Uncle Mort's Space Pictures

[Steve]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2552610/Mystery-massive-Martian-crater.html

 

   if it could hit there then  . . . . . .

[apc2010]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2552610/Mystery-massive-Martian-crater.html

 

   if it could hit there then  . . . . . .

My vote would be Norwich........

[Steve]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2552610/Mystery-massive-Martian-crater.html

 

   if it could hit there then  . . . . . .

My vote would be Norwich........

but Benefits Street is in Birmingham

[apc2010]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2552610/Mystery-massive-Martian-crater.html

 

   if it could hit there then  . . . . . .

My vote would be Norwich........

but Benefits Street is in Birmingham

They will destroy themselves..........

[Uncle Mort]

Anyhoo, back to report. DM's usual hyperbole: vast 100ft wide crater. 

By that definition the I don't go in to the garden, I tour my estate.

[Steve]

   and Darwin his country

The BBC said "These studies indicate that impacts producing holes at least 3.9m (12.8ft) in diameter occur at a rate exceeding 200 per year across the planet."

So being no Astronomy expert I'm guessing that Mars is much nearer to belts of Asteroids than wot we are.

Bet the Meister is a bit less pissed off he wasn't picked for that mission now.  There you'd be Meister lazing on your sun lounger gazing at the Earth and suddenly you're squashed to pulp at the bottom of a 3.9m hole.  Still it'd be quick

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

SETI space image.

Runaway Star Shocks the Galaxy! The bright blue star at the center of this image is a B-type supergiant named Kappa Cassiopeiae, 4,000 light-years away. As stars in our galaxy go it’s pretty big — over 57 million kilometers wide, about 41 times the radius of the Sun. But its size isn’t what makes K Cas stand out — it’s the infrared-bright bow shock it’s creating as it speeds past its stellar neighbors at a breakneck 1,100 kilometers per second.

Read more: http://buff.ly/Mhwra8

[Baldy]

SETI space image.

Runaway Star Shocks the Galaxy! The bright blue star at the center of this image is a B-type supergiant named Kappa Cassiopeiae, 4,000 light-years away. As stars in our galaxy go it’s pretty big — over 57 million kilometers wide, about 41 times the radius of the Sun. But its size isn’t what makes K Cas stand out — it’s the infrared-bright bow shock it’s creating as it speeds past its stellar neighbors at a breakneck 1,100 kilometers per second.

Read more: http://buff.ly/Mhwra8

      

[Steve]

SETI space image.

Runaway Star Shocks the Galaxy! The bright blue star at the center of this image is a B-type supergiant named Kappa Cassiopeiae, 4,000 light-years away. As stars in our galaxy go it’s pretty big — over 57 million kilometers wide, about 41 times the radius of the Sun. But its size isn’t what makes K Cas stand out — it’s the infrared-bright bow shock it’s creating as it speeds past its stellar neighbors at a breakneck 1,100 kilometers per second.

Read more: http://buff.ly/Mhwra8

      

[Barman]

SETI space image.

Runaway Star Shocks the Galaxy! The bright blue star at the center of this image is a B-type supergiant named Kappa Cassiopeiae, 4,000 light-years away. As stars in our galaxy go it’s pretty big — over 57 million kilometers wide, about 41 times the radius of the Sun. But its size isn’t what makes K Cas stand out — it’s the infrared-bright bow shock it’s creating as it speeds past its stellar neighbors at a breakneck 1,100 kilometers per second.

Read more: http://buff.ly/Mhwra8

Feck moi! 

Plod will be all over that like a rash.... 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

http://www.gizmag.com/ganymede-moon-map/30955/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=38f0b95799-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-38f0b95799-91300305

NASA scientists have produced the first global geological map of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede by combining images from over twenty years of observation by the Voyager spacecraft and the Galileo orbiter.

Ganymede, which as the largest moon in the Solar System is bigger than the planet Mercury, hosts a thick mantle of ice roughly 800km (497 mi) thick. The moon has two major terrain types, dark cratered areas and younger regions characterized by a plethora of grooves and ridges. The map, published by the US Geological Survey exhibits three distinct geological periods demarcated by cratering, tectonic disturbances and finally by a drop in geologic activity.

“This map illustrates the incredible variety of geological features on Ganymede and helps to make order from the apparent chaos of its complex surface,” says Robert Pappalardo of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.....

[Steve]

http://www.gizmag.com/ganymede-moon-map/30955/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=38f0b95799-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-38f0b95799-91300305

NASA scientists have produced the first global geological map of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede by combining images from over twenty years of observation by the Voyager spacecraft and the Galileo orbiter.

Ganymede, which as the largest moon in the Solar System is bigger than the planet Mercury, hosts a thick mantle of ice roughly 800km (497 mi) thick. The moon has two major terrain types, dark cratered areas and younger regions characterized by a plethora of grooves and ridges. The map, published by the US Geological Survey exhibits three distinct geological periods demarcated by cratering, tectonic disturbances and finally by a drop in geologic activity.

“This map illustrates the incredible variety of geological features on Ganymede and helps to make order from the apparent chaos of its complex surface,” says Robert Pappalardo of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.....

Cor 

How long before some wit at Google starts including Ganymede locations on their road directions?

[Barman]

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

 

[Steve]

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

 

"Don't worry. It'll take a lot less than 13 months to scroll there"   

[Uncle Mort]

 

Got as far as Saturn.