Some enterprising and damned creative scientists have used the spectrum of light showing or not from distant exoplanets to determine what sunsets might look like on them.
Russia’s Phobos-Grunt Mars probe de-orbited into the South Pacific on Sunday, bringing Russia’s score card against Mars to 4 and 15. One wonders how much longer the former super power is going to have patience for the red planet after this.
Through one of those weird connections the Internet makes, I stumbled upon the awesome, if not disturbing discovery that the Soviet Union had built a shuttle, too. And it did some things the American one didn’t.
NASA’s space shuttle was a feat of engineering that hasn’t been matched since. But maybe one of the coolest things about it are the three main engines that help propel it into orbit.
A bunch of cool videos exist that are so amazing, it’s hard to believe they’re even real. They certainly look less real than much of the CGI we watch on TV everyday. See the Milky Way from Chile and some views of the shuttle launching from the solid rocket boosters. It’s pretty goddamned cool.
