Showing posts with label earth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label earth. Show all posts

Friday, January 14, 2022

3 Signs Of Ancient Aliens In Antarctica, UFO Sighting News.


video upload by UFO Sightings Daily

Google coordinates to Base: 75°01'35"S 0°07'37"E
Google coordinates to face: 72°11'22.63"S 2°31'56.81"E
Google coordinates to standing figure: 72°32'26.35"S 31°19'17.86"E

Friday, December 31, 2021

Webb separation from Ariane 5


video upload by European Space Agency, ESA

This real-time video shows the separation of the James Webb Space Telescope from the Ariane 5 launch vehicle and the subsequent solar array deployment.

Webb’s launch on an ESA-provided Ariane 5 rocket was performed by @arianespace on behalf of ESA from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, at 12:20:07 GMT (13:20:07 CET) on 25 December 2021.

Webb separation from the Ariane 5 occurred at 12:47:14 GMT (13:47:14 CET) with solar array deployment starting 69 seconds later.

Thanks to Ariane 5’s highly precise launch trajectory Webb’s solar array was able to deploy soon after separation from the Ariane 5, capturing sunlight to power the observatory.

This video shows the view from Ariane 5’s upper stage, taken by a camera manufactured by Irish company Réaltra Space Systems Engineering.

Webb is the next great space science observatory following Hubble, designed to answer outstanding questions about the Universe and to make breakthrough discoveries in all fields of astronomy. Webb will see farther into our origins: from the formation of stars and planets, to the birth of the first galaxies in the early Universe. Webb is an international partnership between @NASA, ESA and the @Canadian Space Agency.

Learn more about this historic launch: https://bit.ly/WebbLiftoff

Copyright: ESA/Arianespace ; Music: "Lonely Waltz" by Charlotte Hatherley, used with permission ; Camera: Réaltra Space Systems Engineering

Monday, February 1, 2021

MOON in Real Time I


video by Seán Doran

Sunday, January 3, 2021

Phoenix Aurora Over Iceland



via NASA

"Explanation: All of the other aurora watchers had gone home. By 3:30 am in Iceland, on a quiet September night, much of that night's auroras had died down. Suddenly, unexpectedly, a new burst of particles streamed down from space, lighting up the Earth's atmosphere once again. This time, surprisingly, pareidoliacally, the night lit up with an amazing shape reminiscent of a giant phoenix. With camera equipment at the ready, two quick sky images were taken, followed immediately by a third of the land. The mountain in the background is Helgafell, while the small foreground river is called Kaldá, both located about 30 kilometers north of Iceland's capital Reykjavík. Seasoned skywatchers will note that just above the mountain, toward the left, is the constellation of Orion, while the Pleiades star cluster is also visible just above the frame center. The 2016 aurora, which lasted only a minute and was soon gone forever -- would possibly be dismissed as an fanciful fable -- were it not captured in the featured, digitally-composed, image mosaic."

Monday, August 31, 2020

What did Earth Look Like?


Click here and scroll through time.

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Comet Rising: NeoWise seen from the ISS


Space Videos

"This video starts over Saudia Arabia - we follow the journey of the space station across Iraq, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan ending in Kazakhstan where just before sunrise we see Comet Neowise rising over the horizon

Neowise is 103 Million KM from Earth"

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Our Rotating Earth



via APOD

"Explanation: Has your world ever turned upside-down? It would happen every day if you stay fixed to the stars. Most time-lapse videos of the night sky show the stars and sky moving above a steady Earth. Here, however, the camera has been forced to rotate so that the stars remain fixed, and the Earth rotates around them. The movie, with each hour is compressed to a second, dramatically demonstrates the daily rotation of the Earth, called diurnal motion. The video begins by showing an open field in Namibia, Africa, on a clear day, last year. Shadows shift as the Earth turns, the shadow of the Earth rises into the sky, the Belt of Venus momentarily appears, and then day turns into night. The majestic band of our Milky Way Galaxy stretches across the night sky, while sunlight-reflecting, Earth-orbiting satellites zoom by. In the night sky, you can even spot the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The video shows a sky visible from Earth's Southern Hemisphere, but a similar video could be made for every middle latitude on our blue planet."

Friday, April 17, 2020

Views of Earth from BepiColombo’s flyby


Uploaded on Apr 16, 2020 European Space Agency, ESA

"A compilation of about 200 images collected by the joint European-Japanese mission BepiColombo during its first – and only – flyby of Earth on 10 April 2020, a manoeuvre needed to adjust its trajectory en route to its destination, Mercury. The spacecraft, equipped with three 'selfie' cameras, captured a series of stunning images of our home planet as it closed in, approached, and finally departed. In this video, Earth first appears as a rotating marble from behind the spacecraft structure and high-gain antenna in the sequence captured on 9 April. Later, in the images shot just before closest approach, less than 13 000 km from Earth's surface, the planet appears in greater detail, with the outline of East Africa, the Arabian peninsula and India well in sight, between the spacecraft’s instrument boom on the left and its medium-gain antenna on the right. Finally, the sequence of images taken by BepiColombo as it moved away on 10 and 11 April show a crescent Earth shining against the cosmic darkness; towards the end of the video, the Moon also makes an appearance, visible as a tiny speck of light near the end of the spacecraft solar array.Full story: BepiColombo takes last snaps of Earth en route to Mercury
Credit:Images: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Music: TV3 - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Lyrics author & melody composer: Stefano OrsiniMusic score: Angelo Coccia & Silvano Buogo"

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Earth's 2nd Moon



via Boing Boing

"Our new moon is probably between 1.9 and 3.5 metres across, or roughly the size of a car, making it no match for Earth’s primary moon. It circles our planet about once every 47 days on a wide, oval-shaped orbit that mostly swoops far outside the larger moon’s path.

