During the day, over 12,000 large mirrors reflect sunlight at the 100-megawatt, molten-salt, solar thermal power plant at the western edge of the Gobi desert near Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China. Individual mirror panels turn to track the sun like sunflowers. They conspire to act as a single super mirror reflecting the sunlight toward a fixed […]
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The Artemis II crew and teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program successfully completed on Sept. 20, the first in a series of integrated ground system tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the upcoming mission around the Moon. via NASA https://ift.tt/VCboxvH
“A painting that is well composed is half finished.” – Pierre Bonnard
“There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.” – Thomas Jefferson
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s arm reached out and touched asteroid 101955 Bennu on October 20, 2020, after a careful approach to the small, near-Earth asteroid’s boulder-strewn surface. Dubbed a Touch-And-Go (TAG) sampling event, the 30 centimeter wide sampling head (TAGSAM) appears to crush some of the rocks in this close-up recorded by the spacecraft’s SamCam. The […]
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“The stars aligned – I was working at Johnson Space Center in Houston about six months later. That’s how I got here, in a roundabout way.” — Isidro Reyna, Strategic Communications Manager, Strategic Integration and Management Division, Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters via NASA https://ift.tt/xW01X3Z
“One’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes.” – Andrew Wyeth
“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.” – Alphonse Karr