#Mare Nectaris

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Mare Nectaris of the Moon l Roger Hyman

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Mare Nectaris ("Sea of Nectar") on the Moon // Loxley

Read below the cut for some info about some of the craters in this image!

Mare Nectaris is a lunar sea, or maria, one of the darker on the near side of the Moon. It is about 210 miles across and filled with dried lava.

Above it is Sinus Asperitatis, Latin for "Bay of Roughness". This "bay" joins Mare Nectaris to Mare Tranquillitatis.

Three craters line Mare Nectaris to the west.

Theophilus crater is named after Theophilus I of Alexandria (bef. 384 - 412), the 23rd Pope of Alexandria. He wrote a Paschal table that tracks the Moon's phases to aid in determining the date of Easter.

Cyrillus crater is named after Saint Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376 - 444), the 24th Pope of Alexandria. He also constructed a Paschal table to calculate the date of Easter.

Catharina crater is named for Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 287 - c. 305), a martyr and early adopter of Christianity in the Roman empire. However, there is little evidence to support her existence as a historical figure.

A few craters lie to the south of Mare Nectaris:

Beaumont crater is named for the French geologist Léonce Élie de Beaumont (1798-1874) who proposed a theory for the origin of mountain ranges. He proposed that all mountains parallel to each other were formed at the same time.

Fracastorius crater is named for the Italian scholar Girolamo Fracastoro (c. 1476 - 1553). He was an early adopter of the idea of "atoms" and was one of the first to study epidemiology. He worked extensively on the origins of rabies and syphilis.

Rosse crater is named after the English astronomer William Parson, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867). He built one of the world's largest telescopes, the "Leviathan of Parsonstown", a 72-inch telescope. Through it, he observed nebulae and galaxies, such as the Crab Nebula and Whirlpool Galaxy.

Finally, two craters lie to the northeast of Mare Nectaris:

Isidorus crater is named after Isidore of Seville (c. 560 - 636), the archbishop of Seville. He was a prominent figure in early Spanish Christianity, and wrote down his Etymologiae, an encyclopedia of knowledge at the time.

Capella crater is named for Martianus Capella (bef. 410 - 420), a Latin scholar who wrote De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii "On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury". In the eighth book of the series, he describes a modified geocentric model of the solar system, where all planets orbit the Earth, except for Mercury and Venus which orbit the Sun.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

TOKYO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Japan launched its lunar exploration spacecraft on Thursday aboard a homegrown H-IIA rocket, hoping to become the world's fifth country to land on the moon early next year.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said the rocket took off from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan as planned and successfully released the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM).

Unfavourable weather led to three postponements in a week last month.

Dubbed the "moon sniper," Japan aims to land SLIM within 100 metres of its target site on the lunar surface.

The $100-million mission is expected to start the landing by February after a long, fuel-efficient approach trajectory.

"The big objective of SLIM is to prove the high-accuracy landing ... to achieve 'landing where we want' on the lunar surface, rather than 'landing where we can'," JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa told a news conference.

The launch comes two weeks after India became the fourth nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon with its Chandrayaan-3 mission to the unexplored lunar south pole.

Around the same time, Russia's Luna-25 lander crashed while approaching the moon.

Two earlier lunar landing attempts by Japan failed in the last year.

JAXA lost contact with the OMOTENASHI lander and scrubbed an attempted landing in November.

The Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander, made by Japanese startup ispace (9348.T), crashed in April as it attempted to descend to the lunar surface.

SLIM is set to touch down on the near side of the moon close to Mare Nectaris, a lunar sea that, viewed from Earth, appears as a dark spot.

Its primary goal is to test advanced optical and image processing technology.

After landing, the craft aims to analyse the composition of olivine rocks near the sites in search of clues about the origin of the moon. No lunar rover is loaded on SLIM.

Thursday's H-IIA rocket also carried the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) satellite, a joint project of JAXA, NASA and the European Space Agency.

The satellite aims to observe plasma winds flowing through the universe that scientists see as key to helping understand the evolution of stars and galaxies.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (7011.T) manufactured the rocket and operated the launch, which marked the 47th H-IIA rocket Japan has launched since 2001, bringing the vehicle's success rate close to 98%.

JAXA had suspended the launch of H-IIA carrying SLIM for several months while it investigated the failure of its new medium-lift H3 rocket during its debut in March.

Japan's space missions have faced other recent setbacks, with the launch failure of the Epsilon small rocket in October 2022, followed by an engine explosion during a test in July.

The country aims to send an astronaut to the moon's surface in the latter half of the 2020s as part of NASA's Artemis programme.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/japan-launches-rocket-carrying-moon-lander-slim-after-three-delays-2023-09-06/

Japan launches 'Moon Sniper' mission | AFP

7 September 2023

Japan's "Moon Sniper" mission blasted off Thursday as the country's space programme looks to bounce back from a string of recent mishaps, weeks after India's historic lunar triumph.

