Space In General

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Very cloudy over here, so taking photos was very hard. At least the eclipse looked much better for the human eyes.

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Wish I had a proper camera to get some shots. Well, got 11 years to get one! Though I did manage to watch it and grab some half okay pictures. Lens flare managed to catch the eclipse more than the core substance of the photos :P
 
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Turns out we didn't need the makeshift filters (plastic wrappers from boxes of tea bags), as the eclipse could be seen with the naked eye due to just the right amount of cloud coverage.
 
Does the ginger's beard now smell of tea?
 
Touring Mars
Turns out we didn't need the makeshift filters (plastic wrappers from boxes of tea bags), as the eclipse could be seen with the naked eye due to just the right amount of cloud coverage.
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Similar situation for me in Edinburgh. I put my camera through some Ski Goggles and got these amazing shots.
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Clouds throughout the morning.

Clear blue skies 20 minutes after it ended.

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60% chance of GO for that right now; hopefully things clear up a little more
 
Not all of the puzzling bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are alike. The closest-yet images of the gleams, taken from 45,000 kilometres away, suggest that at least two of the spots look different from one another when seen in infrared wavelengths.
http://www.nature.com/news/mystery-of-ceres-bright-spots-grows-1.17313

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Infrared images suggest that Spot 1 (top row), an area on Ceres, is made of ice. But the pair of bright gleams known as Spot 5 were invisible to an infrared camera (bottom right).


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The surface of the dwarf planet Ceres (shown here) has fewer large craters than researchers expected.
 
Not till June.
 
SpaceX launch scrubbed, due to weather. (anvil clouds within 10 miles - boooo)

Try again tomorrow.

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SpaceX launch/landing in 10 minutes, weather looks much better.

Edit: Launch successful, just waiting on confirmation of booster landing. Sounded like it went well.
 
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R1600Turbo
SpaceX launch/landing in 10 minutes, weather looks much better.

Edit: Launch successful, just waiting on confirmation of booster landing. Sounded like it went well.
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I roughly calculated the trajectory after it left the East coast and if my eyes did not deceive me, I just saw CRS-6 blast by. 👍
 
R1600Turbo
SpaceX launch/landing in 10 minutes, weather looks much better.

Edit: Launch successful, just waiting on confirmation of booster landing. Sounded like it went well.
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Hopefully they can catch their rocket this time :)

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I have a feeling it is laying on the platform right now, just not standing up.
 
I chuckled when I saw this on a website that I frequent.
(newer post is on top)

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Uh....second time. And this time around it was much more successful than the first. I bet $50 they stick the landing next time.

That looks like Jalopnik, not surprising. :rolleyes:
 
R1600Turbo
Uh....second time. And this time around it was much more successful than the first. I bet $50 they stick the landing next time.

That looks like Jalopnik, not surprising. :rolleyes:
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No, Gizmodo. It's run on the same software, Kinja.
 
It's just the second fail landing attempt.

How many rockets did NASA destroy trying to get into space?
 
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