The orbit isn’t stable, so eventually 2020 CD3 will be flung away from Earth. “It is heading away from the Earth-moon system as we speak,” says Grigori Fedorets at Queen’s University Belfast in the UK, and it looks likely it will escape in April."

Friday, February 14, 2020

Pale Blue Dot – 30th Anniversary | National Geographic


via Boing Boing

Thirty years ago today, the Voyager 1 spaceprobe had completed its ncounters with the outer planets and was careening out of our solar system. The time came to shut off the probes' cameras to preserve power and memory for the other onboard scientific instruments. But before engineers flipped the switch, one last photo opportunity was not to be missed. From my liner notes to the Voyager Golden Record vinyl box set:

Astronomer and educator Carl Sagan, a member of the Voyager Imaging Team, had persuaded NASA engineers to turn Voyager 1’s cameras back toward the sun and take the first-ever portrait of our solar system from beyond its outer boundary. Sixty frames, taken on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1990, were combined into a single mosaic, known today as the “Solar System Portrait,” albeit with Mars and Mercury lost in the sun’s glare. Centered in a ray of scattered light in the camera’s optics is a tiny speck, just .12 pixels in size: Earth from 6 billion kilometers away—a “pale blue dot,” as Sagan called it. It’s an iconic image that holds the power to shift our perspective in an instant.

“There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world,” Sagan wrote in Pale Blue Dot (1994). “To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”



Published on Feb 14, 2020 National Geographic

30 years ago, scientist Carl Sagan asked NASA’s Voyager 1 to capture an iconic portrait of our world. This humbling view of Earth from 6.4 billion km away is known as the “Pale Blue Dot.”

via Boing Boing:

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

6 of The Weirdest Places on Earth | Compilation


Published on Oct 4, 2017 SciShow

Saturday, July 1, 2017

Walkable Map of the Earth


via Good

"After 25 Years, Danish Man Finishes Incredible Walkable Map Of The Earth"

Thursday, June 8, 2017

LUNAR


LUNAR from Christian Stangl on Vimeo.

"This short film is dedicated to all people who believe in peaceful expansion of our borders.

In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first manmade object into earth-orbit.

3 years later Yuri Gagarin enters space as the first man in space. The so called "Space Race" seems to be decided.

But in 1961 President Kennedy promised to send American Astronauts to the Moon.

The Apollo Project was born. A space ship had to be built that is strong enough to escape earth's gravitation, land on the moon and bring the crew safely back to earth.


Motion Designer Christian worked with his brother and Composer Wolfgang for 18 months on this shortfilm.

The foundation were thousands original NASA photographies, taken from the Astronauts during the Apollo Missions, which were released in September 2015. It is an animated collage using different techniques to bring the stills to life.


Saturday, May 20, 2017

The Earth is a Cat

Friday, January 27, 2017

What If Everybody Lived In Just One Building?


Published on Jan 27, 2017 RealLifeLore

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Space Station Vista


via NASA's APOD:

"Explanation: If you could circle the Earth aboard the International Space Station, what might you see? Some amazing vistas, one of which was captured in this breathtaking picture in mid-2015. First, visible at the top, are parts of the space station itself including solar panels. Just below the station is the band of our Milky Way Galaxy, glowing with the combined light of billions of stars, but dimmed in patches by filaments of dark dust. The band of red light just below the Milky Way is airglow -- Earth's atmosphere excited by the Sun and glowing in specific colors of light. Green airglow is visible below the red. Of course that's our Earth below its air, with the terminator between day and night visible near the horizon. As clouds speckle the planet, illumination from a bright lightning bolt is seen toward the lower right. Between work assignments, astronauts from all over the Earth have been enjoying vistas like this from the space station since the year 2000."

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

4 Billion Years in Under 10 Minutes


Published on Dec 7, 2016 SciShow

"Have you ever wondered how our earth was created? Here is a brief history about the Earth.

Want more SciShow in person? We'll be at NerdCon: Nerdfighteria in Boston on February 25th and 26th! For more information, go to http://www.nerdconnerdfighteria.com/

Hosted by: Michael Aranda"

Monday, October 10, 2016

Planet Earth II: Trailer - BBC One


Published on Oct 9, 2016 BBC

"Programme website: http://bbc.in/2dB9Zth Planet Earth II, narrated by Sir David Attenborough coming soon to BBC One."

Monday, May 23, 2016

How Long To Fall Through The Earth?


Published on May 23, 2016 MinutePhysics