Tag: voyager
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#MorningMonarchy: September 23, 2016
Liberal lawsuits, master debaters and the Voyager Golden Record + this day in history w/Mozilla Firefox and our song of the day by Merchandise on your Morning Monarchy for September 23, 2016.
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Local Space Weather: Local Cloud, Local Bubble and Giant Ribbon
Zen Gardner captures imagination and admiration in attempt to provide us with comprehensive “local space weather” in post, “Is NASA Tracking The Cosmic Shift?” It may be difficult to visualize mentally space weather the Solar System is currently passing, so concise description from article works well: “‘The Sun traveling through the Galaxy happens to cross…
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12/8 defcon: kepler, voyager, zynga & more
new planet an earth-like world, 600 light-years away?* video: new planet eerily like earth* nasa spacecraft ‘voyager 1’ exploring solar system’s edge* video: surfer blood ‘voyager reprise’* iran shows intact drone, boasts of cyberattack* house cyber panel chair says put dhs over cybersecurity* on facebook, nypd officers maligned west indian paradegoers* oregon judge rules bloggers…
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voyager adventure in three minutes
A wonderful three minute NASA video provides story of Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977, a link provided via article at Universe Today. The video celebrates contributions made by the two craft as they near Interstellar Space. Ed Stone, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, a Voyager Project Scientist, estimates in an article at NASA website,…
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mystery hexagon of saturn
In 1979, as Voyager 1 passed by Saturn, the satellite returned pictures of a hexagon on Saturn’s North Pole. The Cassini spacecraft confirmed, in 2006, the hexagon is still there! A brief You Tube video, “The Mystery Hexagon of Saturn” provides a fascinating look in less than two minutes. Discovery News provides a brief article and video,…
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Voyager 1 Nears Interstellar Space
NASA’s Voyager 1 probe is nearing the edge of our solar system after 33 years and nearly 11 billion miles of spaceflight. The spacecraft may make the final crossing into interstellar space in just four more years, NASA announced today (Dec. 13).