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65dBnoise, 6 months ago to random

"All the same, I agree with my reviewer that I don’t write hard science fiction. Maybe I write easy science fiction. Or maybe the hard stuff’s inside, hidden — like bones, as opposed to an exoskeleton.…"

— Ursula K. Le Guin, 2005

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology

#UrsulaLeGuin #SciFi

65dBnoise, 10 months ago to random

"SigLA is an interactive database of inscriptions written in the (still undeciphered) Linear A script of Bronze Age Greece. SigLA aim at developing a systematic, exhaustive and user-friendly open access database of all Linear A inscriptions."

My comment: A beautiful, interactive, no cookie, no tracking web site, the way academic web sites ought to be.

Paper: https://sigla.phis.me/paper.html
Web site: https://sigla.phis.me/
Interactive map: https://sigla.phis.me/map.html

#minoan #archaeology #openaccess

65dBnoise, 11 months ago to random

Hundreds of #Ingenuity images are pouring in lately. Here is a sample:

Processed, undistorted HELI_NAV
Sol: 714, 717, RMCs: 45.0001, 46.0001
LMST: Late afternoon
Originals:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00714/ids/edr/browse/heli/HNM_0714_0730342572_156ECM_N0450001HELI03818_0000LUJ01.png
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00717/ids/edr/browse/heli/HNM_0717_0730605104_635ECM_N0460001HELI00986_0000LUJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#MarsHelicopter #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

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65dBnoise, 11 months ago to random

The Mars Sample Return mission is undergoing an extensive review of both the project's design and its final cost estimate.

https://www.planetary.org/articles/whats-going-on-with-mars-sample-return

#MSR #SRH #Solarocks #Space

65dBnoise, 11 months ago to random

#Perseverance 😀

Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 837, RMC: 40.0992, LMST: 10:56:49
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00837/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0837_0741238940_784EBY_N0400992ZCAM08846_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

65dBnoise, 11 months ago to random

#Curiosity's touch-and-go and ChemCam LIBS targets 'Lousoi' and ‘Valvousi’ (Λούσοι, Βαλβούσι).

What are these names? (if it's all Greek to you 😀): https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/110603731084796722

Processed, colorized Left NAVCAM
Sol 3870
Report/original: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/9425/sols-3871-3872-back-on-track/
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#MSL #Mars #Solarocks #Space

65dBnoise, 1 year ago to random

Welcome to Kalavryta (Καλάβρυτα)!

#Curiosity is now in the "Kalavryta Quad," named after a town in Greece, in northern Peloponnese, about 130km west of Athens and near the Chelmos-Vouraikos UNESCO Global Geopark, a region that consists of 40 unique geological sites including caves, karstic springs, rivers, alpine lakes, and fossil sites.

One of its next targets is the ‘Balcony of Styx.’

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/9422/sols-3866-3867-welcome-to-kalavryta/

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/9424/sols-3868-3870-not-again-mars/

#MSL #Mars #Solarocks #Space

65dBnoise, 1 year ago to random

#NASA's #MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission acquired stunning views of Mars in two ultraviolet images taken at different points along our neighboring planet’s orbit around the Sun.

MAVEN’s Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) instrument obtained these global views of Mars in 2022 and 2023 when the planet was near opposite ends of its elliptical orbit.

The IUVS instrument measures wavelengths between 110 and 340 nanometers.

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9423/nasas-maven-spacecraft-stuns-with-ultraviolet-views-of-red-planet/

#Solarocks #Space

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