#Space Day

[thatonequeeraunt]

WWDITS season 5 episode 3 "pride parade" spoilers with no context

[thechromebucket]

Marvelous Mermay: Gamora

Supposedly it's "Space Day" today. So here's Gamora. 

[psychicgiverwasteland]

On Srinagar - Muzaffarabad Highway

[blackhester]

[littlemonstersstuff]

[bluenpinkcastle]

20230720: today’s space build honors the anniversary of humans landing on the moon on 20 July 1969. honestly, I’m a little unhappy that this day isn’t more of an international holiday. we put people on the moon! that seems like it should have been a Very Big Deal and yet, no one seems to remember. today’s build was LEGO Ideas #048 (21340): Tales of the Space Age with 688 pieces from 2023. I’d wanted this set when I first saw pictures of it but it kept being sold out and back ordered. when it finally arrived, I was absolutely ecstatic. this was an absolutely wonderful build with fantastic colors and a very neat design. my favorite part about this build, though, is the information booklet that came with it, which I show opened in the picture. this booklet devotes a paragraph to each of the phases of the postcards, as they are four distinct and different postcards. the booklets aren’t numbered, which is something the LEGO Group has started doing recently that I strongly dislike, but each postcard is described in the fifth booklet. inside, there’s a brief history of our journey into space, mentioning the first satellite launch in 1957, the first creatures returning alive from space in 1959, the first man in space in 1961, the first woman in space in 1963, and the first humans to walk on the moon in 1969. the first of the postcards is dedicated to comets and gives a brief history of Halley’s Comet, last seen passing Earth in 1986 with the next projected appearance in 2061. the second postcard discusses human’s curiosity and the vehicles we have sent out into the universe to explore for us and help us find ways to make space travel safe. the third postcard is for our future in space, with a space ship taking off from a planet. the final postcard talks about blackholes and their role in the galaxy. overall, this is an amazing set with such wonderful stories, history, colors, and the sense of curiosity, creativity, wonder, and hope I associate with humanity when we remembered how to dream of better worlds and the exploration of space :) HAPPY SPACE DAY!

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[gildedphoenix]

July, Moon-20th!

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[snailcubezz]

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[dkettchen]

happy men's day everyoneeeee

[artistkaila17]

Happy belated Space Day 2024, which was May the 3rd.☄️☄️🌚🌝🌑👩🏽‍🚀

Picture from national today.com.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

best thing about batman is that he's a superficially grimdark character, gothic & brooding & angst ridden etc..........but then it turns out he has a million hobbies, regularly goes on adventures with his besties, and has a dozen adopted kids he's raising with his devoted foster dad. good for him

[doodle-ghostt]

Happy Space Day 2024. :))

[psychicgiverwasteland]

بہترین سفر وہ ہوتا ہے جو دل کو چھو جائے۔ جو راستے سفر میں آپ کو گزرتے ہیں، وہ واقعی محفور ہوتے ہیں۔ کبھی کبھار زندگی کا سفر ایک انتہائی روشن مخمصہ ہوتا ہے جو ہمیں نئے دنیاوں کا علم دیتا ہے...

[juliaxyn]

surviving on caffeine and novels. ...

[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.