![]() ![]() Slightly improved clouds for sunny weather Improved lighting strength and colors for extra sunny and sunny weathers for all daytimes (6am-7pm) Improved 12am and 6pm sky colors for extra sunny and sunny weathers Improved 7-9am sky colors for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weathers ![]() Improved 7pm sun and sky colors for extrasunny, sunny and sunny windy weathers Completely new sunny windy weather for all daytimes (6am-7pm) Added ingame screenshots for all optinals Added more optionals (They are really worth to check out!) Added more distance fog for extra sunny, sunny and cloudy weather Improved Clouds for sunny and sunny windy weather Improved sky colors for extra sunny and sunny weather Added enbseries.ini with enabled Rays which is needed for Project 2DFX Disabled Rays by default if not using Project 2DFX You can see any update changes here in the description. I would recommend to keep revisiting this mod page sometimes to check for mod updates. Screenshots using iCEnhancer 3.0 Natural with patch 1.0.7.0: See here I still strongly recommend to use the 1.0.4.0 version if you want the best visuals. Foggy and lighting weather are both different in visuals compared to the 1.0.4.0 version but other weathers are almost identical. It's not same as polished and beautiful like the 1.0.4.0 version but it works fine which was my only goal here so please don't complain when your game doesn't look same as good as on my shown screenshots. Big thanks goes to donnits who helped me to make iCEnhancer 3.0 compatible for patch 1.0.7.0/1.0.8.0 and EFLC. Without his mod this modified Icenhancer 3.0 version wouldn't be possible obviously. Also thanks to Icelaglace again for his great Icenhancer 3.0 graphic mod. A lot of thanks to BisonSales and Icelaglace who helped me with some issues I had. This mod was developed for GTA IV patch 1.0.4.0 but later I decided to add compatibility to patch 1.0.7.0/1.0.8.0 and also to EFLC. I spent about 300 hours to make this mod. My inspiration was the never released Icenhancer C by Icelaglace and Natural Vision Remastered by Razed for GTA V. This mod aims to make GTA IV more natural, less dark and more vibrant. Screenshots ( 1080p, 1440p and 4K) : Flickr album ![]()
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![]() ![]() The goat then indicates for them to enter an old mansion across the street and the demigods head toward it as Amaltheia vanishes. Luke questions Amaltheia's motives, but Thalia tells him that the magic goat leads her to good things, adding that Amaltheia led her to Luke, an oblivious comment on her part that makes Luke embarrassed. Thalia explains that Amaltheia had raised Zeus when he was a baby. Luke and Thalia make their way to Richmond, Virginia, in front of a statue of Robert E. He had been traveling with fellow demigod Thalia Grace after they met in the outskirts of Los Angeles in front of a dragon's cave. He writes that he had run away from his house after his dad, Hermes, and left his mom. Luke starts recounting his journey beginning with Amaltheia. What would it be like to be an outcast? What sort of powers would a son of Hecate have?Īt the beginning, Luke, writing in his diary, chronicles his journey with Thalia from when they found Amaltheia to when they met Annabeth. This son of Hecate from Kronos' army finds a mortal ally in his search for redemption. Haley ponders the question: "What happened to the demigods who fought with Kronos' army after the battle in Manhattan?" This is the story of one such demigod. The Son of Magic: A debut short story from Rick's own son Haley, who inspired the Percy Jackson series.Now Leo will need the help of Piper and Jason or the entire camp might be destroyed. As Leo builds the Argo II, something goes terribly wrong. Leo Valdez and the Quest for Buford: A Leo Valdez story, set at Camp Half-Blood.And what about the snakes George and Martha? This cannot be anticipated as a good thing. ![]() ![]() In this adventure, Annabeth and Percy's date is interrupted by the god Hermes, whose staff has been stolen by a fire-breathing giant. Percy Jackson and the Staff of Hermes: A classic first-person Percy Jackson story, the first Rick Riordan has written since The Last Olympian.The Diary of Luke Castellan: A story from Luke Castellan's point of view, from the days when he adventured with Thalia and Annabeth.Original art, enlightening character interviews and illustrated profiles, puzzles, and a quiz add to the fun in this action-packed collection that is sure to delight legions of loyal fans." "With his trademark wit and creativity, Rick Riordan answers these questions and more in three never-before-seen short stories that provide vital back-story to Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus books. "What dangers do runaway demigods Luke and Thalia face on their way to Camp Half-Blood? Are Percy and Annabeth up to the task of rescuing stolen goods from a fire-breathing giant who doesn't take kindly to intruders? How exactly are Leo, Piper, and Jason supposed to find a runaway table, dodge a band of party-loving Maenads (who just might be a little psychotic), and stave off a massive explosion. 7.3 Leo Valdez and the Quest for Buford.4 Percy Jackson and the Staff of Hermes. ![]() ![]() The Artemis program involves establishing a sustained human presence on the moon and putting an orbiting lunar outpost called the Gateway in place.Īrtemis I will deliver the first biology experiment to deep spaceĪrtemis I is a test mission, Nelson stressed. This can really help us gain insight into what was happening here on Earth when life was establishing a foothold in the solar system.” We can use them to begin to reveal how the solar system has evolved. “Lunar rocks and lunar ice basically serve as the books of this library. “Our moon serves as basically a celestial library right next door,” said Jacob Bleacher, NASA’s chief exploration scientist. Meet Commander Moonikin Campos, the mannequin going farther than any astronaut Under Artemis, NASA aims to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon and establish sustainable lunar exploration. Artemis I will be an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket as an integrated system ahead of crewed flights to the Moon. Technicians checked connectivity and performed fit checks on his flight suit to ensure he is ready for flight aboard the Artemis flight test. Moonikin "Campos" will be installed into the Orion crew module. 