Alien Anomalies

qmantoo

The unique light pattern of KIC 8462852, could be the work of aliens after all. 3 scientists .. 3 opinions .. what do you think ?

masjosh

Beginning with Apollo 13, the S-IVB rocket stages were deliberately impacted on the lunar surface after they were used. Seismometers placed on the moon by earlier Apollo astronauts measured the energy of these impacts to shed light on the internal lunar structure. Locations of the crater...

masjosh

Every day our knowledge of our universe is expanding and with it old theories are being overturned, but Panspermia (the theory that life on earth was seeded from outer space) is beginning to take on a new credibility within the scientific community. The idea of Panspermia is that life was brought to e...

Xenon

I must have missed this one. Dont know when they released these. I am really pleased to say it appears that the Chinese have released some data sets of their Lunar mapping missions Chang'e 1 and Chang'e 2 On Planetry.org there...

ICEMAN

Do you think Space colonization is a good idea? I think it would be great to colonize the moon, Mars, Phobos, and Mercury's North Pole. I also think it would be a good idea to build a magnetic field and an Atmosphere on the moon and possibly Mars.

ICEMAN

Russia plans unmanned moon mission in 2015http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/01/15/russia-space-agency-space-moon-2015.html

Levelwind

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=water-mars-carbonat...

qmantoo

http://signal.forumotion.com/t87-nasa-img-conversion-for-lroc-images

geomeo

Nature has regular or repeating patterns, but it is generally living things like plants and animals which make those patterns. Where we see patterns, we can appreciate them for their uniqueness and wonder how they were made. Yes, some are made by natural geological processes or wind rain or erosion...

qmantoo

RBSP to explore decades-old radiation belt mysteries Posted By Jason Davies 2012/08/24 11:01 CDT It is said that one of Dr. James Van Allen's colleagues uttered...

qmantoo

Daily Mail UK It does look like an asteroid and it is definitely in that photo, but is it really out there? Google wi...

gbull

not sure where to put this thread guys, move if you want! i find it very odd that the Huygens probe had an acoustic mic on it. when none of the mars probes had them? sure, there was a mic on a probe that was lost i believe, but why wasn't that a standard piece of equipment? for MARS!? i watched season 6, epi...

qmantoo

NASA to launch Moon-bound twin spacecraft This is all very strange.... and why the rush? Often we are told that there are so few space windows that spacecraft can only launch a relatively few times...

ICEMAN

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/news/juno20110830.html

qmantoo

There have been a couple comments and questions about why spacecraft photos are in black and white rather than color. I thought I'd do a very short tutorial and then go into detail if people had more questions. Some of the explanations are intentioally simplistic (and not rigorously correct) to keep...

qmantoo

Just a question: how fast is a radio signal in outer space?

qmantoo

So, they say that they will concentrate on the new Mars Rover from now on.... No new close-up images - which is hardly surprising. I doubt there is anything left now. Link to article

Eaol

There is some interesting work in space archaeology from a Nasa-sponsored laboratory in Birmingham, Alabama. 1000's of buried tombs and 17 'lost' pyramids found in Egypt. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13522957 An infra-red satellite image shows a buried pyramid, located in the centre...

Eaol

Photo Credit: Mel Acheson, C.J.Ransom Jul 02, 2004 Craters in the LabPlanetary scientists have long assumed that most craters in the solar system are due to impact. But laboratory experiments reveal that electrical discharge can replicate observed cratering patterns in surprising ways. How...

Eaol

Total solar eclipse as the statues of Easter Island look on ... Credit: Guillaume Blanchard

Mark Anthony

Posted by Eaol: -------------------- I don't need to explain this much more. Hexagons don't form from the tiny lightning strikes on Earth any more than miniature impact craters. It takes a huge discharge to form a hexagon shape on most natural surfaces. On Earth lightning strikes only form sph...

Eaol

"They are afraid. They are terrified ..." Fortunately there are cracks starting running through the scientific community, which are separating the honest ones from those, who whilst lacking intellectual capacities and holding on their "hidden" agendas, decided t...

Eaol

Credit: Stardust Team, JPL, NASA Jul 01, 2004 The Jets of Comet Wild 2The jet structure on comet Wild 2 is radically different from what orthodox comet models anticipated. Such jets pose no problem for the electrical model.NASA's Stardust spacecraft snapped these photos of Comet Wild 2 on Januar...

