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Neat mosaic of five images capturing the small Antofagasta crater, somewhere on the slopes of Aeolis Mons. Images acquired two days ago by the left navigation camera.
#Mars Apr. 13, 2026 - Sol 4865
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
#Mars #Curiosity #rover #Sol4865 #crater #Antofagasta #AntofagastaCrater #mosaic #photography #CuriosityRover #space #science #astrodon #news
Preparing my talk for the 1st Ox & Lancs Colloquium on Cosmological Features on the Largest Scales at U. of Lancashire. Highlight of the meeting: a talk by Sir Roger Penrose (Nobel Prize 2020) on "Dark matter in Conformal Cyclic Cosmology and Lopez Galactic Rings".
https://www.star.uclan.ac.uk/ox-lancs-2026/
#Cosmology #OxLancs #science #conference #Oxford #Lancashire #university #universities #ULancs #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #cosmicflows #Hooleilana #Laniakea #supercluster #galaxies
Curiosity approaching a small crater, about 10 meters (32 feet) in diameter. The mission team named this crater “Antofagasta”.
Check out Abigail Fraeman's latest blog post for more insights on the forthcoming study of this crater:
#Mars #Curiosity #rover #Sol4865 #crater #Antofagasta #AntofagastaCrater #AbigailFraeman #CuriosityRover #space #science #astrodon #news
A Stereo3D view of the small Antofagasta crater, captured two days ago by the Curiosity rover
To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye.
#Mars Apr. 13, 2026 - Sol 4865
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
#Curiosity #rover #Sol4865 #CuriosityRover #space #geology #Astrodon #MSL #Martian #landscape #GaleCrater #MountSharp #AeolisMons #crater #science #STEM #3D #Stereo3D #Stereoscopy
Capturing the Details of the Moon and the Beauty of Earth
Another magical photography by the Artemis II mission, just released by NASA Johnson...
#Moon #Earth #Artemis #Artemis2 #Orion #Integrity #OrionIntegrity #spacecraft #NASA #space #news #astrodon #lunar #flyby #lunarflyby #photography #Nikon #NikonD5 #camera #flickr
How time flies.... 4 years!
Ingenuity during its 26th flight on Mars (April 19, 2022)
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that the gas and dust forming the comet’s tail extended over more than 5 million kilometers; that this comet has two tails: one moving away from the #Sun while the other follows the path taken by the comet through the solar system.
In conclusion: Comet 3I/ATLAS, although of interstellar origin, behaves similarly to comets in our Solar System. And the instruments on board the #Juice probe are working perfectly! 👏 👍️ 😃
Lors de son périple en direction des lunes glacées de #Jupiter, la sonde #JUICE de l'ESA a analysé, au moyen de ses #instruments embarqués, la trajectoire ainsi que la composition de la #comete interstellaire 3I/ATLAS, quelques jours après son passage à proximité du #Soleil.
Il est ainsi apparu que la comète 3I/ATLAS libérait quelques 2000 kg d'eau par seconde dans l'espace, que cette vapeur d'eau provenait majoritairement de grains de #poussière glacée composant sa #coma, ...
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que le gaz et la poussière formant la queue de la comète s'étendaient sur plus de 5 millions de kilomètres ; que cette comète dispose de deux queues : l'une s'éloigne du #Soleil tandis l'autre suit le chemin emprunté par la comète à travers le système solaire.
En conclusion : la comète 3I/ATLAS, bien que d'origine interstellaire, se comporte similairement aux comètes de notre Système Solaire. Et les instruments embarqués par la sonde #Juice fonctionnent parfaitement bien ! 👏 👍 😃
During its journey toward Jupiter’s icy moons, ESA’s #JUICE spacecraft used its onboard #instruments to analyze the trajectory and composition of the interstellar #comet 3I/ATLAS, a few days after it passed close to the #Sun.
It was thus revealed that Comet 3I/ATLAS was releasing some 2,000 kg of water per second into space, that this water vapor came mainly from grains of #icy dust making up its #coma, ...
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