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How Well Do You Know Your Space Photos?
Can you guess the subject of each of these pictures? How many will you get right? Test your friends and family to see who knows their space photos the best.
1. Ice on Earth or a Picture of Mars?
2. Dry Land on Earth or a Close-Up of Jupiter?
3. Mercury or Our Moon?
4. Do You Think This is Mars or Our Home Planet?
5. Waves on Jupiter or Saturn?
6. Is this a picture of Mars or Earth?
7. Can You Tell Which is Europa and Which is the Bottom of a Frying Pan?
8. Close-Up of Our Moon or Dwarf Planet Ceres?
9. A Weird World or Our Own World?
10. The Red Planet or a Red Desert?
Answers
1. Mars. You might be surprised, but this image taken by our Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is of a light-toned deposit on the Martian surface. Some shapes in the terrain suggest erosion by a fluid moving north to south.
2. Earth. This image taken by our Earth Observing-1 satellite shows Lake Frome in central Australia. In this image, the salt lake appears bone-dry, filled with off-white sediment. This area of Australia receives 149 to 216 millimeters of rainfall a year on average, and the basins pass most of their time as saltpans.
3. Mercury. Our MESSENGER spacecraft captured this image of Mercury during a fly by in October 2008. It shows previously uncharted regions of the planet that have large craters with an internal smoothness similar to Earth’s own moon. It is thought that these craters were to have been flooded by lava flows that are old but not as old as the surrounding more highly cratered surface.
4. Earth. Surprisingly, this image take from the International Space Station shows the western half of the Arabian peninsula in Saudi Arabia. It not only contains large expanses of sand and gravel, but extensive lava fields known as haraat.
5. Saturn. Although this pattern of waves is similar to those seen on Jupiter, this is actually a picture of Saturn. The pattern of an iconic surfer’s wave, has been observed in many places all over the universe, including at the edges of Earth’s magnetic environment.
6. Mars. This image was taken by our Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and shows dunes of sand-sized materials that have been trapped on the floors of many Martian craters. The dunes are linear, thought to be due to shifting wind directions.
7. Left: Europa. Right: Frying Pan. Europa is one of Jupiter’s moons, and is about the same size as Earth’s moon.
8. Ceres. This image taken by our Dawn spacecraft shows an intriguing mountain on dwarf planet Ceres protruding from a relatively smooth area.
9. Earth. This image of the Bazman volcano is located in a remote region of souther Iran. While the volcano has the classic cone shape of a stratovolcano, it is also heavily dissected by channels that extend downwards from the summit.
10. Earth. This image of the Great Sandy Desert in northwest Australia shows a variety of dune forms across the region. The photo was taken by the Expedition 35 crew from the International Space Station.
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Daily Affirmation 394.
You are allowed to have trouble accepting your identity. You are allowed to struggle with your asexuality. It is not easy, or comfortable to be questioning or avoiding parts of yourself, but it is normal. It is human. And it does not mean that anyone else is allowed to invalidate who you are.
Ace Pride Star Wars icons for Asexual Awareness Week
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Why can’t people understand that I can think a person is cute without wanting to have sex with them.
Daily Affirmation 393.
To the closeted aces. To the aces who are struggling to come up with reasons that they haven’t brought a partner to the family celebration, to the aces who don’t know how to explain why they’re not having kids, why they’re not having the life their families think they should.
To the aces who have come out. To the aces who face invalidation, attempts to “correct” their identity, or attempts to explain it away. To the aces who face flat out denial of who they are, or hatred because of it.
As the holiday season gets underway, please remember that you deserve better than this. You are incredible, and the way you have been treated is not acceptable. You are deserving of love and support.
Celestial bubble SNR B0509-67.5 1 is the visible remnant of a powerful stellar explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy about 160 000 light-years from Earth; NASA/ESA/Hubble heritage team STScI/AURA/ J. Hughes
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Santa: hohoho what do you want for Christmas this year?
Me: what about some positive asexual representation in the media???
Santa: *sweats nervously*
You’re still a valid asexual even if you fit one or more of the ace stereotypes. You’re valid if you’re ace and aromantic. Ace and autistic. Ace and disabled. Ace and a survivor of assault. Ace and a virgin. Ace and afraid of commitment. And on and on. If you’re asexual, you’re a valid ace, no matter what comes after the “and”.
IC 410 nebula
Pictured above is the IC 410 nebula, a brilliant cosmic dust cloud located approximately 10,000 light years from Earth in the direction of the Auriga constellation. A 4 million year-old galactic star cluster—a region of active star formation—lies toward the center of the image, partially obscured by the nebula itself.
Off to the lower right, two dusty entrails resemble tadpoles. The “heads” of these cosmic squiggles have been sculpted by winds and radiation emanating from the central star cluster. It’s a magnificent sight to behold—even on a primitive 21st century computer screen. (Source)
“sex is great” but have u ever
cracked your back and it feels like sleeping on clouds
heard that one chord in a song that just resonates with your soul
bit into pizza and it doesnt burn your tongue its just warm and yummy
drunk some hot chocolate and the marshmallows have melted perfectly
tucked a lock of hair behind your ear and it stays
breathed in deeply and then exhaled and felt that everything was ok
had someone lean their head on your shoulder absentmindedly
made your friend giggle
realized you had all the ingredients and time for your favorite food
gotten into bed, felt like you’re floating, and fallen asleep immediately
What Happened to Mars?
Billions of years ago, Mars was a very different world. Liquid water flowed in long rivers that emptied into lakes and shallow seas. A thick atmosphere blanketed the planet and kept it warm.
Today, Mars is bitter cold. The Red Planet’s thin and wispy atmosphere provides scant cover for the surface below.
Our MAVEN Mission
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission is part of our Mars Scout program. This spacecraft launched in November 2013, and is exploring the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun and solar wind.
The purpose of the MAVEN mission is to determine the state of the upper atmosphere of Mars, the processes that control it and the overall atmospheric loss that is currently occurring. Specifically, MAVEN is exploring the processes through which the top of the Martian atmosphere can be lost to space. Scientists think that this loss could be important in explaining the changes in the climate of Mars that have occurred over the last four billion years.
New Findings
Today, Nov. 5, we will share new details of key science findings from our ongoing exploration of Mars during a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT. This event will be broadcast live on NASA Television. Have questions? Use #askNASA during the briefing.
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Bright Spiral Galaxy M81 : One of the brightest galaxies in planet Earths sky is similar in size to our Milky Way Galaxy: big, beautiful M81. The grand spiral galaxy can be found toward the northern constellation of the Great Bear . This superbly detailed image reveals M81s bright yellow nucleus, blue spiral arms, tell tale pinkish star forming regions, and sweeping cosmic dust lanes with a scale comparable to the Milky Way. Hinting at a disorderly past, a remarkable dust lane actually runs straight through the disk, to the left of the galactic center, contrary to M81s other prominent spiral features. The errant dust lane may be the lingering result of a close encounter between between M81 and its smaller companion galaxy, M82. Scrutiny of variable stars in M81 has yielded one of the best determined distances for an external galaxy 11.8 million light-years. M81s dwarf companion galaxy Holmberg IX can be seen just above the large spiral. via NASA
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