Eaol

Credit: A. Zijlstra (UMIST) et al., ESA, NASA Jul 07, 2004 NGC 6302: Bug NebulaA hundred years ago astronomers assumed that any body larger than an asteroid would be constrained by gravity to a spherical shape. But as telescopes got better, reality intruded.Planetary nebulae in particular,...

qmantoo

Anyone who feels they know what Scientific Methods are, please contribute. I found this on the electric-cosmos.org site and I guess it sums up pretty well what we should be aiming for if we want our theories to be accepted by science. Observe nature - carefully record what is seen. Seek patterns in the...

One single drop

„Tyche“, a supposed giant planet in our solar system. The PASTSource: http://web.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/tchester/iras/washington_post_mystery_object.html „Washington Post Mystery Heavenly Body Discovered, a front page story 31-Dec-1983A heavenly body possibly as large as the gi...

marsrocks

Item A001 ----------- I thought you might like to read the short dialogue I had with an eminent astronomer who has written books, been on radio, TV etc. They work for a well-known research establishment. emails are as received except for names edited out and startings(Dear...) and endings(Yours.....

Eaol

According to wikipedia Tidal Locking occurs when the gravitational gradient makes one side of an astronomical body always face another; for example, one side of the Earth's Moon always faces the Earth. A tidally locked body takes just as long to rotate around its own axis as it does to revolve around...

One single drop

Life and Consequences. I. Mars One of the most difficult Mars missions ever, will be the Sample Return Mission., returning to earth collected samples from several places on the martian surface , in order to analyze them in detail. (see NASA audio conference). Results of the extreme - environment b...

One single drop

Part IIAstrobiology Science Conference 2010 „ Evolution and Life: Surviving Catastrophes and Extremes on Earth and Beyond“, vom 26. bis 29. April 2010 ( An interesting title, isn`t it ? )The huge amount of presented data makes a cutdownselection necessa...

gbull

They have just awarded a company 6.5 million euros to investigate the possibility of sending a robot lander to the moon. Now... in theory, we have already sent a ma...

gbull

[url=http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/mar/02/chandrayaan-detects-ice-deposits-on-...

One single drop

50 Years of Astrobiology Science Astrobiology Science Conference 2010 Logohttp://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ Report about the die Astrobiology Science Conference 2010 „ Evolution and Life: Surviving Catastrophes and Extremes on Earth and Beyond“, 26. - 29. April 201...

Puck

Start media event live from ESA/ESOC The full information: ESA - Rosetta - Rosetta lines up for spectacular asteroid flyby

qmantoo

The Planetary Data System (PDS) is pleased to announce the first release of Chandrayaan-1 Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft (CH-1) Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) data. This first M3 release includes raw (Level 0) and reduced (Level 1B) image data for Optical Period 1, collected between November 18,...

qmantoo

Althouth The watcher pointed out that this could be a biggie, I still do not think people realise what this means. It means that we do not need phosperous to carry out some of the basic processes of life. Arsenic will do just as well. And if we can replace Phosphorus with Arsenic, maybe we can soon replace...

thewatcher · **Posts:** 891

fruitnut1 Veteran Member Posts: 891 Date: Thu Nov 25 17:47 2010 Reply Quote More Edit PostDelete PostPrinter FriendlyBan IPReport Spam Strange explanations as the Meteor Crater (AKA Barrington Crater, AKA Arizona Crater AKA Diablo Canyon) is more a square than a circle or oval look Barrington se...

qmantoo

I thought it may be educational to do a small amount of research on the shape of craters and what we can expect as far as orthodox science currently tells us. The answers to the Ask a Scientist link below are geared to the age of the questioner and so are not necessarily very detailed. Further articles and...

qmantoo

This is an official news channel link to the video of the 'live' coverage. (launched 1st October 2010) The video is the second box down on the left. However, I suspect that this is an animation - rather like the ones on long-haul flig...

gbull

Interesting series of articles from 2009 and onwards about Spaceship One, Two and the future of private space travel. Some other articles report on the recent testing of the new equivalent to the shuttle and to the...

qmantoo

The 4th MSL (Mars Science Laboratory) landing Site Workshop has concluded and many of the presentations are available here. MSL is the former name for the next Mars Rover, now named Curiosity.

qmantoo

http://royalsociety.org/extra-terrestrial-life/ „Towards a scientific and societal agenda on extra-terrestrial life“ Starts: 9.00am on 04 October 2010Finishes: 6.00pm on 05 October 2010 Venue: Kavli Royal Society International Centre Organised by Dr Martin Dominik and Professor...

qmantoo

Surprise , surprise...... "Billions of earthlike worlds out there. " "Are you shure ? " "Could be, could be." "But till yesterday and repeating for decades you always said, it would take very special conditions to create even one single planet. And you a...

