Aspen🥪 - Blog Posts

AWWWWWWW !!! I LOVE IT !!! THANK YOU ♥️!!!

Bugbo oc doodles!! Also oc x canon

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Hc that Stone Merchant is both British and Filipino ^^

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!🤯🤯🤯

SHE IS SO CUTE !!! IT LOOKS SO BEAUTIFUL!! THANK YOU SO MUCH, YOU ARE AMAZING!

Hello fanchild for a friend

Cutie patootie

@star-cristal-cec

Made this lil bug in school

holy shit i actually drew smth 4 once hit oc aspen i love him sm!! i might write lil oneshots of all my other ocs interacting with eachother l8tr cuz im in oc brainrot

I like having ocs because i can be like" PinePick (aka Aspen and Lucas) is the best ship and the way they've grown to be better people and demonstrate a healthy relationship is actually awesome!!" and no one will know what im talking about

I just realised I've forgotten to post! Whoops!

Here's my characters:

Ophanim

Aspen

Solace

I'll make another post for the rest. :)

New Science from our Mission to Touch the Sun

In August 2018, our Parker Solar Probe mission launched to space, soon becoming the closest-ever spacecraft from the Sun. Now, scientists have announced their first discoveries from this exploration of our star!

The Sun may look calm to us here on Earth, but it’s an active star, unleashing powerful bursts of light, deluges of particles moving near the speed of light and billion-ton clouds of magnetized material. All of this activity can affect our technology here on Earth and in space.

Parker Solar Probe’s main science goals are to understand the physics that drive this activity — and its up-close look has given us a brand-new perspective. Here are a few highlights from what we’ve learned so far.

1. Surprising events in the solar wind

The Sun releases a continual outflow of magnetized material called the solar wind, which shapes space weather near Earth. Observed near Earth, the solar wind is a relatively uniform flow of plasma, with occasional turbulent tumbles. Closer to the solar wind’s source, Parker Solar Probe saw a much different picture: a complicated, active system. 

One type of event in particular drew the eye of the science teams: flips in the direction of the magnetic field, which flows out from the Sun, embedded in the solar wind. These reversals — dubbed “switchbacks” — last anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes as they flow over Parker Solar Probe. During a switchback, the magnetic field whips back on itself until it is pointed almost directly back at the Sun.

The exact source of the switchbacks isn’t yet understood, but Parker Solar Probe’s measurements have allowed scientists to narrow down the possibilities — and observations from the mission’s 21 remaining solar flybys should help scientists better understand these events. 

2. Seeing tiny particle events

The Sun can accelerate tiny electrons and ions into storms of energetic particles that rocket through the solar system at nearly the speed of light. These particles carry a lot of energy, so they can damage spacecraft electronics and even endanger astronauts, especially those in deep space, outside the protection of Earth’s magnetic field — and the short warning time for such particles makes them difficult to avoid.

Energetic particles from the Sun impact a detector on ESA & NASA’s SOHO satellite.

Parker Solar Probe’s energetic particle instruments have measured several never-before-seen events so small that all trace of them is lost before they reach Earth. These instruments have also measured a rare type of particle burst with a particularly high number of heavier elements — suggesting that both types of events may be more common than scientists previously thought.

3. Rotation of the solar wind

Near Earth, we see the solar wind flowing almost straight out from the Sun in all directions. But the Sun rotates as it releases the solar wind, and before it breaks free, the wind spins along in sync with the Sun’s surface. For the first time, Parker was able to observe the solar wind while it was still rotating – starting more than 20 million miles from the Sun.

The strength of the circulation was stronger than many scientists had predicted, but it also transitioned more quickly than predicted to an outward flow, which helps mask the effects of that fast rotation from the vantage point where we usually see them from, near Earth, about 93 million miles away. Understanding this transition point in the solar wind is key to helping us understand how the Sun sheds energy, with implications for the lifecycles of stars and the formation of protoplanetary disks.

4. Hints of a dust-free zone

Parker also saw the first direct evidence of dust starting to thin out near the Sun – an effect that has been theorized for nearly a century, but has been impossible to measure until now. Space is awash in dust, the cosmic crumbs of collisions that formed planets, asteroids, comets and other celestial bodies billions of years ago. Scientists have long suspected that, close to the Sun, this dust would be heated to high temperatures by powerful sunlight, turning it into a gas and creating a dust-free region around the Sun.

For the first time, Parker’s imagers saw the cosmic dust begin to thin out a little over 7 million miles from the Sun. This decrease in dust continues steadily to the current limits of Parker Solar Probe’s instruments, measurements at a little over 4 million miles from the Sun. At that rate of thinning, scientists expect to see a truly dust-free zone starting a little more than 2-3 million miles from the Sun — meaning the spacecraft could observe the dust-free zone as early as 2020, when its sixth flyby of the Sun will carry it closer to our star than ever before.

These are just a few of Parker Solar Probe’s first discoveries, and there’s plenty more science to come throughout the mission! For the latest on our Sun, follow @NASASun on Twitter and NASA Sun Science on Facebook.

Spaceships Don’t Go to the Moon Until They’ve Gone Through Ohio

From the South, to the Midwest, to infinity and beyond. The Orion spacecraft for Artemis I has several stops to make before heading out into the expanse, and it can’t go to the Moon until it stops in Ohio. It landed at the Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport on Nov. 24, and then it was transferred to Plum Brook Station where it will undergo a series of environmental tests over the next four months to make sure it’s ready for space. Here are the highlights of its journey so far.

