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more space stuff - 8/2/2011 12:44:53 PM

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http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-stunned-surface-asteroid-vesta-204550456.html

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RE: more space stuff - 8/2/2011 12:50:37 PM

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oh VERY cool!! thanks, Hilly!

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RE: more space stuff - 8/2/2011 5:29:22 PM

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Excellent stuff
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RE: more space stuff - 8/2/2011 5:36:30 PM

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Stunned ? What a fucking joke. Stunned means it is stunning, unexpected or something. Out in the universe, shit, I wouldn't be stunned if little green men appeared tomorrow at my front door.

Stunned ?

I'll have to look at nasa.gov to see if they were really stunned or that was some reporters dream, to gain headline notariety.

So it's not a smooth surface or some shit. So it's not this or that, which they are used to seeing. Geez, why the fuck are they astron,,,,,,, no wait, they must not be. Copernicus is probably rolling over in his grave about now.

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RE: more space stuff - 8/5/2011 2:30:36 PM

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For anyone that's had a look at an aurora, it might be interesting to have a look at what one looks like from the ISS (link).

The ring in the lower half of the picture is an old impact crater in Canada, apparently.

Either way, google will provide additional images by searching for 'ISS' and 'aurora'. The people on the ISS photograph a lot of them. Whereas us earthbound folk only get to see it from below, the ISS orbit is about the same height as the auroræ themselves, so they sometimes pass above one, other times barely below one, and quite frequently pass straight through the aurora. That's why we get such nice shots, showing the lines of flux through the plasma in an interesting way, and often outlining the atmospheric layers where it happens.

Am I the only one to have watched too much sci-fi and thus to see a striking similarity to 'planetary shield' visual FX shots?

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RE: more space stuff - 8/6/2011 4:49:08 AM

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@Termyn8or yes definitely a Yahooligan reporting that one lol, space rocks aren't that different from Terran rocks :-p all sorts of odd features and variations should be expected, then again they thought the Lunar Module might be landing in 6 feet of powdered regolith, making walking impossible...

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