One single drop

http://pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/public/ "The combination of relatively small mirrors with very large digital cameras results in an economical observing system that can observe the entire available sky several times each month." "A major goal of Pan-STARRS is to discover...

qmantoo

I found a thread in unmannedspaceflight forum that shows the result of de-fisheyeing the hazcams. Really impressive. for those of you with photoshop the plugin is about 25 dollars.

qmantoo

I got sidetracked today following information about the MUSES-CN rover. I ended up downloading a NASA file 98-0488.pdf which gives the operating specs for the MUSES-CN tiny rover weighing about 1Kg. T...

qmantoo

Apparently they are now saying that the Moon is not as wet as we have recently been led to believe. I wonder if that is going to be the reason why we re not going to build a base there anytime soon? I have thought they would need some very good reason why we dont return, but it seems that people are willing to ac...

qmantoo

The Planetary Data System (PDS) is pleased to announce the release of Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) data from the following instruments: - Mid Infrared Cameras 1 and 2 (MIR1 and MIR2) - Near Infrared Cameras 1 and 2 (NIR1 and NIR2) - Near Infrared Spectrometers 1...

qmantoo

On August 1st, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity. There was a C3-class solar flare, a solar tsunami, multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the stellar surface, large-scale shaking of the solar corona, radio bursts, a coronal mass ejection and more...

OBrien

Very cool image of Saturn's Moon Daphnis stirring up the inner and outer edges of the Keeler Gap. Reference