[chicxsims]

𝓝𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓲 𝓓𝓲 𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓮

50x50 Built @ Thebe Estate in Tartosa

Nettari Di Mare is a beautiful nectary located in Tartosa. Here, sims can create their own nectar and enjoy a high-quality meal right after, or come in to taste the nectar owned by the restaurant. Nettari Di Mare is revered by locals and celebrities for its fine, aged nectar and is definitely something to add to your sim’s itinerary when visiting Tartosa.

I saw this build by @bojanastarcevic a few months ago and I wanted a restaurant that was similar in style on the exterior. I challenged myself to create it from scratch and fully furnish it in it’s entirety using pins from my Pinterest as inspo. I hadn't planned on uploading, but I've received so much support over on twitter that I decided to upload for those who were interested in it. I’ve also taken inspiration from my mutuals’, @shaymoo22 & @comfys, classy and warm moods. Please go check out their builds if you haven’t seen them, they’re both so incredibly talented!

Credits:

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I cannot give enough thanks to the amazing CC creators. This personal project truly would not have been possible without you all. Thank you.

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𝑻𝒊𝒌𝒕𝒐𝒌 | 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 | 𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕

𝑮𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑰𝑫: 𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒌𝒚𝑺𝒊𝒎𝒔

[marabow]

(the drawing on the header made my Oana Befort)

୨⎯ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐏𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐃 ⎯୧

Yandere Male Vampire/Strigoi x Gn! Human! Reader

𑁍 Cw; depictions of death (animal(mentioned) and human), manipulation, gaslighting, threats

𑁍 Woah, first story on this blog (sorry if it's short)! I haven't seen any stories on writing websites involving vampires who aren't necessarily these rich charming siren-like creatures with huge castles, so I decided to be (probably) the first person to write about vampires without inspiration from the story of Bram Stoker. (I'll write a more detailed book with this plot and characters, so this is kind of like a little teaser) (I'll also change most of the things in the book, so don't expect everything to be like in this oneshot)

The morning sun began setting softly, leaving the simple dirt road towards the village of Nectarari, a simple and ignoble village miles away from Bucharest. Yet another day at work on the field, yet another painful day for the simple son/daughter of the farmer Dragos Spiridon, a very well respected man in the village for his ability to read the newsprint, even if he was just as simple and poor as everybody else in the small village. (Y/N) was walking beside their father, who was riding their family horse, Tinca. They could almost see their vision blur as they were walking, but they had to stay determined and keep walking.

"Diii, Tinca! we need to hurry home!" The much older man shouted. He seemed to ignore that their child was feeling quite tired. It must've been from all the work they did. 

"Tata, why couldn't Filoftea come to help us? Or even Lizuca." (Y/N) asked their father about their two sisters, yet he didn't answer, just busy making the old mare continue trotting. Seeing as the man didn't answer, the (h/c) haired boy/girl sighed, continuing to walk, even if their legs felt like giving up.

"My dear (Y/N), you know that your older brothers are in Bucharest selling the fleece of our sheep and that your sister Lizuca needs to learn for school, right?"

"Well, why can't Filoftea help us too? She's the same age as me, and she has the same strength."

"Filoftea caught the eye of Liviu Popa. She needs to remain home in the village so that she won't become any less beautiful to that young lad." (Y/N) hated that their father obviously loved their siblings more than them. It was as clear as day that they were just going to always help him with trading, as they were basically a nobody. They never went to school as their father could afford only for Lizuca and little Arsenie, they weren't as strong and charismatic as their brothers, Nectarie and Radu, who were now in Bucharest, probably never returning to the village, and they weren't as beautiful as their twin sister Filoftea, who caught sweet eyes from the priest's son, Liviu. In short, they didn't have such a bright future.

But even so, (Y/N) was strong… or at least, they tried their hardest. Right now, they felt as if the sun was burning them up, even if it was still dark out as the sun hasn’t hit them yet, as if Dracu was punishing them. They couldn’t carry the weight anymore, their arms like gelatin, and the crops they were holding on their back being the only reason they kept going without falling. (Y/N) looked to their left, where they saw a flock of sheep following a man in a wooly coat, a man they’ve never seen before, a man with whitish-blond hair from what they could see. He kept walking with the sheep, and slowly disappeared as the sun appeared, as if he was never there. The young man/girl dismissed it, knowing it was just a traveler.

Once they entered the village, a herd of people gathered around the village center to see Baba Ilinca, weeping as the people tried to interrogate her. "Azorel... he had no more blood in his small canine body..." she was stuttering. The old wise widow was shouting about how she saw an ugly humanoid, with eyes as dark as the devil's, but nobody believed her, except for of course, Priest Popa, Liviu's father.

(Y/N) didn't believe it either. Maybe another animal attacked the dog during the night. The dog's body was nowhere in sight, so they couldn't exactly speculate what killed him, but they did think another animal killed the dog, since what heartless human would kill a poor old dog?

