OT: 2-weeks to Pluto
LeatherGryphon
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Currently having trouble getting to the Space Station, but 9 years ago we sent a probe to Pluto and it arrives in two weeks with only 10 million miles to go. Decent photos should start coming in now.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html
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been waiting years for this.
we still need to get a lander on Europa :)
I watched the Pluto launch from the backyard of my home in Melbourne, FL and wondered if I'd live to see the conclusion. Fingers still crossed. :coolsmile:
However, regarding a lander on Europa...Heed the monolith's warning: All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landing there. :bug:
The warning is the very reason we need to go there! We need some high tech to get under that surface so we can go fishing for tasty alien :) Think of all the new recipes for seafood we could come up with.
I can't wait to see what pluto looks like
We realistically won't do anything on Europa in my lifetime. No need to get all sad panda for nothing.
Still, it's unfortunate we know more...
Pretty sure when we get a close up of Pluto we'll find Hoffa.
:lol:
laughing as hard
Thanks for the reminder - keep this thread going on.
While looking on http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/15-111a.jpg
I have spotted 2 visitors, one already fly away and the second just fly by ...
Our children's children will probably see it. I hope I'm around to see a launch of it. God know how long it would take to get there
That is awesome, thanks for sharing!
Didn't they just spot a strange pyramid-shaped thing on a moon somewhere? I was distracted and forgot to check deeper and now I don't remember where I saw it or how I got there.
It was the large asteroid "Ceres". Google is your friend:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/06/22/ceres-bright-spots-pyramid/
It's a 3 mile high pimple on a tiny dwarf-planet sprinkled with glitter. The pimple is probably a volcano of some sort and the glitter fields are probably ice puddles of some sort, but the idiot press will want to hype it up into alien bases or space monster eggs or some such moronity. (Remember the so-called "Face on Mars"?) :blank:
If there's anything we've learned from looking closely at all of the myriads of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets we've been to, it's that they are all different and sometimes quite surprising in the unexpected stuff they show us about what's possible. Finding Ceres to be without surprises would have been highly unlikely and surprising in itself! I expect Pluto and its moons will each have some interesting "mysteries" of their own. :coolsmile:
NASA has some very nice image maps of the surfaces of many of the visited objects. A lot of them are in a format that can be wrapped around a sphere. examples: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA14937 and
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18434
Has anybody made any DAZ or Carrara scenes of some of these real planet or planetoid maps?
Not used Daz for plants but I once drew a map of our solar system before Pluto wasn't considered a planet. *chuckles* We also pronounced Uranus differently back then. Prolly for comedic value.
but thanks for sharing those images.
I wonder what percentage of readers know what you are talking about. It's been 40 years.
I wonder what percentage of readers know what you are talking about. It's been 40 years.
I'm just wondering, find hoffa what? Hoffa gallon of milk? Hoffa dollar? Hoffa load of hay? %-P
Just kidding, of course I know, I was born when Truman was president. :-S People younger than 55 probably won't remember Hoffa.
I'm so old I remember dogs and monkeys in space. I'm so old I helped launch the Viking Mars landers around the time Hoffa went missing. Perhaps he was stuffed in the trunk! :bug: If so, he'd be on Mars, not Pluto. %-P
Funny thing is I was thinking someone would say he'd more likely be on Mars :)
Funny thing is I was thinking someone would say he'd more likely be on Mars :)
One of the fondest memories of my childhood was watching the launch of Apollo 11, on one of the earliest colour televisions, in my school hall, at the age of 11. Ah, the nostalgia!
Cheers,
Alex.
A) We already know there's life in Earth's ocean.
B) The ocean isn't being ignored. There are exploratory and scientific trips there happening frequently. The bottom is being mapped more and more all the time. You don't think all that bottom data gathered while searching for the missing airliner was just thrown away do you? There are scientific journals publishing reports about the state of the ocean, there are news articles, there are TV programs, and there are even rag journals and pseudo scientists scaring the begezus out of us about the death of the oceans. The oceans are not being ignored.
C) Europa is a moon of Jupiter only a billion miles away. Whereas Titan and Enceladus are moons of Saturn twice as far away and much harder to get to for studying an off-Earth "ocean".
