Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration: Control, we have cleared the tower!

[ANS Kamas P81]

I'll start this one off with dashcam footage of the Portugal meteor that fell overnight there.

https://x.com/Dexerto/status/1792000780284702818

That sucker was bright!

[Maingunnery]

I'll start this one off with dashcam footage of the Portugal meteor that fell overnight there.

https://x.com/Dexerto/status/1792000780284702818

That sucker was bright!

Great video, for a very brief moment it looked like daytime.

[Daryk]

Wow!  That was amazingly bright!

And thanks for starting the new thread Kamas! :)

[rebs]

That was an excellent video.  I love how night turned to day in the brief burn.



The Orion Nebula, star-forming jewel box.  JWST did some observations and produced some stunning images.  I'll attach a couple of the new pics, but the article linked isn't a bad read.

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-orion-nebula-m42-new-light

[Wrangler]

A close up of the surface from the Horizon probe.  This is NASA website hotlink.

[rebs]

I love that shot of Pluto and its atmosphere.  New Horizons provided us with so much detail.

Before then all we had were fuzzy Hubble images and artists' depictions. 

[ANS Kamas P81]

A chemical spectrum for meteors - the one in Portugal must have been rich in iron and magnesium.

[rebs]

The only color I recall seeing in RL is the same green-blue as the Portugal Meteor.  Probably pretty common material, and another small good sign for future industrial efforts up there.  Plenty of raw materials to be had.