The Space Thread

first public photo from X-37B

ESA ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover, capable of digging 2 meters below the surface of Mars.

  On 2/22/2025 at 12:44 PM, Rubin Farr said:

first public photo from X-37B

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never heard about the X-37B before. Images look quite IDM: 

A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to have once been the site of an ancient sea, providing further evidence that the planet long ago had a large ocean.

The now-inactive rover, called Zhurong, operated for a year, between May 2021 and May 2022. It traveled 1.9 kilometers (1.2 miles) roughly perpendicular to escarpments thought to be an ancient shoreline from a time — 4 billion years ago — when Mars had a thicker atmosphere and a warmer climate.

Along its path, the rover used ground penetrating radar (GPR) to probe up to 80 meters (260 feet) beneath the surface. The radar images showed thick layers of material along the entire path, all pointing upward toward the putative shoreline at about a 15-degree angle, nearly identical to the angle of beach deposits on Earth. Deposits of this thickness on Earth would have taken millions of years to form, suggesting that Mars had a long-lived body of water with wave action to distribute the sediments along a sloping shoreline.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1074164

https://www.space.com/the-universe/mars/ancient-beach-on-mars-discovered-by-chinas-zhurong-mars-rover-this-strengthens-the-case-for-past-habitability

"Firefly's Blue Ghost lander captured more incredible footage of the Moon during its third lunar orbit maneuver on February 24 that inserted the spacecraft in a near-circular low lunar orbit. The footage below, sped up by 10X, was captured about 100 km above the lunar surface, showing the far side of the Moon and a top-down view of Blue Ghost's RCS thrusters (center) and radiator panels on each side. The radiator panels are moving nominally to protect Blue Ghost's subsystems from extreme temperatures."

The music for this is shit, suggest watching it on mute with Pete Namlook and Tetsu Inoue - "62 Eulengasse" on. I'm going to make a lazy 1 hour loop and throw that up sometime.

NASA SPHEREx space observatory scheduled to launch Sunday:

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-spherex-space-observatory-launch-map-galaxies-universe-rcna190877

  On 2/28/2025 at 5:07 AM, chenGOD said:

"Firefly's Blue Ghost lander captured more incredible footage of the Moon during its third lunar orbit maneuver on February 24 that inserted the spacecraft in a near-circular low lunar orbit. The footage below, sped up by 10X, was captured about 100 km above the lunar surface, showing the far side of the Moon and a top-down view of Blue Ghost's RCS thrusters (center) and radiator panels on each side. The radiator panels are moving nominally to protect Blue Ghost's subsystems from extreme temperatures."

The music for this is shit, suggest watching it on mute with Pete Namlook and Tetsu Inoue - "62 Eulengasse" on. I'm going to make a lazy 1 hour loop and throw that up sometime.

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They have touchdown!

very pretty!

https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/unproven-einstein-theory-of-gravitational-memory-may-be-real-after-all-new-study-hints?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&fbclid=IwY2xjawI-2TpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHW3h32JW9Dkwa1Fr1NyF4VKALx15SQv5wt9Xo5Fq59FAmoMdALebjFpqoA_aem_ZMQa2Hy6LhA3zDmjAw2kqA

  On 3/12/2025 at 9:18 PM, Rubin Farr said:

https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/unproven-einstein-theory-of-gravitational-memory-may-be-real-after-all-new-study-hints?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&fbclid=IwY2xjawI-2TpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHW3h32JW9Dkwa1Fr1NyF4VKALx15SQv5wt9Xo5Fq59FAmoMdALebjFpqoA_aem_ZMQa2Hy6LhA3zDmjAw2kqA

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thats really interesting - I made me start a deep search about what kind of other theories he had that are not really well known

tesla was kind of similar in this regard 

Shuttle Atlantis 

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/dark-energy-changing-understanding-rcna197386

Einstein rings around Hydrus, via JWST

https://noirlab.edu/public/education/constellations/hydrus/