Mars

Sounds very thunderbirdsy

 

Sky going to be littered with even more satellites.

 

They generally show these things on Bloomberg

 

Space junk, gonna be big business one day.

 

I watched it via this (live at the time), hoping the fooking thing would blow up

 

Someone is going to see 60 of those fookers passing over in the night sky and think we are being invaded by aliens.

 

They do crowd out the Sky when they pass above.
****ing Musk

 

Yeah I saw a video which showed the current train/chain of satellites passing overhead. Can't say I'm a fan of that tbph, more human junk up there.

 

Like wehn I see pics of parts of everest.

Littter, tents, dead people.

Beautiful place ruined.

 

Yeah I remember looking at them last year when they launched.
Gonna **** up stargazing

 

Slightly surprised it's allowed tbph but then again only the major countries like America, China and Russia, rule the skies above our heads, so I shouldn't be surprised really, more disappointed.

 

Views

 

I've been to the NASA Kennedy Space Center a few times, I remember on one trip going to the IMAX cinema, it showed how earth looked from space, the beauty of it was truly inspiring.

 

If you look closely over London I'm under the smoke cloud

 

Nasa has announced that it is sending two new missions to Venus in order to examine the planet's atmosphere and geological features.

The missions, which have each been awarded $500m (£352m) in funding, are due to launch between 2028 and 2030.

Nasa administrator Bill Nelson said the missions would offer the "chance to investigate a planet we haven't been to in more than 30 years".

The last US probe to visit the planet was the Magellan orbiter in 1990.

However, other spacecraft - from Europe and Japan - have orbited the planet since then.

The missions were picked following a peer review process and were chosen based on their potential scientific value and the feasibility of their development plans.

"These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world, capable of melting lead at the surface," Mr Nelson said.

Venus is the second planet from the sun and the hottest planet in the solar system with a surface temperature of 500C - high enough to melt lead.

The Davinci+ (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) mission will measure the planet's atmosphere to gain insight into how it formed and evolved. It will also aim to determine whether Venus ever had an ocean.

Davinci+ is expected to return the first high resolution images of the planet's "tesserae" geological features. Scientists believe these features could be comparable to continents on Earth and could suggest that Venus has plate tectonics.

The second mission, Veritas (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy), will map the planet's surface to understand its geological history and investigate how it developed so differently than Earth.

It will use a form of radar to chart surface elevations and discover whether volcanoes and earthquakes are still happening.

"It is astounding how little we know about Venus, but the combined results of these missions will tell us about the planet from the clouds in the sky through the volcanoes on its surface all the way down to its very core," said Tom Wagner from Nasa's Planetary Science Division.

"It will be as if we have rediscovered the planet," he added.

 

Another expensive mission to a completely horrible and useless place

 

We'd never have made it out of Africa if you'd been about.

 

Didn't he play lead guitar for Be Bop Deluxe?

 

I don't see that as such a bad thing tbh

 

How do you know it’s horrible if you’ve never been there ?