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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1840 on: April 18, 2017, 09:30:29 pm »
I love every image that came out of that mission. And who would have thought Pluto would have an atmosphere? (Yes, I'm sure plenty of people thought that, because they know more than my 0% about astrogeology.) I hope that someday, not too too long from now, people look back at how tremendously difficult and monumental an achievement New Horizons was, and they laugh in the same way we laugh at big, blocky old cell phones and room-filling computers.

You'll be waiting a long time I suspect.  Voyager is 40 years old this year and nobody is laughing at that yet.  ;)
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1841 on: May 12, 2017, 07:18:00 am »
Water on Mars?  Seems almost certain these days.

This rock must be sedimentary

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1842 on: May 12, 2017, 10:54:19 am »
Water on Mars?  Seems almost certain these days.

This rock must be sedimentary



Never mind sedimentary, that looks like it's been ploughed  ;D
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1843 on: May 17, 2017, 01:36:33 pm »
Water on Mars?  Seems almost certain these days.

This rock must be sedimentary



Interesting.  Would an image like this poke a fatal hole in the theories that suppose that Mars has never had a sustained water environment or water cycle, but rather sporadic bursts of isolated activity?

For the latter to be correct this formation would have to be on top of an old geyser system; you surely don't get layered formations like that in a short space of time?  I mean I've seen layers like that at the mouth of the River Alt, but it's still silt, not rock.
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1844 on: May 26, 2017, 10:17:50 pm »
ISS due over at 22.19 here in the SW of the UK in a 6 minute transit.
Should be a grand view with tonights magnificently clear sky so get your binoculars or telescopes at the ready.
Over again at 23.56 for 6 minutes too...
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1845 on: May 29, 2017, 01:12:38 am »
ISS due over at 22.19 here in the SW of the UK in a 6 minute transit.
Should be a grand view with tonights magnificently clear sky so get your binoculars or telescopes at the ready.
Over again at 23.56 for 6 minutes too...

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1846 on: June 1, 2017, 09:30:57 am »

NASA announced plans to launch the Parker Solar Probe into the sun's atmosphere for the first time in the summer of 2018. University of Chicago astrophysicist Dr. Eugene Parker with a model of the vessel.



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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1847 on: June 1, 2017, 10:36:03 pm »
NASA announced plans to launch the Parker Solar Probe into the sun's atmosphere for the first time in the summer of 2018. University of Chicago astrophysicist Dr. Eugene Parker with a model of the vessel.



I hope they reach it at night when it cooler.

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1848 on: June 1, 2017, 10:41:06 pm »
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1849 on: June 2, 2017, 12:58:07 am »
There was a wonderful documentary Wednesday night on BBC4, How Russia won the Space Race.

Sputnik, Laika, Ham, great stuff, especially for those of us who remember those days as children.

Many interesting snippets including much I wasn't aware of, for example, the spacesuits used on the ISS are evolved from the Russian design.

I'd recommend watching it.
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1850 on: June 2, 2017, 04:28:48 pm »
There was a wonderful documentary Wednesday night on BBC4, How Russia won the Space Race.

Sputnik, Laika, Ham, great stuff, especially for those of us who remember those days as children.

Many interesting snippets including much I wasn't aware of, for example, the spacesuits used on the ISS are evolved from the Russian design.

I'd recommend watching it.

I will have to check that out BBC4 have some great shows.
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1851 on: June 3, 2017, 08:47:04 pm »
NASA announced plans to launch the Parker Solar Probe into the sun's atmosphere for the first time in the summer of 2018. University of Chicago astrophysicist Dr. Eugene Parker with a model of the vessel.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe

Intended to pass less than 4 million miles above the Sun's surface.  :mindblown
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1852 on: June 3, 2017, 09:50:15 pm »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe

Intended to pass less than 4 million miles above the Sun's surface.  :mindblown

It's truly fantastic stuff.

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« Reply #1853 on: June 23, 2017, 08:04:23 am »
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1854 on: June 24, 2017, 03:33:00 pm »
I hope they reach it at night when it cooler.



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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1856 on: July 1, 2017, 10:13:23 pm »
I love this kind of stuff.  When you realise that the night sky is really just the shadow cast by the entire universe.

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1857 on: July 4, 2017, 04:47:44 pm »
Mission to Saturn's Enceladus moon detects organic compounds

Scientists have urged caution after finding organic compounds around Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Enceladus was discovered by the British astronomer William Herschel in 1789 using what was then the largest telescope in the world, measuring 1.2m across.

Almost 230 years later, the Cassini spacecraft conducted another fly-past of its southern pole, travelling through one of the mysterious cryovolcanic plumes which had been discovered to be erupting from the moon.

Cassini sampled the water-rich plumes, suspected to originate from a vast liquid ocean beneath the surface of Enceladus, and discovered organic compounds - molecules which contain carbon and are essential to all known life.

These compounds, including the molecule methanol, have now been detected in a much more massive quantity than previously expected, using the IRAM radio telescope, which is 30 metres across, in the Spanish Sierra Nevada.

Scientists, including some from Imperial College London, are presenting their research into these compounds on 4 July at the UK's National Astronomy Meeting which is being hosted by the University of Hull.

They have speculated that the organic compounds found in the water-rich plumes are formed as part of a complex chemical journey which the material vented from the moon undergoes after it is spewed into space.

