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Found an old family pic. I´m the boy.

In response to the McCann's search fund being boosted...

Thanks for sharing, this was a very interesting video/article. As for this ExoMars mission, we have been receiving first data and images from the Trace Gas Orbiter since April, and I'm even more excited about the actual rover as it contains a bunch of new-gen instruments, both for high quality imaging and data collection (including spectrometers and subsurface radars and imagers) and actual sample analysis tools (as it is expected to drill down to a maximum depth of 2 meters!), including The Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer which will primarily target biomarkers in both soil and atmosphere gases. This is the first image of Mars that the Trace Gas Orbiter has captured: Date: 26 April 2018 Satellite: Trace Gas Orbiter Depicts: Korolev crater Copyright: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS Then later we got this (my favourite!): Date: 19 September 2018 Satellite: Trace Gas Orbiter Copyright: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

I hope they get some good data and of course take some great pictures of the surface for analysis as well. This reminds me of another article I read some time back about taking pictures in space and the challenges associated with it. https://www.diyphotography.net/nasa-astronauts-shoot-raw-challenges-photography-space/

Yea, same. Poor Matt Damon.

InSight: The jeopardy of landing on Mars 2 November 2018 The American space agency has released a video describing the perilous journey its InSight probe will make to the surface of Mars later this month. Fronted by Rob Manning, the chief engineer at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the film describes the various stages of what is termed "entry, descent and landing", or EDL. It is a sequence of high jeopardy. The agency produced a similar video for its Curiosity Mars lander in 2012 called The 7 Minutes of Terror. That became a viral hit. This one isn't quite so showy but is nonetheless very successful in communicating the drama of a landing on Mars. Launched from Earth back in May, Insight is still (Friday) a couple of million km from the Red Planet. The arrival time is fixed, says Tom Hoffman, InSight project manager at JPL. "We're going to land on November 26 at about 11:47 Pacific time (19:47 GMT) regardless of anything. That is, we're on a ballistic entry; we can't change it; we can't go back around," he told reporters this week. InSight is a static probe. In other words, it will sit still in one place; it will not rove around the planet like Curiosity and Nasa's other wheeled robots. It will be the first mission to focus its investigations predominantly on the interior of Mars. It is going to put seismometers on the surface to feel for "Marsquakes". These tremors should reveal how the underground rock is layered - data that can be compared with Earth to shed further light on the formation of the planets 4.6 billion years ago. The seismometer experiment is French-led. The European nation has provided the broadband sensors that will detect low-frequency vibrations of the ground, while the UK has contributed a trio of microseismometers, about the size of a pound coin, that will go after the higher frequencies. The British instrument was developed at Imperial College London and Oxford University. Its principal investigator is Prof Tom Pike. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46074794

That's why we compliment each-other so well, since i can't read and you are a saliva-dripping, wheelchair bound spasticmong, while you read the newspaper for me i take it upon myself to do your marital duties and remind that beautiful gatinha what a real man is, we make such a nice team!

we all love a bit of head and frothy mouths at TF365 HQ

Imagine if @True Blue was caught in the act doing something. The Spanish media would go nuts.

Is it just me or @El Profesor's dad looks like Nathan Lane from Modern Family

The guy looks pissed already carrying the cans of lager in the video Police make arrest in David Schwimmer lookalike probe By Kim Pilling, Press Association 3 hrs ago © Blackpool Police/@DavidSchwimmer (Blackpool Police/David Schwimmer/PA) Police looking for a suspected thief with a resemblance to Friends actor David Schwimmer have made an arrest in London. Social media users pointed out the likeness to Schwimmer’s character Ross Geller in the popular US sitcom when police in Blackpool posted an image of a man leaving a restaurant and carrying what appeared to be a carton of cans. Schwimmer later responded to the picture by posting a video to his Twitter account that showed him scurrying through a convenience store carrying a carton of beer before looking up furtively at a CCTV camera. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/police-make-arrest-in-david-schwimmer-lookalike-probe/ar-BBPEvsT?li=BBoPWjQ

That actually makes more sense than it should.

I know it's silly and doesn't make sense, but it's fun. A few years after Mark Watney successfully returned to Earth, numerous natural disasters devastated the Earth resulting in droughts, blight and radically altered atmosphere, leaving humanity on a brink of extinction. Mark Watney assumed an alias of Dr Mann and was fruitlessly (ha!) working on solving the agricultural crisis using his biology skills and his previous experience at Mars, when the wormhole was discovered and he volunteered for the Lazarus missions and landed on the unnamed planet. The rest is history

Astronomy Picture of the Day 2018 November 8 Mars in the Loop Image Credit & Copyright: Tunc Tezel (TWAN) Explanation: This composite of images spaced some 5 to 9 days apart, from late April (bottom right) through November 5 (top left), traces the retrograde motion of ruddy-colored Mars through planet Earth's night sky. To connect the dots and dates in this 2018 Mars retrograde loop, just slide your cursor over the picture (and check out this animation). But Mars didn't actually reverse the direction of its orbit. Instead, the apparent backwards motion with respect to the background stars is a reflection of the motion of the Earth itself. Retrograde motion can be seen each time Earth overtakes and laps planets orbiting farther from the Sun, the Earth moving more rapidly through its own relatively close-in orbit. On July 27, Mars was near its favourable 2018 perihelic opposition, when Mars was closest to the Sun in its orbit while also opposite the Sun in Earth's sky. For that date, the frame used in this composite was taken during the total lunar eclipse. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap181108.html Edit: @Stanor whoever Admin/Mod is around, I meant to post this in 'The Jeopardy of Landing on Mars' thread in the 'News & Politics' Forum but went and posted this in here by mistake, any chance of moving (merge) it, please?

Our youngest grandson the wee Tank is all dressed up for his Halloween Party at his school in an hours time, he has just left with our daughter, crept into the room here and jumped out on me, a wee Scottish terror.

Our eldest grandson asked me (4 years ago) in a cafe what is a 'Glasgow Kiss' I told him and he said: "Like this granddad"...OUCH!!