The father and his child walked back to their small humble abode, a house like every other in the village. Before they could enter, they found a flock of sheep surrounding the house, and a young man on the porch of the house, hiding under the shadows of the roof, where baskets of flowers were dangling, the only thing differentiating the house from the others in the village. Little Arsenie seemed to have been on his way to school but stopped, as he was looking at the man who was sprawled on the floor, in a deep sleep of some sort, meaning that he didn't appear too early.

"Arsenie, go to school." The father said, dismissing his son. Arsenie obeyed his father and started running to the village center for school. (Y/N) remained with their father, as their father picked up the young man from their porch, and proceeded to take him inside. (Y/N) knew their father cared deeply about the village people, but they knew this man was not from the village. He looked like a transylvanian saxon, from how pale his features were, and from his attire which looked a little different from the clothing they had here in Wallachia. Their father laid him on one of the two beds they had in the whole house, and let him rest. "(Y/N)! Go make some soup for this boy. He looks like a traveler who isn't in good shape."

(Y/N) obeyed their father and went to make some soup, which they then brought to the unconscious man. Their father left them alone, so they sat next to the blond. They knew they saw this man before, earlier on the field, but they wonder... what happened?

Almost an hour later, he woke up, looking around with his tired brown eyes. "Where am I...?" He muttered, in an accent (Y/N) understood was hungarian.

"You're in the county of Ilfov. You must've wanted to go to Bucharest, right?" (Y/N) asked, as they picked up a wooden spoon, presenting it to him, which he politely declined.

"Not quite. I just ran away from home with my sheep... where are they?"

"Don't worry, they're outside, waiting for you. But please stay here, you aren't in great health to continue your journey."

The young man nodded, as he continued resting on the pillow. (Y/N) got up to walk away, but the man kept his grip on their hand, even if it felt weak at the moment. "Please... stay by my side..."

(Y/N) was a little surprised, but obliged nonetheless, as she knew he didn't feel quite right at the moment.

(Y/N) soon learned his name was Vasile. Vasile Eliade. He was a young man from Transylvania, more specifically Cluj Napoca, who ran away from home after a fight with his adoptive parents. He lived a pretty wealthy life in the big city, but he remained with nothing to his name. A few months prior he lived in Sibiu, where he became a shepherd, and was supposed to take them to Bucharest next so they can be sold for their fleece.

Vasile and (Y/N) became friends quickly, which managed to convince (Y/N)'s father to let Vasile live with them, with the condition that he took care of the animals, not only his sheep, but also the Spiridon family's pigs, cows, horse and chickens.

Life was going smoothly for the family, as Filoftea married Liviu, Arsenie and Lizuca finished the school year, Arsenie being top student of the village's younglings, meanwhile Lizuca was just average in school activities. Even (Y/N) started learning how to read and write from their new blond friend

Though, Filoftea wasn't quite happy with her life as Liviu's wife, which made her try to pursue a secret relationship with Vasile, as he was 'more fun'.

(Y/N) didn't pay much attention to it, but Vasile, even if he was polite and 'loyal' to the family, didn't like it one bit. He was starting to grow feelings for the hardworking man/woman with the name of (Y/N). What once was just prey to him, another flesh to be eaten, became his equal slowly... or something more.

It has been a year since Vasile arrived to the village and became sort of like a part of the family. The family business was growing quite better since last year, which made the family quite happy. In the backyard laid (Y/N) and Vasile on the grass, as the autumn leaves started falling, and the gentle breeze of the wind was fanning their faces.

"(Y/N), can you promise me something?"

"Of course. What is it?"

Vasile looked nonchalantly at the sky, sighing softly. "Promise me that we'll be together even if one of us does a 'horrible' thing."

(Y/N) was confused. " what do you mean? Of course I'll be by your side." The young man/girl didn't think much. They only thought he meant something like accidentally ruining the family business or something like that, which was horrible enough, but not something to leave him.

"Thank you very much..." He muttered. As he kept staring at the stars. "I think it's very late. Go to sleep with Filoftea. I'll follow you in shortly."

"Alright..." (Y/N) yawned as they got up. "Well, good night."

"Goodnight." was all Vasile said, as (Y/N) walked back inside. "I love you."

(Y/N) was met with Filoftea, sleeping in the bed their father usually slept in, as he was away with Liviu to visit Radu, (Y/N)'s older brother, in Bucharest so that Liviu can 'take a break' from Filoftea's neediness, as she became very needy after getting pregnant.

(Y/N) slept on the opposite bed, the one where their younger siblings slept in right at the moment. 'Poor Filly..." (Y/N) thought, thinking about how Filoftea was alone and pregnant, with a husband who always ran away from his responsibilities. Soon, their eyes closed, falling asleep.

