Belly Button Bacteria

 

h/t: In the hunt for new antibiotics, the genius of simplicity, by Carl Zimmer on STAT;

 

Opportunity

Opportunity

h/t to NASA -Rock Target ‘Esperance’ altered by Wet History

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• Mars Rover Opportunity Trekking Toward More Layers (spacefellowship.com)
• Opportunity Discovers Clays Favorable to Martian Biology and Sets Sail for Motherlode of New Clues (universetoday.com)
• NASA’s Rover Opportunity Finds New Rock On Mars: Confirms Planet was Once Water Rich (hngn.com)
• Nasa Finds Evidence Of Drinkable Water On Mars (news.sky.com)
• Potentially Drinkable Water Found On Mars (businessinsider.com)
• Second rover finds hint of a life-friendly ancient Mars – Toronto Sun (torontosun.com)

A P/2010 A2-Shaped Haiku

A P/2010 A2 Haiku

Hat Tip to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope suspected asteroid collision picture, and to Antoine Cassar’s Haiku to Mars article.

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Some Strange Things Are Happening To Astronauts Returning To Earth

Insights of Space Travellers; original video by Planetary Collective

FlyFashioNaut

The Importance of being Properly Suited

Hat Tip to André Karwath aka Aka for the Drosophila Melanogaster (Remixed by @Michdevilish) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0Unported License.

Interesting: Dark Side of the Moon (RadioLab) The Deep-Space Suit (PopSci)

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• Drosophila visual system (brainwindows.wordpress.com): this is beautiful!
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FlyFashioNaut

The Importance of being Properly Suited

Hat Tip to André Karwath aka Aka for the Drosophila Melanogaster (Remixed by @Michdevilish) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0Unported License.

Interesting: Dark Side of the Moon (RadioLab) The Deep-Space Suit (PopSci)

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• Drosophila visual system (brainwindows.wordpress.com): this is beautiful!
• Space station ‘nauts in successful plonkdown to wrap Expedition 33 (go.theregister.com)

Spaced Out Cariña

Here is a diverting way to spend some time:  This Facebook Page‘s October 2012 Creative Challenge is to illustrate some pareidolia experienced by you when you stare at the splendiferous Carina Nebula. Of course, StarBear obliged.

Carina Nebula: Starbirth in the Extreme: Partial Capture from Panoramic Picture

is revealed to be this:

StarBear!

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• The Cool Clouds of Carina (space.com)
• The Caterpillar, a Bok Globule in the Carina Nebula (space.com)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

Such Solitude

Such Solitude

Bringing samples home from Mars is not a simple thing:”Bringing Mars Samples to Earth: How NASA will do It” (via Space.com) It is also expensive. Of course, we already have pieces of Mars on earth, brought here by meteorites.

NASA -Image Gallery: See Curiosity‘s travel pictures, currently through to Sol 57.

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Measuring Up

For Jake‘s Sake: Measuring up to Expectations

(Hat Tips to The Planetary Society‘s Facebook Page, and to NASA’s home page)