At last: Rosetta's Mars flyby photos have been released! | The Planetary Society
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2012/3340.html

On February 24, 2007, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft passed by Mars, the second of four planetary gravity-assist flybys on its long route to a 2014 rendezvous with comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. At the time, they released two photos from the main science camera, OSIRIS. One was a very pretty high-resolution view of Mars and the other a nifty little animation of Phobos flying over Mars.

We knew from the published Rosetta Mars flyby timeline that OSIRIS took a great many more pictures during that time, but no more OSIRIS images were ever released by ESA, until now. The OSIRIS principal investigator was notoriously tight-fisted with data, but he's now retired, and his replacement Holger Sierks has apparently unclogged the data pipeline. At the end of November, they suddenly released a huge quantity of data covering the first two (out of three) Earth flybys, the Mars flyby, and several sets of data from cruise periods between these encounters. Such riches!



As Mars loomed in Rosetta's forward view, it caught Phobos in the act of transiting the planet. You may need to enlarge the view to see Phobos' tiny dark speck.
ESA / MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / RSSD / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA / processed by Emily Lakdawalla

The Frozen Canyons of Pluto’s North Pole
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/the-frozen-canyons-of-pluto-s-north-pole

This ethereal scene captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft tells yet another story of Pluto’s diversity of geological and compositional features—this time in an enhanced color image of the north polar area.

TOXICMAN: prostě tahák :)

Neil Armstrong’s left EV glove, close-up of commander’s EV checklist on gauntlet

Dawn LAMO Image 33
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20387

Nepříznivé důsledky dlouhodobého pobytu v mikrogravitaci
A Gorilla Was Just Spotted On International Space Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFc1XWEkhpM

Pluto’s ‘Hulk-like’ Moon Charon: A Possible Ancient Ocean?
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-s-hulk-like-moon-charon-a-possible-ancient-ocean

Pluto’s largest moon may have gotten too big for its own skin. Images from NASA’s New Horizons mission suggest that Pluto’s moon Charon once had a subsurface ocean that has long since frozen and expanded, pushing outward and causing the moon’s surface to stretch and fracture on a massive scale.

This 'Classified Alien Music' the Internet Is Freaking Out Over Is Not Classified, Alien, or Music
http://gizmodo.com/this-classified-alien-music-the-internet-is-freaking-ou-1760628645

This is the bumper sticker NASA’s New Horizon team have on their cars...

Lost Tapes Reveal Apollo Astronauts Heard Unexplained ‘Music’ On Far Side Of The Moon
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...auts-reported-unexplained-music-at-moon_us_56c80662e4b0928f5a6c0679

"It sounds like, you know, outer space-type music."
"You hear that? That whistling sound? Whooooooooo!"
"Well, that sure is weird music!"
"It's unbelievable! You know?"
"Shall we tell them about it?"
"I don't know. We ought to think about it."

:/ Tož bitvu som presrál, hale dobre sa vyspál...

Astro-H se úspěšně oddělila od nosiče. To vzali pěkným fofrem.

Support grows for a return to ice giants Uranus and Neptune | Science News
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/support-grows-return-ice-giants-uranus-and-neptune

Thirty years ago, the Voyager 2 spacecraft tore past Uranus, then flew by Neptune less than four years later. These quick sojourns introduced scientists to two planets that had been vague blue splotches in their telescopes. In the years since, bigger and better instruments have teased out a bit more information and revealed a few surprises.

But there’s only so much planetary scientists can learn from a couple billion kilometers away. That’s why researchers in both the United States and Europe think it’s time to go back to Uranus or Neptune — the solar system’s “ice giants.” Unlike the show-stopping flyby of Pluto in 2015, a new mission to one of the blue worlds would have more time to take in the view.

A new hope for a microphone on Mars: Enhancing Mars 2020 science with sound | The Planetary Society
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/bruce-betts/2016/0215-mars-2020-microphone.html

When the Mars 2020 rover lands, we may finally hear the first audio recordings from the Martian surface. The Planetary Society has been working for decades to land a Mars Microphone, something that would add a second human sense to the amazing imagery we currently get, and would be very engaging and exciting for not only scientists, but also for the general public. Unfortunately, the only two such instruments to have launched suffered sad fates. The first Planetary Society Mars Microphone crashed with Mars Polar Lander. The second microphone to fly to Mars, on Phoenix, was never turned on because of the potential for an electronic problem. The payload of the ExoMars 2018 rover may include infrasound and pressure sensors that could produce sound-like recordings. In an abstract submitted to the 2016 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (PDF), members of the Mars 2020 SuperCam team explain how including a microphone on their instrument could support their science -- and record sounds on Mars.

DARKMOOR: Konečně! Už se těším.