News from off the beaten track planet!

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/parker-solar-probe-offers-a-stunning-view-of-venus.

 

Fascinating - and a good site with masses of interesting stuff: I had to drag myself away!

 

 

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Latest pictures from Perseverance - some more stunning shots!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-56238018

 

 

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Latest pictures from Perseverance - some more stunning shots!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-56238018

 

 

Excellent pictures! 

'Space Hurricane' has been detected over the North Pole!

https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-a-plasma-hurricane-has-been-detected-in-space?fbclid=IwAR17XNZPTtKeNbHZKyMlP2rG5g4SJMQ4E6bVmPvgn-5dQGNQwyAFD9zjm7M.

 

Where did all the water go?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56400227 

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Listen to:
Nasa Mars rover: The clanking sound of Perseverance's wheels
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56443915

Astounding!!!!!
Roger

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Make of this what you will - I think I'd give it a miss. I'd rather go down a cave in a submarine!

Nasa has chosen Elon Musk's company SpaceX to build a lander that will return humans to the Moon this decade.
This vehicle will carry the next man and the first woman down to the lunar surface under the space agency's Artemis programme.

Nasa chooses SpaceX to build Moon lander
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56781556

Roger

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Nasa successfully flies small helicopter on Mars
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56799755

Watched it live - amazing!

https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Watch-Online

Roger

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Big Solar Flare and SW radio blackouts. Also Lyrid meteors.

https://spaceweather.com/images2021/20apr21/m1_anim.gif 

https://spaceweather.com/ 

Roger

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A CME is on it's way on the 25th. Keep an eye on this website:
https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

GEOMAGNETIC STORM WARNING: A CME is heading for Earth and it could spark a geomagnetic storm when it arrives on April 25th. NOAA forecasters say moderately strong G2-class storms are possible...

More information:
https://spaceweather.com/ 

Roger

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Ingenuity is a stunning achievement - but isn't it time some whining denier said this was filmed in Colorado or some such place?

Ingenuity Mars helicopter has now made its third successful flight ...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56882257

Roger

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Michael Collins, the astronaut who orbited the Moon whilst the Apollo landings took place, dies aged 90:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56921562

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Michael Collins, the astronaut who orbited the Moon whilst the Apollo landings took place, dies aged 90:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56921562

Sad news. It's touch and go whether there will be any of the original Apollo astronauts left by the time we get back to the moon with humans.

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Michael Collins, the astronaut who orbited the Moon whilst the Apollo landings took place, dies aged 90:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56921562

Very sad news.

I remember as a kid reading the Guinness Book of Records about him in being the most loneliest/isolated human being ever!

RIP Michael.

News from "off the beaten track" planet:-

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/Parker-Discovers-Natural-Radio-Emission-in-Venus-Atmosphere.

 

A Chinese rocket weighing a massive 18 tonnes is expected to crash back to Earth tomorrow (Sunday).  Because of the uncertainties about the rate of decay of the orbit the exact point of impact is uncertain.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57013540

 

A useful site here, with a prediction based on latest information:

 

https://aerospace.org/reentries/cz-5b-rocket-body-id-48275

 

 

Some large chunks are going to hit the ground or the sea somewhere.

 

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A Chinese rocket weighing a massive 18 tonnes is expected to crash back to Earth tomorrow (Sunday).  Because of the uncertainties about the rate of decay of the orbit the exact point of impact is uncertain.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57013540

 

A useful site here, with a prediction based on latest information:

 

https://aerospace.org/reentries/cz-5b-rocket-body-id-48275

 

 

Some large chunks are going to hit the ground or the sea somewhere.

 

Down it comes....

China rocket debris 'disintegrates over Indian Ocean' - Chinese media

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57045058

Can take off my tinfoil hat now!

R.

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Down it comes....

China rocket debris 'disintegrates over Indian Ocean' - Chinese media

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57045058

Can take off my tinfoil hat now!

R.

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Must have been very thick tin foil, Roger. 🤔

What amazed me was the initial statement that it could hit the ground anywhere between 41N & 41S, New York to South Island of New Zealand.  Not a lot of help, I thought...!

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Must have been very thick tin foil, Roger. 🤔

What amazed me was the initial statement that it could hit the ground anywhere between 41N & 41S, New York to South Island of New Zealand.  Not a lot of help, I thought...!

I caught an interesting clip on the problem of space junk today, Peter, and the comment that a chunk the size of a £ coin could land one in real trouble!

See the ESA's Space Debris site:

http://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/Space_Debris

Also:

Space debris removal demonstration launches

"This debris - of which there is roughly 9,000 tonnes up there - is a potential collision risk to the operational systems that deliver much-needed services, such as weather forecasting and telecommunications."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56482726

Usual human pattern - dump the junk and run. It is someone else's problem.

Roger

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😂

Must have been very thick tin foil, Roger. 🤔

What amazed me was the initial statement that it could hit the ground anywhere between 41N & 41S, New York to South Island of New Zealand.  Not a lot of help, I thought...!

Once again, Scott Manley explains that. Basically too many variables...

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