They woke up to the smell of blood hitting their nose. Opening their eyes, they saw everyone was asleep... except of Vasile who... was next to Filoftea. (Y/N) didn't think much, due to their sleepy state making them think he was only pecking her neck with kisses. But they realised that Filoftea was asleep, meaning that this was breaking her boundary. They quickly got up to scold Vasile, only to see... a pool of blood on the bed. Filoftea's eyes were frozen in a contorted face of fright, pale like a blind person's.

"Filly...?" was all (Y/N) muttered as Vasile looked at them with a look of hunger. That's when (Y/N) realized. Those dark eyes... the blood on his lips... Baba Ilinca was right about her dog being sucked dry by a strigoi... as the strigoi was right in the village, right in the Spiridon residence, right in front of somebody who didn't believe in them.

"(Y/N)... Iubirea mea!" Vasile got up and smiled insanely, his teeth sharp and coated full of blood. (Y/N) then realised why he never shown his teeth, or talked in mutters. Not because he was tired, or from another reason that wasn't the fact he was a blood sucker! "Don't be frightened. I love you so much, it'd pain me for you to be scared. Come now. Help me put your pesky harlot sister outside so the soil will become stronger!"

"I can't help you... you're not human... you're not man at all..." The twin of Filoftea muttered, as they began backing away. Vasile didn't take this too kindly, as he ran to them, and held their wrists with his tight grip.

"YOU WILL HELP ME. I AM YOUR ONE TRUE LOVE! YOU PROMISED YOU'D HELP ME! YOU'RE JUST AS MUCH OF A MONSTER LIKE I AM IF YOU'D RATHER HELP SOMETHING THAT IS NO LONGER BREATHING THAN YOUR TRUE LOVE!"

(Y/N) wanted to kick him off them, but they couldn't. "If you do anything rash, the young children will meet the same fate, and it'd all be your fault!"

"Now, choose wisely. Will you become like me, or will your family meet the same fate. Nobody will blame me, they'll only blame you, as it is your fault. I wouldn't want my one true love to feel the pain of having their head cut off, and neither would you like that fate..."

"Right?"

A/N: Sorry if this was short and rushed, I wrote all of this in one day, and I don't want to spoil my book in any way. Hope you guys enjoyed this story, and make sure to give me more ideas for stories in my inbox! Have a swell day everyone!

© PLEASE DO NOT COPY OR EDIT ANY OF MY WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION. THANK YOU!

[yama-bato]

MARE NECTARIS

[officialromaniantranslatiuni]

nectarie de la clasa 0 de langa: DOAMNA DE ENGLEZA! A INTREBAT MAMA DE CE NOI NU MAI FACEM SI ALTCEVA IN AFARA DE ANIMALE ANUL ASTA!

profa de engleza: 😒😒😒😒 am facut animalele de companie, de ferma si salbatice ca asa figureaza in planificarea anuala si mama lui m-a innebunit cu mesaje ca de ce nu fac cu ei propozitii

eu, fosta invatatoare a surorii mai mari: ma-sa e nebuna

fosta invatatoare a fratelui mai mare: tot neamul e nebun

cealalta profa de engleza: pe mine m-a reclamat tocmai fiindca i-am dat surorii sa scrie "my name is..." in clasa 1

directoarea: cred ca ma reclama familia aia si cand respir... de aia a si plecat vechiul director

directoare adjuncta: fac atatea plangeri la inspectorat incat nu mai le raspunde nimeni si au incercat sa ajunga la minister

[whirligig-girl]

moon drawing from an unfinished piece. The shadows and the albedo features don't quite match; note how Altai Scarp and the three craters in Mare Nectaris aren't quite centered on Mare Nectaris as they should be.

[oldpueblocyclist]

50% tonight. Waxing Gibbous. Mares Serenitatis, Tranquillitatis, Crisium, Fecunditatis, Nectaris nicely illuminated. 🌓

[concoursmuseumtoulouse]

CONCOURS LITTERAIRE “Être(s) immortel(s)” : annonce des résultats !

Félicitations à tous les participants !

La 11e édition du concours de nouvelles du Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Toulouse a suscité un véritable engouement ! Un plébiscite qui a dépassé les prévisions les plus optimistes que ce soit dans la catégorie des adultes avec 244 nouvelles ou celle des moins de 18 ans avec 82 nouvelles au compteur. Le Muséum a, en effet, enregistré à la clôture des participations, le mardi 3 janvier, plus de 326 contributions en provenance de la France métropolitaine, mais pas seulement. Une sélection de belle facture qui, de la Guyane à la Réunion, en passant par le Congo, Singapour, l'Allemagne, l’Italie, la Belgique ou encore la Suisse, continue de s’ouvrir à l’international !

Un grand bravo aux lauréats !

