Russian Adventurer that sets world record for
Circumnavigating the Globe in Hot Air Balloon

Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov has broken the record for the fastest circumnavigation of the Earth in a hot air balloon in just over 11 days, landing safely in WA's Wheatbelt.

Mr Konyukhov, who set off from Western Australia's Avon Valley on July 12, landed near the small town of Bonnie Rock about 4.30pm (WST).

There was concern the difficult task of landing the Roziere balloon might be problematic, but Mr Konyukhov was able to land the craft with an hour of daylight in hand.

                       BOTTLE LAMPS  FOR
                              THE POOR

This is one of the best solution of for the poor or those people who can't afford to have an electricity
in their homes. This is one of the projects that really help to improves one uniqueness and creativity
to help in saving our environment specially our nature and surroundings. This project is  propossed to those places where no electricity in there community and specially for those Native Pilipinos who live in Mountain Regions here in our country.

                                              

                             The Periodic Song

 

Happy Sunday guys! Hope you enjoy your weekend as I did, so I will leave you this Periodic Song that I enjoy so much. :D Have a blessed Sunday to all of you!

              AS MONSTER BLACK HOLE FEEDS,
                A SLOW-MOTION JET IS BORN

A star-guzzling black hole displays surprisingly still, compact jets, according to a new high-powered observation. This illustration shows what happens when a star comes too close to a supermassive black hole, resulting in a disk of gas and powerful jets blasting outward.

                   Traces of water in one
             of the biggest valleys on Mars

With a length of 600 kilometres and a depth of up to two kilometres, Mawrth Vallis is one of the biggest valleys on Mars and a possible landing site for the ESA ExoMars and NASA Mars 2020 missions. It is entrenched in the Arabia Terra highland, which is more than four billion years old, and ends in the great Chryse Planitia lowland region.

The image shown in this article covers an area of around 330,000 square kilometres on the transition from the southern Martian highlands to the northern Martian lowlands. Mawrth Vallis is at the centre of the image. The image shows a bird’s eye view of the region – the perspective from which the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the European Mars Express spacecraft has been observing the surface of Mars since 2004. It creates image strips that are around 200 to 500 kilometres wide and several hundred to thousands of kilometres long (depending on the altitude of Mars Express). This view of the region around Mawrth Vallis was made possible using a mosaic of nine individual HRSC images. The camera is operated by the German Aerospace Center.

         

NASA's Juno Spacecraft in Orbit Around
Jupiter

After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that the burn had completed was received on Earth at 8:53 p.m. PDT (11:53 p.m. EDT) Monday, July 4.Confirmation of a successful orbit insertion was received from Juno tracking data monitored at the navigation facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, as well as at the Lockheed Martin Juno operations center in Littleton, Colorado. The telemetry and tracking data were received by NASA's Deep Space Network antennas in Goldstone, California, and Canberra, Australia.

“This is the one time I don’t mind being stuck in a windowless room on the night of the 4th of July,” said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. “The mission team did great. The spacecraft did great. We are looking great. It’s a great day.”

Preplanned events leading up to the orbital insertion engine burn included changing the spacecraft’s attitude to point the main engine in the desired direction and then increasing the spacecraft’s rotation rate from 2 to 5 revolutions per minute (RPM) to help stabilize it..

The burn of Juno’s 645-Newton Leros-1b main engine began on time at 8:18 p.m. PDT (11:18 p.m. EDT), decreasing the spacecraft’s velocity by 1,212 miles per hour (542 meters per second) and allowing Juno to be captured in orbit around Jupiter. Soon after the burn was completed, Juno turned so that the sun’s rays could once again reach the 18,698 individual solar cells that give Juno its energy.