Rosetta’s Farewell 

Greetings!

Welcome to my blog-thing Internet peeps.

This a personal blog for the things I encounter on the daily. I’ll probably be posting the things that interest me most ranging from space, coffee, technology, and the occasional cute thing. (Hint: cats!)

Happy perusing! :)

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RHFFeQ2tu4)

I love it when songs receive such interesting interpretations. What a fantastic art style!

SpaceX Update:

The Jason-3 launch was successful.

The landing attempt on the droneship, however, didn’t go perfectly. The rocket booster is “on target at droneship” but SpaceX has said that a landing leg was broken due to a hard landing. I don’t know exactly what this means for the booster quite yet. I’ll update when I find out.

Clouds casting thousand-mile shadows when viewed from the ISS

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yes.

"Hold up, Houston, let me take a selfie."

Buzz Aldrins self-portrait during Gemini 12 with the Earth reflecting off his visor, 12 November 1966

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The Tale of Earth and it’s sister Theia.

Have you found it weird that the earth’s axis is tilted by 23.5 degrees and wondered what led to this? Wait, Where did the moon come from?

Well, Here’s what scientists have theorized.

The Giant Impact Hypothesis

Theia, a mars sized planet collided ( it glanced and thankfully did not collide head on, else it would have destroyed earth ) with the Earth around 4.553 billion years ago.

Theia’s debris gathered together around Earth to form what we now call- The Moon.

The collision between the early earth and Theia was so immense that it tilted the axis of rotation of the early earth by 23.5 degrees.

And it remains tilted so that way even today!!

Why do they believe in this hypothesis ?

Scientists have a very good reason to believe in the Giant Impact Hypothesis:

Earth’s spin and the Moon’s orbit have similar orientations.

Moon samples indicate that the Moon once had a molten surface.

The Moon has a relatively small iron core.

The Moon has a lower density than Earth.

Evidence exists of similar collisions in other star systems (that result in debris disks).

Giant collisions are consistent with the leading theories of the formation of the solar system.

The stable-isotope ratios of lunar and terrestrial rock are identical, implying a common origin

Have a good day !

PC: sarice,

I need some space cakes in my life.

Galaxy based food

im what the kids call

sleep deprived

Horsehead Nebula in infrared

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