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20210825

Sol 3217: Right Navigation Camera gif

Sol 3217: Right Navigation Camera

This image was taken by NAV_RIGHT_B onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3217 (2021-08-24T08:26:51.000Z) to (2021-08-24T08:31:17.000Z)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

gif made with Gimp

20210824

Mars Perseverance Sol 181: SHERLOC ACI Camera

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its SHERLOC Autofocus and Context Imager (ACI), located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm.

This image was acquired on Aug. 24, 2021 (Sol 181) at the local mean solar time of 19:50:25.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

-interesting calibration image using (4) Intensity Target (Chromium on Silica)

Fun seeing the Sherlock Holmes 221B Baker Street reference in (6) Polycarbonate Over Opal Glass Geocache

. 15 which it interacted. This enables classification of bonds such as C-H, CN, C=O, C=C, NHx, NOx, SOx, POx, ClOx, and OH. In addition to the two imaging subsystems and a DUV laser spectrometer, the Mars 2020 rover carries an external SHERLOC Calibration Target (SCT). The SCT is affixed to the front of the rover and includes ten calibration targets to enable instrument calibration on the Mars Surface. Figure 1 captures the ten calibration targets and their location within the calibration target palette. Figure 1 SHERLOC Calibration Target (SCT) The calibration target material is being identified as: (0) NA (1) AlGaN on Sapphire Raman Region (~262 nm peak) (2) Diffusil Diffuser (Bubbled Silica) (3) Mars Meteorite SaU 008 (4) Intensity Target (Chromium on Silica) (5) AlGaN on Sapphire Fluorescence Region (~335 nm peak) (6) Polycarbonate Over Opal Glass Geocache (7) Vectran Fabric (8) Orthofabric (9) Teflon Fabric (10) nGimat Coated Teflon Fabric For detail descriptive information on the SCT and each of the targets, refer to Ref [13], Ref [15], and Ref [18].

https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/m2020/urn-nasa-pds-mars2020_sherloc/document/sherloc_rdr_sis.pdf

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copyright 2021. California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged. The research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

20210815

Mars Perseverance Sol 171: Left Mastcam-Z Camera -panorama

Mars Perseverance Sol 171: Left Mastcam-Z Camera

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast.

This image was acquired on Aug. 13, 2021 (Sol 171)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

image stitched with Microsoft ICE

20210813

Sol 3205: Right Navigation Camera gif

Sol 3205: Right Navigation Camera

This image was taken by NAV_RIGHT_B onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3205 (2021-08-12T05:05:09.000Z) to (2021-08-12T05:09:29.000Z)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltec

Morning coffee and a gif made with gimp

Nasa, we want more video!

20210809

Sol 3202 Mars rover Curiosity panorama

Sol 3202: Left Navigation Camera

This image was taken by NAV_LEFT_B onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3202

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

panorama made with Microsoft ICE

20210807

Sol 3200: Right Navigation Camera gif

Sol 3200: Right Navigation Camera

This image was taken by NAV_RIGHT_B onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3200 (2021-08-07T06:12:48.000Z to 2021-08-07T06:14:19.000Z)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

gif made with Gimp

20210731

How Mind-Reading Technology conquers your Brain | Katrin-Cécile Ziegler | TEDxRWTHAachen

20210725

Mars Perseverance Sol 151 dust devil gifs

Mars Perseverance Sol 151: Left Navigation Camera (Navcam)

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its onboard Left Navigation Camera (Navcam). The camera is located high on the rover's mast and aids in driving.

This image was acquired on Jul. 23, 2021 (Sol 151) at the local mean solar time of 13:47:36.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

dust devils on Mars

gif made with Gimp

20210724

Cosmic Eye

This is the original landscape-format version of the short movie Cosmic Eye, designed by astrophysicist Danail Obreschkow. The movie zooms through all well-known scales of the universe from minuscule elementary particles out to the gigantic cosmic web. In doing so, it shows the ultimate size comparison in our universe. The video drew inspiration from a progression of increasingly accurate graphical representations of the scales of the universe, including the classical essay "Cosmic View" by Kees Boeke (1957), the short movie "Cosmic Zoom" by Eva Szasz (1968), and the legendary movie "Powers of Ten" by Charles and Ray Eames (1977). Cosmic Eye takes these earlier representations to the state-of-the-art by displaying real photographs obtained with modern detectors, telescopes, and microscopes. Other views are renderings of modern computer models. Smart vector-based blending techniques are used to create a seamless zoom.

20210717

Curiosity on Sol 3178

Looks almost like lichen growth. Bacteria/fungus slowly breaking down rock?

This image was taken by Mast Camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3178 (2021-07-15 10:56:04 UTC).

