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March 19 is the feast of #Athena #Minerva as goddess of weaving and weavers. Kiss an LGBT tapestry weaver artist today. #Ovid wrote: "Minerva teaches us how to weave on the upright loom warp with a shuttle. She tightens the loose threads with a comb. Worship her, you who create wonders in wool in bright colours. Cherish her, you who carve and sculpt in stone, or you who paint brightly coloured pictures. Minerva is the goddess of a thousand works. Surely she is the goddess of poetry as well."
Dans l'encadré un agrandissement de la vue
Here is the ill-fated #Athena lander in the 20 meter lunar crater it ended up in: a new picture from the LRO, https://www.lroc.asu.edu/images/1409 - see also https://skyweek.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/athena_im_loch.jpg from https://www.lroc.asu.edu/images/1408 for an earlier side view.
From the #LPSC 'NASA Night' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4sVQ81DiI a list of the next #CLPS missions: NASA will have more Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies (SCALPSS) on #BlueOrigin's HLS test lander. They also reported superb results from #BlueGhost with 6 of the NASA experiments already completed and the remainder being done once the hot noon is over. Not much came out of #Athena, obviously, and they're still trying to make contact with the Lunar Trailblazer - no indication of the hope level ...
L'atterrisseur #Athena #IM2 est bien couché sur le côté. La mission s'arrête après moins d'une journée sur la #Lune. Quelques données ont été récoltées.
Mon article sur cet échec : https://reves-d-espace.com/atterrisseur-athena-im-2-est-bien-sur-le-cote-la-mission-arretee/
Running #athena queries is often a test of patience...
How cool - and tragic - is this?!? The small Japanese rover #Yaoki that travelled to the #Moon on the ill-fated #Athena lander has been busy *inside* its transport box (that it couldn't leave without Athena's help), taking this picture which shows a slice of Moon through a slit and tried out various mechanics: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000021.000075722.html - had it been deployed to the surface it would probably have worked well.
L'atterrisseur #Athena #IM2 est bien couché sur le côté. La mission s'arrête après moins d'une journée sur la #Lune. Quelques données ont été récoltées.
Mon article sur cet échec : https://reves-d-espace.com/atterrisseur-athena-im-2-est-bien-sur-le-cote-la-mission-arretee/
"Not a bad way to die, with the Earth between you legs"
Intuitive Machines Athena
Processed, undistorted,cropped image
Original: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-receives-some-data-before-intuitive-machines-ends-lunar-mission/
Other companies said I was daft to land a lander on the moon, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the regolith. So, I built a second one. That feĺl over onto its side. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the regolith, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest Intuitive Machine in Mons Mouton.
In which NASA tries to find something good from the failed #Athena mission: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-receives-some-data-before-intuitive-machines-ends-lunar-mission/ - and contradicts IM, which has said that they "landed 250 meters from its intended landing site" by stating that IM-2 touched down "more than 1,300 feet (400 meters) from its intended landing site."
Otra que aterriza en la luna y se voltea de costado
MISSION OVER: Private lunar lander is declared dead after landing sideways in a crater near the moon's South Pole #athena #lunarlander #nasa #moon
#Athena came to rest inside a crater, 250m from its intended target. “With the direction of the sun, the orientation of the #solar panels, and extreme cold temperatures in the crater, #IntuitiveMachines does not expect Athena to recharge 
”. Issues with Athena’s laser altimeter may have contributed to the bad landing https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/us-company-says-moon-mission-over-after-landing-sideways-again
