NatureAndSpace🌳🌎🌌

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Nature and Space science facts for all humans - kindness sprinkled throughout.

Bay Area, CA. Hoping for future with more trees + increased synergy between nature and tech.

Integrated & Tested the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), developed at #NASA Ames, CA and launched to moon from Wallops Island, VA.

Trying to preserve green space locally for improved mental, emotional and physical health of children and community.

#Local efforts:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/717996949360306

#NatureProtect what you love
#KindnessUSA can be kind, California especially
#SpaceScience FTW!
#EnvironmentStart small/local, grow from there

Star Wars Tanks and Droid, Age 7 (first draft, ink)

#starwars #scifi #art7 #artofmastadon #creativity #drawing #drawings

Butterfly Nebula, photo credit: NASA

#NASA #space #scientist #nebula #photography

That time Israeli scientists stuck the indestructable tardigrades (aka water bears) on the moon as part of a "lunar library", and they likely are having a moon party as you read this:

https://www.wired.com/story/a-crashed-israeli-lunar-lander-spilled-tardigrades-on-the-moon/

#tardigrade #scientists #Isreal #moon #space #wow #science #cool #Mastidon #mastodonian #party #satellite

SpaceIL’s Crashed Spacecraft Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon

The Beresheet lunar lander carried thousands of books, DNA samples, and a few thousand water bears to the moon. But did any of it survive the crash?

WIRED

Thank you for letting me know @NatureMC! I had checked to see if the link worked before posting, so that is interesting. Maybe you can help me with this question:

To edit the original, if I delete it and redraft with another link, will those who commented on it and could reference the article lose it?

Can other #mastodonian check to see if this link works for them (out of curiosity)?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/story/a-crashed-israeli-lunar-lander-spilled-tardigrades-on-the-moon/amp

Thanks in advance!

#mastohelp #mastotips #mastodon #edit #science #scientist

SpaceIL’s Crashed Spacecraft Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon

The Beresheet lunar lander carried thousands of books, DNA samples, and a few thousand water bears to the moon. But did any of it survive the crash?

WIRED

Moon science: Results from our 🌚moon satellite that purposefully crashed into the dark side of the moon after 180+ days of lunar orbit showed that our moon is engulfed in a permanent, lopsided dust cloud that GROWS and GLOWS during annual events like meteor showers.

The lunar dust cloud with neon was discovered using data from a detector box on board the Lunar Atmosphere Environment Explorer called the LDEX 🌚

#science #moon #scientist #astrobiology #nasa #space #LADEE #scienceFTW