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	The unique light pattern of KIC 8462852, could be the work of aliens after all (Preview) The unique light pattern of KIC 8462852, could be the work of aliens after all. 3 scientists .. 3 opinions .. what do you think ?	Sat Jan 30 04:53:28 2016 by qmantoo
	Apollo 16’s S-IVB stage found (Preview) Beginning with Apollo 13, the S-IVB rocket stages were deliberately impacted on the lunar surface after they were used. Seismometers placed on the moon by earlier Apollo astronauts measured the energy of these impacts to shed light on the internal lunar structure. Locations of the crater...	Fri Dec 4 00:01:44 2015 by masjosh
	Panspermia (Preview) Every day our knowledge of our universe is expanding and with it old theories are being overturned, but Panspermia (the theory that life on earth was seeded from outer space) is beginning to take on a new credibility within the scientific community. The idea of Panspermia is that life was brought to e...	Mon Nov 23 16:54:21 2015 by masjosh
	Chinese Lunar Data from Chang'e 1 & Chang'e 2 Missions china chinese chang'e-1 chang'e-2 chinese lunar mission (Preview) I must have missed this one. Dont know when they released these. I am really pleased to say it appears that the Chinese have released some data sets of their Lunar mapping missions Chang'e 1 and Chang'e 2 On Planetry.org there...	Tue Dec 17 08:49:17 2013 by Xenon
	Space Colonization (Preview) Do you think Space colonization is a good idea? I think it would be great to colonize the moon, Mars, Phobos, and Mercury's North Pole. I also think it would be a good idea to build a magnetic field and an Atmosphere on the moon and possibly Mars.	Thu Feb 28 06:02:54 2013 by ICEMAN
	Russia plans unmanned moon mission in 2015 (Preview) Russia plans unmanned moon mission in 2015http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/01/15/russia-space-agency-space-moon-2015.html	Tue Jan 22 20:58:13 2013 by ICEMAN
	Mars has no carbon - thus, no life - ever. (Preview) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=water-mars-carbonat...	Sun Nov 25 06:28:44 2012 by Levelwind
	Software to open IMG, TIF, P-TIF files, comparison of quality and discussion image display software comparison IMG TIF P-TIF (Preview) http://signal.forumotion.com/t87-nasa-img-conversion-for-lroc-images	Thu Sep 27 20:26:56 2012 by qmantoo
	Recognising Patterns in Nature - discussions patterns nature signs of life planets geological processes (Preview) Nature has regular or repeating patterns, but it is generally living things like plants and animals which make those patterns. Where we see patterns, we can appreciate them for their uniqueness and wonder how they were made. Yes, some are made by natural geological processes or wind rain or erosion...	Fri Sep 14 10:37:07 2012 by geomeo
	Info about the Van Allen Radiation Belt (Preview) RBSP to explore decades-old radiation belt mysteries Posted By Jason Davies 2012/08/24 11:01 CDT It is said that one of Dr. James Van Allen's colleagues uttered...	Wed Aug 29 12:59:01 2012 by qmantoo
	Could this be a smashing time for us in 2012 ? Asteroid found in Google Earth google asteroid space discovery (Preview) Daily Mail UK It does look like an asteroid and it is definitely in that photo, but is it really out there? Google wi...	Tue Jun 26 20:21:19 2012 by qmantoo
	acoustic mics on probes (Preview) not sure where to put this thread guys, move if you want! i find it very odd that the Huygens probe had an acoustic mic on it. when none of the mars probes had them? sure, there was a mic on a probe that was lost i believe, but why wasn't that a standard piece of equipment? for MARS!? i watched season 6, epi...	Thu Apr 19 12:20:22 2012 by gbull
	NASA to launch Moon-bound twin spacecraft (Preview) NASA to launch Moon-bound twin spacecraft This is all very strange.... and why the rush? Often we are told that there are so few space windows that spacecraft can only launch a relatively few times...	Thu Feb 2 17:54:55 2012 by qmantoo
	Earth / Moon system (Preview) http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/news/juno20110830.html	Fri Sep 2 22:52:36 2011 by ICEMAN
	Color vs. B&W pictures from space missions (Preview) There have been a couple comments and questions about why spacecraft photos are in black and white rather than color. I thought I'd do a very short tutorial and then go into detail if people had more questions. Some of the explanations are intentioally simplistic (and not rigorously correct) to keep...	Fri Jul 1 04:53:08 2011 by qmantoo
	Radio bandwith? (Preview) Just a question: how fast is a radio signal in outer space?	Thu Jun 2 07:31:04 2011 by qmantoo
	Finally NASA has given up on Spirit (Preview) So, they say that they will concentrate on the new Mars Rover from now on.... No new close-up images - which is hardly surprising. I doubt there is anything left now. Link to article	Fri May 27 07:01:46 2011 by qmantoo
	space archaeology (Preview) There is some interesting work in space archaeology from a Nasa-sponsored laboratory in Birmingham, Alabama. 1000's of buried tombs and 17 'lost' pyramids found in Egypt. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13522957 An infra-red satellite image shows a buried pyramid, located in the centre...	Thu May 26 20:35:06 2011 by Eaol
