The Space Thread

the presence of water ice was never in doubt, water ice is a very significant constituent of everything past ~saturn. what's neat is that it's red, which i'd imagine is from contained tholins (complex organic hydrocarbons). not sure if we do, or will have, any spectroscopy info etc that might let us identify specific tholins. that would be fantastic though

nice bit about riverbed rocks on mars

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34490337

i hope they're gonna find better/advanced bacterias or other kinds of slugs or a three-headed giraffe. yay! happy dayz! we're not alone in this universe!

  On 10/10/2015 at 10:15 PM, xox said:

i hope they're gonna find better/advanced bacterias or other kinds of slugs or a three-headed giraffe. yay! happy dayz! we're not alone in this universe!

well, we're not, they're just a bit farther away

Create a self-sustaining ecosystem on Mars that can grow several billion tons of psychedelic mushrooms per year. Fill Mars with 100 million cats, whose diet consists of shrooms. Wait a million years and see how fast their internet is. The End.

NASA unveils plan to establish colony on Mars. Awesome. Your children might be Martians one day.

http://www.iflscience.com/nasa-unveils-its-plan-send-humans-mars-permanently

  On 10/12/2015 at 1:29 PM, peace 7 said:

Create a self-sustaining ecosystem on Mars that can grow several billion tons of psychedelic mushrooms per year. Fill Mars with 100 million cats, whose diet consists of shrooms. Wait a million years and see how fast their internet is. The End.

will c u there, bro. rock and roll dreams always come thru <3

Holy shit, that's excellent. C U THERE~~~~~

i just hope more people draw their interpretations of random peace7 posts. watmm pls.

Mars Rover selfie

New images of Veil Nebula, AKA NGC 4639 from Hubble Space Telescope:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html

jupiter in 4k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3afEX8a2jPg

aliens y'all

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy/410023/?utm_source=SFFB

oxygen found in the atmosphere of comet 67P/churyumov-gerasimenko

  On 10/9/2015 at 3:29 PM, Tricone RC said:

the presence of water ice was never in doubt, water ice is a very significant constituent of everything past ~saturn. what's neat is that it's red

yum yum

  On 10/12/2015 at 1:29 PM, peace 7 said:

Create a self-sustaining ecosystem on Mars that can grow several billion tons of psychedelic mushrooms per year. Fill Mars with 100 million cats, whose diet consists of shrooms. Wait a million years and see how fast their internet is. The End.

lol internet, they'll just have dreaded fur and drool a lot. plus listen to mystical meowstep in huge raves covering half the planet..

scientists just witnessed the birth of a new planet

https://youtu.be/vp37oQgTmX4

Cygnus successfully lifted off to deliver supplies to the ISS.

http://gizmodo.com/success-cygnus-launches-in-first-mission-since-antares-1746059529

X-37B Drone Shuttle breaks 200 days in orbit:

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/us-air-forces-x-37b-space-plane-wings-124416763.html

Japanese probe Akatsuki is in orbit around Venus:

http://gizmodo.com/confirmed-akatsuki-is-in-orbit-around-venus-1746553195

Logarithmic map of the entire Universe

http://www.iflscience.com/space/artist-creates-awesome-map-universe-single-image

amazing new shot from hst. newborn star with jets, surrounded by a cloud that will likely collapse into a disc and ball up into planets

spent some time looking into the news about compelling evidence of a large, distant planet in the solar system. the indications do seem quite strong. look at this picture:

the purple orbits are the larger objects that are beyond neptune at their closest approach. see how they are all on one side, and seem to wrap around a ring (the gold ring that's the hypothesized planet's orbit)? seems like something is clearing the way and thats why you dont see the purple orbits elsewhere. but that's not even the most compelling thing, those purple orbits are going against the plane of the solar system! apparently orbits can be twisted that way by the orbits of larger bodies. plus there are other indications, like deviations of kuiper belt objects, this article goes into some detail on the set of evidence. they're saying its between 1 and 10 time's earth's mass, and the periodicity is something like 10 or 20 thousand years.

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Yea Space!

Orion Crew Module is now completely assembled:

http://gizmodo.com/nasa-has-completed-welding-together-the-orion-spacecraf-1754698681