Can't get enough of this interplanetary porn. Here's Huygens landing on Titan. (Yes it begins with an animation, but theirs real imagery of the landing.)
I'm no aerodynamicist, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
I worked on adapting the microwave receivers to the specific carrier frequency that would be used to interpret wind measurements. Green Bank and Mauna Kea (among others) assisted the Australians while the Pacific ocean was favorably pointed towards Titan. https://www.nrao.edu/pr/2005/titanwinds/
Which one? Cassini IV was unlucky enough to have been jailed by the French Revolution, for his support for Bourgeois Science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini
But I'm still proud to be a member of the species that could build a space vehicle that could travel 293 million miles to another planet, deploy another space vehicle (Huygens) that could land on a moon of that planet and send back pictures.
Must've mis-remembered or dyslexisized or been too lazy to look up the number. This Buzzfeed article puts the distance at 2.2 billion miles, or 0.00037423715 lightyears.
<img src="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/09/14/cassini-saturn-images/assets/images/enceladus-PIA11133-900.jpg"/>
<img src="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/09/14/cassini-saturn-images/4e51d2a4af9785451ef1d0a8084a81c04ad0aef8/anim-enceladus-PIA21887.gif"/>
<img src="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/09/14/cassini-saturn-images/assets/images/rhea-PIA19057-1254.jpg"/>
I'd post more, but you should see them on a reasonably big screen. Go to the library if you have to.
Okay, one more. This is Hyperion: <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/09/14/cassini-saturn-images/assets/images/hyperion-PIA07740-900.jpg">
Can't get enough of this interplanetary porn. Here's Huygens landing on Titan. (Yes it begins with an animation, but theirs real imagery of the landing.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=147&a…
I played an EXTREMELY minor role in the Doppler Wind Experiment during that descent. Like infinitesimally small, but non-zero. Good times.
I'd be so proud. How do you design a parachute for an unknown atmosphere?
I'm no aerodynamicist, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
I worked on adapting the microwave receivers to the specific carrier frequency that would be used to interpret wind measurements. Green Bank and Mauna Kea (among others) assisted the Australians while the Pacific ocean was favorably pointed towards Titan.
https://www.nrao.edu/pr/2005/titanwinds/
NatGeo put together a simulated flyby experience
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2017/09…
"Those assholes!"
http://www.theonion.com/article/cassini-probe-rea…
Which one? Cassini IV was unlucky enough to have been jailed by the French Revolution, for his support for Bourgeois Science.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini
You can just kiss that goodbye!
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But I'm still proud to be a member of the species that could build a space vehicle that could travel 293 million miles to another planet, deploy another space vehicle (Huygens) that could land on a moon of that planet and send back pictures.
Must've mis-remembered or dyslexisized or been too lazy to look up the number. This Buzzfeed article puts the distance at 2.2 billion miles, or 0.00037423715 lightyears.
https://gizmodo.com/a-few-last-words-on-best-spac…
Here's the liftoff in 1997. <img src="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/4857944569_df2f68d079_o_0.jpg">
What is that in parsecs?
Donno. But it's 275,000,000 furlongs.
So 11,000,000,000 poles, then. Easy.
Make sure you pull the spring balance on your chain very tight when you measure that.
Right? We can even know the density of a constituent at a given altitude
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Atomic…
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