This video describes the areas within some craters at the lunar south polar region that sunlight never reaches. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, however, uses a laser altimeter system to measure the topology of those dark places.
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The AIAA Houston Section has released the latest issue of the Horizons Newsletter is now on line.
January/February 2013 Issue
Volume 38, Number 4
(PDF: low resolution, 17.5MB; high resolution, 62.2MB)
It includes a wide range of articles on topics such as space Kickstarter projects, Science Fiction by Scientists, andSarah Brightman’s planned trip to the ISS.
It also includes the fourth installment of the reproduction of the Colliers Magazine series on space from 1952-1954. (See this previous posting about the third installment.)
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In addition to the Horizons team, the project includes Scott Lowther.
The fourth issue is described as follows:
February 28, 1953: World’s First Space Suit
Man’s Survival in Space, 10 Contributors & 3 Artists, edited by Cornelius Ryan
pp. 40-41
Picking the Men, pp. 42-48.
William Harwood gives an update on the efforts to deal with the recent computer snafu on the Curiosity rover: Mars Science Lab | More Curiosity computer troubleshooting on tap – Spaceflight Now/CBS News.
Many people are being inspired by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield who is creating great music and amazing photographs during his stay on the International Space Station and tweeting about his activities to the public. Australian artist Gaving Aung Than of the Zen Pencils site took some of Hadfield’s remarks given during a recent Reddit Ask Me Anything session and turned them into motivational cartoons:
NextBigFuture hosts the latest Carnival of Space.