Cancer Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 Meanwhile .... versus One's Triton, an image captured 25 years ago this week by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, of Neptune's big retrograde-orbiting satellite. It was said then that it was a captured object, a former Kuiper Belt object, and for a quarter century served as our proxy for Pluto and the other KBOs discovered starting in the 1990s. The other is Pluto, a composite of several instruments' data, the primary LORRI image coming late last week. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Speaking of Pluto, here's a new map. Also, Dragon v.2 from SpaceX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Not really news, but: Martian "NASCAR" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Great photo of the ISS crossing the Moon L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted July 10, 2015 Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 [...] If you want to continue this discussion, I moved it over here: http://www.herogames.com/forums/topic/91623-the-humanoid-body-wierd-design-but-the-only-way-to-become-truly-intelligent/ We clearly went of the track for space news there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 Is life possible on Philae? Yes, it's possible. No, there's no life there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted July 14, 2015 Report Share Posted July 14, 2015 Looks like Pluto got a big heart: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-spacecraft-displays-pluto-s-big-heart-0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJoe3 Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 Rails, procyon and tkdguy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 xkcd.com had a nice day with the Pluto Image: http://xkcd.com/1551/ tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2015 Pluto has a tail One step forward for asteroid mining L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted July 18, 2015 Report Share Posted July 18, 2015 Belters ho!! tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2015 Not really news, but When the Soviets First Landed on Mars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted July 20, 2015 Report Share Posted July 20, 2015 So it really IS the Red planet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 The Soviet Veneras are still the only landers that got to the surface of Venus. Soviet bad luck with Mars notwithstanding, they had a number of significant successes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Mars is unlucky for everyone, not just the Russians. It's also a really good example of why imperial measurements should be abolished in favor of metric. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Earth's new selfie Take that, conspiracy theorists! Dawn's third mapping orbit at Ceres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Mars is unlucky for everyone, not just the Russians. It's also a really good example of why imperial measurements should be abolished in favor of metric. Metrics rules OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Take that, conspiracy theorists! Personally I think: Yes, they totally were there. Otherwise the russians would have exposed it by now (unless they got a even bigger PR-corpse in thier cellar that the US is keeping silent about). But chances are the life feeds did not work so they had to stage at least part of the video. As an aquaitance of me used to say: The marvelous thing was not getting a person onto the moon. It was hitting it with 1970 technology. Some claim all the photos are fake because the camera should not have survived the temepratures outside the spacecraft. But then again the moon is mostly vacuum. Vacuum is nothing so by definition it has no temperature and can not conduct heat (one way or the other). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Christmas comes early for SETI Photos: Nix & Hydra L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Mythbusters pretty much shot down any and all hoax claims. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 But people will still believe what they want to believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Earth2.0? Can SpaceX Block Rival Satellites? Pentaquarks! "Limping" to the ISS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 More on Kepler 452b: http://www.nasa.gov/keplerbriefing0723 Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Pluto: Cooler than any mere planet Jupiter's twin? Prepping for space war? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Prepping for space war? If so, russia is a bit late to the party: "To be clear, if indeed the Kosmos triplets are weapons, they’re certainly not the only ones in Earth orbit. The United States, Sweden, Japan, and China have all tested maneuvering satellites that could perform the close-flying, sat-frying tricks that the new Russian craft are apparently capable of doing. It’s all being done in the name of satellite maintenance and repair. But the same tech can be deployed for more aggressive purposes." Of course this is especially scary for the US wich heavily rely on satelites. Half the sats up there are american. The US always felt pretty save with that ocean between it and every other big nations on the planet. The Cuban Missile Crisis really scared the shit out of them back then. 9/11 did something similar regarding terrorism. Now even the vastness of LEO is no longer a save ocean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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