Solving the equations needed to perform the first moon landing.
A photograph of the Saturn and its rings, taken by the Cassini spacecraft from inside the planet’s shadow. Earth is visible in the upper right as a small dot between rings. (High Res)
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I keep telling this to my friends who think money spent on NASA is a waist.
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United States from space, yesterday (Source: jpl.nasa.gov)
Orbiting Astronaut Self-Portrait Is it art? In September, space station astronaut Aki Hoshide (Japan) recorded this striking image while helping to augment the capabilities of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS). Visible in this outworldly assemblage is the Sun, the Earth, two portions of a robotic arm, an astronaut’s spacesuit, the deep darkness of space, and the unusual camera taking the picture. This image joins other historic — and possibly artistic — self-portraits taken previously in space. The Expedition 32 mission ended on Sept. 17th when anattached capsule undocked with the ISS and returned some of the crew to Earth. Here, the second image - this time, with the visor up: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-32/hires/iss032e025256.jpg Image Credit: Expedition 32 Crew, International Space Station, NASA
Anyone who’s taken his or her own picture for a Facebook profile page will know how tricky it is to do what NASA’s Curiosity rover just did: It turned one of its 17 cameras around on itself and took a snapshot of its very own “face on Mars.”
