The Urban Astronomer hosts the latest Carnival of Space.
Carnival of Space #418 – Urban-Astronomer.com
The Urban Astronomer hosts the latest Carnival of Space.
Video: ‘Space to Ground’ report on the ISS – Aug.8.15
The latest NASA Space to Ground report on activities related to the Int. Space Station:
Video: Titan’s lakes
A SETI Institute seminar about the lakes on Saturn’s exotic moon Titan:
What do we know about the composition, surface, depth and distribution of liquid on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan?
Stanford University’s Howard Zbker uncovers some of the mysteries of Titan’s lakes by analyzing data from the Cassini altimeter and radiometer.
Use interactive Rosetta comet viewer tool to examine Comet 67P/C-G
Check out this cool Rosetta Comet Viewer Tool at ESA, which was originally developed by Swedish space enthusiast and image processing expert Mattias Malmer. He took images of Comet 67P/C-G from the Rosetta probe and combined them in a way that lets the user rotate, zoom-in and out from, and highlight particular areas on the comet.
More about the viewer at:
- New: Interactive viewer for comet 67P/C-G | Rosetta – ESA’s comet chaser
- ESA’s cool new interactive comet visualization tool based on amateur imaging work with open data | The Planetary Society
Screen capture of Rosetta comet viwer tool.
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Mars Society conference – Live video
The Mars Society‘s annual conference began this morning in Washington D.C. You can watch the presentations live via Ustream.
See the conference program for the list of talks and panels.