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Post by rick49 on Jan 8, 2014 16:37:34 GMT
My mistake. Could make the trip in under 11 years.
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Post by voice on Jan 8, 2014 16:46:22 GMT
Cool if we can break the fundamental laws of physics as we know them, or rather push knowledge of them beyond Einsteins theories.
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Post by rick49 on Jan 14, 2014 18:20:11 GMT
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Post by rick49 on Jan 21, 2014 19:55:01 GMT
"Sleeping Rosetta Spacecraft Wakes Up for Historic Comet Rendezvous and Landing"
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Post by rick49 on Jan 24, 2014 7:05:43 GMT
"Turned 10, NASA rover finds water on Mars"Washington, Jan 24 (IANS) "As the world wishes NASA's Opportunity rover a happy 10th anniversary, here comes a starling announcement that the Mars rover has found concrete evidence about presence of fresh water on the red planet." "Ten years ago, Jan 24, 2004, the Opportunity rover landed on a flat plain on Mars and rolled into an impact crater scientists did not even know existed." "Celebrating the rover's 10th anniversary Jan 23, Ray Arvidson, deputy principal investigator of the dual-rover mission at NASA, said cold and dry Mars once had exploding volcanoes with hydrothermal vents, steam-charged vents, rivers, dendritic streams and lakes." "The older you look, the better it gets in terms of warm and wet," Arvidson told the audience at Washington University in St Louis. tinyurl.com/lwwylt4Ten years!!!
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Post by flatandy on Jan 24, 2014 15:27:40 GMT
10 years? 10 bloody years? It was meant to work for a month.
Astonishing.
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Post by rick49 on Jan 24, 2014 15:32:52 GMT
10 years? 10 bloody years? It was meant to work for a month. Astonishing. And still making big discoveries! |
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Post by flatandy on Jan 24, 2014 15:40:17 GMT
Somebody is probably going to get fired for screwing up the budget, though. Can you imagine, having to keep the ops center open, and all the science dudes employed, for 120 times as long as you originally planned. No wonder NASA's broke.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2014 16:36:31 GMT
Maybe these things should self-destruct when budget limits are reached.
Being facetious here by way of a *bump*.
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Post by voice on Jan 24, 2014 19:38:07 GMT
I hope they reach Mars in my lifetime, would lover to see the first person to step out, was too young to see the moon landings.
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Post by rick49 on Jan 24, 2014 20:08:09 GMT
Somebody is probably going to get fired for screwing up the budget, though. Can you imagine, having to keep the ops center open, and all the science dudes employed, for 120 times as long as you originally planned. No wonder NASA's broke. Job security. lol |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2014 10:10:40 GMT
I hope they reach Mars in my lifetime, would lover to see the first person to step out, was too young to see the moon landings. Ha ha. I'm old enough to have seen them but I didn't bother at the time, like most teenagers then. |
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Post by rick49 on Jan 27, 2014 17:59:15 GMT
"China's Lunar Rover Has Mechanical Trouble""China says its first lunar rover is experiencing mechanical problems, a rare setback for its burgeoning space program that in recent years has conducted space walks and placed a space station in orbit........" "The mechanical problems appeared to be related to the solar-powered probe's process for shutting down for the lunar night, which lasts more than two weeks. The temperature during that time drops to minus 180 degrees Celsius (minus 292 degrees Fahrenheit)." "The landing vehicle, which has already shut down for the lunar night, is designed to conduct scientific examinations for one year." "Online speculation focused on the possibility of lunar dust having blocked one of the solar panels from folding inward, leaving equipment exposed to the dangerously low temperatures. It won't be known if the probe is able to function again until after the two-week break." tinyurl.com/pp9uhr7"Bad news for Yutu rover""More details are available from the unofficial Twitter account of the mission. Links take you to original Chinese, with Google translation below it. It sounds like the rover is not responding properly to commands from Earth, and couldn't prepare for the oncoming night properly. It doesn't sound good; Yutu appears to be saying farewell to us. Which would be a premature end for the rover, but I think that China should be well pleased with how much they accomplished in their first mobile mission on the surface of another world. And the lander is still operating, albeit without its color camera (as planned)." tinyurl.com/k4vnl27RIP, Yutu.
