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“Dear God, please don’t let me fuck up.”
—Alan Shepard
Prima immagine di OSIRIS-REx dallo spazio profondo, giunta a noi terrestri il 15 febbraio 2017, dopo cinque mesi di "crociera". Se state per dire che l'immagine è sfocata, sappiate che la sonda si trova a 673 milioni di km da Giove. - During Earth-Trojan asteroid search operations, the PolyCam imager aboard NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter (center) and three of its moons, Callisto (left), Io, and Ganymede. The image, which shows the bands of Jupiter, was taken at 3:34 a.m. EST, on Feb. 12, when the spacecraft was 76 million miles (122 million kilometers) from Earth and 418 million miles (673 million kilometers) from Jupiter. PolyCam is OSIRIS-REx’s longest range camera, capable of capturing images of the asteroid Bennu from a distance of two million kilometers.
This image was produced by taking two copies of the same image, adjusting the brightness of Jupiterandnbsp;separately from theandnbsp;significantly dimmer moons, and compositing them back together so that all four objects are visible in the same frame.
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland provides overall mission management, systems engineering and the safety and mission assurance for OSIRIS-REx. Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona, Tucson, is the principal investigator, and the University of Arizona also leads the science team and the mission’s observation planning and processing. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft and is providing flight operations. Goddard and KinetX Aerospace are responsible for navigating the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the agency’s New Frontiers Program for its Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
OSIRIS-REx
James Hall Nasmyth - Full Moon - 1874 - via Eastman Museum
astronomers
Bartholomeus Anglicus, ‘Livre des propriétés des choses’ (‘De proprietatibus rerum’, French translation of Jean Corbechon), Bruges ca. 1470
BnF, Français 134, fol. 169r
“Venice, city of gondoliers and the lovers they carry along the canals. Happy Valentine’s Day!” Thomas Pesquet from the International Space Station, Feb. 14, 2017 ⚘❤
RIP John Glenn
celestial bodies
Christianus Prolianus, Astronomia, Naples 1478
Manchester, John Rylands University Library, Latin MS 53, fol. 58v
Visions of the Future
by NASA/JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
1981 NASA diagram gives a cutaway view inside a space shuttle.