	Craters in the Lab Craters Electric Discharge Crater Clustering (Preview) Photo Credit: Mel Acheson, C.J.Ransom Jul 02, 2004 Craters in the LabPlanetary scientists have long assumed that most craters in the solar system are due to impact. But laboratory experiments reveal that electrical discharge can replicate observed cratering patterns in surprising ways. How...	Sat May 7 17:56:02 2011 by Eaol
	Easter Island eclipse (Preview) Total solar eclipse as the statues of Easter Island look on ... Credit: Guillaume Blanchard	Sat Apr 9 20:02:46 2011 by Eaol
	The Electric Universe Hypothesis ( 1 2 ) (Preview) Posted by Eaol: -------------------- I don't need to explain this much more. Hexagons don't form from the tiny lightning strikes on Earth any more than miniature impact craters. It takes a huge discharge to form a hexagon shape on most natural surfaces. On Earth lightning strikes only form sph...	Mon Mar 28 06:08:49 2011 by Mark Anthony
	New evidence for lifesigns in meteorites or Who the hell `s turning the tides ( on earth ) ? . (Preview) "They are afraid. They are terrified ..." Fortunately there are cracks starting running through the scientific community, which are separating the honest ones from those, who whilst lacking intellectual capacities and holding on their "hidden" agendas, decided t...	Sat Mar 26 00:51:53 2011 by Eaol
	The Jets of Comet Wild 2 Comets Jet (Preview) Credit: Stardust Team, JPL, NASA Jul 01, 2004 The Jets of Comet Wild 2The jet structure on comet Wild 2 is radically different from what orthodox comet models anticipated. Such jets pose no problem for the electrical model.NASA's Stardust spacecraft snapped these photos of Comet Wild 2 on Januar...	Sat Mar 26 00:45:34 2011 by Eaol
	NGC 6302: Bug Nebula planetary nebulae double layers electric discharge plasma paradigm (Preview) Credit: A. Zijlstra (UMIST) et al., ESA, NASA Jul 07, 2004 NGC 6302: Bug NebulaA hundred years ago astronomers assumed that any body larger than an asteroid would be constrained by gravity to a spherical shape. But as telescopes got better, reality intruded.Planetary nebulae in particular,...	Sat Mar 26 00:19:02 2011 by Eaol
	Scientific Methods Thread (Preview) Anyone who feels they know what Scientific Methods are, please contribute. I found this on the electric-cosmos.org site and I guess it sums up pretty well what we should be aiming for if we want our theories to be accepted by science. Observe nature - carefully record what is seen. Seek patterns in the...	Wed Mar 23 01:33:22 2011 by qmantoo
	"TYCHE" - Update - A "New" planet in our own solar system. (Preview) „Tyche“, a supposed giant planet in our solar system. The PASTSource: http://web.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/tchester/iras/washington_post_mystery_object.html „Washington Post Mystery Heavenly Body Discovered, a front page story 31-Dec-1983A heavenly body possibly as large as the gi...	Tue Feb 22 09:03:26 2011 by One single drop
	Questions to and responses from 'officials' thread (Preview) Item A001 ----------- I thought you might like to read the short dialogue I had with an eminent astronomer who has written books, been on radio, TV etc. They work for a well-known research establishment. emails are as received except for names edited out and startings(Dear...) and endings(Yours.....	Thu Feb 3 01:44:45 2011 by marsrocks
	Tidal locking and the frontiers of Physics (Preview) According to wikipedia Tidal Locking occurs when the gravitational gradient makes one side of an astronomical body always face another; for example, one side of the Earth's Moon always faces the Earth. A tidally locked body takes just as long to rotate around its own axis as it does to revolve around...	Thu Feb 3 00:00:05 2011 by Eaol
	Astrobiology Science Conference 2010 - Part III (Preview) Life and Consequences. I. Mars One of the most difficult Mars missions ever, will be the Sample Return Mission., returning to earth collected samples from several places on the martian surface , in order to analyze them in detail. (see NASA audio conference). Results of the extreme - environment b...	Fri Jan 21 06:24:24 2011 by One single drop
	Astrobiology Science Conference 2010 - Part II (Preview) Part IIAstrobiology Science Conference 2010 „ Evolution and Life: Surviving Catastrophes and Extremes on Earth and Beyond“, vom 26. bis 29. April 2010 ( An interesting title, isn`t it ? )The huge amount of presented data makes a cutdownselection necessa...	Tue Dec 21 17:02:58 2010 by One single drop
	Why would the ESA want to re-invent the wheel? (Preview) They have just awarded a company 6.5 million euros to investigate the possibility of sending a robot lander to the moon. Now... in theory, we have already sent a ma...	Mon Dec 20 14:04:53 2010 by gbull
	NASA - 600 million metric tons of water on the Moon (Preview) [url=http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/mar/02/chandrayaan-detects-ice-deposits-on-...	Mon Dec 20 14:00:21 2010 by gbull
	Astrobiology Science Conference 2010 - Part I (Preview) 50 Years of Astrobiology Science Astrobiology Science Conference 2010 Logohttp://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ Report about the die Astrobiology Science Conference 2010 „ Evolution and Life: Surviving Catastrophes and Extremes on Earth and Beyond“, 26. - 29. April 201...	Sun Dec 19 12:01:40 2010 by One single drop
	Rosetta-Lutetia (Preview) Start media event live from ESA/ESOC The full information: ESA - Rosetta - Rosetta lines up for spectacular asteroid flyby	Mon Dec 13 13:48:43 2010 by Puck
