** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

[Combat squirrel]

The three astronauts are now aboard Tiangong-1 space laboratory:

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WOW I didnt know they were going aboard, I thought they were just running docking exercises.

And thanks simulatorman, I ****** love space stuff, and your updates are most welcome and keep me up to date better than a lot of places, so appreciated !

 

[Cosimo]

 

[Cosimo]

New "Space Station Live" site and app:

http://spacestationlive.nasa.gov/

 

[RomanNose]

Holy moly, a lot of engineering in that :O.

 

[mrk]

So researchers suspected that Mars once had (and still does) vast reservoirs of water under the surface and now we have some evidence to back up this theory.

http://carnegiescience.edu/news/extensive_water_mar’s_interior

They estimate it has more water below the mantle than Earth does and this is great news especially for future colonies on the planet. It also does indeed open up the question about Mars in the past, whether it did have life on it before the atmosphere was wiped away and could there be life still there under the surface.

 

[Skillmister]

could there be life still there under the surface.

I bloody hope so

 

[Cosimo]

 

[philip2009]

Holy moly, a lot of engineering in that :O.

The Sky Crane landing looks pretty complicated. Fingers crossed for a safe descent.

EDIT: Factoid I didn't notice before - this rover is nuclear powered unlike the previous two which used solar panels.

 

[Cosimo]

Some amazing footage:

 

[Cosimo]

 

[Cosimo]

 

[Cosimo]

Expedition 31 is on the way home:

 

[Stolly]

Anyone know where i can get a high res of this picture taken from the ISS ?

 

[Cosimo]

 

[Skillmister]

Anyone know where i can get a high res of this picture taken from the ISS ?

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61217000/jpg/_61217844_61217843.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]

[url]http://i.imgur.com/xNadx.jpg[/url]

 

[Cosimo]

Anyone know where i can get a high res of this picture taken from the ISS ?

That looks like it came from here:

http://www.sciencephoto.com/search?...g=satellite+earth&license=M&media_type=images

Other places to look:

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/

http://www.nasaimages.org/

https://earthkam.ucsd.edu/ek-images

 

[Cosimo]

 

[Spook187]

Not long now till the Mars Rover Curiosity lands on the red planet(30days)

Still good to see Opportunity is alive and sending back these stunning images.

This full-circle scene combines 817 images taken by the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. It shows the terrain that surrounded the rover while it was stationary for four months of work during its most recent Martian winter.

Opportunity catches its own late-afternoon shadow in this dramatically lit view eastward across Endeavour Crater on Mars.

 

[Cosimo]

 

[Cosimo]

Light pollution of Europe made from a number of satellite images: