-res: https://www.flickr.com/photos/132160802@N06/24854226741/

    Zdroj: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=6828&view=findpost&p=229492
    CLUMP
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    Putting Pluto’s Geology on the Map
    http://www.nasa.gov/feature/putting-pluto-s-geology-on-the-map



    How to make sense of Pluto’s surprising geological complexity? To help understand the diversity of terrain and to piece together how Pluto’s surface has formed and evolved over time, mission scientists construct geological maps like the one shown above.

    This map covers a portion of Pluto’s surface that measures 1,290 miles (2,070 kilometers) from top to bottom, and includes the vast nitrogen-ice plain informally named Sputnik Planum and surrounding terrain. As the key in the figure below indicates, the map is overlaid with colors that represent different geological terrains. Each terrain, or unit, is defined by its texture and morphology – smooth, pitted, craggy, hummocky or ridged, for example. How well a unit can be defined depends on the resolution of the images that cover it. All of the terrain in this map has been imaged at a resolution of approximately 1,050 feet (320 meters) per pixel or better, meaning scientists can map units with relative confidence.
    CLUMP
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    Meet "Hedgehog": Engineers build cube-like rover for exploration of asteroids, comets
    http://phys.org/news/2016-02-hedgehog-cube-like-rover-exploration-asteroids.html

    Meet Hedgehog, who could become our guide to exploring the small bodies such as asteroids and comets whirling about the solar system. Designed by Stanford's Marco Pavone, assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics, and Ben Hockman, graduate student in mechanical engineering, this space rover has no wheels for rolling, no arms for grabbing and no legs for stepping. It's just a single overgrown die with the ability to hop and tumble itself across the unknown terrain of asteroids, comets and small moons. And while Hedgehog is not yet part of any planned space missions, the rover's research team recently cleared a significant hurdle along the way to turning their block robot into a space-exploration dynamo.

    CLUMP
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    Curiosity update, sols 1218-1249: Digging in the sand at Bagnold Dunes | The Planetary Society
    http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/02100935-curiosity-update-sols-1218-1249.html

    Curiosity has spent the last month sampling and processing dark sand scooped from the slip face of an active Martian sand dune. The activity saw some mission firsts. Sol 1228 was the first time that the rover took advantage of a special screen inside the CHIMRA sample mechanism to sieve sand into multiple size fractions; the rover delivered a sample of the intermediate-sized fraction to SAM on sol 1230. But the very next sol, the rover experienced an anomaly with CHIMRA that has not yet been resolved. The anomaly forced them to cut short the planned sampling activities, and they left the sample site on sol 1244. Two sols before they left, the MAHLI team, working closely with the rover drivers, captured the closest-ever images of a science target on the surface of Mars, capturing a photo with a scale of 15.6 micrometers per pixel of the fine grains sieved from the Namib dune sand.



    THERIDANE
    THERIDANE --- ---
    rozhovor s A. C. Clarke a R. Heinlein pár hodin po přistání Apollo 11

    Mondo Cult Presents Walter Cronkite Apollo 11 Interview with Robert A. Heinlein & Arthur C. Clarke
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMAmk5Rp1tk
    THERIDANE
    THERIDANE --- ---
    XCHAOS: nechcou, aby Západ okopíroval jejich revoluční technologii
    XCHAOS
    XCHAOS --- ---
    Chris B - NSF on Twitter: "Kwangmyongsong-4 launch success confusion: North Korea "exploded" the first stage after staging to *avoid* its recovery. #NonSpaceXApproach"
    https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/696172279407972352
    NEXIS_CZ
    NEXIS_CZ --- ---
    SpaceX na twitteru:
    Our 212-foot tall Transporter Erector went vertical on Pad 39A today. Built to support Falcon 9 and Heavy
    VIRGO
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    Parádně zeditovaný timelapse kladení segmentů:
    Science Channel on Twitter: "Incredible time-lapse footage of the James Webb Space Telescope primary mirror assembly! https://t.co/65hQTsIzyy"
    https://twitter.com/ScienceChannel/status/695717361765191681
    VIRGO
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    Pro všechny co to dnes nestihli jako já...
    Atlas V, GPS IIF-12, Cape Canaveral, 5. 2. 2016
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQT48Fz6a_s



    CLUMP
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    Pluto’s Mysterious, Floating Hills
    http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-s-mysterious-floating-hills

    The nitrogen ice glaciers on Pluto appear to carry an intriguing cargo: numerous, isolated hills that may be fragments of water ice from Pluto’s surrounding uplands. These hills individually measure one to several miles or kilometers across, according to images and data from NASA’s New Horizons mission.

    The hills, which are in the vast ice plain informally named Sputnik Planum within Pluto’s ‘heart,’ are likely miniature versions of the larger, jumbled mountains on Sputnik Planum’s western border. They are yet another example of Pluto’s fascinating and abundant geological activity.

    Because water ice is less dense than nitrogen-dominated ice, scientists believe these water ice hills are floating in a sea of frozen nitrogen and move over time like icebergs in Earth’s Arctic Ocean. The hills are likely fragments of the rugged uplands that have broken away and are being carried by the nitrogen glaciers into Sputnik Planum. ‘Chains’ of the drifting hills are formed along the flow paths of the glaciers. When the hills enter the cellular terrain of central Sputnik Planum, they become subject to the convective motions of the nitrogen ice, and are pushed to the edges of the cells, where the hills cluster in groups reaching up to 12 miles (20 kilometers) across.

    CLUMP
    CLUMP --- ---
    Cassini Solstice Mission: Saturn's Rings: Less than Meets the Eye?
    http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cassinifeatures/feature20160202/

    Fast Facts:

    * Researchers "weighed" the central parts of Saturn's most massive ring for the first time.
    * The results confirm that more opaque areas in the rings do not necessarily contain more material.
    * Research on the mass of Saturn's rings has important implications for their age.

    CLUMP
    CLUMP --- ---
    Fun with a new data set: Chang'e 3 lander and Yutu rover camera data | The Planetary Society
    http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/01281656-fun-with-a-new-data-set-change.html

    So, space fans, without further ado, here, for the first time in a format easily accessible to the public, are hundreds and hundreds of science-quality images from the Chang'e 3 lander and Yutu rover. I don't usually host entire data sets (PDS-formatted and all) but I made an exception in this case because the Chinese website is a bit challenging to use.

    * Chang'e 3 Yutu rover panoramic camera (PCAM) data released as of January 20, 2016
    * Chang'e 3 lander terrain camera data (TCAM) released as of January 20, 2016

    And here are just a few of the goodies contained therein. You may want to keep Phil Stooke's landing site map and Yutu route map handy for reference as you look through these!

    CLUMP
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    Mysterious Martian "Cauliflower" May Be the Latest Hint of Alien Life | Science | Smithsonian
    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...martian-cauliflower-may-be-latest-hint-alien-life-180957981/?no-ist

    In 2008, scientists announced that NASA’s Spirit rover had discovered deposits of a mineral called opaline silica inside Mars's Gusev crater. That on its own is not as noteworthy as the silica’s shape: Its outer layers are covered in tiny nodules that look like heads of cauliflower sprouting from the red dirt.

    No one knows for sure how those shapes—affectionately called “micro-digitate silica protrusions”—formed. But based on recent discoveries in a Chilean desert, Steven Ruff and Jack Farmer, both of Arizona State University in Tempe, think the silica might have been sculpted by microbes. At a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December, they made the case that these weird minerals might be our best targets for identifying evidence of past life on Mars.

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