Archives for the 'Astronomy' Category
Martian Spiders, Lizard Skin and Lacework
Published on 15 Dec 2007 at 3:13 am.
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Filed under Astronomy, Exploration, Mars, Space.
While much of Mars looks like the deserts of Utah, the Martian South Polar regions have revealed some surprising geology unlike anything we have here on Earth.
At the 2007 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Chris Okubo, Candace Hansen, and Timothy Titus who work with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s High Resolution Imaging Camera [...]
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Animations
Published on 22 Nov 2007 at 12:21 am.
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Filed under Astronomy, Climate, Fun, Green, Internet.
I have made some animated gifs that I am putting on this blog’s Animations page.
This is an animation of a rotating Earth, and was constructed from 48 images generated by Celestia. These were then stitched together and optimized using Adobe ImageReady.
Please feel free using these on your own website.
Just remember, they are not for sale [...]
The Geysers of Enceladus
Published on 14 Oct 2007 at 3:17 am.
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Filed under Astronomy, Exploration, Space.
This photograph was taken by the Cassini probe of the water geysers on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. The water is heated in the interior of Enceladus to a temperature of 0 degrees Celsius. The water is hot compared to the -200 degrees Celsius surface, and after venting through cracks in the moon’s surface it blasts off [...]
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Robots and the Coming Creation
Published on 13 Oct 2007 at 1:43 am.
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Filed under Astrobiology, Astronomy, Computation, Evolution, Exploration, Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Philosophy, Research, Robotics, Space, Technology.
‘Am I already in the shadow of the Coming Race? and will the creatures who are to transcend and finally supersede us be steely organisms, giving out the effluvia of the laboratory, and performing with infallible exactness more than everything that we have performed with a slovenly approximativeness and self-defeating inaccuracy?’
- George Eliot,
The [...]
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Gala after “In the Shadow of the Moon”
Published on 6 Sep 2007 at 11:30 pm.
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Filed under Astronomy, Exploration, Space.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I was fortunate to be able to attend the Premier Showing of the documentary “In the Shadow of the Moon” and the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. I had no idea what to expect, although the [...]
