This is a spectacular image of a Sprite taken by astronaut Nichole “Vapor” Ayers from the ISS on July 3, who wrote -
"Just. Wow. As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite.
Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. ... scientists can use these types of pictures to better understand the formation, characteristics, and ...."
https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS073&roll=E&frame=281502
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Tragic news form Minnesota.
This is the sort of violence we can expect from an increasingly unhinged party and its supporters untethered from reality.
All the more reason for us progressives to show our support for each other in No Kings Day events around the nation today.
You can bet there will be MAGA trouble makers trying to disrupt events today; let's stay focused, united and peaceful.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/us/minneapolis-targeted-shooting
#Politics
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Chinese animated film “Ne Zha 2” shatters box office records in China with $1.3 billion earnings, becoming China’s highest-grossing movie of all time and the first non-Hollywood film to cross the billion-dollar mark.
Releasing in US and Canada later this week.
NASA is sending a software update to the Voyager 2 spacecraft today!
Data will be sent at 16 bps with a 19 kW transmitter using the 70-m dish at DSN Canberra.
Distance: 20 billion km
Light travel time: 18:40 hours
The patch contains logic to recover from glitches similar to the one in May 2022, when the AACS system on Voyager 1 was sending garbled data. The root cause was not diagnosed. The patch will be activated on Oct 28. Voyager 2 will be next.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-team-focuses-on-software-patch-thrusters
#Voyager
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Instructions for decoding the Voyager Golden Record 👽 🧐
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/golden-record-cover/
#Voyager
What fresh hell?
