17 posts tagged with Earth by doctornemo.
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Moon landings, a wooden satellite, Tolkien on Mars, fiery descents

The Martian helicopter completed its final flight on Valinor Hills. "yeah it really could be an ocean moon" - Let's check in on humanity's exploration of space in early 2024. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Feb 23, 2024 - 13 comments

Asteroid bits, fast spaceships, JuMBOs, a space battle, space cat video

December 2023 solstice from space. Let's check in on humanity's solar system exploration before 2024 kicks in. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Dec 21, 2023 - 14 comments

Launches, landings, elements, and the fiery golden apples of the sun

NASA started work on this day in 1958. So let's mark the occasion by checking on the past month of humanity's exploration of space. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Oct 1, 2023 - 5 comments

Feeling lunar gravity

Had ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the lunar surface. Let's check in on humanity's exploration of space as autumn 2023 draws nigh, starting with the Sun and working outwards from there. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Sep 4, 2023 - 13 comments

To the other side of the Sun, to resurrect the last Great Observatory

Launches, satellites, deep space missions, images, and more. Let's check in on humanity's exploration of space for July 2023. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Jul 9, 2023 - 7 comments

Volcano on Venus

A Martian glacier, rockets, asteroid samples, moons, and more rockets. From the fiery Sun to the search for alien civilizations, here's an update on humanity's exploration of space.

Sol
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured video of an immense solar flare followed by a solar tornado. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Mar 21, 2023 - 8 comments

An unusually close glimpse of black hole snacking on star.

The Moon doesn’t currently have an independent time. It's time for another look at humanity's exploration of space, from 2022's end to the start of 2023. There's a lot going on, especially between the Earth's surface and orbit. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Jan 30, 2023 - 10 comments

From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon

Helga, Zohar and Commander Moonikin Campos take a trip. It's time for another look at humanity's exploration of space, starting with the Sun.
The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter glimpsed a "solar snake" racing across the face of the Sun. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Dec 12, 2022 - 6 comments

The face of the sun, a dying robot, meteor strikes, lovely moons

October 2022 in humanity's exploration of space. Let's start from the sun. The European Space Agency (ESA) Solar Orbiter zoomed very close to our star and captured great images of its corona. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Nov 5, 2022 - 7 comments

Moon to Mars activities and asteroid crashing

NASA published its new strategic objectives. And a lot more is going on. Just past the fall equinox, we catch up with humanity's exploration of space. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Sep 25, 2022 - 14 comments

From the Earth to the Moon, to Venus, Mars, and more

A roundup of July and August 2022 in humanity's exploration of space. Humans and robots explored, rockets ascended and descended, various preparations are under way, and many plans were aired. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Aug 21, 2022 - 18 comments

From Ukraine to deep space

April-June 2022 in humanity's exploration of space. Stand by for rocky passengers, glitches, amazing images, a very French rocket name, Earthly politics, and lots of asteroids.

On the Earth In the Himalayas, a liquid mirror telescope came online. France joined the Artemis accords for sustainable space exploration. BRICS nations announced a new space agreement: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Jun 12, 2022 - 12 comments

Rockets, photos, the sun, a space station, and a very distant star

Late March 2022 in humanity's exploration of space. The past couple of weeks saw a lot of activity in the solar system, especially with launches and images. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Apr 3, 2022 - 11 comments

The option of dropping a 500-ton structure on India and China

Updates from February 2022 in space. The human effort to explore space continued this month, intersecting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Feb 27, 2022 - 24 comments

From L2 to the Moon and points elsewhere

The last two weeks of 2021 in space. Starting with the Earth area: Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu, two taikonauts of the Shenzhou-13 mission on board the Tianhe space station, completed a second EVA lasting six hours. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Dec 27, 2021 - 7 comments

a faint plasma "hum" scientists compared to gentle rain

Another week in humanity's exploration of the solar system. Starting from the sun: the NASA and ESA Solar Orbiter hurtled around the far side of the star from the Earth and tracked a coronal mass ejection. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on May 19, 2021 - 2 comments

The silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun.

This week in humanity's exploration of the solar system. Let's start at the center. The Parker Solar Probe set two new records as the fastest object ever made by humanity (330,000 miles per hour, 532,000 km/h) and the closest any spacecraft has gotten to the sun (6.5 million miles, 10.4 million km). Back on Earth, scholars published research into Venusian data Parker caught when it last hurtled past that planet (previously). [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on May 8, 2021 - 11 comments

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