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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2080 on: December 11, 2018, 01:46:30 am »
Actually no. I believe the Huygens probe carried a microphone as it descended on Titan? Seem to remember them having about 2 hours of audio.

He did say another planet, in fairness.

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2081 on: December 11, 2018, 10:16:29 am »
He did say another planet, in fairness.

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2082 on: December 13, 2018, 06:41:42 pm »
InSight update - grapple unstow commands are going up tonight, siesmometer (SEIS) deployment expected early next week if all goes well.
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2083 on: December 13, 2018, 09:29:17 pm »
Virgin Galactic just did their first manned suborbital space flight (depending on your definition of the edge of space).
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2084 on: December 14, 2018, 05:20:27 pm »
Virgin Galactic just did their first manned suborbital space flight (depending on your definition of the edge of space).

kinda looked like a private jet with a big ass rocket on it

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2085 on: December 17, 2018, 08:03:23 pm »
Almost there, ready for action... SEIS has been captured by the grapple hook:

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2086 on: December 19, 2018, 09:38:24 pm »
looks like a piece of string youd hang a picture with.

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2087 on: December 20, 2018, 05:03:00 am »
looks like a piece of string youd hang a picture with.
It's not too different, in all honesty...

Yippee, we have the seismometer on the ground!

Edit: the press release came on:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7310
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2088 on: December 20, 2018, 10:31:10 am »
It's not too different, in all honesty...

Yippee, we have the seismometer on the ground!

Edit: the press release came on:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7310

That pebble on the left is moving...................................FUCKING ALIENS!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2089 on: December 20, 2018, 11:39:59 am »
It's not too different, in all honesty...

Yippee, we have the seismometer on the ground!

Edit: the press release came on:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7310

Some good photos direct from the set there, the conspiracy theorists will have a field day with them ;)

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2090 on: December 20, 2018, 09:36:53 pm »
That pebble on the left is moving...................................FUCKING ALIENS!!!!!!!!!
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Don't think of them that way, they are our long lost cousins, twice removed.  ;D
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2091 on: January 1, 2019, 08:30:57 pm »
big day for new horizons. any insider news from farawayred?

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2092 on: January 1, 2019, 08:33:01 pm »
The New Horizons probe flew nerby Ultima Thule...
https://www.dw.com/en/nasa-probe-performs-most-distant-flyby-of-spacerock/a-46913872


...and the OSIRIS-REx was injected into orbit of the asteroid Bennu:
https://www.dw.com/en/nasa-spacecraft-enters-asteroid-bennus-orbit-sets-records/a-46912921
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2093 on: January 2, 2019, 03:03:11 pm »
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2094 on: January 2, 2019, 07:10:09 pm »
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2095 on: January 2, 2019, 07:10:44 pm »
It’s a fucking snowman.. what a swizzle
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2096 on: January 2, 2019, 07:16:07 pm »
It’s a fucking snowman.. what a swizzle

They are saying its a Red Snowman.
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2097 on: January 2, 2019, 07:17:34 pm »

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2098 on: January 2, 2019, 07:21:01 pm »
Trada's posting some good stuff from Tanya Harrison's account.

One suggestion for what we're seeing here is that it's how comets start. http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2019/mu69-baby-comet-contact-binary.html

Personally, I'm going for Calvin and Hobbes having got out there first.
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2099 on: January 2, 2019, 07:57:35 pm »
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2100 on: January 2, 2019, 08:09:44 pm »
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Fuck them, they have Uranus and Neptune!

Amazing images, only just seen them.  Amazing how these two small pieces linked up eons ago as a planetesimal and then just stayed like that, without linking up to anything else.

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2101 on: January 3, 2019, 10:54:37 am »
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meanwhile the Chinese goes to the dark side...of the moon

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46724727

looking for minerals? 
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2102 on: January 3, 2019, 12:54:31 pm »
They are saying its a Red Snowman.

To quote Scott Manley, actually it's more like BB8 ;D
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2103 on: January 3, 2019, 01:48:33 pm »
meanwhile the Chinese goes to the dark side...of the moon

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46724727

looking for minerals? 

Using some foreign equipment and all data bounced off a satellite (not Chinese?) so nothing being kept secret on this one I would imagine

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2104 on: January 3, 2019, 03:41:24 pm »
Chang'e-4 probe

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2105 on: January 10, 2019, 04:42:56 pm »
Fuck them, they have Uranus

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2106 on: January 10, 2019, 07:05:02 pm »
Amazing!!

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this shot of the Earth and moon (left) and the asteroid Bennu (right) on Dec. 19, 2018. At the time, OSIRIS-REx was 71 million miles (114 million kilometers) from Earth and 27 miles (43 km) from Bennu.
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2107 on: January 11, 2019, 08:35:18 pm »
In case anybody is interested, re New Horizons/Ultima Thule...

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2108 on: January 13, 2019, 04:54:29 am »
Not sure if this is the right thread given the implications, but this article talks about the possibility that Oumuamua is a solar sail from another civilization.

https://www.haaretz.com/amp/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-if-true-this-could-be-one-of-the-greatest-discoveries-in-human-history-1.6828318?__twitter_impression=true

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2109 on: January 13, 2019, 07:03:48 pm »
InSight is suffering some hiccups with the grapple hook, which could not be restowed in two attempts. If you look at the images (https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cdate_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=insight), the hook had to grab that half-ball. Hopefully, the third time is the charm.
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2110 on: January 13, 2019, 08:38:15 pm »
Not sure if this is the right thread given the implications, but this article talks about the possibility that Oumuamua is a solar sail from another civilization.

https://www.haaretz.com/amp/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-if-true-this-could-be-one-of-the-greatest-discoveries-in-human-history-1.6828318?__twitter_impression=true

The interview is with the head of astronomy at Harvard.
Yeah, seems to be an awful lot of guesswork there.

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2111 on: January 13, 2019, 08:58:33 pm »
InSight is suffering some hiccups with the grapple hook, which could not be restowed in two attempts. If you look at the images (https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cdate_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=insight), the hook had to grab that half-ball. Hopefully, the third time is the charm.

It's a bit like playing one of those hook/grapple games at the amusement park - where the hook never grabs onto the prize you want or drops it before it gets to the chute. ;D
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2112 on: January 13, 2019, 09:33:34 pm »
It's a bit like playing one of those hook/grapple games at the amusement park - where the hook never grabs onto the prize you want or drops it before it gets to the chute. ;D
Yep. Except, the hook was rigged in our favor, games in the park are not...  :)
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2113 on: January 13, 2019, 09:36:39 pm »
Yep. Except, the hook was rigged in our favor, games in the park are not...  :)
Although the hooks in the games aren’t 34 million miles away.
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2114 on: January 13, 2019, 09:39:46 pm »
Although the hooks in the games aren’t 34 million miles away.
But the cost per mile is about the same. :D
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« Reply #2115 on: January 14, 2019, 07:16:07 am »
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2116 on: January 14, 2019, 01:16:23 pm »
Yep. Except, the hook was rigged in our favor, games in the park are not...  :)

And yet it still doesn't work right. ;)
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« Reply #2117 on: January 17, 2019, 04:57:20 pm »
And yet it still doesn't work right. ;)
Exactly my point. :)

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #2118 on: January 19, 2019, 09:36:42 pm »
That's good news!
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Re: Space exploration thread
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