Month: January 2018

Asteroid-Sampling Spacecraft Captures Haunting View of Earth in Space

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Earth and Moon seen from 3 million miles away on October 2, 2017. (NASA/OSIRIS-REx team and the University of Arizona)

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OSIRIS-REx tested its cameras by taking a gorgeous photo of its home planet

The image comes from spacecraft OSIRIS-REx—an acronym for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer—which is on a mission to study the asteroid Bennu. When it arrives in December 2018, it will map the space rock, then capture a sample to return to Earth by 2023. The mission will help scientists better understand asteroids, which can provide clues into the formation of our solar system. But the study is also a stepping-stone on NASA’s longer journey to develop the skills and technology to mine asteroids in space.

OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016, using Earth as a slingshot the following year for help redirecting its path to Bennu. During the maneuver, it turned its mid-range scientific camera MapCam towards the Earth, snapping some pics of our planet in space.

The above image is a composite of photographs captured on October 2, 2017. The images were taken using three color filters, then the contrast on the moon was stretched to make it brighter and more visible. Although pretty, the true purpose of the photograph was pragmatic, reports Emily Lakdawalla for The Planetary Society: to test the instruments, and to train them on Earth data to help calibrate them in advance of the spacecraft’s arrival at Bennu.

The camera captured the image when the spacecraft was 3,180,000 miles from planet—just over thirteen times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. However, because of of the spacecraft’s angle of retreat, Akshat Rathi calculated for Quartz, duo appear closer together than they actually are.

The simple image is a captivating reminder that each of Earth’s creatures—and every one that came before—all share this delicate outpost in the vast, dark vacuum of space.

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Private Company to Launch Bold New Search for Malaysian Flight 370

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Private Company to Launch Bold New Search for MH370

An American-based company has reached a rather unique agreement with the Malaysian government to revive the search for infamous lost airliner MH370 using a remarkably sophisticated approach.

The ambitious expedition, put together by a group known as Ocean Unlimited, is expected to be announced next week and could begin in just a few days.

What makes this new search particularly promising is the incredible technology to be used by the group.

Oceans Unlimited plans to deploy a whopping eight unmanned submarines to scour a patch of the Indian Ocean believed to be where MH370 may rest.

Each of the UAV subs will communicate with an unmanned companion boat floating above them which will relay data back to a massive main vessel, allowing the search to fan out to an enormous area.

Even more reason to optimistic is that the batteries for the subs allow them to operate for two-and-a-half days at a time.

Incredibly, the previous multinational search that was ended last year only deployed one UAV submarine and it was far less advanced than the devices to be used by Oceans Unlimited.

And, adding another intriguing layer to this development, the agreement between the Malaysian government and Oceans Unlimited makes the search something of a gamble for the group.

That’s because the deal struck between the two parties says that Oceans Unlimited will not get any money from the Malaysian government for their work unless they find MH370.

Although the exact parameters of the ‘no find, no fee’ agreement have yet to be announced, it is believed that the group will receive somewhere between $20 and $70 million dollars should they be successful within 90 days.

And so in the next three months, we’ll either see the story of MH370 solved once and for all or some brave individuals will have lost a considerable sum of money to create the next chapter in the mystery.

Not to be left out of the equation.

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The Seventies

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Now that you’re gone
All that’s left is a band of gold
All that’s left of the dreams I hold
Is a band of gold
And the memories of what love could be
If you were still here with me

You took me from the shelter of my mother
I had never known or loved any other
We kissed after taking vows
But that night on our honeymoon
We stayed in separate rooms

I wait in the darkness of my lonely room
Filled with sadness, filled with gloom
Hoping soon
That you’ll walk back through that door
And love me like you tried before

Since you’ve been gone
All that’s left is a band of gold
All that’s left of the dreams I hold
Is a band of gold
And the dream of what love could be
If you were still here with me

Ohh

Don’t you know that I wait
In the darkness of my lonely room
Filled with sadness, filled with gloom
Hoping soon
That you’ll walk back through that door
And love me like you tried before

Historical Photos of UFOs

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The photos are original and no doctoring has taken place according to the New York Daily News.

 

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Four brightly glowing, unidentified objects appeared in the sky at 9:35 a.m. on July 15, 1952 over a parking lot in Salem, Massachusetts.
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Orange County highway department investigator Rex Heflin, who said he did not believe in flying saucers, photographed a saucer-shaped flying object that has still to be identified. The picture was taken while Heflin was working near the Santa Ana Marine Corps Air facility near here with a polaroid camera about the same time numerous reports of UFO sightings were made throughout the western states. Heflin estimated the object was 30 feet in diameter and 8 feet thick and was visible for 15 seconds.
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This photograph, reproduced from the quarterly UFO periodical Flying Saucers International in Los Angeles, shows silvery white flying objects as seen by photographer Erich Kaiser while descending from Reichenstein mountain in Austria on Aug. 3, 1954.
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Four Sicilians gaze skyward at two unidentified objects similar to those mentioned in press reports and in photos from other European countries at the time. The authenticity of the images was checked by questioning the photographer, who said the objects were in the sky and remained still for several minutes on Dec. 10, 1954.
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Michael Savage, 15-year-old son of prominent San Bernardino physician and surgeon, was practicing picture-taking with his new camera, when he saw motion out of the corner of his eye on July 24, 1956. He quickly shot this picture, tried to shoot another and in his haste, over-cranked the camera, drawing a blank with his second shot. The object disappeared in 30 seconds, he said, not over the horizon but quickly out of sight in the sky.
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A UFO sighting by a New Mexico State University student, West of Picacho Peak, Las Cruces, New Mexico on March 12, 1967. About 2:00pm the student was hiking in a desert area near Picacho Peak, New Mexico, when he spotted a big round silvery object hovering in the air just above a rocky hill about 500 yards away. He prepared his camera and snapped one good black and white picture of the object.
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Robert Rinker, a field technician at the mountain laboratory weather station on Chalk Mountain near Climax, Colorado, discovered this unidentified object on his negative after he shot a roll of film in the area and processed it a year later in 1967.
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The Amalgamated Flying Saucer Club of America, which headquarters in Los Angeles, released this photo taken by a member reportedly showing a flying saucer estimated at seventy feet in diameter.