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Speeding NASA spacecraft snaps photos of the most mysterious asteroids around
NASA has blasted a spacecraft, traveling at speeds up to 92,000 mph, to the most mysterious asteroids in our solar system.
Called the Trojan asteroids, they are trapped in two swarms — one in front and one behind Jupiter. Crucially, astronomers say these curious space rocks are preserved relics of our early solar system. But we have no close views nor samples. That’s why the Lucy mission, named after the ancient remains of a famous fossilized human skeleton, aims to visit these asteroids, which likely are the smaller building blocks of our diverse planets, including Earth.
“If we want to understand ourselves, we have to understand these small bodies,” Hal Levison, a planetary scientist who leads the unprecedented mission to investigate the Trojans, told Mashable. “This is the first reconnaissance of the Trojan swarms.”
And though the Lucy spacecraft is still over 330 million miles from these asteroids, it still captured its first footage of the Trojans, which you can see just below amid a background of stars.
The mission to the mysterious asteroids
The Lucy mission will visit nine different Trojan asteroids over its 12-year mission, beginning in 2027.
Most of the endeavor will involve traveling to and around the Trojans in a serpentine, looping journey. The craft won’t take any samples, but will swoop in for some close fly-bys of the asteroids. In total, the mission will closely observe the rocks with a slew of different cameras for just around 24 hours. The craft, with vast distances to cover, will be hauling through space, and zooming by these objects.
“We’re not going to be able to blink,” Levison said.
“We’re not going to be able to blink.”
Planetary scientists suspect the Trojans got stuck around Jupiter billions of years ago, some 880 million years after the solar system formed. Before that, they likely roamed the distant icy fringes of our solar system, before an upheaval sent them hurtling near the gas giant Jupiter. That’s why they’re considered largely preserved solar system “fossils.”
Lucy’s powerful cameras, including a spectrometer that can see what these asteroids are composed of, will observe the rocks’ composition, mass, and geologic history. They’ll see how icy the Trojans are, and how different they are from each other.
Credit: Southwest Research Institute
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Levison expects to be surprised by what Lucy beams back. The mission will give scientists unprecedented insight into how our solar system, and humble blue planet, evolved and matured into the eight-planet realm we see today.
“I can’t wait to see what mysteries the mission uncovers!” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement.
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BLACK FEATURELESS HUMANOID Observed at U.S. Naval Submarine Base (PHOTOS)
A Marine Corps Security Force member recalls an incident while he was guarding a tactical weapons area. What he and others witnessed was a black featureless humanoid that set off alarms.
The following account was forwarded to me by my friends Cam & Kyle at Expanded Perspectives:
“I was stationed on a Navy submarine base from 1987-89. I was part of the Marine Corps Security Force team and our job was to protect certain tactical weapons. I had a few “odd” experiences during my 2 years there.
The main area we guarded was 3 square miles, surrounded by 2 rows of chain link fences that were separated by 50 feet and topped with razor wire. “The wire” as we called it, was broken up into 50-foot sections, each section was numbered and had multiple sensors that triggered alarms. There were stadium-type lights that faced out of “the wire” so the entire inside was almost pitch black and the outside BRIGHTLY lit up. The dense tree line outside was cleared back about 100 yards. There were 3, 60-foot towers -(picture an aircraft control tower) with a searchlight on top, bulletproof glass, gun ports on all 4 sides, a locked door at the base, spiral stairs, and a trapdoor up top made of bulletproof metal with a gun port. I’m 5’1” and had to stand on the heater box to see out the windows as the bottom of the glass was 5’.
We were locked and loaded at all times while on duty as it was a live fire-restricted area (come over the fence = you WILL get shot). I was on 12-4 duty in one of these towers the night this happened.
A sensor tripped and I investigated with my binoculars. I saw a person standing outside the first wire but I couldn’t see any features, just a silhouette of what looked like a lost hunter, which happened occasionally. I figured he looked like this due to him being close to the wire and the lights shining past him. I radioed to control that there was someone outside the wire and a mobile was dispatched. Mobiles are a truck with 2 Marines (alpha-driver/bravo-passenger).
I jumped back up on the heater and watched the mobile approach and deploy the bravo in the shadows and the alpha drove closer and turned on its lights (we drove without headlights so as not to give away our position). When he turned the lights on, the guy wasn’t there. I had been paying attention to the mobile and the deployment, not what I should have been doing. The alpha and bravo searched the area with a spotlight and radioed command “clear.” The mobile then drove to my tower. As soon as it stopped, the alarm triggered again in the same spot. I could see the alpha look over and could tell that he saw the guy. The mobile raced back to the wire and I kept my bino on the guy this time. Right when the alpha turned on his lights, the guy disappeared. I was in disbelief.
