FA18 extended view of Space Shuttle Endeavours flyover Southern California
This is such an amazing video! Make sure to watch it in HD if you can.
FA18 extended view of Space Shuttle Endeavours flyover Southern California
Posts from the ‘Science’ Category
Sep 27
Twenty-nine of history’s most iconic scientists in one photograph
How would you feel to be the dumbest person in the room with all these people?
Twenty-nine of history’s most iconic scientists in one photograph – now in color!.
Neil Armstrong, 1930-2012: ‘The Gift of Apollo’ from ‘The Sagan Series’
Neil Armstrong died today. He was as true of a hero as there ever was. This video of Carl Sagan narrating footage from the Apollo years is a fitting tribute to Armstrong’s accomplishments.
A Map Of 149 Years of Hurricane History: 1851-2010
Here’s a really cool map of 159 years of hurricane data. It’s not complete, but a pretty comprehensive one for sure. What I want to know is how they tracked hurricanes in 1851. I assume there were stations on various islands in the Atlantic and the data is nowhere nearly as complete as we have today, considering satellites and other technology. I also love how this map has Antarctica at its center.
Dazzling Map Shows More Than 150 Years of Hurricanes | Hurricane Map | LiveScience.
What Would It Look Like Orbiting Mars?
If you were an astronaut in orbit around Mars, what would it look like? Here’s an idea.
Full orbit: How an astronaut will view Mars from orbit – YouTube.
Curiosity’s Descent Onto Mars
Absolutely amazing! First NASA records the descent of the Huygens probe on Titan. Now NASA places a camera on the bottom of the Curiosity Rover for it’s descent onto the Martian surface yesterday evening. What will NASA do next?
NASA Capture’s Venus Transit Across The Sun
Here’s a really cool video of yesterday’s Venus transit across the sun. I managed to get a cool picture myself of the transit on my iPhone in a telescope view finder, which was total luck. But nothing compares to what NASA is capable of capturing from their fleet of satellites observing the sun and that they can have a video like this ready in less than 24 hours.
Europa Has More Water Than Earth
Even though Jupiter’s moon Europa is a fraction the size of Earth’s, it has more water than the Earth itself. I think that’s pretty amazing. And wouldn’t it be a little weird if all that water didn’t produce at least a single microbe of life? Less water produced all the life as we know it on Earth. Just sayin’.
Europa possesses a deep, global ocean of liquid water beneath a layer of surface ice. The subsurface ocean plus ice layer could range from 80 to 170 kilometers in average depth. Adopting an estimate of 100 kilometers depth, if all the water on Europa were gathered into a ball it would have a radius of 877 kilometers. To scale, this … compares that hypothetical ball of all the water on Europa to the size of Europa itself – and similarly to all the water on planet Earth … Â a volume 2-3 times the volume of water in Earth’s oceans …
Lennart Nilsson’s 1969 Photos Of ‘In Vivo Human Embryos’
In light of my wife giving birth to our first child this week, a daughter, I thought it appropriate to share a really incredible book of photography of ‘in vivo human embryos’ by the Swedish photography Lennart Nilsson. The photographs and book were released in 1969, a time when it was believed impossible to take such photographs. The pictures are absolutely stunning even today, 43 years later.
The Family that Went to the Moon
Talk about posterity. In April of 1972, the Apollo 16 mission touched down on the moon and conducted three EVAs. Charlie Duke and John Young explored the Descartes Highlands by foot and in a Lunar Roving Vehicle. On the third and final EVA, Charlie Duke left this photo of his family. This photo will be sitting on the surface of the moon for a very, very, very long time.