Dr Emily Drabek-Maunder said: "Recent discoveries that icy moons in our outer solar system could host oceans of liquid water and ingredients for life have sparked exciting possibilities for their habitability.

"But in this case, our findings suggest that methanol is being created by further chemical reactions once the plume is ejected into space, making it unlikely it is an indication for life on Enceladus."

Instead, the scientists believe that the enormous amount of methanol may have been produced by a cloud of gas expelled by Enceladus and trapped by Saturn's magnetic field.

One team member, Dr Dave Clements from the Department of Physics at Imperial, stressed that "observations aren't always straightforward".

"To interpret our results, we needed the wealth of information Cassini gave us about Enceladus's environment.

"This study suggests a degree of caution needs to be taken when reporting on the presence of molecules that could be interpreted as evidence for life."

Later this year, Cassini will make its final plunge towards Saturn's surface - ending the journey which it began when launched in 1997.

The orbiter will be written-off by crashing through Saturn's atmosphere rather than risk damaging one of the planet's moons which may yet be explored for signs of life.

Remote observations from telescopes based on Earth and in space will remain the only method for exploring Saturn and its potentially life-harbouring moons for now,

"This finding shows that detections of molecules at Enceladus are possible using ground-based facilities," said Dr Drabek-Maunder.

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1858 on: July 6, 2017, 07:51:41 pm »
If catalogue objects were spirit animals, NGC 7212 would be mine.



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Re: Space exploration thread
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1860 on: July 23, 2017, 12:40:07 pm »
Donald Trump isn't the only unstable orange ball of gas out there...

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1861 on: August 5, 2017, 02:48:38 pm »
In New Horizons related news, it turns out its next target, MU69, might actually be a small binary world.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20170803

EDIT: the latest discoveries come from observing the object during star occultations.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20170719

I mean seriously, how the hell do you manage to capture the shadow of an object 20 miles across passing in front of a star from 4 fecking billion miles away??  :o

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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1862 on: August 21, 2017, 06:41:13 pm »
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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1863 on: August 21, 2017, 10:57:35 pm »
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« Reply #1864 on: August 27, 2017, 07:56:41 pm »
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« Reply #1865 on: September 6, 2017, 05:04:05 pm »
The eye of hurricane Irma stands out clearly on full-disk satellite imagery.



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« Reply #1866 on: September 7, 2017, 08:14:01 pm »
The eye of hurricane Irma stands out clearly on full-disk satellite imagery.




The Great Red Spot puts Irma into perspective.

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« Reply #1867 on: September 8, 2017, 12:50:40 pm »
I love every image that came out of that mission. And who would have thought Pluto would have an atmosphere? (Yes, I'm sure plenty of people thought that, because they know more than my 0% about astrogeology.) I hope that someday, not too too long from now, people look back at how tremendously difficult and monumental an achievement New Horizons was, and they laugh in the same way we laugh at big, blocky old cell phones and room-filling computers.

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« Reply #1868 on: September 8, 2017, 05:48:47 pm »
You'd have to remarkably uninformed and know very little about technology to laugh at old technology.

As I said at the time, Voyager has just turned 40 and it's still delivering critically important science data.
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« Reply #1870 on: September 14, 2017, 09:17:50 am »
Hopefully of interest to someone...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/cassini_huygens_saturn

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« Reply #1871 on: September 14, 2017, 07:18:02 pm »
Hopefully of interest to someone...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/cassini_huygens_saturn

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« Reply #1872 on: September 15, 2017, 06:39:38 pm »
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« Reply #1875 on: September 20, 2017, 07:48:37 pm »
Enceladus sets behind Saturn as Cassini begins its final plunge.



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« Reply #1876 on: October 13, 2017, 12:02:41 pm »
Duck, Tiangong-1 is due to re-enter soon .... https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/13/tiangong-1-chinese-space-station-will-crash-to-earth-within-months

...Although much of the craft is expected to burn up in the atmosphere, McDowell says some parts might still weigh up to 100kg when they crash into the Earth’s surface.

The chance that anyone will be harmed by the debris is considered remote but China told the United Nations “Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space” in May that it would carefully monitor the craft’s descent and inform the United Nations when it begins its final plunge.

Predicting where it is going to come down would be impossible even in the days ahead of its landing, McDowell said.

“You really can’t steer these things,” he said in 2016. “Even a couple of days before it re-enters we probably won’t know better than six or seven hours, plus or minus, when it’s going to come down. Not knowing when it’s going to come down translates as not knowing where it’s going to come down.”

McDowell said a slight change in atmospheric conditions could nudge the landing site “from one continent to the next”.

There have been many uncontrolled re-entries of larger spacecraft and none have ever been reported to have caused injuries to people.



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Re: Space exploration thread
« Reply #1877 on: October 13, 2017, 10:02:04 pm »

There have been many uncontrolled re-entries of larger spacecraft and none have ever been reported to have caused injuries to people.



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« Reply #1878 on: October 15, 2017, 08:52:51 am »


SpaceX Launch and re land successful!!!!

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« Reply #1879 on: October 15, 2017, 02:20:34 pm »
It's the ideal we certainly should be aiming for.  If only we could truly unite behind the challenge of space as well as we can harness the fear that supports our armed forces.
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