#PPOD: On June 25, NASA’s #JWST turned to famed ringed world #Saturn for its first near-infrared observations of the planet. The initial imagery from JWST's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) is already fascinating researchers. Saturn itself appears extremely dark at this infrared wavelength observed by the telescope, as methane gas absorbs almost all of the sunlight falling on the atmosphere. However, the icy rings stay relatively bright. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck
If you love #scifi, #space, #spaceexploration etc then #ACityOnMars is a fantastic read on the harsh realities of space settlement (and what we don’t know about it). Check it out!
Here are the other posters (and the original poster) for the Memory Studies in Literature and the Humanities II: Memory, Space, and Mobilities webinar.
The webinar will feature a keynote from Professor Emma Bond who will be talking points from her second monograph "Writing Migration Through The Body" which was really helpful for me in working through the knotty subject of mobility in relation to memory. Apart from that, this webinar is very much postgraduate oriented and will feature 7 supervisees of mine, and papers from me and an academic collaborator/friend (Dr. Sanghamitra Dalal). We'll likely be closing registrations by Monday as we already have 129 registrations so if you were interested and thinking about it, do sign up as soon as possible.
Some #murals outside the #ISRO#museum or Vikram Sarabhai #Space Exhibition Center. More than the space stuff, enjoyed the #mural(s) painted on the walls.
Hi! I'm Anthony Harold, and now I can say that I’m a #writer.
I’ve worked in the #space industry for 15 years & 15 more in real estate. But at 49, I decided to change my life and write a book.
My wife & editor Elena is a saint😅. She told me 10 months ago that we'd need at least a year to finish the first #book in my series, and I told her not to spread negative vibes🤣 So I hope, two more months & we'll be there💪🏻 @bookstodon#Writing
Day 2 of my #NaNoWriMo was quite productive. After a hard first day of writing & researching for my #SciFi book The Closed Tunnel, I was able to write freely based on the curated material.
I suppose #Research is one of the hardest parts of creating #ScienceFiction. I don't trust the first or even the fourth source I see on the web. My background in physics and the #space industry helps me to at least have an idea if an article is crap or not. 😄 @scifi@bookstodon
Happy to say that The Battle of Victoria Crater Part I and Part II are now online! The novella takes place in the desolate Martian frontier of Victoriaville, a brave community of settlers faces relentless threats from mercenary bandits working for a powerful Earth corporation, WTO. At the same time, life as a Martian teenager comes with some interesting challenges. This time, the light at the end of the tunnel comes with grim news – not only are the bad guys on their way, so are desperate refugees and a monstrous dust storm. Pete and Martin risk everything to rescue the plucky pioneers from certain doom. Martin learns in the grinding dust and darkness that victory is something you win, one step at a time.
First - do you know about The Naked Scientist? (it is clean!!) The Space Boffins podcast is awesome. The October episode send talks about space burial and the Benu sample. It also has an interesting interview with Jean Wright who has a new #book .....
ETH Zurich is developing a new radiation-robust microcontroller that uses the triple lock-step method to validate its own computational results. The basis for this is a RISC-V based design.
Lockstep is nothing completely new in the RISC-V area either, but the focus on energy consumption is interesting. Perfect for satellites!
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of a perfectly formed Einstein ring, which is also the most distant gravitationally lensed object ever detected.
'Einstein ring' snapped by James Webb Space Telescope is most distant gravitationally lensed object ever seen (www.space.com)
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of a perfectly formed Einstein ring, which is also the most distant gravitationally lensed object ever detected.