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Update, January 10, 2019: They found a “snowman”! (Fortunately, not one with eyes and a carrot nose, waving at us.) Original post: You’ve probably heard about this on the news. Here is a little background information from NASA and the New Horizons team on the upcoming encounter: Mission page Featured image: NASA Advertisements
Update, December 2, 2018: InSight is slightly tilted, but they say that is not a problem. Here’s an excerpt: InSight landed in what’s called a hollow, a crater that has been filled in with soil and leveled flat. In images taken from the elbow of the lander’s stowed robotic arm, the edge of the crater
This is scheduled to happen on Monday: Another one of those “7-minutes-of-terror” events. Hope it works! Here is NASA’s “watch online” page for it. And here is InSight’s launch, back in May–two days after lava had started spurting out of the ground in a residential neighborhood in Hawaii on the flanks of Kilauea Volcano. Addendum:
No, seriously it’s a galactic fountain. With gas, not water. And a massive black hole . . . Has anyone seen Christopher Nolan lately? We might want to look for Michael Bay, too. Astronomers just reported finding something beautiful in the Milky Way Galaxy–beautiful, but incredibly violent . . . Reportedly, the thing doesn’t seem
The planet-wide dust storm (image on right) has cleared. Here’s an update on humanity’s active missions to the Red Planet. About to make headlines in next 30 days : I’m 30 days away from landing on #Mars. My goal right now is a safe landing but after that, the science begins! Learn more about what
Apparently the updates menu goes by the original post date, and this 2014 post is still buried. It shouldn’t be, since New Horizons is now closing in on its next target wa-a-a-a-a-a-y out there on the edge of the our little corner of the Universe. Also, people should check out that 2006 launch video again:
November 3, 2018: It is going to a challenge to maneuver the spacecraft close enough to poke the surface for a sample. Asteroid Ryugu as seen by MASCOT#Ryugu #リュウグウ #Hayabusa2 #はやぶさ2 #MASCOT #AsteroidLanding pic.twitter.com/sxyFNbcAL1 — Roman Tkachenko (@_RomanTkachenko) November 3, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js October 30, 2018, 8:54 p.m., Pacific: Look at the footage they got during
September 22, 2018: TESS has already found two new planets, per preliminary reports. Original post: NASA released the first images from TESS today. What is TESS? Here is today’s image: TESS mission page. Featured image: Yaquina Head Lighthouse, BLM Oregon and Washington/Daniel Gomez
Featured image: The largest volcanoes in the Solar System–Tharsis on June 29, 2014. ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/J. Cowart, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
. . . the Dawn mission is coming to an end. Remember those shiny spots on the asteroid? They’re still making headlines! Here is an overview of Dawn’s accomplishments: Mission page and “What we learned from the mission.” Update, September 17, 2018: More on Ceres’ three-mile-high ice volcano. November 3, 2018: Good night, Dawn. And
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