Huygens Photos
Huygens is a success. First Titan photos are everywhere on the internet and while we wait for the processed images here are some amateur collages.
Huygens Lands This Week
Nice article on what will be one of the biggest achievements of mankind till this date.
I’m counting the days …
Lucas to make more Star Wars?
Good news for all the Star War fans as it seems George Lucas is open to the possibility of shooting the sequels of this sci-fi saga after all. I just hope he doens’t ruin it by coming up with a new Jar Jar Binks…
More than a name for each star
Each star must have a differente for each civilization in the universe. I wonder how they named the Sun.
Spirit Rover Lands on Mars
After the beagle 2 semi-disappointment, good news at last as the first of the 2 Nasa Mars rover missions (Spirit) landed safely. Here is one of the first shots taken from the surface:
On other news, today it’ll be the first time scientists will try to retrieve a beagle 2 signal directly from Mars Express. Lets keep our fingers crossed an hope.
Ed’s Musing from Space
Ed Lu, one of the astronauts currently aboard ISS, has been sending some letters back to earth about his experiences. Those same letters are being published in a blog like format making it the first extra-terrestrial blog.
Ed’s Musing from Space While he’s living aboard the International Space Station, Expedition Seven NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu is writing about his experiences. His letters are listed below, beginning with the most recent addition.
Space Lift
Is it time to try this?
In simple terms, the space elevator is a ribbon with one end attached to the Earth’s surface and the other end in space beyond geosynchronous orbit (35,800 km altitude). The competing forces of gravity at the lower end, and outward centripetal acceleration at the farther end, keep the ribbon under tension and stationary over a single position on Earth. This ribbon, once deployed, can be ascended by mechanical means to Earth orbit. If a climber proceeds to the far end of the ribbon and releases, it would have sufficient energy to escape from Earth’s gravity and travel to the Moon, Mars, Venus and the asteroids.
From www.highliftsystems.com.
Columbia thoughts
Dave Winer’s post about
the Columbia Disaster sumarizes pretty well my thoughts about it.
From
Columbia Disaster
Shouldn’t they have checked this problem while they were in space?
During liftoff there was a minor problem during the
launch with a piece of insulating foam of the external fuel tank
fell from the shuttle during the launch on January 16th, but NASA
officials said at that time that they thought there was only minor
damage to left wing tiles - the covering that protects the orbiter
from extreme heat during the descent through the atmosphere at
incredible speeds.
From
