The first trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s movie Interstellar has been posted: Interstellar | Teaser Trailer & Official Movie Site | November 2014
The plot synopis at IMDb says:
A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
The Chinese Chang’e 3 spacecraft has landed successfully on the Moon: Live: China lands moon probe – China.org.cn Live
China’s lunar probe Chang’e 3 made a successful landing on the moon on Saturday night, Beijing Time, marking China’s first spacecraft to soft-land on the surface of an extraterrestrial body.
The first image transmitted by the downward-looking camera.
The Yutu (“Jade Rabbit”) rover will be deployed in a few hours.
Update: The landing occurred about an hour earlier than expected from press reports. Here is a video of an English Chinese TV broadcast at the time of the landing:
http://youtu.be/A_cgi8U3Fsc
Update 2: This article and video describe the lander and rover in some detail: Crossover: 720 seconds of Chang´e-3 moon landing CCTV News – CNTV English
Update 3: Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society has lots of good stuff about the event including the following sequence of images below that were sent during the landing: Chang’e 3 has successfully landed on the Moon! – The Planetary Society
CCTV
And here is a color image as well:
Image of the lunar surface from Chang’e 3 lander
The Chinese Chang’e 3 spacecraft is expected to land on the Moon on Saturday at 9:40 p.m. Beijing local time, 8:40 a.m. EST. There may be live coverage at CCTV News Live – P2P Live Streaming – English_CCTV.com.
Background info:
China’s lunar probe Chang’e 3 is expected to land on Sinus Iridum of the moon
in mid-December. [Xinhua]
The latest “This Week @NASA” video focuses on the space science news from the American Geophysical Union’s 46th annual fall meeting held in San Francisco this week.
Over twenty-two thousand Earth and space scientists, educators, students and leaders from around the world connected with each other and NASA at the American Geophysical Union’s 46th annual fall meeting in San Francisco. Among the news from the event, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has determined the age of a rock on Mars, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected additional liquid streaking down mountain slopes near the Martian equator and the Cassini space probe has photographed actual seas and lakes on Saturn’s moon Titan. Also, New Juno Video, Energy Meeting at NASA Glenn, Morpheus Lander Tests, Too Cold to Breath and Cygnus Prepares for Launch.
http://youtu.be/SDbZDSWgjKg
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And here is a more detailed discussion with a SETI Institute Google+ Hangout : News about Europa, Icy Moon of Jupiter, from the American Geophysical Union Meeting
Last summer I mentioned here my artwork to which I’ve devoted a separate website at C. Sergent Lindsey. The works are primarily done with graphite, charcoal and color pencils and include topics such as Space, Still Lifes and Portraits.
Some readers had asked about buying reproductions and so I’ve made a selection of pieces available as prints from Fine Art America. I had professional scans made of the originals and Fine Art America uses these to make the prints. They offer mat and frame options. They also have greeting cards. I currently have two galleries there: NewSpace and Color Still Lives.
I plan to keep expanding the series of NewSpace works to highlight the accomplishments of this exciting age of entrepreneurial spaceflight. Start your collection now!
For Christmas gifts for those not so focused on space, please consider my still life drawings:
The originals of the works posted on Fine Art America are also priced for sale. Contact me directly if you are interested.
