Space Lovers

06/09/2021

🌒 Lunar eclipse recorded on the International Space Station during an orbital journey from northwest to southeast, 423 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean.

Credit: ISS

06/09/2021

🔵 Detail of the lunar ground, in a record taken during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. For Apollo astronauts and their equipment, the fine, grainy dust on the Moon's surface was definitely an issue. In December 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan needed to repair one of the fenders of their rover (Lunar Jeep) in an effort to keep the dust plumes away from them and their equipment. Do you know how they improvised a bumper? With sheets of maps and ribbons.

06/09/2021

😍 A spectacular record of a storm in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, with a beautiful red moon eclipsed. The image was taken from the Greek island of Ikaria in Pezi.

06/08/2021

🔵 New study identifies five double-sun planets that can harbor life.

Astronomers used data from the Kepler Telescope and pointed out that the celestial bodies are in habitable zones, with conditions to retain water.
Using analytic equations and pre-computed atmospheric models, the researchers estimated how the planets' atmospheres interact with light coming from those stars.

Credits: frontiersin.org
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06/08/2021

🔵 Uranus seen on X-rays.

06/08/2021

🔵Elon Musk confirms the construction of floating launch platforms for SpaceX.

The CEO and founder of SpaceX confirmed that the company is building a spacecraft launch and landing base at sea. The platform is called "Deimos" and should be ready next year, according to the executive.SpaceX is not building the base from scratch. The company is using some "abandoned" oil rigs. Th...

06/08/2021

The Chinese artificial sun sets a new world temperature record.☀️

The Chinese achieved yet another feat: they broke the world record by holding the fusion reactor at 120 million degrees Celsius for 101 seconds in an experiment with atomic nuclei they called the “artificial sun”.To get an idea of ​​the breadth of the mark, the sun's core reaches 15 million ...

06/08/2021

🌎 The sands of the Sahara, in the northwest of the African continent, contrasting with the blue of the Atlantic Ocean. A spectacular view recorded at an altitude of about 400 kilometers from the International Space Station

06/08/2021

😍 A beautiful lunar eclipse recorded on May 26 near Sydney, Australia. That night, the Moon transited the shadow the Earth casts. Sunlight, when transposing the atmosphere, dyes the lunar surface red, in a spectacular and mesmerizing effect of refraction. The 6-exposure image also shows the wide range of brightness variations within the Earth's umbral shadow, against a faint background of stars.

06/08/2021

🔶 Impact crater, on Martian soil, recorded by NASA's MRO spacecraft

06/08/2021

🔵 Whatever hit Mimas almost destroyed her. What remains is one of the Solar System's largest impact craters, on one of Saturn's smallest moons. An analysis indicates that a slightly larger impact would have completely destroyed Mimas. A huge crater, named Herschel, named after the discoverer of Mimas, William Herschel, in 1789, extends for about 130 miles and was recorded in this image by the Cassini spacecraft. Mimas is mostly made of water ice, with a handful of rock and dust, so it's needed like a big dirty snowball.

06/05/2021

🔵 The Sun projects its light onto the International Space Station, at an altitude of 400 kilometers, as it shines over the Caspian Sea and Kazakhstan.