	first release of Chandrayaan-1 Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) data. (Preview) The Planetary Data System (PDS) is pleased to announce the first release of Chandrayaan-1 Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft (CH-1) Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) data. This first M3 release includes raw (Level 0) and reduced (Level 1B) image data for Optical Period 1, collected between November 18,...	Thu Dec 9 00:51:02 2010 by qmantoo
	NASA 3rd Dec 2010 Astrobiology Announcement (Preview) Althouth The watcher pointed out that this could be a biggie, I still do not think people realise what this means. It means that we do not need phosperous to carry out some of the basic processes of life. Arsenic will do just as well. And if we can replace Phosphorus with Arsenic, maybe we can soon replace...	Sat Dec 4 04:59:19 2010 by qmantoo
	Discussions on Earth Craters (Preview) fruitnut1 Veteran Member Posts: 891 Date: Thu Nov 25 17:47 2010 Reply Quote More Edit PostDelete PostPrinter FriendlyBan IPReport Spam Strange explanations as the Meteor Crater (AKA Barrington Crater, AKA Arizona Crater AKA Diablo Canyon) is more a square than a circle or oval look Barrington se...	Fri Dec 3 15:07:09 2010 by thewatcher
	Orthodox science - The Shape of Craters (Preview) I thought it may be educational to do a small amount of research on the shape of craters and what we can expect as far as orthodox science currently tells us. The answers to the Ask a Scientist link below are geared to the age of the questioner and so are not necessarily very detailed. Further articles and...	Thu Nov 25 08:28:09 2010 by qmantoo
	Chinese launch another lunar mission (Preview) This is an official news channel link to the video of the 'live' coverage. (launched 1st October 2010) The video is the second box down on the left. However, I suspect that this is an animation - rather like the ones on long-haul flig...	Wed Nov 17 01:23:17 2010 by qmantoo
	Private Space Travel - The Future? (Preview) Interesting series of articles from 2009 and onwards about Spaceship One, Two and the future of private space travel. Some other articles report on the recent testing of the new equivalent to the shuttle and to the...	Mon Nov 1 05:32:45 2010 by gbull
	4th MSL Landing Site Workshop presentations (Preview) The 4th MSL (Mars Science Laboratory) landing Site Workshop has concluded and many of the presentations are available here. MSL is the former name for the next Mars Rover, now named Curiosity.	Wed Oct 13 04:08:30 2010 by qmantoo
	The Royal Society - Out of the box. (Preview) http://royalsociety.org/extra-terrestrial-life/ „Towards a scientific and societal agenda on extra-terrestrial life“ Starts: 9.00am on 04 October 2010Finishes: 6.00pm on 05 October 2010 Venue: Kavli Royal Society International Centre Organised by Dr Martin Dominik and Professor...	Tue Oct 12 02:02:36 2010 by qmantoo
	GLIESE 581 g (Preview) Surprise , surprise...... "Billions of earthlike worlds out there. " "Are you shure ? " "Could be, could be." "But till yesterday and repeating for decades you always said, it would take very special conditions to create even one single planet. And you a...	Sat Oct 2 03:17:50 2010 by qmantoo
	Astronomical Camera with 1 400 000 000 pixels on 40 cm square (Preview) http://pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/public/ "The combination of relatively small mirrors with very large digital cameras results in an economical observing system that can observe the entire available sky several times each month." "A major goal of Pan-STARRS is to discover...	Wed Sep 29 11:44:40 2010 by One single drop
	two solutions to de-fisheye hazcam images (Preview) I found a thread in unmannedspaceflight forum that shows the result of de-fisheyeing the hazcams. Really impressive. for those of you with photoshop the plugin is about 25 dollars.	Sat Sep 25 10:03:41 2010 by qmantoo
	Japanese MUSES-C/Hayabusa spacecraft (Preview) I got sidetracked today following information about the MUSES-CN rover. I ended up downloading a NASA file 98-0488.pdf which gives the operating specs for the MUSES-CN tiny rover weighing about 1Kg. T...	Tue Sep 14 13:41:08 2010 by qmantoo
	More Lunar water doubts from New Scientist (Preview) Apparently they are now saying that the Moon is not as wet as we have recently been led to believe. I wonder if that is going to be the reason why we re not going to build a base there anytime soon? I have thought they would need some very good reason why we dont return, but it seems that people are willing to ac...	Mon Aug 9 11:44:12 2010 by qmantoo
	LCROSS data released 6 Aug 2010 (Preview) The Planetary Data System (PDS) is pleased to announce the release of Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) data from the following instruments: - Mid Infrared Cameras 1 and 2 (MIR1 and MIR2) - Near Infrared Cameras 1 and 2 (NIR1 and NIR2) - Near Infrared Spectrometers 1...	Fri Aug 6 03:08:04 2010 by qmantoo
	The time of solar quiet is over (Preview) On August 1st, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity. There was a C3-class solar flare, a solar tsunami, multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the stellar surface, large-scale shaking of the solar corona, radio bursts, a coronal mass ejection and more...	Fri Aug 6 02:57:34 2010 by qmantoo
	More Saturn ring goodness (Preview) Very cool image of Saturn's Moon Daphnis stirring up the inner and outer edges of the Keeler Gap. Reference	Tue Aug 3 05:23:00 2010 by OBrien
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