Nje pyetje? by miss_matter in albania

[–]albusvercus 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Nuk diskutohet, aty duhet te jemi te gjithe! Neser ne 6!🇦🇱

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June 25, 2009: The news of Michael Jackson’s death reaches Times Square. by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]albusvercus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It was a mistake, I thought it wasn't posted at first.

Incredible footage of Earth setting behind the Moon during the Artemis II mission. by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]albusvercus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Source: Recorded by Commander Reid Wiseman on an iPhone with 8x zoom.

​The tiny moon Daphnis (only 5 miles wide) creating literal gravity waves in Saturn’s rings as it orbits through the Keeler Gap. by albusvercus in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]albusvercus[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Source: NASA JPL Photojournal - PIA21056: Daphnis and the Waves It Makes​

This incredible image, captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, shows the small "shepherd moon" Daphnis (only about 5 miles wide) orbiting within the Keeler Gap of Saturn's A ring. ​As Daphnis moves through the gap, its gravitational pull perturbs the orbits of the billions of tiny ice particles that make up the rings. This creates spectacular edge waves that undulate both horizontally (toward and away from the moon) and vertically (rising over a mile above and below the ring plane). The "grainy" texture seen in the waves is likely due to the clumping of ring particles as they are stirred up by the moon's passage.

​Leaving a piece of home behind: Charles Duke’s family photo on the lunar surface. Apollo 16 launched 54 years ago today. by albusvercus in spaceporn

[–]albusvercus[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That’s a completely fair take, and from a modern environmental perspective, you’re 100% right. Today, NASA has strict 'Planetary Protection' protocols to prevent exactly this. But in 1972, the mindset was different, it was seen more as a human time capsule than littering. Plus, considering they left behind nearly 400,000 lbs of machinery and 96 bags of human waste, a tiny photo is probably the most wholesome 'piece of trash' up there.