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Post by lala on Jan 27, 2014 18:04:23 GMT
It's going rogue. Soon, it will start constructing a Moonbase and bombard the Earth with very large lumps of rock.
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Post by rick49 on Feb 6, 2014 18:01:52 GMT
"NASA rover Curiosity feels heat on Mars""All is not well with NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. The wear and tear in its wheels owing to rough Martian landscape has been a cause of concern for mission managers." tinyurl.com/p29eqs4"Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover looks to 'jump' sand dune""The Curiosity Mars rover is to try to drive over a one metre-high dune." tinyurl.com/kfeoa4lThey must really be worried about the damage the terrain is doing to the wheels to risk trying to drive it over a sand dune in an attempt to find smoother terrain. The thing literally weighs a ton and could easily get stuck. Spirit rover was lost because it got stuck in sand and it weighed nowhere near as much as Curiosity. And they almost lost Opportunity rover when it go stuck in sand, too. And I imagine all the extra sand and dust that will be kicked up won't be good for Curiosity. Mt. Sharp is still a long, long way away. I doubt the wheels last long enough to get there.
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Post by rick49 on Feb 10, 2014 17:14:08 GMT
Woo-hoo! Curiosity made it over the dune. Now it should have smoother driving and have less wear and tear on it's wheels for awhile. "Through the Gap: Curiosity Mars Rover Crosses Dune" UPDATED: February 6, 2014 "NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover has crossed a dune that stands across a gateway to a southwestward route favored by the rover team for driving to future science destinations." "After reaching the west side of the 3-foot-tall (1-meter-tall) dune today, the rover looked back at its tracks down the western slope. A raw image of the rover's tracks over the dune is at: 1.usa.gov/Mw9HmZ ." www.nasa.gov/jpl/msl/martian-valley-curiosity-20140203/"Enjoy these vistas from a decade of exploration"mars.nasa.gov/mer10/multimedia/images/ |
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Post by rick49 on Feb 13, 2014 18:21:17 GMT
"China's Jade Rabbit rover comes 'back to life' "Beijing (AFP) - "China's troubled Jade Rabbit lunar rover has survived a bitterly cold 14-day lunar night, officials said on Thursday, prompting hopes it can be repaired after suffering a malfunction last month." "An earlier report by the semi-official China News Service said an attempt to restore the vehicle to full functionality on Monday had been unsuccessful." "Scientists had been concerned it might not be able to survive the extremely low temperatures of the lunar night, when it was supposed to remain dormant, but it was now receiving signals normally, Xinhua cited Pei as saying." "Australia-based independent space expert Morris Jones told AFP that the problem involved a solar panel on the rover failing to close." "This allowed heat to escape from the rover in the cold lunar night. The cold has probably damaged some parts of the rover permanently, but it seems that some parts are still working," he said. news.yahoo.com/china-39-39-jade-rabbit-39-lunar-rover-175625972.html
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Post by Eric on Feb 18, 2014 1:53:23 GMT
www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/18/asteroid_flyby_live_2000_em26/ Live vid If there's nothing on TV tonight, or you're suffering from insomnia, readers of "The Register" can always tune in to an asteroid flyby, broadcast live online by the Slooh Observatory. Slooh's cameras will start streaming footage of near-Earth space rock 2000 EM26, here and in the player below, from 6pm Pacific Standard Time today (9pm Eastern Standard Time, 2am UTC, 1pm Australian EST). Classified as “potentially hazardous” – but not this time around – today's flyby will be at a safe distance: 2000 EM26 is a 270-metre (885 feet) chunk of rock moving at about 27,000MPH (43,400KMPH, 12.37 kilometres-a-second). The nearest point of approach will be 2.6 million kilometres (1.6 million miles, 0.018 AU) from Earth, or about nine times the distance from here to the Moon.
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Post by rick49 on Feb 23, 2014 18:43:55 GMT
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Post by flatandy on Feb 23, 2014 22:32:36 GMT
I suspect, and rather hope, these are questions we'll never need to know the answer to.
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