Hard to argue that this is anything but clear evidence that Mars was once a wet planet.
It’s the sort of terrain where, on Earth, I’d not be surprised to see a fossil shell or footprint. That’s doubtless too much to ask *here,* but the evidence of water just sitting there like that is pretty spectacular.
Feel free to try to imagine “other ways of knowing” providing this.
So Elon Musk posted some photos of a recent “code review” at Twitter. One photo in particular has some people upset… because the people who are there doing actual work seem to be… well, take a look:
— ᏴᎪᎠᎬᎡ. (@iOnlyBvz) November 19, 2022
If you read the Twitter comments, you’ll see that some people are upset that there aren’t enough women coders or black coders. Well… I don’t know how many were there before Musk took over, but the people who were fired were generally fired en masse; those who quit did so on their own; those who remained did so for reasons of their own. So it *appears* that “diverse” coders either weren’t there to begin with, or didn’t want to stay and work extra hard. Granted, some number of those remaining are foreigners on work visas… if they quit, they get sent back across the seas. So they are, arguably, stuck. Stuck in a country that all the harpies keep screaming is racist and horrible. So a chance for a free flight back to the homeland is something that they *should* be clamoring for, yes?
Included here are not only the closeups, but also a view from the public area showing just how brightly the exhaust lit the world.
This will take a little while to fully process.
A YouTube video with a bit more imagery of the impact and the results…
A few photos showing the innards of an F-22 being repaired:
and some more pic.twitter.com/yZjvk5Fl49
— Fighterman_FFRC (@Fighterman_FFRC) June 12, 2022
The Hubble and Webb space telescopes both observed the DART asteroid impact, and both saw distinct “streamers” in the ejecta. Which seems rather odd given that the asteroid appears to have been a loosely-assembled gravel pile, with nothing holding the ejected particles together… no surface tension, no magnetic fields, not even any appreciable gravity.
Webb’s view in near infrared:
Hubble’s view in visible light:
Say what you will about United Launch Alliance and the fact that it is far, FAR behind the times when compared with SpaceX, they’ve recently been issuing some damned impressive videos.
Found it! Ok, since you asked so nicely… here is a full duration @BlueOrigin #BE4 firing. #VulcanRocket #CountDownToVulcan. Enjoy… pic.twitter.com/HZB2z33ted
— Tory Bruno (@torybruno) September 28, 2022
OK. By popular demand, my ultra secret, most favorite spot. #NROL91 pic.twitter.com/OdqaUsPHuC
— Tory Bruno (@torybruno) September 27, 2022
Here’s a cool fisheye shot for all you flame trench fans. Don’t forget to turn up the sound. #NROL91 pic.twitter.com/yv2JWbCP1w
— Tory Bruno (@torybruno) September 27, 2022
Want to see some fire close up from my favorite secret SLC6 viewing spot? (turn up the volume…). #NROL91 pic.twitter.com/Ss3Hzfkcb1
— Tory Bruno (@torybruno) September 26, 2022
Gotta love a rocket that is so metal, it sets itself on fire before launching into space. Getting excited for #NROL91 #DeltaIVHeavy pic.twitter.com/9RIJV6LAK0
— Tory Bruno (@torybruno) September 19, 2022
And they’re retweeting some good vids of their Delta IV launch:
Video from the #NROL91 Delta IV Heavy launch yesterday. @ulalaunch @torybruno @SuperclusterHQ pic.twitter.com/taa3Usgo9Z
— Justin Hartney (@justinhartney) September 25, 2022
Wide angle shot of ULA Delta IV Heavy – NROL-91 successfully launched from Vandenberg SFB yesterday. @NASASpaceflight pic.twitter.com/habqHr7NVs
— Jay L. DeShetler (@jdeshetler) September 26, 2022
Some great launch videos. Now, to release some equally impressive landing videos, demonstrating that ULA is in the business of recovering and reusing rockets to not only lower launch cost (and compete with SpaceX) but also to ramp up launch rates in order to save western civilization off-world, because it’s going to hell on *this* one.
The images coming in of the DART impact are absolutely remarkable.
Same video as before of ATLAS observing the DART impact, but tracked sidereally (with the stars). Each frame is about 40 seconds, and the entire sequence is about two hours. pic.twitter.com/p7Sgvfu2CK
— ATLAS Project (@fallingstarIfA) September 27, 2022
The preliminary preview images from @LICIACube show the extent and shape of the plume from the #DARTmission Sept. 26 impact on asteroid Didymos' moonlet Dimorphos pic.twitter.com/VwUm096Yov
— Jason Major (@JPMajor) September 27, 2022
Here are some of the first images direct from the @LICIACube team at @ASI_spazio https://t.co/9LEIZA5SF7
— Jason Major (@JPMajor) September 27, 2022
A imagem que vocês estavam esperando chegou! Já acessamos os dados do @NASAWebb e montamos um timelapse do asteroide Dimorphos após a colisão com a missão de teste de defesa planetária #DART. #AstroMiniBR pic.twitter.com/DWQEnyW7x9
— Projeto Céu Profundo (@CeuProfundo) September 27, 2022
Dude. DUDE.
This is what men can do when they strive for greatness using the precepts of western science: we can bullseye a 500-meter-wide pile of rubble from across the friggen’ solar system.
The plume was visible from Earth-based telescopes.
ATLAS observations of the DART spacecraft impact at Didymos! pic.twitter.com/26IKwB9VSo
— ATLAS Project (@fallingstarIfA) September 27, 2022
Check out these two different angles of the #DARTMission explosion taken from Earth observatories!! #nasa #asteroid #dimorphos #atlasproject #ssaosouthafrica pic.twitter.com/JyRrk74Fjs
— The Bind (@TheBindRocks) September 27, 2022
The Webb and Hubble telescopes were aimed at the impact, but I haven’t seen anything from them yet. Probably takes time to process.
