Man, surface tension is a bitch at that scale. It’s like trying to drink [...]
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21 Lutetia is an asteroid that’s around 100km wide, and spends most of its time kickin’ around the Asteroid Belt. On July 10, the ESA probe Rosetta performed a flyby, making it the largest asteroid we’ve done so with. The probe passed it at a distance of 3160 km, traveling 15km/s. These amazing photos (and the rendered video above) are what it gathered. This is entirely too freaking cool. It’s fairly well accepted that one of the reasons birds are able to accurately migrate repeatedly is due to their ability to sens magnetic fields. According to this research, for species like the European Robin, this manifests as an augmentation to their vision, but only over the right eye. It [...] |
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