Starship Asterisk*

They were able to turn it to get more sunlight. Looks like Philae is not yet dead.

Philae's adventure doesn't seem to be over. New information reveals its stuck sideways between rocks. Aside from the doability of some experiments the shadows there are threatening the power supply. Alright, most of us here know that Rosetta, its lander, and other missions are all providing valuable...

Indigo_Sunrise wrote:Plus, they think it may have bounced.

It bounced and has landed 3 times but seems to be stable now. It already has send a panorama of the landing sight.

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images ... to_a_comet

Cannonball from the last battle on Mars.

That...or ALLOT of shielding....Jupiter's Magnetosphere is very energetic, I hear....plus, just being out there for ages just to get somewhere, even Earth Orbit poses radiation dangers...the whole environment is hostile to us. A LEAD hollow core ship, and living inside that while traveling I suppos...

The comet's "crooked ion tail" is interesting. Ions are charged atoms, so the changes in its direction must be from magnetic effects. Or could it be caused by rotation and difference in chemical composition and resulting grades of ionisation? The structure of a comet's ion tail is determi...

BDanielMayfield wrote: The comet's "crooked ion tail" is interesting. Ions are charged atoms, so the changes in its direction must be from magnetic effects.

Or could it be caused by rotation and difference in chemical composition and resulting grades of ionisation?

APOD Robot wrote:the lifeless spacesuit

That's, what they told us... "whoooooo"

That was obvious. But what is it made of?

What are those small ridges on the ground on the left side of the picture?

Some old cracks filled with harder material? The rover drove over the big one. The material seems white or light grey.

With that weather we'll never see ISON.

As it looks like an animal skin I propose "The Golden Fleece Nebula" honouring the old Greeks' fantastic stories.

More kind of Ghost Horse Nebula.


Let's find its headless rider.

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There is no Mt. Sharp on Mars. It's Aeolis Mons in the picture.

Now we know how it is done.

The core of Saturn is a giant super crystal which symmentry leads to vortexes in the upper atmosphere.



I made that up, of course. But who knows. Maybe I am right in the end and the phenomenon will be named after me.

In 5000 years scientists will ask what this construction was made for.

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Astronymus wrote:

Ann wrote:A green "orb" or patch is seen to the upper left of Aldebaran in the Hyades. The green object looks like a comet. But surely there is no comet there right now?

Ann

Lens flare?

I think it's a flare from the moon that is above the photo if I'm correct.

I think so too.

Ann wrote:A green "orb" or patch is seen to the upper left of Aldebaran in the Hyades. The green object looks like a comet. But surely there is no comet there right now?

Ann

Lens flare?

Buzatti wrote:Sorry, my friends, but I see the form of a white cross, even with the shadows inside the larger crater on the right??

Yeah, means: Jesus was here.

Amazing pictures. Maybe Vesta was part of a larger protoplanet which might explain the differnt hemispheres. Maybe the composition and density differs due to the position in the body of the hypothetical former protoplanet. Or maybe Vesta was baked together from two different bodies in the young sola...

b wrote:there is a faint streak of white light appearing at the upper right or left of image which is barely visible in hires. what could that be? meteor? space junk? iss? a satellite? an asteroid ??

It's my starship reentering Earth's atmosphere. Sorry for ruining this picture.