Le jury s’est réuni le jeudi 27 avril 2023 afin de tenir sa délibération désignant les 6 lauréats. La sélection a été rude et les débats très animés ! Mais c’est sans compter sur le professionnalisme de ce jury aux multiples sensibilités qui est heureux d’annoncer les résultats suivants, dans les 2 catégories adulte et jeunesse :

1. Palmarès dans la catégorie auteurs adultes.

1er prix : « Mare nectaris » de Julien PHILIPPE (21120) 2e prix : « Glaz et le dictionnaire des homards » de Colin MAILLARD (75006) 3e prix : « Ad vitam aeternam (pour la vie éternelle) » de Jessica ARDUIN (31300)

Les 17 autres nouvelles pré-sélectionnées dans la catégorie adultes étaient : « Un homme ordinaire » de Danielle ALLOZA (81000), « Le rond des marronniers » de Stéphanie AUBERT (49230), « Le patriarche éternel » de Daniel BAS (69430), « Une épreuve d’amour » de Bruno BAUDART (34140), « L’Oiseau d’Héliopolis » d’Anthony BOULANGER (28260), « Éternels complices » d’Emmanuel BROC (32600), « Assoiffée » de Sylvaine COLLART (31100), « Les ragots de la méduse » de Laura CORREDOR (33600), « Lettre de revendication » de Laurent FORTIER (14123), « Roches éternelles » de Margaux GRELLETY (78018), « Mémorial » de Marie-Claire HAGUET (09120), « La tombe de Gengis Khan » d’Olivier LALYR (42000), « Rhum arrangé » de Marie MAILLOT (94300), « Le passage » de Gérard MEGRET (45110), « La colère de la terre » de Noémie OBERDISSE (13790), « Amour benthique » d’Anna Valérie REICH (31520), « Le prix de l’immortalité » de Catherine TAREL-BERLEMONT (59890)

2. Palmarès dans la catégorie auteurs de moins de 18 ans.

1er prix : « All The Madmen » de Louise CONFAIS (31560) 2e prix : « La Chute » de Daphné LAMANDÉ-MORANT  (53200) 3e prix : « Un voyage éternel » de Timothy LOMBARD-KIRCH (25000)

Les 8 autres nouvelles pré-sélectionnées dans la catégorie auteurs de moins de 18 ans étaient : « La Bonne action » de Camille BUXTORFF-MULLER (12000), « Immortalité... Quelle horreur, quelle beauté » d'Esther FARES (31520), « Vie tranquille d'un immortel » de Tymothé FOISSAC-FERRÉ (31410), « Feu » de Lola GINESTE (31410), « Dark Moon » de Juliette GORIAUD (31460), « Vampire Slayer Academy » de Madenn GOURIO-DUBREUIL (81800), « Celle qui vécut » de Luna PASTOR (81710), « Silence » de Chloé RAFFANEL (12510)

Le Muséum va e-publier les nouvelles lauréates.

Les deux premiers prix des 2 catégories seront lus à voix haute le samedi 10 juin 2023, dans l’auditorium du Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Toulouse, lors de la rencontre littéraire et de la remise des prix aux différents lauréats.

Un immense merci aux membres du jury !

Laëtitia Bartholome (Service Expositions, Muséum), Lydie Bottier (Pôle jeunesse, Médiathèque José Cabanis), Laetitia Bouchama (Directrice de la médiathèque Mémo, Montauban), Audrey Bonniot (Service Bibliothèque & Documentation, Muséum), Caroline Chevalier-Galant (Service Bibliothèque & Documentation, Muséum), Évelyne Cocault (Comédienne de Théâtre amateur), Astrid Conan (Relation Visiteurs-Billetterie support qualité, Muséum), Christel Dubois (Professeure d'anglais), Lucie Ferlet (Pôle jeunesse, Médiathèque José Cabanis), Fanny Fourrier (Pôle Intermezzo, Médiathèque José Cabanis), Caroline Goursat (Étudiante, libraire), Florence Lamotte (Directrice commerciale chez Piktos), Sylvie Marquez (Association Toulouse Polars du Sud), Bernard Meyer (Docteur en Philosophie, enseignant, comédien), Serge Nicolo (Écrivain, Régisseur des Collections, Musée Paul Dupuy), Cristina Noacco (Auteure, maître de conférence en littérature médiévale) et Cédric Pignat (Écrivain, enseignant, lecteur).

Au plaisir de vous retrouver et d’échanger avec vous, samedi 10 juin, au Muséum de Toulouse !

Crédit : Laurent Koëss - Muséum de Toulouse

[dianapopescu]

8 ianuarie: Sfânta Cuvioasă Domnica

Prăznuită pe 8 ianuarie, Sfânta Cuvioasă Domnica a venit la Constantinopol din Cartagina, în vremea Sfântului împărat Teodosie cel Mare. Aici a fost botezată de patriarhul Nectarie și a intrat într-o mănăstire de măicuțe.

https://www.diane.ro/2025/01/8-ianuarie-sfanta-cuvioasa-domnica.html

[simkermellebel]

Lockwood Lepacy (p. 3)

Shortly after the move, Flynn grew up into a young adult. He gained the nurturing trait, and a beard.

