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ALANBEAN-SELFPORTRAIT.jpgIn the dust...95 visiteAutoritratto, nella polvere (o nella "nebbia dei ricordi"...) dell'Astronauta Alan Laverne Bean.
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FreeFall-1.jpgFree-Fall161 visiteDa "NASA - Picture of the Day" del 20.02.2006:"...Like a scene from a space mystery movie, a spacesuit floated away from the International Space Station earlier this month, but no investigation was needed. It was pushed out by the space station crew. Dubbed Suitsat-1, the unneeded Russian Orlan spacesuit filled mostly with old clothes was fitted with a faint radio transmitter and released to orbit the Earth. Suitsat-1 will orbit once every 90 minutes until it burns up in the Earth's atmosphere within a few weeks. The suit circled the Earth twice before its radio signal became unexpectedly weak. Pictured above, the lifeless spacesuit was photographed as it drifted away from the Earth-orbiting space station earlier this month..."
Nota: anche se la caption originale NASA si guarda bene dal dirlo, non siamo davanti nč ad uno scherzo, nč ad un gioco, ovviamente.
Questo esperimento, come in molti avranno giā capito, č stato effettuato al solo scopo di vedere che cosa accadrebbe (e, di conseguenza, come si potrebbe intervenire) qualora un Astronauta "sfuggisse" agli ormeggi e si allontanasse - irreversibilmente - dalla Stazione Spaziale Internazionale.
Conseguenze a breve: l'Astronauta diventa un "satellite" ed inizia ad orbitare.
Nel tempo (esaurimento delle scorte di O2 a parte), questo "satellite umano" inizia a perdere quota e poi finisce con l'avviare una vera e propria "fase di rientro".
Ma l'Astronauta non č una Navicella Spaziale dotata di schermature protettive: il rientro, ovviamente, non si compirebbe mai ed il malcapitato Astronauta finirebbe bruciato (vivo o morto, ma presumibilmente morto) giā negli strati superiori dell'atmosfera (ricordate il film "Mission to Mars"?).
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Moon, Venus and Jupiter from Earth.jpgThe Moon, Venus and Jupiter from Shiraz (Iran)173 visiteDa "NASA - Picture of the Day" del giorno 13.11.2004: " Early morning risers around the world have enjoyed the sight of bright planets in this week's predawn skies - further enhanced by the celestial spectacle of the waning crescent Moon. From some locations the Moon was seen to pass in front of Jupiter or Venus, a lunar occultation. Recorded near sunrise on November 10th from Shiraz, Iran, this eastern horizon view finds Jupiter (top) and a brilliant Venus in line with the Moon, a lovely conjunction of the three brightest objects in the night sky. Although the Moon has now fallen out of the early morning scene, Venus and Jupiter (along with a much fainter Mars) still precede the rising Sun above the eastern horizon". Una fotografia molto simile a quella ripresa dalla Turchia (Bursa) - giā pubblicata nella Sezione dedicata a Giove - la quale ci mostra e dimostra che non č poi cosė difficile "cristallizzare" un particolare (e suggestivo) momento del Cielo.
(20 voti)
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ALANBEAN-LASTMAN.jpgThe Last of the "Twelve"...87 visitenessun commento
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ALANBEAN-MOONLIGHT.jpgThe Moon112 visitenessun commento
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ZZ-Jupiter and Venus.jpgJupiter and Venus in the dawn104 visiteUna spettacolare congiunzione Giove-Venere del Novembre 2004, come ripresa, pochi minuti prima dell'alba, nei cieli della Turchia (la cittā che appare nello sfondo č Bursa).
Si tratta di una fotografia amatoriale - a posa breve - ottenuta con estrema semplicitā e senza l'ausilio - a quanto ci č dato vedere - di particolari accortezze tecniche.
(15 voti)
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ZZ-Venus from Space.jpgVenus from the Earth's orbit134 visiteCaption NASA originale:"Venus can appear as a brilliant evening star. Besides the Sun and Moon, Venus is the brightest object visible in Earth's sky. Because it is closer to the Sun than Earth, Venus never strays far from the Sun in its apparent position and is seen during the year as either a bright morning or evening star. This beautiful sunset imaged from low earth orbit by the Atlantis space shuttle crew in May 1989 also reveals the planet Venus blazing above Earth's horizon. It is a fitting image for this mission and crew. It was recorded following the successful release of the robot Venus-explorer Magellan, the first planetary probe to be deployed from a space shuttle".
(15 voti)
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Aurora_Borealis_-_03.jpgAurora in the Northern Skies80 visiteUn frame davvero molto bello ma che, a parere del nostro Esperto di Fotografia, č stato "taroccato" nelle colorazioni. In realtā la nostra non č una "conclusione scientifica" quanto, piuttosto, il frutto di una sensazione basata sia sull'esperienza (le Aurorae "rosse" sono rare, quelle "fucsia e rosa"...di fatto inesistenti...), sia sull'incoerenza cromatica dei particolari della fotografia una volta che essa č stata scomposta nei suoi canali principali.
Comunque sia...una bella immagine!MareKromium
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Backshell.jpgBackshell on Sight! (by Doug Ellison)81 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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Blooming_Colours.jpgBlooming Colours (by Ermes Sansottera)262 visite"...Parla forse il Cielo? Eppure, nonostante il Suo Silenzio, le Stagioni seguono il loro corso e le Creature continuano a nascere, a vivere, e a morire..."
(Confucio)MareKromium
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The_Galxy_Survey.gifLooking Southward...69 visite"...Do not fling away your fearless confidence for it carries a great and glorious compensation of reward.
You have need of steadfast patience and endurance, ...enjoy to the full what is promised..."
(Heb. 10:35-36)MareKromium
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ALANBEAN-MANKINDROCK.jpgMankind Rock116 visiteThis is Gene Cernan as he was near the end of the third moonwalk of Apollo 17. He and astronaut-geologist Jack Schmitt had completed most of their work and were just gathering final equipment and samples, putting them aboard the lunar module. At this point, Gene turned toward the television camera and said, "Jack has picked up a very significant rock, composed of many fragments of many sizes and many shapes, probably from all parts of the Moon, probably billions of years old, but a rock of all sizes and shapes and even colors that had grown together to become a cohesive rock, outlasting the nature of space, sort of living together in a very coherent, very peaceful manner. We'd like to share a piece of this rock with many of the countries throughout the world. We hope that this will be a symbol of what our feelings are." Then they continued their preparations for leaving the Moon.
Gene knew he would be the last man on the Moon for quite a long time. As he closed his checklist and prepared for his ascent up the ladder, he said, "As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave it as we came and, God willing, we shall return with peace and hope for all mankind." Gene Cernan, last man on the Moon, 5:34 a.m. GMT, December 14, 1972.
I felt this was such a fitting and proper occasion in the history of manned lunar exploration that I created two nearly identical paintings of this moment.
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