#Rover 10

[swpics]

1935 Rover 10 P1 part of Joint Rover Clubs celebration in Coventry. See report in current issue of Classic and Competition Car magazine. Free to read at www.classcompcar.com

[lonestarflight]

Grumman concept art of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (Lunar Rover) deployment for Apollo 15.

Posted on Flickr by Drew Granston: link, link, link, link, link

[pricknim]

I THINK I HAVE COVID live reaction:

[eddiebrockx]

GOLD ROGER IN MY BIDEO GAME???!???!?

[tatsudraws]

Day 10 - Nomadic

[nickpeppermint]

Happy Birthday to our puppies!

[nvrcmplt]

glasses would be pushed back as the artist , quietly so , found it in her to approach rover from the side. there'd be a small clearing of her throat , but not quite enough to catch his attention - why would it ? zhezhi had always been a little too quiet , never loud enough to be noticed. instead of trying again , a hand would raise and reach out for his shoulder , a gentle tap offered to his shoulder. just enough to see if he would turn around from the ramen stall , not quite enough to startle him ; " excuse , rover , i don't mean to disturb you in the middle of your meal , i was just ..."

oh , she hated this .

people had never been zhezhi's thing, and it certainly hadn't gotten any better over the years spent trying to make up for the position she had been put in by her family. a little nervous, hesitant, hand would withdraw itself so fingers could push glasses back into place; deep breaths, it was just rover. he wasn't dangerous.

" i was just ... wondering if ... it wouldn't be too much to ask, i can pay if needed , for you to escort me to mount firmament ? there are some mountains there i would like to paint , but there are so many ... dangers on the way there ," zhezhi uttered quietly, hand reaching for the back of her neck as eyes fled from him. it'd be easier to talk if she could gaze on the stone floor beneath them. " there are also some springs i would like to visit for the sake of painting as well , but i understand if you are busy . you - you have done such great work already , so ... if you can't find the time then i understand , i just wanted to ... ask ... since there aren't many other people that i can ask for such ... requests."

Shyness was something Rover wasn't sure he'll understand in the sense of being such a large figure in a world… but, if he thinks about it. Zhezhi had a life he could never imagine for such a wonderful talent, to think her parents were so… against them, for pursuing something without the use of her Forte, as if her paint strokes lacked anything but the honest love for an ink image to be born on paper so freely. Even with the whole case in their past, the illegal forgery and the standing up that Zhezhi did for herself, it seems that the harm of being seen as a failure and something not worth the effort to allow to bloom with their passions was forever going to be printed on this woman.

To learn of her place in this world wasn't for Rover to take over and force developing faster, as he knew in his own circumstances, some people on this world may know of him as his old self, the Sentients mostly but a few long life species seem to be well Intune with history and all his name and face across it. If he couldn't return to those expectations, who was he to will something upon someone who was too developing in their own paths forwards?

Thus, at current, as he nursed a bowl of broth and firm noodles from its bath to his lips, he was in a world of bliss. Slurping the flavour down with a smooth lick of the lips, to enjoy a moment to himself. Errands were plentiful, and his time was limited in terms of being able to function well without good rest and like today he was living it to the fullest. He woke in the late afternoon, to birds on his window sill and his hair a mess in tangled sheets. Muscles no longer ached and a shower that lasted a long, deep heated hour. He could have honestly taken a trip to the hot springs of Mount Firmament but the idea of trekking the snowy mountain wasn't on his list of relaxing.

Food was his last thought of the day - and one he was enjoying very well to this point. Zoned out and locked in with the flavours on his tongue that felt so familiar and yet new was all the more cherished, even as his shoulder was politely touched upon mid-slurp of his bowls' broth. A shock, but minute, he didn't spill his meal on himself, but he did glance upon the hands' owner as he released the bowls' edge from his guzzling moment to stare upon the renowned Painter. "Zhezhi…" A smile, oil slick lips touched with tongue before he asked for her pardons upon placing his bowl down and using the napkin provided to instead clean up his mouth upon giving her his attention.

Vibrant, she was like a walking scroll piece, her Forte wasn't even activated, but Rover was sure he could hear the cranes caw and the rivers babble in her presence. A smile upon his features was soon in place, taking her hesitance with knowledge that it wasn't that she didn't want to ask him for help but was rather not used to asking for said help with such 'selfish needs' if he had to guess was going through her mind. As if she was anything but such a thing. "Mount Firmament, hm?" It wasn't on his list of to-dos these days, though he did pass back and forth through the snow lands when asked to deliver a message or to hunt down a Lightcrusher a little out of its territory, however, how could he resist a venture?

"You've caught me a good time, Zhezhi. A large meal isn't good to lie down with, so a walk to Mount Firmament sounds like a good idea." He was amused, but his plans were merely just that for the day. To return to his room and enjoy the sunset from his windows, make tea and read a book maybe but now, he had some purpose. Now that he did think about his room, he was running low on Loong's Pearl. Maybe it was fate that guided her to him today. "Shall we head off as soon as you are ready then, Zhezhi? We'll need to pack well for the cold - so shall we meet at the Lake Heights beacon?" Himself too, as much as he knew he'd be sweating with the landscape, he wasn't to deny the harness of nature.

