The New Horizons probe is Halfway to Pluto. beamjockey gave a good presentation about this mission at Windycon last year
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Close encounter in 2029
The Asteroid That Will Almost Hit Earth. An animation of what this will look like from the asteroid’s point of view.
From this post by jeff_duntemann.
Another attraction in DC
mia_mcdavid and I heard Christian Ready talk about this Friday night at Windycon.
Working in space
We saw a great presentation about the recent mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The speaker was Christian Ready, who has been a regular and popular guest at Windycon for many years. This latest mission has a lot of tasks that are easy to relate to, e.g.
- Removing screws without dropping and losing them.
- Stuck bolts
- Replacing circuit boards.
- Changing batteries
The point was that even simple tasks are much harder in space.
Post from mobile portal m.livejournal.com
Smart kid!
37 years later…
That mysterious light near the space shuttle
That mysterious light near the space shuttle
The hole in Jupiter
The black spot is huge, nearly 10,000 kilometers across, making it roughly the size of the Earth.
Following up on this post.