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New Horizons

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    Curly is thinking of his question upthread: is Pluto spherical?

    My chances of getting an invitation from the King of Sweden are growing dimmer by the day.:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    Giant spots on Pluto.
    Colour pictures emerging.

    nh-7-1-15_pluto_charon_color_hemispheres_unannotated_jhuapl_nasa_swri-no-boxes-3_1.jpg?itok=hXkqG8x2

    Edit.
    This link may be helpful:
    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭rolion


    Love the video timeline...fascinating !!!
    Advise you to set up the speakers in Dolby with glorious HD video ! :)





    Thanks to Original Source ...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭rolion


    ...and if you have time and patience to watch and learn more:

    The Year of Pluto - New Horizons Documentary Brings Humanity Closer to the Edge of the Solar System

    Thank You Humanity ...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    rolion wrote: »
    ...and if you have time and patience to watch and learn more:

    The Year of Pluto - New Horizons Documentary Brings Humanity Closer to the Edge of the Solar System

    Thank You Humanity ...



    Thank you USA!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭SarahBM


    Great documentary!! It's very exciting times :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭Hoof_Hearted


    Thank you USA!
    ...and thank you rolion :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    ...and thank you rolion :)

    I'm afraid that one has gone over my head?

    Edit.
    Sorry ...got it now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭rolion


    Thanks, but I haven't done anything, but I can take the "thanks" of the people and pass it over to THEM, on your behalf ! :)

    If USA stands for Unconditional Support of all Astronomers then a big yes, thanks to USA / NASA, thanks to humanity !

    Sorry...no lobby here for antiterrorism.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭Hmmzis


    The glitches in space continue, now it's New Horizons turn, unfortunately.

    http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/07/05/technical-problem-pauses-pluto-probes-science-operations/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭shedweller


    Hmmzis wrote: »
    The glitches in space continue, now it's New Horizons turn, unfortunately.

    http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/07/05/technical-problem-pauses-pluto-probes-science-operations/

    Ah jaysus thats all we need!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭Hmmzis


    Good news, snafu resolved! Some timing issue for something, sort of, I think. Here's the article:

    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150705

    Hopefully on Wednesday we'll all be looking at the next set of LORRI images.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    Hmmzis wrote: »
    Good news, snafu resolved! Some timing issue for something, sort of, I think. Here's the article:

    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150705

    Hopefully on Wednesday we'll all be looking at the next set of LORRI images.

    It sounds a bit like the glitch that sent Hal on the rampage in2001: A Space Odyssey?
    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭shedweller


    It sounds a bit like the glitch that sent Hal on the rampage in2001: A Space Odyssey?
    :)
    Haha!
    I read a bit about it on the planetary society website. They said the main computer overloaded from doing too much at once and switched to another computer. I immediately thought of the famous 1201 alarm when Eagle was near landing on the moon.
    They say this glitch could not happen when New Horizons is in (feck i cant remember the name now!) the main mission mode. At the moment it is in some other less critical mode.
    They still lost a fair bit of data though but are not too concerned by the sounds of things.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    shedweller wrote: »
    They still lost a fair bit of data though but are not too concerned by the sounds of things.
    1% or so

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/06/nasa_new_horizons_cockup/
    Stern estimates that less than 1 per cent of the science returns from the probe were lost, and none of it was critical data compared to what will be collected as the probe gets closer to Pluto.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    Introducing "The Whale"
    (You heard about him/her? here first)


    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150707


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5 paulmack180


    I can't wait, this is my Voyager moment.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭shedweller


    Wow thats a much better figure than i heard! Yer wan Emily Lakdawalla at the planetary society was talking to someone and they mentioned 6% but it might be of what they hoped to get that day.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭Hmmzis


    And the first images from yesterday are up now. It's becoming more and more detailed and more and more puzzling. There don't appear to be any huge or big craters, it's strangely reflective (sort of like clouds or mist or frost maybe, haven't got a clue to be honest).

    lor_0298615084_0x630_sci_1.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭SarahBM


    Amazing and beautiful!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Hmmzis wrote: »
    And the first images from yesterday are up now. It's becoming more and more detailed and more and more puzzling. There don't appear to be any huge or big craters, it's strangely reflective (sort of like clouds or mist or frost maybe, haven't got a clue to be honest).

    I've managed to enhance part of the image:

    354629.jpg

    That's no moon!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    I've managed to enhance part of the image:

    354629.jpg

    That's no moon!

    George Lucas waz 'ere!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭SarahBM


    Is that Jar Jar Binx I see???


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    It's gonna take 16 months apparently to send back all the data they'll collect over the next week.


    Their's a sky at night special called Pluto Revealed on Monday 20th at 10 on BBC4.


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk7h



    I'm sick of all these blurry pics.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    Pluto's heart is now showing:HEART070815_Pluto_color_new_NASA-JHUAPL-SWRI.png


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    Looks more like an X to me than a heart assuming what the bottom right side turns out like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,527 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    in reality how far away from pluto when it passes by and how fast will it going?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    irishgeo wrote: »
    in reality how far away from pluto when it passes by and how fast will it going?

    13,000Km away, whizzing past at 14Km/s.

    In 4 days, 14 hours and 57 minutes.

