In ISRO’s Bangalore control room, women scientists in colourful saris hug each other after spacecraft Mangalyaan makes it to Mars orbit. The image sparked reactions and debate across the Internet. Photo by Manjunath Kiran.
ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) made history with its successful first-ever Mars orbiter mission. It came in at a cool $74 million—a fraction of recent NASA projects.
By the way, Mangalyaan is on Twitter and chatting with fellow spacecraft Voyager, because this is how we live now.
The bravest of us all @NASAVoyager, having ventured out the farthest. We’re here for you.
Okay, as someone who enjoys Cowboy Bebop, knowing the actual relative distance between Earth, Mars, and Ganymede!? No wonder there were those jump gates within the solar system! 0_0
There is a lot of space in space.
“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the street to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen…”
It wrinkles my brain that Jupiter’s moon Europa has oceans that are sixty miles deep, while Earth’s oceans only reach seven miles deep at most. I’m willing to bet good money that there’s life in Europa’s oceans. Like five bucks. You hear me, NASA? I bet you five bucks that there’s life on Europa… Now that there’s money and reputation on the line, I bet they send a mission there real quick.
I have no idea when this was originally posted, but NASA is working on their Europa mission RIGHT NOW to look for alien life! But get this, they theorize that because of the depth, gravity, and composition of the oceans, any organisms that lived there would be waaay bigger than aquatic life on Earth. So far everything’s going well with regards to their Europa mission so they should have a spacecraft on its way to look for giant sea monsters in space in only a few years. (The planned date is in the early 2020s.)
Looks like my negotiations worked. You’re welcome, humanity.
I’ve never been gripped with such cold terror and pure delight in my LIFE
explaining to an 18th century sailor that we’re looking for sea monsters in space.
the 18th century sailor would understand this perfectly well i feel. like honestly ‘there are oceans on celestial bodies and they have giant monsters in them’ feels like the normal assumption we all had to unlearn as space turned out to be mostly kinda boring.