Red travelled back to Al Simhara. Unfortunately, due to the move, she lost her current opportunities. But she found a cute turtle and got right back into some new adventures.

When returning home, Red had collected a total of 5 fragments that she could reconstruct in a sarcophagus. This scary, cursed sarcophagus now sits in her and Ho Sung's bedroom. The two even woohooed inside of it! It was quite heavy and difficult to open, though.

Flynn was able to have his graduation ceremony at the Twinbrook town hall and was voted most popular by his fellow students. The whole family (except for Ho Sung, because he unfortunately had to work at his new job at the police station!!).

Now that he was an adult, Flynn decided it was time for him to get a real job. He searched the web and newspaper, but didn't find anything he wanted to do. His goal of maxing the athletics and martial arts skills wouldn't earn him a lot of money, sadly. Not that the household needs much more, but it's nice to feel like you're contributing, you know?

Meanwhile Ho Sung got really into his job and was tasked to read a book. The picture below could easily go on Hot Men Reading, no?

Red decided to focus a little more on her artistics and painted a portrait of her mother. It was a brilliant painting and hangs in the hallway right by the door.

In between the job searches, Flynn kept practicing his martial arts.

Mare's birthday came up and the family decided to go out and celebrate. They headed to the Red Rendezvous and Mare aged up beautifully. A little red color stayed present in her now gray hair. She sang karaoke with her daughter while the boys played some foosball. Connor and Flynn didn't seem to be winning from Ho Sung.

That same night, Red discovered she was pregnant. A bit scared, she told Ho Sung. But he assured her they'd be amazing parents, and she could still go on her adventures in the future.

Flynn went on a date with Twinbrook local Justin Kayes. The two hit it off at the pool and shared their first kiss.

In the newly-made baby room, Connor decided he was gonna read one of his own books and dream about his future grand child.

Soon, Red gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. She and Ho Sung decided on the name Jensen. His first traits are Brave and Eccentric. Now the question is; will the boy have his family's iconic red hair, or introduce his father's dark hair into the Lockwood family?

Red and Ho Sung took good care of their baby boy at home. Shortly after his birth, the second year ended. On to year 3 we go.

The Lockwoods started off the new year well with the birthday of Jensen. He grew up into a beautiful toddler, looking almost like the spitting image of his father.

Flynn went on another date with Justin Kayes. He asked Justin to go steady, and Justin accepted! Flynn then offered to give Justin a very romantic massage.

Red taught Jensen how to talk and celebrated by having a little chat with him as she held him in her arms.

Feeling itchy to continue her adventures, Red travelled to Champes Les Sims to check out more tombs. On one of her adventures, she was electrocuted. This wasn't the first time, but it scared her away from adventuring more now that she had a son back home she wished to see grow up.

Red went exploring around Champes Les Sims on her own and discovered the nectary. She found she really enjoyed making (and drinking) nectar and bought all the equipment she needed to set up her own nectar making station at home. With that, she bought a vacation home to one day take her family to and show them the beauty of Champes Les Sims.

The first thing Red did after cutting her vacation short and arriving home was hug Jensen.

Being done with adventuring for the foreseeable future, Red decided to undo her braids and put on one of the few dresses she owned. She didn't need her adventuring appearance anymore.

Even after finishing her cooking skill, Mare still cooked up a bunch of dishes for the family in the grand kitchen she now had available.

Red spent a day teaching Jensen how to walk. When he finally took his first steps while learning, she threw him up in the air in celebration.

It had been a while since Connor got out of the house, so Mare decided to take him on a date to the diner she works at. She took him into the kitchen, made him his favorite dish and the two watched the stars outside afterwards.

While Flynn watched Jensen, Ho Sung took Red out on a date as well and proposed to her. Red accepted the proposal, and announced that she was pregnant with their second child.

The next day, they held their wedding at the Holy Matrimony Resort, with all their new friends in attendance. Even Jensen was having a great time.

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Mare Nectaris (”The Sea of Nectar”), and three craters, from top to bottom, Theophilus, Cyrillus, and Catharina // jp-brahic

Theophilus crater is named after Saint Theophilus I of Alexandria (bef. 384 to 412), the 23rd Pope of Alexandria who wrote a book about the lunar cycle.

Cyrillus crater is named after Saint Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376-444), the 24th Pope of Alexandria who also wrote a book about the lunar cycle!

Catharina crater is named after Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 287-305) an early Christian martyr.