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

https://www.britannica.com/science/rock-tripe

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/iron-eating-fungus-disintegrates-rocks-acid-and-cellular-knives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron-oxidizing_bacteria

-most likely airborne moisture causing rock/crystal growth over millions of years

20210714

Spooky Alignment of Quasars Across Billions of Light-years (Galactic Internet)

https://www.eso.org/public/usa/news/eso1438/

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2014/12/aa24631-14/aa24631-14.html

This artist's impression shows schematically the mysterious alignments between the spin axes of quasars and the large-scale structures that they inhabit that observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed. These alignments are over billions of light-years and are the largest known in the Universe.

The large-scale structure is shown in blue and quasars are marked in white with the rotation axes of their black holes indicated with a line.

This picture is for illustration only and does not depict the real distribution of galaxies and quasars.

https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1438a/

Credit:

ESO/M. Kornmesser

I like to imagine a massive data transport system that would be much faster than light by using the existing photonic system of pulsars and quasars as markers or lighthouses connecting black and white holes in 2D space

edit 2021-9-22 new links: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576512002780

https://phys.org/news/2021-03-gravitational-lenses-galaxy-wide-internet.html

A very redundant mesh network system shaped like a dodecahedral honeycomb, similar to the shape of the universe:

images from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order-4_dodecahedral_honeycomb

Title: Constrained Local Universe Evolution Simulation (spherical).webm
Author:

CLUES - Constrained Local Universe Evolution Simulation

SCIENCE ADVISORS Dr. Joel Primack - University of California Santa Cruz Dr. Anatoly Klypin - New Mexico State University Dr. Stefan Gottlöber - Astrophysical Institute Potsdam

CLUES - VISUALIZATION Chris Henze - Advanced Supercomputing Division - NASA Ames Research Center Nina McCurdy - Outreach Coordinator - University of California Santa Cruz Dr. Mark SubbaRao - Adler Planetarium Patrick McPike - Adler Planetarium

CLUES - ADLER SHOW INTEGRATION Dr. Doug Roberts - Adler Planetarium

Mark Paternostro - Adler Planetarium
Date: 11 October 2016

20210712

Curiosity on Sol 3173 panorama

Really interesting landscape on Mars where Curiosity rover is located currently. Panorama I made using Microsoft ICE. Right-click and open image in new tab to see larger version

Mastcam onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3173

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

20210711

Mars Perseverance Sol 138 panorama

Mars Perseverance Sol 138: SuperCam Camera

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using the SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager, located at the top of the rover's mast.

This image was acquired on Jul. 10, 2021 (Sol 138)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP

Panorama made with Microsoft ICE

20210710

Sol 589 Mars rover Curiosity anomaly

Sol 589: Right Navigation Camera

This image was taken by NAV_RIGHT_B onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 589 (2014-04-03T10:00:03.000Z)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

-top left quadrant: cosmic ray or excited gas anomaly?

Mars Perseverance Sol 137

Mars Perseverance Sol 137: Right Mastcam-Z Camera

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast.

This image was acquired on Jul. 9, 2021 (Sol 137)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

image stitched with Microsoft ICE

20210703

Sol 3166 Mars rover Curiosity Dust Devil gif

Sol 3166 Mars rover Curiosity Dust Devil

gif made with Gimp

one gif runs slightly faster

Sol 3166: Right Navigation Camera

This image was taken by NAV_RIGHT_B onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3166 (2021-07-03T03:51:27.000Z) to (2021-07-03T03:55:46.000Z)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

20210630

Sol 3163: Rear Hazard Avoidance Camera anomaly

Sol 3163: Rear Hazard Avoidance Camera (Rear Hazcam)

This image was taken by RHAZ_RIGHT_B onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3163 (2021-06-30T03:18:28.000Z)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Sol 3163: Rear Hazard Avoidance Camera (Rear Hazcam)

This image was taken by RHAZ_LEFT_B onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3163 (2021-06-30T03:18:28.000Z)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Cosmic rays or something else?

https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/949725/?site=msl

Sol 3163 Mars rover Curiosity

Sol 3163: Chemistry & Camera (ChemCam)

This image was taken by CHEMCAM_RMI onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3163 (2021-06-30T01:24:39.000Z) to (2021-06-30T01:41:58.000Z)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL

stitched with Microsoft ICE

20210629

Mars Perseverance Sol 127

Looks very dry

Morning coffee and playing around with Microsoft ICE

Mars Perseverance Sol 127
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/

20210627

Mars Perseverance Sol 125

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast.

This image was acquired on Jun. 27, 2021 (Sol 125)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

made with Microsoft ICE

20210625

Mars Perseverance Sol 122 panorama

Mars Perseverance Sol 122: Left Mastcam-Z Camera

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast. This image was acquired on Jun. 24, 2021 (Sol 122)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

made with Microsoft ICE

20210624

GNU IMAGE MANIPULATION PROGRAM link

GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes. Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done.

https://www.gimp.org/