#BlueGhost Lunar Surface Shadow Selfie

Shortly after landing, Blue Ghost's captured another shadow selfie showing the deployed X-band antenna (left) and LEXI payload (right) on the top deck.

Mar. 7, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace
https://flic.kr/p/2qQBz4r

#BlueGhost

One of Blue Ghost's 10 NASA Payloads, Lunar PlanetVac successfully collected, transferred, and sorted lunar soil from the Moon using pressurized nitrogen gas.

Mar. 6, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace
https://flic.kr/p/2qQkj7S

Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Lunar PlanetVac on the Moon

The Lunar PlanetVac instrument, designed for the sample collection of lunar regolith, was deployed to the lunar surface and is shown at the end of Blue Ghost’s surface access arm.

Mar. 4, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace
https://flic.kr/p/2qQ7MyQ

(Radiometric-Derived) Sediment Susceptibility For The Te Hoiere Pelorus Catchment [New Zealand]
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http://alturl.com/hxbvg <-- shared technical report
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http://alturl.com/xkgsv <-- shared related technical article
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[reminded so much of the engineering geology work I did in my thesis in New Zealand]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #AGRS #gammaray #spectroscopy #engineeringgeology #risk #hazard #massmovement #landslide #rainfall #precipitation #watershed #TeHoiere #Pelorus #Catchment #NewZealand #waterquality #waterresources #water #hydrology #geology #soil #regolith #topography #slope #aspect #spatialanalysis #landuse #humanimpacts #masswasting #erosion #sediment #sedimentation #radiometrics #LiDAR #spatialtools
@TeHoiere

Zkouším desktopové prostředí #Regolith, postavené na Gnome, ale využívající window manager #i3wm (či sway). Nápad je to dobrý, konfigurace přes nějaké klikátko mi vyhovuje, když se nechci vrtat v hlubinách konfiguračních souborů, zároveň jsem zvyklý na tiling wm.
Jen to na Ubuntu 24.10 má nějaké mouchy, keybinding viewer mi naskočí až po 30s po stisknutí klávesové zkratky, ale to bude něco, co se jistě brzy opraví.

Fiber-Optic Seismic Sensing Of Vadose Zone Soil Moisture Dynamics
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50690-6 <-- shared paper
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[broadly, a 'seismic' listening technique could help researchers map water movement, moisture levels in soil, with these researchers at Caltech have figured out a way to use vibrations from passing cars to see how much water sits directly beneath the ground’s surface…]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #array #survey #soil #regolith #seismic #water #hydrology #waterresources #watersecurity #subsurface #vadose #vadosezone #soilmoisture #moisture #weather #precipitation #rainfall #surfacewater #groundwater #ecology #agriculture #ecosystems #spatiotemporal #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #fiberoptics #fibreoptics #evapotranspiration #insitu #climatechange #drought #extremeweather #watermanagement #semiarid #geophysics

A Single Robot Could Provide a Mission To Mars With Enough Water and Oxygen
https://www.universetoday.com/167555/a-single-robot-could-provide-a-mission-to-mars-with-enough-water-and-oxygen/ #astronomy #SpaceTravel #mars #water #oxygen #robot #regolith

What Could We Build With Lunar Regolith?
https://www.universetoday.com/166542/what-could-we-build-with-lunar-regolith/ #SpaceTravel #Moon #construction #regolith

• 2018, #ISS became the first facility to produce #BECs in #space
• In #space, so-called cool flames can burn for minutes
• #ISS water purification system deployed across #India , #Mexico , #Pakistan
• #StemCells regenerative medicine could repair/replace failing organs and cells
• Higher quality protein crystals
• #Microbes can extract metals from #regolith
• Tissue/organ-on-a-chip effects faster in #microgravity
• #3Dprinting
• Organ growth
https://interestingengineering.com/lists/13-science-breakthroughs-experiments-iss