The mobile came back to my tower and instead of broadcasting on the radio, we spoke through a tower gunport, me yelling down and then moving my ear to hear. We were discussing what we each saw when the alarm triggered again. The alpha yelled up that he saw him and took off. I jumped back up on the heater and I was locked on the guy! This time when he hit the lights the guy stayed for a fraction of a second, then he wasn’t there.
What I saw in that brief moment was what looked like a dark shadow of a person. No face, texture, or anything discernible, just flat black. The mobile came back to my tower and we did the gun port thing-going over what we each saw. The rest of that shift was one of the tensest times I ever had. I was constantly watching that area and hoping to not see anything.
When we got off duty, the mobile and I were pulled into the corporal’s room and asked what was going on. We were all hesitant to say anything but the corporal let us know that he’d seen his fair share of odd stuff at this duty station. We told him what had happened and he said he’d cover it in the report (everything was logged!). As we were finishing up, the corporal pulled me aside and said “You know, I just realized. The lights hit the bottom of the outside fence so it couldn’t be he was dark because of being back-lit.” We both got the shivers and nothing was ever brought up “officially” about it again.
There were plenty of guys that had things happen to them, several that I was witness to.”
Spanky
Echo 4 Lima
USMC, f.a.d. 86-90
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People say teachers ‘shouldn’t post pictures like that’ on social media when they see my bikini photos but I don’t care
A TEACHER who enthusiastically documents her adventures on her socials hasn’t let her career path dictate her social media personality.
Instead, she freely posts photos of her sporting bikinis and other stylish pieces on her Instagram account.
Bri Jackson (@missjackson_in3rd) is a 25-year-old third-grade teacher who is based in Ohio.
She loves being a teacher and is happy to have fulfilled her lifelong dream of teaching elementary school.
In addition to teaching, she has “a passion for fashion, traveling, and living a healthy lifestyle.”
She posts a lot about traveling and how she “[tries] to live a healthy, balanced life.”
Taking to her TikTok account where she has accumulated more than 50,000 followers, she shared a comment she hears about the type of pictures she uploads to social media.
“Teachers shouldn’t post pictures like that on their socials,” the blonde beauty wrote in a TikTok video.
She shrugged suggesting that it wasn’t a big deal to her, before showing a series of aesthetically pleasing photos of her similar to ones that can be found on her Instagram page.
She wore an assortment of trendy bright swimsuits including a bold patterned one-piece, a bandeau top bikini that bared her stomach, as well as fashionable going-out outfits.
Responding to the critique of her photos, she wrote: “Hey… I like fashion,” in her video’s caption.
People flooded the comments section with support for her decisions.
“One hundred percent. As teachers, we need to stop catering to society’s expectations of what we ‘should’ do,” a fellow educator wrote.
“Queen,” added a second.
“Heck yes,” said a third.
“Queen sh*t. I want to make my Insta public so bad but I teach high school.”
“Normalize that teachers are humans.”
A final person expressed their views with a clapping emoji followed by a heart.
She loves being a teacher and is happy to have fulfilled her lifelong dream of teaching elementary school[/caption]
California’s Water Reservoirs Are Back, Baby! Here Are the Photos to Prove It
Last year, California’s waterways were disappearing. The West was gripped by a historic megadrought that left major reservoirs at historic lows, slashed hydropower, and messed with produce prices.
‘The Last of Us’ Bella Ramsey shares behind-the-scenes photos for Pedro Pascal’s birthday
Wow, can you believe that just a few weeks ago we’d gather around the campfire and watch the latest (and usually saddest) adventures of our favorite surrogate father/daughter duo? With season 1 of The Last of Us finally concluded there is a hole where my heart used to be.
However, to fill that void between now and a confirmed season 2, TLOU star Bella Ramsey has posted some wonderful behind-the-scenes photos on Instagram of her co-star Pedro Pascal to celebrate the actor’s 48th birthday.
The set photos show the fun and humorous nature of Pascal, who plays Joel Miller in the show. The standout photo for sure is Pascal posing in the middle of the woods with those goofy pair of sunglasses.
Ramsey wasn’t the only celebrity to show their appreciation for Pascal on his special day. Ethan Hawke, who most recently starred in Glass Onion, also gave Pascal a shout-out on Instagram. And he even got an invitation to the Spider Society, thanks in part to a fantastic illustration posted by the Across the Spiderverse Twitter account.
As The Last of Us celebrates his birthday, we hope he has a better day than Joel did.