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Dax you’re like a bazillion years old and you still make dorky jokes
I love you
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The graphic offers a more detailed look at the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Vega rocket that was launched recently.
Diagram of the Vega rocket from the press kit of yesterday’s launch. It shows the major manufacturers of each stage of the launch vehicle. Yesterday, 6th May 2013, was the second flight of the new, low-cost launcher, which boosted a technology testbed satellite for the ESA, a communications satellite for Vietnam, and Estonia’s first satellite.
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Six Saturn Moons by Rafael Defavari
Here you can see Saturn and 6 of its biggest moons.
Titan is the brightest one, at bottom left. Rhea is the second in brightess, at the extreme right of the picture.The last 4 moons, closely to Saturn, from left to right are Mimas, Thetys, Enceladus and Dione.
The moons of Saturn are numerous and diverse, ranging from tiny moonlets less than 1 kilometre across, to the enormous Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury. Saturn has 62 moons with confirmed orbits.
Wizard Nebula Tonemapped LRGB - correct orientation. by Mick Hyde on Flickr.
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“Yearning The Seeds Of A New Dimension”
Siddhartha S.M. via Curioos
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The ends of an airplane’s wings generate vortices that stretch back in the wake of the plane. Most of the time these vortices are invisible, even if their effects on lift are distinctive. Here an A-340 coming in for a foggy landing demonstrates the size and strength of these vortices. Notice how the fog gets swept up and away by the vortices. Pilots will sometimes use this effect to their advantage in clearing a runway of fog by making repeated low-passes to clear the fog before landing. (Video credit: A. Ruesch; submitted by Jens F.)
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