Space News & Views

[Immortan Jonesy]

https://vimeo.com/191664574

[Corporal Hicks]

https://vimeo.com/191664574

http://www.seeker.com/space-poop-challenge-nasa-astronauts-exploration-spacesuit-crowdsourci-2118607081.html

Loving the Apollo anecdote 

http://www.seeker.com/mars-water-nasa-colony-astronauts-climate-change-red-planet-2116417629.html

Massive Ice Reservoir on Mars Could Keep Settlers Alive

[AL]

Scientists Probe Mystery of Pluto's Icy Heart

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[Necronomicon II]

Perfect organism...
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151217-the-tiny-creatures-that-flew-to-the-moon-twice-and-survived?ocid=fbert

[Local Trouble]

[Shinawi]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/30f42fe0-bf82-389c-b593-560455e957b3/nasa-just-spotted-a-massive.html

NASA just spotted a massive hole growing on the surface of the sun — here's what it means

Business Insider Mon, Dec 5 9:00 PM PST

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory just spotted a massive hole on the sun called a coronal hole. The hole appears black because it's cooler than its surroundings and is responsible for high-speed solar winds that can sometimes disrupt satellite and radio communication satellites.

[Corporal Hicks]

http://www.seeker.com/space-junk-jaxa-debris-problem-international-space-station-2156194264.html

The Japanese space agency will soon be testing a new technology that would use a roughly half-mile-long tether to grab large pieces of space debris and dispose of them.

http://www.seeker.com/nasa-mars-rover-curiosity-big-hits-2016-red-planet-2155745847.html

Curiosity's Most Incredible Mars Snapshots of 2016

[x-M-x]

Absolutely gorgeous!!!! Seriously need to get a man/woman to mars in the next 15 years or so....

[Local Trouble]

Absolutely gorgeous!!!! Seriously need to get a man/woman to mars in the next 15 years or so....

[Pvt. Himmel]

NASA DEVELOPING FOOD BARS FOR TRIP TO MARS!!

NASA is currently in the process of developing special food that will one day be used on manned-trips to Mars.

The food (which can be seen in the video below) is currently being developed for use on the Orion Spacecraft, which is designed to take astronauts beyond low Earth orbit. Orion's upcoming trip, Exploration Mission 2, will take its crew around the Earth's moon "without being attached to any habitation module," explains Orion Crew Support Equipment System Manager Jessica Vos.

"In order to complete that mission," Vos says, "we need to pack all the food that we need for four crew for, like, 10 to 14 days. So that's quite a bit of mass and volume that we're talking about." In order to combat that, she continues, NASA's Space Food Systems Laboratory has developed meal replacement bars meant to be low in mass, but high in caloric density.

"We have the banana nut bar, orange cranberry bar, ginger vanilla bar, and barbecue nut bar," NASA Food Scientist Takiyah Sirmons shows off in the video. "Each are totaling about 700 to 800 calories. So it's a huge meal replacement." NASA is currently carrying out human studies to see how often astronauts will need to eat the bars during missions, she says.

       https://youtu.be/ZvE8jIf5Efw


   http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/12/28/nasa-developing-food-bars-for-trip-to-mars?abthid=586406aaa51671153a000007

[Corporal Hicks]

Cassini's Breathtaking New View of Saturn's Enigmatic Hexagon

http://www.seeker.com/cassini-nasa-saturn-mystery-hexagon-solar-system-spacecraft-photograph-2171829992.html

NASA to Send Mission to Metal Asteroid That Could Be Dead Planet's Core

http://www.seeker.com/nasa-discovery-program-asteroid-missions-solar-system-origins-2179287316.html

I'd never known about these entirely metal asteroids. I'm quite intrigued.

[x-M-x]

Makes you wonder what type of *Metal*  it is though... and if one of these hit earth? jesus.

[Corporal Hicks]

Unlike other rocky or icy asteroids, Psyche is made entirely of iron-nickel metal, similar to Earth's core.

[x-M-x]

Unlike other rocky or icy asteroids, Psyche is made entirely of iron-nickel metal, similar to Earth's core.

How would they know just by looking at it? lol (maybe thats a retarded question but still i'm no scientist lol)


I expect asteroid mining in the next 200 years lol

[Le Celticant]

Unlike other rocky or icy asteroids, Psyche is made entirely of iron-nickel metal, similar to Earth's core.

How would they know just by looking at it? lol (maybe thats a retarded question but still i'm no scientist lol)


I expect asteroid mining in the next 200 years lol

There are plenty of ways to figures it out.
Like for example analyzing the Wavelength of the light.
Each element absorb and reflects / refracts a certain amount of energy.
You just have to figure what wavelength correspond to what element 

Then with the addition of Electromagnetic scans, planet's mass data and a bazillion of other things you can refine more and more each composition to decipher the very layers of every planet

But like all science, it's a matter of patience (I can vouch, I do science on DEdit lol).