#October2016

NASA Images Suggest the ExoMars Lander Exploded During Landing

nasa exomars lander

Bummer! Big bummer for the European Space Agency. Images provided by NASA suggest that the ExoMars lander exploded as it attempted to land on the Red Planet.

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Space Swoon: Flying Through An Aurora’s Green Fog

Philae lander sends back first picture taken on a f**king comet

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I’ll give humanity this. Every once in a while it does something impressive. While our governments are stripping down our rights and crushing us under their boots, every once in a while fleeting agencies within these rotting, antiquates corpses have found the time to pull off something sublime. Like the definition of sublime. Sending back a fucking image. From a comet.

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COMET-HUNTING spacecraft ROSETTA woke up after three years. Is like, sup.

Rosetta.

Today, I’ve had more than a couple of friends point me in the direction of this dopeness. This means two things. First, despite enough stimulants in my system to kill an ogre, I’m slowing down. Losing my grip. Second, my friends get me. Anyways, this isn’t about me! (I swear!) Rosetta is a comet-hunting spacecraft that has spent the last two years all slumbering and shit. Today! Today, it woke up.

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