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Pluto New Horizons |OT| New images. Pluto/Charon still geologically active
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DrForester
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GoldenEye 007
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Wow so that pic is from 476k miles from Pluto. And the main one will be about 7,500 miles? That's going to be amazing.
One interesting consequence is that some test instruments with very accurate timing can be synchronized off of GPS signals. These are systems that already use $100+ oven oscillators with absolutely ridiculous long-term stability as reference clocks.
I was under the impression that the GPS drift was due more to gravity than to speed.
It has a larger effect, but both absolutely need to be accounted for.
The GPS system don't actually account for any particular source of drift, it just have a super clever system the correct the clocks based on a well established singular time source (well, to be extra technical, it doesn't correct the clock but keep track of the difference in time).
The accuracy of the GPS time is really a technological marvel.
TheExecutive
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Hopefully nothing happens to it while it's beaming the info back.
Wut...
GoldenEye 007
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Well...damn
Parallax Scroll
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Here is how Jupiter looks from the surface of Europa:
Thanks for that. It seems obvious in retrospect but I hadn't considered that you could see Jupiter "sideways" from the moons. I mean, of course you could, depending on what part of the moon you're on.
Wooooah
I'm not sure if my body is ready.
Looked it up, seems like they opted for the elegant approach of using slightly slower oscillators on the satellites than the ground reference.
The satellites do have their clocks corrected occasionally, but that's theoretically just for issues of precision.
An update from Stephen Colbert (and a special guest...):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jXazEYi3P8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jXazEYi3P8
Crazymoogle
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BrokenFiction
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Colbert is wonderful x 10.
lol that's awesome. NDT out of nowhere
Space Monster
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Not a lot out there for it to hit now.
Unless they deliberately aim it at a KBO or something...
I didn't expect to see so many women in the team. That's so cool !
Where can I find a video of the team's reaction ? I missed it live
NASA's youtube channel just uploaded the team's reaction to the signal acquisition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3pvlI0WFi0
From the NASA TV press briefing and Q&A, the "autonomy" subsystem reporting back with "Nominal status. No rules have fired" indicating no faults occurred during the blackout was the big moment.
Hearing all the controllers/stations reporting "nominal status" to the the Mission Operations Manager ("MOM") was awesome.
Why is Stephen Harper working at NASA now?
VaultBoy101
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Version 3.0
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Why would that burn out the camera? From that distance, the sun would just be a bright star, not the dominating feature of the sky that it is for us.
The Sum of Zero
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Dammit, man. Too many feels.
privitsan02
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I feel as though it goes deeper than knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Whenever I speak to someone about astronomy, it blows their mind away, especially when I explain what the speed of light is and how we technically live in the past as to how the sunlight that we get is 8 minutes from the past. Just the philosophical approach of what we understand about our universe alone can create so many interesting conversations with people unknown to such vast elements of our universes show that those who are open minded truly want to know more.
It seems that the way society is nowadays in the west, specifically in North America. There really isn't much of a drive from the general public to know more. I remember a student told me that he isn't interested in the solar system due to how we already know the planets and he's more interested when we start exploring other solar systems or galaxies. I know, sounds ridiculous doesn't it? I personally feel as though many people believe that due to our impressive advancements in the past 100 years or within their generation, we know a lot, when in reality, we can always learn more.
Just food for though. I hope I'm alive for long enough to learn even more about the universe.
Best wishes.
titiklabingapat
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That heart is possibly the best coincidence that Pluto (and NASA) could ever hope for. It is instantly iconic like Jupiter's Great Red Spot of Saturn's Rings. I wonder if that is a more permanent fixture or it grows or recedes depending on Pluto's seasons.
Fine Ham Abounds
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Neil Degrasse Tyson is probably looking at all these heart images and cringing
"They're never gonna let this go now"
"They're never gonna let this go now"
Space Monster
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Neil deGrasse "THE HAYDEN HAMMER" Tyson and Alan "THE KUIPER KALAMITY" Stern need to arm-wrestle to settle this once and for all. Colbert can referee.
GO STERN!
Himynameischris
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Damn....why am I crying?!
E-Cat
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You're anthropomorphizing.
That it is because you crazy, it has no feelings!
foxuzamaki
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Wouldn't be science without XKDC.
hahaha
foxuzamaki
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Im so glad we get such a good picture from this, only thing im a lil sad about is that pluto isnt actually blue like almost everything related to pluto assumed pluto was. why did we see pluto as a blue planet? Is it because its so cold we just assume it was a gigantic ball of ice?
Probably that and because it's the color of Neptune
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