On Aug. 7, NASA’s Mars helicopter, dubbed Ingenuity, successfully powered up for the first time in space, one week into its near seven-month journey to Mars aboard the Perseverance rover. Ingenuity will be the first helicopter ever to fly to the red planet, or any other planet for that matter...
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If things fall, it is due to this slowing down of time. Where time passes uniformly, in interplanetary space, things do not fall. They float, without falling. Here on the surface of our planet, on the other hand, the movement of things inclines naturally toward where time passes more slowly, as when we run down the beach into the sea and the resistance of the water on our legs makes us fall headfirst into the waves. Things fall downward because, down there, time is slowed by Earth.
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If necessity is the mother of invention, then survival in space breeds many "children." These children are the research and technologies demonstrated aboard the International Space Station. For 16 years, the station has provided researchers a platform in microgravity where they perform experiments and test technologies to allow humans to travel farther into the solar system than ever befor
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In an effort to show just how empty most of the solar system is, designer Josh Worth has designed a scrolling webpage that shows the sun, planets, and moons at relatively accurate sizes and distances. Our moon is designated as one pixel big, and the rest of the solar system is scaled to fit. It's certainly not the first time it's been done, but it's simple and well-done.
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As noted in the project's description, looking at the solar system in this way is somewhat of an exercise in tedium. Planets are massively far apart, on a scale that's hard to really visualize. The act of scrolling across so much empty space helps to demonstrate that, as does the corollary that it's impossible to show the solar system at both accurate sizes and distances on a regular computer screen. If you shrank everything down to fit within 1280 pixels, nothing, not even the sun, would be big enough to fill one pixel. (And that's just calculating the distance from the sun to Neptune; express your love for Pluto all you want, it's not a planet.) It really helps put into perspective why things like interplanetary missions, let alone the Voyagers, take years or decades to complete. With that in mind, I'd really recommend scrolling rather than clicking through the illustration (there are informative and funny comments in space along the way to keep you occupied).
If you're feeling ambitious, you can try to scale up the visualization to interstellar space - at its closest edge our solar system ends around four times further out than Neptune, and Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, is over 9000 times further away than Neptune. This is why you don't want to diagram stars on the same scale as planets; you'd be scrolling through empty space 9000 times again as long as you just did in Josh Worth's illustration. If instead you scaled our entire solar system to one pixel (even though the vast majority of that pixel would actually be empty space), Proxima Centauri would be seven computer screens away.
Black Rain
Black Rain is sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, solar mission, STEREO. Here we see the HI (Heliospheric Imager) visual data as it tracks interplanetary space for solar wind and CME's (coronal mass ejections) heading towards Earth. Data courtesy of courtesy of the Heliospheric Imager on the NASA STEREO mission.
Working with STEREO scientists, Semiconductor collected all the HI image data to date, revealing the journey of the satellites from their initial orientation, to their current tracing of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Solar wind, CME's, passing planets and comets orbiting the sun can be seen as background stars and the milky way pass by.
As in Semiconductors previous work 'Brilliant Noise' which looked into the sun, they work with raw scientific satellite data which has not yet been cleaned and processed for public consumption. By embracing the artefacts, calibration and phenomena of the capturing process we are reminded of the presence of the human observer who endeavors to extend our perceptions and knowledge through technological innovation.
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