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As Artemis II zooms to the Moon, everything seems to be going swimmingly
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Here it is, "corrected" with my feeble MS-Paint skills.
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What is the bright yellowish splotch off center on the Earth image? Obviously not a Sun glint; a Moon glint?
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Someone on social media was skeptical of the photo because the Sun is over 400,000 times brighter than the moon, so I decided to test it and check out the math.
If I take a photo of clouds on a mostly sunny day with my DSLR, with the camera and lens set to 1/3200s F4 at ISO 100, clouds are still quite bright. At 1/1000s some of the brightest parts of the clouds will be clipped.
This Earth photo was taken at 1/4s F4 at ISO 51200. That increases the recorded brightness by a factor of 409,600.
The only sign of "false color" I see is heavy-handed color noise reduction. A raw photo with minimal processing will have very colorful noise, while the noise in the provided image is almost monochromatic.
Human eyes lose color sensitivity in low light, but camera sensors have the same color sensitivity at any brightness.
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I think this is actually worse: this is the "sky is the limit" budget before the realities of appropriations sink in, and yet the US gov's take is: we don't care about the science, we want half of you gone. It still feels that your parents want to abandon you, it is just that the law doesn't let them.
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Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
- "Space Oddity", David Bowie
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
- "Space Oddity", David Bowie
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo
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There are reams of studies about space adaptation syndrome. Certain physical causes aside, anything that adversely impacts the vestibular system will cause it. Almost every astronaut has had some level of it at some point. My understanding is that the variables which play into when an individual are likely to get it are really hard to predict.
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The crew is reporting the smell of something burning. Apparently some amount of that is expected but the crew and ground team are unsure of how much is expected. It's worse than the last time they smelled it (apparently that was related to the toilet).
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Except that isn’t the US gov’t’s take, and that’s the reason the cuts didn’t happen. That’s the president’s take, or at most, the president and some of the executive branch.
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My guess is that it's a reflection of some sort in the window.
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"Listen, babe, things are going just swimmingly, just beautiful."
- Colonel Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot, Apollo 11.
I, for one, appreciated the shout-out.
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Friendly PSA.
The conspiracy humans are undeterred. And despite the blatant idiocy, they still have followers.
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWrm2J8j1A4/
For some facepalm entertainment, watch his post about the jet fuel conspiracy.
The conspiracy humans are undeterred. And despite the blatant idiocy, they still have followers.
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWrm2J8j1A4/
For some facepalm entertainment, watch his post about the jet fuel conspiracy.
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What the... I was familiar with older DSLRs having max usable ISO 6400 before blotchiness and noise turned the image into a digital suggestion. But ISO 51,200 and 1/4s at f4? The real scene must have been pretty dim.
I've been critical of SLS pork over the years but this image almost makes the Artemis missions worth the price. It's good to see America at the forefront of space exploration again.
In a way, it feels like the late 1960s all over again - civil rights demonstrations nationwide, police and government brutality at home, a war in Vietnam that didn't look like it would ever end, and lunar missions showing what humanity could do on a good day.
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Well, the scene is essentially the same brightness as down here outside on a full moon night, to give you some idea.
Oh, and there are now specialised cameras that can capture FHD colour video up to ISO 4,000,000…
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To be honest, I had the same thought, but wasn't planning on posting it...
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The night side of the Earth was lit by moonlight. After that, a little Photoshop can go a long way.
I am a little surprised by the claim that the bright object to the left of the Earth was the sun; I thought it was probably Venus, but I haven't fired up a skymapping app to check. Annoyed at myself for not recognizing the zodiacal light (my apologies to Dr. May), but then I think I've only seen and recognized it once or twice with my own eyes.
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I don't think they let them take weed, or even gummies, out past the moon...
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When they're driven underground.
(So they won't fall off when the Earth flips, of course!)
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Looks like you never boarded a commuter train here (Italy).
Keeping the right temp seems more difficult than getting a commercially viable nuclear fusion... /s
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I'm wondering if the bright area just a little above and slightly to the right of center is the reflection of the Moon off the ocean.
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I can’t imagine it helps having so many people in a cabin for this: as soon as one person notices it and comments it’s going to hit the others, and this is 4 versus 3 in Apollo.
