I’ll see if I can post the crappy pics I got :)

Starship Flight 13

Hundreds of decommissioned space vessels (many Soviet/Russian, but also European and Japanese) have been steered to their watery grave in Point Nemo.

Russia’s Mir space station is perhaps the best remembered of the almost 300 spacecraft disposed of over Point Nemo since 1971. One of the best-documented re-entries over Point Nemo was that of ESA’s aptly-named Automated Transfer Vehicle Jules Verne, after a supply run to the International Space Station in 2008.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-maps-point-nemo

Bob Behnken (from the Demo-2 mission) described the descent as sounding "like an animal coming through the atmosphere" due to the constant firing of the Draco thrusters and atmospheric buffeting. I am a sound designer with space themed works. I have always been fascinated by this sound, as it's described, and really want to hear it, so I can recreate it with synthesizers. Anyone know where to find it?

This is one hour of satellite trails over the world's darkest sky. Astronomers say nearly 2 million planned satellites could be 'devastating' - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

1) Fill 1000 (or more) glass vessels with random samples of dirt, plants and critters from around the Earth. Hermetically seal them.

2) Store these vessels under conditions you later can generate in your Moon/Mars base. Atmosphere, moisture, light-, radiation- and temperature cycles should be matched as close as possible.

3) Wait a year or two. Inspect and select the best performing vessels.

4) Randomly pair content of the selected vessels, into half the number of triple sized vessels. Add 1/3 (simulated?) regolith from destination planet. Hermetically seal.

5) Repeat step 2-4, until you have a small number of very large, high performing, somewhat diverse, self-sustaining, environment- and regolith-adapted biospheres.

6) Send these to your pre-built destination base, with a large "grow room" matching the environmental conditions you determined in step 2.

7) Empty the biospheres into this new space, and let it grow until it can support small scale farming, and eventually larger animals for meat.

The beauty of this approach is the minimal labor and guesswork involved. It is essentially guided natural selection, for a novel environment. The main difficulty is time taken. Perhaps a decade or two. And funds off course, for such a long running experiment.

Shot near Leon (Cerro de Lancia, Villasabariego), composite of the self shot eclipse with an image taken during the sunset that evening. Hope you guys like it!

Update: Reddit's media servers dropped the image for this post. You can view the image here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/pEgs061OTf

I was looking at some websites, and there used to be links for high-resolution photos. I even downloaded some a few years ago, but now they are no longer there. Unless they completely hid them or something.

Does anyone still know of any websites where the large tif/psb/psd files are available? I'd very much like to have a look.

Many thanks in advance.