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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

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A Dragonfly for Titan

A new eight-rotor robotic probe will head to the solar system’s most Earth-like moon. Here’s what its team is doing to prepare.

Check out this extensive paper by Matthew R. Francis for Eos, AGU's science news magazine

https://eos.org/features/a-dragonfly-for-titan

#Dragonfly #Titan #Saturn #Moon #satellite #solarsystem #planetaryscience #science #STEM #engineering #drone #AGU #Eos #news #magazine

Simeon Schmauß @stim3on@fosstodon.org · last month

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The Perseverance rover captured some pretty massive dust devils earlier today. That large one in the foreground was at least 300m high.
EDIT: corrected height estimate from 500 to 300m.
https://flic.kr/p/2qHbPLV

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

#planetaryscience #mars #mars2020 #nasa #perseverance #dustdevil

The SETI Institute @setiinstitute@bird.makeup · 2 months ago

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#PPOD: Icy Moons in Our Solar System That May Have Oceans

Scientists think six icy moons 🧊 in our solar system may currently host oceans of liquid water 🌊 beneath their outer surfaces. Arranged around #Earth 🌎 are images from NASA spacecraft 🛰️ of, clockwise from the top, Saturn's moon #Enceladus, Jupiter's moons #Callisto and #Ganymede, Neptune's moon #Triton, Saturn's moon #Titan, and Jupiter's moon #Europa, the target of NASA's @europaclipper mission. The worlds here are shown to scale.

The images of the Saturnian moons were taken by NASA's @cassinisaturn. The images of the Jovian moons were taken by NASA's Galileo mission. The image of Triton was taken by @nasavoyager 2. The image of Earth was stitched together using months of satellite-based observations, mostly using data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.

Credit: @nasa@nasajpl@caltech@spacescienceins@uarizona@dlr_en

#planetaryscience

Arranged around Earth are images from NASA spacecraft of, clockwise from the top, Saturn's moon Enceladus, Jupiter's moons Callisto and Ganymede, Neptune's moon Triton, Saturn's moon Titan, and Jupiter's moon Europa, the target of NASA's Europa Clipper mission. The worlds here are shown to scale. The moons are labeled.

Daniel Pomarède @pomarede@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

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👀 wowww check out this processing of the 360° panorama captured by Perseverance at Lookout Hill, on the crest of the rim of Jezero Crater. Credit: Andrew Bodrov. The 4.5-billion-pixel panorama is made up of 854 individual Mastcam-Z images stitched together.

https://www.360cities.net/image/mars-panorama-perseverance-rover-martian-solar-day-1356/vr

#Mars #Perseverance #LookoutHill #AndrewBodrov #rover #Sol1356 #Sol1357 #PerseveranceRover #Mars2020 #space #astrodon #science #STEM #JezeroCrater #geology #panorama #Mastcam #photography #PlanetaryScience

A rust toned image capturing the Mars rover Perseverance sitting on top of the rim of Jezero Crater.

Daniel Pomarède @pomarede@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

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in the #arXiv

A New Strategy for the Exploration of Venus

by the VEXAG Exploration Strategy Study Analysis Workgroup
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06830

#Venus #PlanetaryScience #Astrodon #Science #STEM #planet #planets #solarsystem #engineering #news

The cover of the VEXAG report, entitled "A new strategy for the exploration of Venus", featuring an artist's conception of various means of exploring Venus.

Daniel Pomarède @pomarede@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

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Zebra Rock, a mysterious rock with black and white stripes, captured by Perseverance in Stereo3D

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye

Calibrated images by the Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State Univ., Sol 1268, Sep. 13, 2024

#Mars #Perseverance #ZebraRock #FreyaCastle #3D #Stereo3D #stereoscopy #geology #planetaryscience #Mars2020 #rock #rocks #solarocks #science #Stem #astrodon #Mastcam #MastcamZforall #photography