    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,268 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Isn't it just a big lump of ice and rock?

    Id be far more interested in sending probes like this to examine the moons around Jupiter.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭shedweller


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Isn't it just a big lump of ice and rock?

    Id be far more interested in sending probes like this to examine the moons around Jupiter.
    Its going to happen alright. I think there's landers planned as well, although not Europa.
    We must attempt no landing there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭ps200306


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Isn't it just a big lump of ice and rock?
    That's what the dinosaurs said! :eek: ;)

    dino_cartoon.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Isn't it just a big lump of ice and rock?
    And what exactly do you think this gaff is made up of?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    And what exactly do you think this gaff is made up of?

    Or Jupiter's moons for that matter! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    http://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-missions-have-their-eyes-peeled-on-pluto

    NASA brings a whole fleet of its heavy guns to bear on Pluto as the flyby date approaches.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php

    Only three and a half days left until closest encounter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭greedygoblin


    http://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-missions-have-their-eyes-peeled-on-pluto

    NASA brings a whole fleet of its heavy guns to bear on Pluto as the flyby date approaches.

    It's great to see that Kepler has been revived.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    It's great to see that Kepler has been revived.

    Yeah ...Its an awesome piece of kit!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    Some good little vids here "Pluto in a minute" if you've 10mins to spare.

    Talks about speeds, not knowing when to start taking pics cuz they don't actually know "exactly" where pluto is, why Horizon can't stop. Good stuff.

    https://www.youtube.com/user/NASANewHorizons/videos






    Will Pluto be reclassified as a Planet? Maybe.

    Q&A with some of the main people.

    http://www.popsci.com/could-new-horizons-probe-reinstate-plutos-status-planet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭greedygoblin


    That 3rd criterion in the official definition always seemed a bit wishy washy to me. He made a good point that if Pluto fails the test then Neptune must, by extension, also fail.

    Even if the dwarf planet category remains in place, at the very least I hope this mission will lead to a more robust definition.


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    Pluto flyby team AMA Tuesday Morning

    https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Latest from Pluto at a mere 1 million km:

    071215_Pluto_Alone.png

    And Charon:

    071215_charon_alone.png


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,329 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Latest from Pluto at a mere 1 million km:

    071215_Pluto_Alone.png

    And Charon:

    071215_charon_alone.png

    Amazing looking places. Looks like a huge fault or chasm on Charon's right side in that image.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭shedweller


    I have nasa's "eyes on the solar system" up on my pc. One thing i would like to know is: is what i see on screen "live" or based on the received signal, in this case 4.5hrs delayed? So if nasa sends a signal to new horizons to point LORRI at pluto, does the "live" image i see on my pc move at the same time as the real thing. This is important stuff!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    shedweller wrote: »
    I have nasa's "eyes on the solar system" up on my pc. One thing i would like to know is: is what i see on screen "live" or based on the received signal, in this case 4.5hrs delayed? So if nasa sends a signal to new horizons to point LORRI at pluto, does the "live" image i see on my pc move at the same time as the real thing. This is important stuff!!

    NASA aren't sending instructions to the probe anymore, it's all automated.

    With respect to the photos updating, they wouldn't be in any way 'live' (even accounting for the 4.5 hour lag). The probe will be collecting a lot of data, not just photographs, and its connection to Earth is somewhere in the region of 1 kilobit per second, it also can't send data to Earth all the time, it needs to rotate and point its antenna in our direction to do so.

    During the encounter it will go quiet, do its work, and only begin transmitting to Earth again once it has left the Pluto system. It will start back up with a status report which will let NASA know whether it completed its mission before it starts beaming back the goods.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭shedweller


    NASA aren't sending instructions to the probe anymore, it's all automated.

    With respect to the photos updating, they wouldn't be in any way 'live' (even accounting for the 4.5 hour lag). The probe will be collecting a lot of data, not just photographs, and its connection to Earth is somewhere in the region of 1 kilobit per second, it also can't send data to Earth all the time, it needs to rotate and point its antenna in our direction to do so.

    During the encounter it will go quiet, do its work, and only begin transmitting to Earth again once it has left the Pluto system. It will start back up with a status report which will let NASA know whether it completed its mission before it starts beaming back the goods.
    Cheers for that. Yeah i was reading a bit on the planetary societies website and it said as much. On the "eyes on the solar system" it is a computer rendering of the probe but it is rotating slowly at the moment with all its sensors lighting up various areas of pluto, charon etc. I was wondering if this was "real time" or not. I suppose it is??
    Anyway, 18h45m left to go! Popcorn is ready!:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    shedweller wrote: »
    Cheers for that. Yeah i was reading a bit on the planetary societies website and it said as much. On the "eyes on the solar system" it is a computer rendering of the probe but it is rotating slowly at the moment with all its sensors lighting up various areas of pluto, charon etc. I was wondering if this was "real time" or not. I suppose it is??
    Anyway, 18h45m left to go! Popcorn is ready!:)

    Ah I guess I misunderstood you. :o I haven't looked at Eyes on the Solar System myself, but I'd bet it would be 'live', since they know exactly what the probe should be doing right now. ;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭shedweller


    I was just playing around with it and the preview button allows you to ffwd through tomorrows events at any speed you wish. Really busy day ahead!


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