D) Extreme care is being taken to not biologically contaminate the target planets, moons or oceans.
E) NASA is not dead. Changing yes, but all things change or they die.
F) Finding evidence of life or even the conditions for life off Earth, is a major step in the illumination of the mind of man and in no way damages a sound theology.
G) Pluto is the closest of the Kuiper Belt objects as probably are all of its moons. They are worthy of investigation.
I wonder what percentage of readers know what you are talking about. It's been 40 years.
[...raises stiff arthritic hand].
I'm just wondering, find hoffa what? Hoffa gallon of milk? Hoffa dollar? Hoffa load of hay? %-P
Just kidding, of course I know, I was born when Truman was president. :-S People younger than 55 probably won't remember Hoffa.
I'm so old I remember dogs and monkeys in space. I'm so old I helped launch the Viking Mars landers around the time Hoffa went missing. Perhaps he was stuffed in the trunk! :bug: If so, he'd be on Mars, not Pluto. %-P
54.
NASA mentioned the pyramid structure in a post on Google+ together with the white reflections suppose to be ice or salt deposit on Ceres
It was the large asteroid "Ceres". Google is your friend:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/06/22/ceres-bright-spots-pyramid/
It's a 3 mile high pimple on a tiny dwarf-planet sprinkled with glitter. The pimple is probably a volcano of some sort and the glitter fields are probably ice puddles of some sort, but the idiot press will want to hype it up into alien bases or space monster eggs or some such moronity. (Remember the so-called "Face on Mars"?) :blank:
If there's anything we've learned from looking closely at all of the myriads of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets we've been to, it's that they are all different and sometimes quite surprising in the unexpected stuff they show us about what's possible. Finding Ceres to be without surprises would have been highly unlikely and surprising in itself! I expect Pluto and its moons will each have some interesting "mysteries" of their own. :coolsmile:
NASA has some very nice image maps of the surfaces of many of the visited objects. A lot of them are in a format that can be wrapped around a sphere. examples: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA14937 and
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18434
Has anybody made any DAZ or Carrara scenes of some of these real planet or planetoid maps?
New images and information.
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-update-methane-detected-new-images-of-pluto-and-charon-sunrisesunset
Very exciting stuff.
...astronomy has always been a big interest of mine since I was young. My mum gave me a really nice telescope for Christmas and at the time we didn't have a lot of light pollution in the neighbourhood (being close to the airport I guess was a help). While in grade school I used to check out books from the adult section of the library, which I read and actually understood which "concerned" my teachers to thje point the school had several "conferences" with my mum. I knew the life cycle of stars, understood red shift, knew what made each of the stellar types unique and was able to grasp a lot of the basic physics involved (Physics and Math were also my best subjects in high school). My minor in college was astronomy and astrophysics and even my work study job was co-managing the campus observatory (which had a 16" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope under the dome). I learned to actually like winter (even though it was old as heck up in central Wisconsin) as that was when the atmosphere was the most stable.
It looks like the camera they used on the moon landing!
You think they could buy a new one :)
Well, it has improved a little bit. The moon landing camera was taking video from a distance of a few feet. This one is doing pretty good at 10 million miles. :P
Pictures will keep getting better for another 13 days. :-)
Must have been really bad lighting on the moon they haven't been back in 40 yrs, hope it's better on pluto! Can't wait for the pics to come in :)
And remember, in 1969 we were barely out of the vacuum tube era. :bug: An era when you used your color TV to heat your livingroom in winter. :ohh:
Amazing .. can't wait for close up shots ! so fascinating stuff
here is my video capturing Jupiter with my digital photo camera in 2010 it was special events
https://youtu.be/43vyYv0C2-4
New photos:
Black spots on Pluto and dark pole on Charon
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/plutos-black-spots-charons-dark-pole-grow-new-horizons-view-n385291
Snapping pictures/vids of the planets is fun stuff, somehow makes me more connected to our distance neighbors. Glad other people enjoy it as well.
Here's one I snagged of Jupiter last year. (8 inch telescope and probably about 20288 frames)
After a couple of days of waiting I caught the ring guy as well(Saturn). Saturn is a tough one to document. (4515 frames)