Keep Your Eyes Looking Up

So the heatwave affecting India right now is insane. For my fellow fahrenheit folks out there, 60°C (the white areas) is 140°F.

The image was shared on twitter "by the ADAM Platform account on April 29, 2022. ADAM stands for the Advanced geospatial Data Management (ADAM) tool that compiles global environmental data. It’s part of the European Open Science Cloud, an initiative to make scientific data publicly available. The ADAM account noted that the image above was collected by the Copernicus Sentinel 3 Land Surface Temperature (LST) device, a satellite operating under the European Space Agency that collects land surface temperature." Quick research indicates that the air temperature around this time (April 29th 2022) in India peaked in Allahabad at around 46.8°C (116.24°F) with 40-48°C being realistic air temperature for a land temperature of around 60°C.

Land surface temperature "is the radiated heat from the ground, while air temperature is the air heat we experience as humans, sometimes called 2-meter air temperature. It is important to note that LST varies much more over short distances and short time frames than air temperature. We can think about this by touching the asphalt of a parking lot on a really hot day next to a baseball field. The asphalt to the touch is hot, whereas the grass on the field is much cooler. Yet the air temperature on our skin, which is likely somewhere between the temperature of the asphalt and the grass, does not change much as we move from the parking lot to the field. Thus, the LST of heat-absorbing surfaces on the ground, like asphalt, are very hot when we use a satellite to measure LST from space. But we don't live directly on top of the ground; we live 5 or 6 feet above the ground, and thus air temperature is much more important to understanding heat impacts to human health and well-being."

All information from the Snopes article about this image from 2022 (sources included in the article)

Source: My day out to the London Natural History Museum!! ⋆˚꩜｡

Today's Exhibit of the Day is a blast from the past! This archival image, snapped in 1938, depicts Museum preparators sculpting a model Triceratops. This large herbivore could reach lengths of 28 ft (8.5 m). The model pictured here isn't on display today, but Triceratops fans can spot a fossil skeleton in the Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs.

A bright meteor burned up in the atmosphere while capturing Andromeda Galaxy

None of these are the first photo of a sunset on Mars. The first photos of a sunset on Mars were taken in 1976 (Aug 21st) by the Viking 1 lander:

The top photo in the image was taken by Mars rover Spirit in 2005:

The bottom left photo was taken by Mars rover Curiosity in 2015:

And the bottom right photo is fake:

He's slashed the budget, forced removal of DEI history and contributions at NASA, and caused many NASA workers' unemployment. I have worked closely with people in these spheres and know that the budget cuts have deeply jeopardized the future space missions, space exploration, and space science.

My close friends and colleagues, especially those relying on DEI programs, have had such a difficult time during this administration, and we still are. This program found some success with Artemis II and beyond in spite of the current administration's lack of support and lack of funding.

Artemis II is propaganda and pretending that the mission exists completely removed from military interest or Donald Trump's presidency is naive at best and a bold-faced lie at worst. Artemis II was to a significant degree a result of Donald Trump wanting people to go to the moon again, not for science, but for business and propaganda specifically during his presidency. (source) (source) (source)

Donald Trump has been slashing NASA's budget, yes, but specifically the science and education budget (and DEI programs) and he has been funding the Artemis program. He actively pushes for human presence in space and wants to push for more commercial space-travel, as opposed to the government-funded, science-motivated space travel we usually associate with NASA missions. (source) (source)

Donald Trump is in many ways responsible for Artemis II and in his eyes, he is saving NASA, specifically from being controlled by the leftist cabal or whatever he's thinking by cutting the science and education budget for it and instead pushing for the same thing Kennedy pushed for with Apollo, a "a planetary-scale boast", "Manifest Destiny incarnate, bursting with promise and American masculinity, their legacy rising like the phallic rockets that launched them". Only this time the goal is to beat China to the moon.