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Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) lunar lander appears to have achieved a soft touchdown on the Moon’s surface but is currently unable to generate electricity from onboard solar cells. With the spacecraft running only on internal battery power, controllers are working to balance the recording and downloading of data, utilizing the remaining battery life to maximum effect. The reason for the lack of electrical generation is not currently known, but officials report that the solar cells do not appear to be damaged and that all other systems are working as designed. There is some optimism that sunlight may reach the solar cells and recharge the batteries, but this is by no means guaranteed. The mission has been officially marked as reaching its minimum success levels at this time, subject to further data analysis. Four months after launching from Tanegashima Space Center, SLIM, led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), made a landing near Shioli, an impact crater within the larger Mare Nectaris (“Sea of Nectar”) at 11:20 PM JST on Jan. 19, 2024 (15:20 UTC). SLIM has been on a unique voyage involving two close approaches to the Moon and orbits, which took it out into deep space, traveling for 110 days before making a lunar insertion burn on Christmas Day into a Lunar Orbit of 15 x 600 kilometers. Further burns have slowly lowered and circularised the orbit. The long looping trajectory was designed to save vital fuel and mass for the landing phase, giving the spacecraft the best possible chance for a soft landing. JAXA Update on SLIM: Lander did land, they have comms, but the solar cell is not generating electricity. On battery power. Trying to maximize science. LEV separated as planned but JAXA needs more time to gather data. https://t.co/4Wct726bum — Chris Bergin – NSF (@NASASpaceflight) January 19, 2024 Japan was hoping to join the small group of countries that have soft-landed on the Moon, along with Russia, the United States, China, and, more recently, India. Japan has had two previous attempts at landing on the Moon — Omotenashi and Hakuto-R — both of which failed. There have also been several other notable failed attempts at a Lunar landing in recent years: Omotenashi was a small 6u cubesat launched from Artemis 1, which had issues with solar cell orientation and was lost. Hakuto-R was a commercial lander designed by the Japanese company iSpace. This lander crashed into the Moon on April 25, 2023, following confusion between the various navigation systems leading to fuel exhaustion. Previously, in 2019, Israel’s Beresheet lander was another failure, crashing onto the Moon’s surface after a gyroscope failed, resulting in loss of control of the craft. More recently, the Astrobotic Peregrine One lunar lander was unable to attempt a Moon landing following an anomaly in the propulsion system, which, in turn, caused problems keeping the spacecraft in a Sun-facing orientation. Propellant leaking from the system added to the issues, ruling out any landing attempt. The leak slowed down as the days passed, which allowed controllers to concentrate on allowing Peregrine to complete as much science as possible. Astrobotic was able to maintain transparent and informative communication with the public throughout the mission. Controllers steered the lander carefully and responsibly to avoid creating any space debris, bringing it onto a course to intercept Earth’s atmosphere, where it burned up safely over the Pacific on Jan.18, 2024. SLIM’s primary mission was to demonstrate that advanced navigation and radar systems can provide a pinpoint landing within 100 meters of any given target. To achieve this vastly improved accuracy, the spacecraft carried several advanced instruments, including a laser range finder and a landing radar. During its descent to the lunar surface, the lander was able to compare the terrain below to high-resolution imagery gathered from Japan’s previous lunar orbiter, Kaguya, and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, to make autonomous real-time decisions about its speed and course using image processing algorithms developed by JAXA. Accurately targeted landings are seen as vital for ensuring optimum results from future landers, but the final position of this landing may not be known for some weeks, according to JAXA officials. The target for landing, the Shioli crater, is an impact crater about 300 meters wide and has important scientific potential, not least for the suspected presence of the mineral olivine, which is conjectured to comprise part of the Moon’s mantle. The near-infrared Multi-Band Camera aboard SLIM will determine the composition of olivine by analyzing the spectra of sunlight reflected off the lunar surface. The data will further inform scientists about the early formation of the Moon. See AlsoSLIM Mission UpdatesMore Japanese Missions CoverageNSF StoreClick here to Join L2 The second major objective for this mission is the “realization of a lightweight lunar and planetary probe system to allow more frequent lunar and planetary exploration missions.” To this end, SLIM has been through thoughtful weight reduction, using modern construction techniques, and a powerful chemical-based thruster system. The structural core of the spacecraft is the integrated fuel tank, a cylinder that holds both fuel and oxidizer using a common dome to save mass. The oxidizer portion has a specially developed form of Polytetrafluoroethylene lining to prevent reaction. There are two main engines, built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. KYOCERA Corporation. These feature ceramic combustion chambers, a very wide thrust range, and can fire using advanced pulsing techniques to aid precision positioning. The engines each provide around 500 newtons of thrust and are used for the main insertion burns during transit to the Moon and the descent/landing burn. Thrusters used to provide attitude control were built by IHI AEROSPACE Co. Ltd. There are 12 of these thrusters, each with a thrust rating of around 20 newtons. They use the same fuel/oxidizer as the main engines to aid in the lightweight design by avoiding the need for additional fuel tanks. Graphic showing SLIM’s landing procedure. (Credit: JAXA) The solar panel arrays for SLIM are built by the SHARP Corporation and are made of thin, light, and flexible film. These are designed to bend around some of the curved surfaces of the craft and are attached simply with velcro in some places. SLIM was designed to land on a slope of approximately 15 degrees from the horizontal. As the spacecraft approached its landing with the main engines pointing downward to reduce the rate of descent, the thrusters were expected to tip the craft over to about 45 degrees, so that the main landing legs touch down first and then the craft completes the rotation into horizontal mode with the auxiliary legs touching down last. The legs all have a crush pad of 3D-printed aluminum alloy to absorb any impact stresses during touchdown. Just before landing, SLIM ejected two small automata Lunar Excursion Vehicles (LEV), LEV-1 and LEV-2. These will explore and photograph the surrounding environment and the lander, each utilizing novel experimental propulsion techniques. LEV-1 is designed to hop frog-like around the Lunar surface, not only taking photos but also measuring slope, elevation, temperature, and radiation of the local lunar environment. This rover is also capable of direct communication back to Earth. LEV-2 has been developed by JAXA in collaboration with Tomy, Sony, and Doshisha University, Japan. Weighing a mere 250 grams and only eight centimeters in diameter, this baseball-shaped vehicle has been inspired by co-developer Tomy’s Transformers toys. The initial design concept had to be reduced in size and weight to meet the limitations imposed by the mission’s lightweight ideals. On landing, the ball split apart to form two wheels and reveal pop-out cameras and a stabilizer. The method of forward movement, a waggling motion was inspired by that of the sea turtle. This collaboration with Tomy is intended to inspire children to dream big, and indeed a toy version of SORA-Q as LEV-2 is also known, is being sold in Japan. SLIM ejects two LEV’s onto the Moon. (Credit: JAXA) LEV-1 will beam data from both LEVs back to the Deep Space Network stations on Earth. Before the landing, the information available suggested that SLIM is a limited lifetime proof of concept lander, and was expected to function only until the Sun sets on the landing site after a maximum of 14 Earth days. At this point, the spacecraft would lose all power, and the electronics would likely be damaged by the extreme cold of the lunar night. However, since the issue with the electrical supply became known, the JAXA officials are suggesting that the lander could be put into sleep mode until the Sun lights the cells again. There has been an upturn in interest in landing on the Moon, and there are several more landing attempts due in the near future. NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) is providing incentives for commercial partners to demonstrate reliable cargo delivery capabilities to support the Artemis mission. CLPS has already produced the Peregrine One mission, which has provided data, and experience and generated public interest despite its failure to land. Intuitive Machines is hoping to succeed with its first Moon landing attempt when its Nova-C lander launches as early as February 2024 on a SpaceX Falcon 9. Nova-C is described as being the size of a telephone box and carries 130 kilograms of payload, mostly instrumentation for NASA, but also a cubesat and a deployable camera called EagleCAM. Intuitive Machines has three missions for Nova-C under the CLPS contract. Japan has a second Hakuto-R mission planned for NET Q4 2024. This mission, named Resilience, will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and will feature a micro-rover. (Lead image: Render of the SLIM Lander on the Moon. Credit: JAXA) The post Japan’s SLIM lands on the Moon, power issues cast doubt on lander’s survival appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