9, 2021, inside the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Teams from Johnson Space Center, Exploration Ground Systems, and Jacobs TOSC conduct final inspections of Moonikin "Campos" on Nov. Artemis III, slated for late 2025, will land the first woman and the next man at the moon’s south pole, where permanently shadowed regions may harbor ice and other resources that could sustain astronauts during long moonwalks. On Artemis II, scheduled for 2024, astronauts will follow a similar path as Artemis I – circling the moon at a wider distance than any of the Apollo missions. We’re trying to make life better on Earth and we’re trying to expand humanity into our solar system.” “Every day that I personally spent on the space station, I looked at it as walking on Mars,” said NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Chief of the Astronaut Office at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Their experiences, which can last between six months to nearly a year, have revealed how the microgravity environment affects the human body. “Then you can come back home if your if your shoelaces break or something like that.”Īstronauts have lived and worked aboard the International Space Station, which circles about 254 miles above the planet in low-Earth orbit, for more than 20 years. “We’re gonna go to some local places a little closer first,” Bresnik said. Mars isn’t the place to test out new gear for the first time, either. When camping in the Alaskan wilderness, you wouldn’t just rely on new gear and shoes that haven’t been broken in yet, he said. NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik discussed the importance of using lunar exploration as a way to prepare for landing on Mars. New posters from NASA depict different stages of the Artemis I journey. ![]() “How do you keep humans alive in those hostile conditions? And we’re going to learn how to use the resources on the moon in order to be able to build things in the future as we go – not a quarter of a million miles away, not a three-day journey – but millions and millions of miles away on a months and months if not years-long journey.” “We’re going back to the moon in order to learn to live, to work, to survive,” said NASA administrator Bill Nelson during a news conference earlier this month. Why NASA is returning to the moon 50 years later with Artemis I (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images) Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images The spacecraft will remain in space for 42 days before returning to Earth. ![]() ![]() It will propel the Orion crew capsule into orbit around the Moon. Artemis 1, an uncrewed test flight, will feature the first blastoff of the massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which will be the most powerful in the world when it goes into operation. ![]() NASA's Artemis I Moon rocket is rolled out to Launch Pad Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 16, 2022. ![]() ![]() The threestage version used to launch stations debuted in 1969 and was declared operational in 1970. Proton first flew as a two-stage vehicle in 1965. The three-stage Proton rocket has launched all Soviet space stations and space station modules. Partial cutaway of Proton configured for space station launch. Note the station’s Soyuz-type solar arrays.įigure 2-4. A Salyut 1 Soyuz prepares to dock at the front of the station (right). Visible at the rear of the station (left) is the Soyuz-based propulsion module. Conceptual drawing of Siber multimodule spaceįigure 2-3. DOS-1 was called Zarya (“dawn”) 1 until shortly before its launch, when it was realized thatįigure 2-2. 1 completed the world’s first space station, Long-Duration Station-1 (Russian acronym DOS-1), in just 12 months. Using Soyuz hardware for subsystems and Almaz hardware for large components such as the hull, Korolev’s bureau and OKB-52 Branch No. ![]() The transfer was less physical than administrative, because both Energia Soyuz and Mashinostroyeniye Almaz hardware were This was done in hopes it would permit the Soviet Union to launch a space station ahead of the U.S. In February 1970, the Soviet Ministry of General Machine Building decided to transfer Almaz hardware and plans from Chelomei’s bureau to Korolev’s bureau. Work on the Almaz stations proceeded apace, but the subsystems rapidly fell behind the original schedule. 1 (ancestor of KB Salyut) divided responsibility for the system’s components. An interdepartmental commission approved the system in 1967. Almaz was to be equipped with a crew capsule, radar remotesensing apparatus for imaging the Earth’s surface, cameras, two reentry capsules for returning data to Earth, and an antiaircraft cannon to defend against American attack. Chelomei’s three-stage Proton booster would launch them both. They designed an integrated system: a single-launch space station dubbed Almaz (“diamond”) and a Transport Logistics Spacecraft (Russian acronym TKS) for reaching it (see section 3.3). On Octoberġ2, 1964, Chelomei called upon his staff to develop a military station for two to three cosmonauts, with a design life of 1 to 2 years. Chelomei’s OKB-52 organization (ancestor of NPO Mashinostroyeniye). The task of developing the first space station fell to V. However, the Korolev organization was preoccupied with preparing the Soviet entry in the Moon race with the United States. It was to have had a docking module with ports for four Soyuz spacecraft. In 1965, Korolev proposed a 90-ton space station to be launched by the N-1 rocket. Korolev’s Vostok rocket (a converted ICBM) was tapped to launch both Siber and the station modules. ![]() They would live in a habitation module and observe Earth from a “sciencepackage” module. Three cosmonauts were to reach the station aboard a manned transport spacecraft called Siber (or Sever) (“north”), shown in figure 2-2. The first space station event relevant to this discussion occurred in March 1962, when Sergei Korolev’s OKB-1 design bureau (ancestor of RKK Energia–until recently, NPO Energia) produced a report called “Complex for the Assembly of Space Vehicles in Artificial Earth Satellite Orbit (the Soyuz).” The report wasĮarth orbit of a vehicle for circumlunar flight, but also described a small station made up of independently launched modules. ![]() Space pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovskii wrote about space stations as early as 1903. 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