#September2011
Gamers Discover Two New Planets Using Browser Game. Cyeah!
Gamers are fucking holding it down. When we’re not cracking crazy ass protein thingies that I don’t really understand using Foldit, apparently we’re finding planets. Earth-like ones.
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Mars’ Dry Ice Pits Exposed During Its Thaw, Reveals Gold! Maybe. Sorta.
At the end of every summer, Mars gets its thaw on. When this occurs, dry ice pits are exposed, and they’re lined by…scientists arent’ really sure.
Video: Time-Lapse of the Space Station Flying Over Earth. Space-Porno.
This video is pure space porn. Time-lapse video of the International Space Station bombing over the surface of the Earth.
Hit the jump.
Asteroid ‘Vesta’ Has Itself A Lumpy Ass. Space Shame.
(Click to enlarge. Via: Vesta’s odd bottom)
Vesta is an asteroid 300 miles wide. According to Phil Plait, that means the son of a gun should be crushed into sphere. Yet, it isn’t.
Why is that?
NASA Unveils New Rocket, And It’s Mars Bound?
Maybe the space exploration situation isn’t as dire and dismal and depressing as I figured when the last shuttle rocketed in the sky this summer. Nasa has unveiled their next iteration of Things Blasting Out of the Atmosphere: the Space Launch System. It’s a big fucking rocket, and it’s taking us to Mars. Someday. Right?
Saturn and Five of Its Moons In One Gorgeous Picture
(Click image to enlarge. Via.)
Back in 2009, Cassini caught Saturn and five of its moons in one gorgeous line-up. Well done, Cassini.
So what exactly is going on in this picture?
50 New Exoplanets Found, Including Possibly Inhabitable Super-Earth. Space Geek Swoon.
We can now purvey deep into the cosmos, gobbling up planetary findings like it isn’t any thang. The scientists found these planets using a fancy spectrograph thing far beyond my fat-brained comprehension. Oh yeah, and 16 of these planets are super-Earths. One within its star inhabitable zone. ‘Possibly inhabitable’. Have to love the hyperbole. Whatever though, brah and brahettes, begin your fantasizing.
Video: Jupiter Rolling Across The Night Sky.
You can see Jupiter in the night sky tonight. Don’t believe me? Believe Phil Plait! Well, okay, you could have right after sunset. People on the west coast! Do it! For me! Did you miss it? Then console yourself with this video made by Emil Kraaikamp of Jupiter rolling across the night sky.
Swoon.
New Image of Moon Shows Astronauts’ Footsteps. So Rad.
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The above picture is g’damn outstanding. It’s a picture from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter showing the Apollo 12 mission in fantastic detail. To stop and contemplate this is a picture of a different body in space where man has been. And we can see our marks.
This Is The Remains Of A River On Mars. Solar System Swoon.
This is a picture of Mars. A picture of another planet. A big round conglomeration of awesomeness that has ice, water, maybe life, and goddamn used to have rivers. This is a picture of another planet. So outstanding to think about every once in a while. And as I said, it’s a picture of the remains of a river. On another planet.