Plus to share it with company he was rather fond of, he was getting pretty excited about the adventure to come. To watch Zhezhi make their travel into a landscape of ink and depths he couldn't fathom with her paint strokes. "I'm looking forward to it, Zhezhi. Thank you for inviting me along." Was spoken before her mind could make her retreat her simple request, he could have held it back or just smiled and let her stew on that idea, but, he was going to nip it in the bud, after all, when she was determined with the right information and freedom to express herself, he's seen how she can really be with nothing holding her back. Thus, god forbid he becomes one of the many chains of burden on her choices.

@avaere

[rbxl-wanderer]

Beyond Liminal

by Crimson Wings Games

Dancing with The Block

[lunaetis]

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─「银月」─  she was going to regret this, wasn't she ? the fact that he probably should not be allowed to wander in public was something she was well aware of, yet ... the knowledge that he would also find a way to follow her whether she wanted it or not was also nagging at the back of her mind. would it be safer if he was somewhere she could actively keep an eye on ? it was an idea, at least. the MOONCHASE FESTIVAL was already wrapping up, too. it was already quite late at night ... so no one would be there. or so she hoped no one was there.

                " if you promise to behave — " the ROVER was already having second thought, but there was no turning back. keeping him on a leash did not go well, either, and that came from past experience alone. " — you can come with me. by behaving, i mean no violence. " she simply wanted to check on the wishing tree after everything was done.

[wooyasdream]

ROVER

[rabbitcruiser]

The Spirit rover was launched on June 10, 2003, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission.

[reeativity]

sojourner was so tiny so small i love her she just ran around and had a good time and did a mars and then died i love her baby baby tiny small

[masoncarr2244]

[amanitacz]

Model of the Set of Venera landers (Venera-9 / Venera-10 and Venera-13 / Venera-14) space probe.

Link to see more about this model on Turbosquid.com:

https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/venera-landers-1865618?referral=amanitacz

Link to the whole gallery:

https://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Artists/AmanitaCZ?referral=amanitacz

Link to the software:

http://www.cazaba.cz/

[deep-space-netwerk]

So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.

It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!

But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!

The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.

It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?

Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.

Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.

Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.

Lotta problems with lens caps.

For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.

This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:

However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.

[honourablejester]

One thing I’ve never understood about D&D druids is how they’re so often imagined as stationary. They’re found ‘guarding sacred sites or watching over regions of unspoiled nature’. And, I know. This is mainly because of the imagery and popular imagination around sites like Stonehenge. But.

If I had the druid spell list? I would take Create Bonfire, and I would take Goodberry, and I would take Create or Destroy Water, and I would pack up a sleeping bag, and I would just start walking. Where? Everywhere! What’s down that road? What’s over that hill? What’s up this river? What’s past this forest? What’s over those dunes? Let’s go see! I can’t starve. I can’t parch. I can’t freeze. I can go forever. So I’m gonna.

Honestly, the druid should be the picture of the wandering vagabond. They have everything they need. You can just walk and keep walking, wherever the wanderlust takes you. You wanna go across an ocean? You can make drinking water. Ships should pay to carry you. You wanna go across a desert? A baby druid with one level and 2 measly spell slots under their belt can still make food and a gallon of water a day for 10 people. Druids should be the explorers, the navigators, the pathfinders. They can travel endlessly, without hurting that which they pass through, the very picture of ‘leave nothing but your footprints’. They can walk the earth, stopping here or there along the way to help where they need to help, and fight what they need to fight, and then they can move on again.

Yes, some druids get tired and settle down. Circles are formed, and that’s how baby druids get their starts, finding a circle. And some areas do need a permanent circle to defend or watch over them. But I do think there should be more of a picture, more of an image, more of an option, for the druid as the wanderer, the rover, the vagabond. A pocket full of berries and a wave of a hand for some rain. Just head out and follow your feet. What could stop you?

(Particularly the Stars druid, my beloved. Could there be a better picture of a navigator? That’s where a Stars druid belongs, at the prow of a ship, or guiding their people across trackless dunes, or carrying news across vast ice fields under an endless polar night to keep tiny isolated hamlets connected. Follow the stars, follow your feet. Yes, accomplish things in the process, but the journey itself is also enough. Just walk. Go. The stars will guide you).

Sorry. In real life, so often, I just really want to see what’s down that road, or over that hill. And, like. As a druid you could just go. You have all you need from a standing start. Well. You’ll have to get clothes and good boots and shit, but you can totally feed and water yourself for completely free and regardless of natural resources out there.

More druid wanderers, is my point here. Yes, still some druids guarding henges and forests, but more druids just walking about, poking their noses into things. There is no better spell list to indulge your wanderlust and curiosity. And that’s without getting into wildshape and the eventual ability to explore under the oceans and into the air. There’s a whole world full of nature. You don’t have to tie yourself to one little bit, unless you want to.