Maybe future missions need some sort of pre mission exposure to a similar smell for the last few days on earth to make it acclimatised and stop the brain from noticing it. I.e. a drop of lotion or balm just inside the nostrils.
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'There have also been some “false alarms” in the cabin from various environmental sensors. However, Hu said, these are not at all a threat to the crew but rather reflect conservative limits set for those systems'
There is always a public face for these risky ventures where all is within expected parameters whereas behind the scenes there are probaby hundreds of exceptions/errors for something like this with many not so easy to dismiss. So some panic with much frantic work trying to investigate/understand, implement workarounds, skip over, hoping the impact has been correctly assesed and it turns out well.
There is always a public face for these risky ventures where all is within expected parameters whereas behind the scenes there are probaby hundreds of exceptions/errors for something like this with many not so easy to dismiss. So some panic with much frantic work trying to investigate/understand, implement workarounds, skip over, hoping the impact has been correctly assesed and it turns out well.
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Just long exposure. Keep in mind the moon makes a nice light source. The dot is not the sun. Eric was saying the sun is lighting the atmosphere. The sun is on the far side of the Earth in this picture but you can see a gleam of sunlight in the atmosphere glow on the lower right hand side. One thing I like about this photo is it shows just how low Low Earth Orbit is. Using some pixel counting the edge of the atmosphere glow is right around 100 km and the ISS would be only 4x further. With LEO we have barely left the shore.
The unusual nature of this photo has already fueled conspiracy theorists saying NASA screwed up with this fake photo which proves everything is fake.
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Ha! I thought something felt off. Thanks for the correction.Degrees K is also not a unit. It'd just be 3 K
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I think it is a reflection of something from inside Integrity on the window.
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The bright object is not the sun. I believe Eric was saying the sun is illuminating the Earth atmosphere. The glow in the lower right hand corner peeking through the atmosphere is from the sun on the far side of the Earth.
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YouTube showed "I'm Afraid of Americans" as a suggestion in my Bowie playlist after this song.
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It is why this being a crewed flight makes sense. I know many on ars advocated or it to be uncrewed but at some you need the human element. The crew is doing a lot of filming themselves doing various tasks which will be used as training footage for future crews. This crew had to largely imagine how all this will look/work in zero gravity. Same thing with subjective aspects like smells, sounds, and vibration. How much is "normal" The warning thresholds for various sensors likely need adjustment as well. There will be changes in automatic processes and schedules. That is the point of a shakedown cruise to go from concept/theory to practical functional mission plan. Most of it is boring stuff but it has to be done and getting it done derisks future missions.
Now you could have done all of this on Artemis III but Artemis III is going to be a packed missions already. The knowledge gained in Artemis II will improve the outcomes of Artemis III. If Artemis III is as successful we should have a high confidence of the entire mission architecture except the lunar surface part to include landing and ascent. Granted that is a lot remaining but it would be worse if all of it was low confidence.
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I was an avid watcher of " Cosmos ". Later in life I was diagnosed with a medical condition which my consultant diagnosed as a " Cinderella " disease in that research into it didn't get a lot of resources because it was quite rare and quite low profile. She said the only two well known people to have died with the condition were Larry Hagman, and Carl Sagan. It may seem a bit weird, but I remember thinking, I've got the same medical condition as Carl Sagan, that's quite cool.
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Larry Hagman? Sounds like it could have been a plot from Dallas. "You've got a condition so rare we hardly know anything about it." They could have run an entire season with it.
The obvious tie in to this article is that Larry Hagman famously played an astronaut on tv.
Hope not to offend and that you are doing as well as can be.
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It seems to be required that a cold-natured person will marry a hot-natured person. The cold-natured person is then condemned to live as a mummy.
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One of my character flaws is that I hate metric supremacists. The idea that out of all the invented measuring systems, Metric is the One True System just because we happen to have ten fingers is just so ludicrous to me.
Real scientists/engineers are comfortable with any system, and indeed use different systems depending on the domain. Talk to a scientist studying Saturn and they will measure things in Saturn radii (which is not SI, by the way).
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