It’s a bird? It’s a whale? It’s the Super Guppy!

The 40-degree-and-extremely-windy weather couldn’t stop the massive crowd at Mansfield from waiting hours to see the Super Guppy land. Families huddled together as they waited, some decked out in NASA gear, including one astronaut costume complete with a helmet. Despite the delays, about 1,500 people held out to watch the bulbous airplane touch down.

Buckle up. It’s time for an extremely safe ride.

After Orion safely made it to Ohio, the next step was transporting it 41 miles to Plum Brook Station. It was loaded onto a massive truck to make the trip, and the drive lasted several hours as it slowly maneuvered the rural route to the facility. The 130-foot, 38-wheel truck hit a peak speed of about 20 miles per hour. It was the largest load ever driven through the state, and more than 700 utility lines were raised or moved in preparation to let the vehicle pass.

Calling us clean freaks would be an understatement.

Any person who even thinks about breathing near Orion has to be suited up. We’re talking “bunny” suit, shoe covers, beard covers, hoods, latex gloves – the works. One of our top priorities is keeping Orion clean during testing to prevent contaminants from sticking to the vehicle’s surface. These substances could cause issues for the capsule during testing and, more importantly, later during its flight around the Moon.

And liftoff of Orion… via crane.

On the ceiling of the Space Environments Complex at Plum Brook Station is a colossal crane used to move large pieces of space hardware into position for testing. It’s an important tool during pretest work, as it is used to lift Orion from the “verticator”—the name we use for the massive contraption used to rotate the vehicle from its laying down position into an upright testing orientation. After liftoff from the verticator, technicians then used the crane to install the spacecraft inside the Heat Flux System for testing.

It’s really not tin foil.

Although it looks like tin foil, the metallic material wrapped around Orion and the Heat Flux System—the bird cage-looking hardware encapsulating the spacecraft—is a material called Mylar. It’s used as a thermal barrier to help control which areas of the spacecraft get heated or cooled during testing. This helps our team avoid wasting energy heating and cooling spots unnecessarily.

Bake at 300° for 63 days.

It took a little over a week to prep Orion for its thermal test in the vacuum chamber. Now begins the 63-day process of heating and cooling (ranging from -250° to 300° Fahrenheit) the capsule to ensure it’s ready to withstand the journey around the Moon and back. 

View more images of Orion’s transportation and preparation here.

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I love the moon!!!! she follows me everywhere to make sure I’m safe

Wood Exterior (Denver)

This is where I spent my weekend. Taken on Colorado State Route 82 between Aspen and Independence Pass.

A 7th fragment...? Hm...

Oc doodle :3

My autistic children

Aspens pets are the cat and the not cat (yes those are their names) the other cat it the cats mom.

Aspen, my gravity falls line oc,

In this au

Bill has hexagon and line friends, line friend is pregnant with hexagons baby, line friend is heavily pregnant, due in two weeks.

Bill destroys dimension forgetting they’re there. He finds them quickly, but not soon enough and by some miracle (axolotls power, he didn’t wanna leave bill as the last of his race (it must be incredibly lonely to be the last like that little Hawaii bird except definitely not calling for a mate) so he gave him a child) the unborn aspen survives.

He then decides to use his powers to keep baby aspen alive outside of his mother (not needed for long since aspen is so developed) and then raises her, being transparent about their past and family. (bills evil not a monster, hes gonna let a kid (especially one of his species) know about their world and family)

Bill found the henchmaniacs in an already formed group about four days after burning his dimension down. (The group was mostly for safety so no one really knew each other well, they just hung out in the same general areas) He forced suggested a couple rules (and scared the henchmaniacs with his power) and they made him leader.

It only took a year before they were all family.

The family!

Kryptos: big brother to aspen

8-ball: awkward uncle

Teeth: pet

Pyronica: nothing close but not strangers either

Amorphous shape: Aspens gossiping/relaxing/venting buddy, Aspen will also take her to parties. (bill makes them take someone. Due to amorphous shapes laid back nature she don’t really care what aspen does at said parties. Her job is to keep Aspen alive, not make sure she doesn’t do stupid stuff)

Pacifire and hectorgon: Aspen really only talks to them if someone else is around, nothing against them they just don’t click

Keyhole: Aspen is the nicest to him. He’s an introvert but if he had to choose someone to interact with, it’d be Aspen.

Xanthar: Gives Aspen advice. Personal couch/bed or Aspen when they travel much to his dismay. (Bill wont let him shake Aspen off)

Eye bats: Aspen adores them

Jessie: Bills go to babysitter for baby Aspen. She helped bill learn how to care for kids. (she was an oldest sibling and had experience with babies) She had a short lived sort of almost thing with bill (before she left) She was around him constantly, and joked about Aspen being their (Jessie and bills) kid, sometimes they’d cuddle with Aspen because he would cry if both of their “parents” weren’t around. Jessie would’ve been the one to teach Aspen if she didn’t leave

And finally, aspens beta design

Mudroom - Midcentury Entry Mid-sized mid-century modern front door idea with a medium wood front door, white walls, and a light wood floor.

Deck Roof Extensions Los Angeles

Here's an illustration of a medium-sized, minimalist backyard outdoor shower deck with a roof extension.

Exterior Brick in Denver Motives for a mid-sized, two-story, brick exterior home renovation