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Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries successfully launched its H-IIA rocket carrying the national space agency's moon lander on Thursday, after unfavorable weather led to three postponements in a week last month.

Japan aims to become the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the lunar surface with the launch of a low-cost "moon sniper" that will test precision landing technology designed to further Tokyo’s space goals. The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) craft — dubbed "moon sniper" by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) — is set to touch down on the near side of the moon close to Mare Nectaris, a lunar basin that is one of the visible dark spots on the moon. The launch comes weeks after India became the first country to land on the moon's south pole, sparking an outpouring of national pride and highlighting a new space race that features the private sector.

Source: Global News/YouTube

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MARE NECTARIS Y ALREDEDORES.

Mare Nectaris es un mar ubicado en la parte suroccidental de nuestro satélite, de más de 300 km de diámetro. Es notoriamente llano y la lava alcanza un espesor de 1000 m. Ocupa el punto central de una enorme cuenca de impacto de 860 km de diámetro que se formó hace casi 4000 millones de años. En su interior destaca el pequeño cráter Rosse, de alto albedo, con 12 km de diámetro y 2,4 km de profundidad.

A su alrededor destacan numerosos accidentes dignos de verse detenidamente con el telescopio. Sobresalen en su cara oeste el trío de cráteres Theophylus, Cyrillus y Catherina, de norte a sur.

Pero sobre todo nos fijamos a la izquierda de la imagen en Rupes Altai, una escarpadura de 480 km de longitud que llega a alcanzar en algunos puntos los 3000 m de altura. Rupes Altai constituye los restos de la pared primigenia de la cuenca de impacto.

Maksutov Cassegrain 127. Cámara CCDQHY 5II M.

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