The cabin was colder on Thursday, but the crew has been able to adjust the temperature.
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As Artemis II zooms to the Moon, everything seems to be going swimmingly
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Not sure why that was swapped to Celsius. Changed it back. Thanks for the heads up.
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To be fair even Goddard needed a few attempts to figure that one out.
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No mention of the Microsoft Outlook issue? This is the exact audience that would find it hilarious.
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That's an amazing photo. So cool to get a night side shot to look like that and show a bit of sunlit atmosphere. Another great perspective image.
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Is that photo the one described, of the Earth's night side? It can't be, but some of the details mentioned match the image... I'm confused
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Yes, it is a night side long exposure picture. The Moon is currently pretty much full (98.5%) which means the Sun is “behind” the Earth and Orion is between the Earth and the Moon, hence the bright arc from sun lit side.
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Laughs in desert southwest summers.
My house is usually at 74 in the summer evenings. I might be able to put it down to 73 or 72 this summer since I got a newer, 20% more efficient AC system installed over the winter.
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During the press conference yesterday they gave a very neutered explanation. Reading between the lines and adding info passed along by a friend, I think the network connection is very managed to protect the downlink bandwidth. As a result, Outlook requires a specialized configuration to get to the email server. It either didn't get reconfigured correctly before launch or the configuration got corrupted, so they had to reconfigure it and then it worked fine.
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It was good of all the people in the shot to hold still long enough not to ruin the photograph.
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You switched it the wrong way though, Fahrenheit doesn't exist in space.
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Isn’t temperature control a closed loop system that keeps temperature in a narrow band? Why does it need manual adjustment? And why does that adjustment cause a massive 10 degree change? House/car/hotel room HVAC is better than that at 1/millionth(? pick a number) the cost.
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Lucky dice roll! I'm under the impression that this is quite common, as many as 1 in 2 or 1 in 3 astronauts on a mission typically end up getting it. Something like that.
Also, apparently, it's variable? People can get it initially for some missions, but not get it during others.
A bit like altitude sickness, in that respect—sometimes people who have been up a mountain multiple times can come down with a severe case on a subsequent summit attempt without apparent supporting cause. (Luckily, afaik, space adaptation syndrome is not usually the medical emergency that altitude sickness can be.)
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Terrestrial HVAC is also not millimeters separated from a 3° K vacuum.
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Ok, it's a fair question, but maybe it's the hard vacuum, high radiation, and having a scientific laboratory that's a pace flying on machine that sits on top of explosions bit that makes it complicated and costly and less than ideal...?
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All my space weather web sites are showing strong G3 storms, some new CME impacts occurring.
www.spaceweather.com, Dr. Phillips was pondering the impact of the magnetotail on the mission, the crew is the first to travel through an active magnetotail. Details on how this is being monitored by NASA.
www.spaceweather.com, Dr. Phillips was pondering the impact of the magnetotail on the mission, the crew is the first to travel through an active magnetotail. Details on how this is being monitored by NASA.
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Elsewhere, it is reported that the Sun is eclipsed by the earth and that the bright dot is Venus.
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It is really sad that at the time Artemis II is flying the US Gov decides to cut the budget for NASA's science directorate by 50%. Makes caring about this mission really hard.
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The budget hasn’t been cut. The White House’s budget request has NASA cuts in it but Congress can ignore that, just like the last budget.
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It took me a bit to orient myself in the picture. The south pole is on top and to the right, where the green aurora australis is. The view is from above the Atlantic near the equator. The big brown area at bottom left is the Sahara and North Africa, and below it the Gibralter Straits and southern Spain. Brazil looks greenish and clouded over, right and down from center. The pale greenish line at bottom left is the aurora borealis. The sun is lighting the atmosphere at bottom right, and the diffuse light there behind the earth is the zodiacal light.
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One of the things asked at one of the news conferences was how was sleep going and the crew mentioned that Christina sleeps upside down "like a bat" relative to her crewmates which is fun tidbit.
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Even with a long exposure, I'm surprised the night side of the Earth looks that bright and detailed. Could some false color have been applied? And, if that is an extended exposure, then the small bright dot can't be the Sun, more likely Venus.
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I feel like there was some fiction story about 4 astronauts getting irradiated in space and something fantastic coming of it but it must not have been popular enough to remember anything else.
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That photo has been confusing me, but I think I figured it out. South pole is near the top, tilted slightly to the right. Eastern South America (basically Brazil) is on the right, and northern Africa (mainly the Sahara) is on the left. Or maybe I'm completely off base. Any other guesses?
I think it's cool how you can see the aurora (or something green) at both the north and south polar regions. And the atmosphere seems particularly well defined.
I think it's cool how you can see the aurora (or something green) at both the north and south polar regions. And the atmosphere seems particularly well defined.
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That's correct, people of the Northern Hemisphere are completely unused to seeing their planet 'upside down'.
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