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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Thar She Blows!!!

After 10 years of travel in space, Rosetta is now tired of waiting... Waiting with a harpoon to plunge into Comet 67B and make history... Earthlings are enjoying the show...

Rosetta landing is a "GO"! - http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/11/world/comet-landing-countdown/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
More about Rosetta - http://rosetta.jpl.nasa.gov/
Obligatory xkcd - xkcd: Harpoons
What if? Hitting a comet - Hitting a comet

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Monday, September 16, 2013

Moving Out!!

All of you might have heard by now that Voyager 1 has left the heliosphere or our solar system into the interstellar space (http://io9.com/a-map-of-our-solar-system-that-puts-it-into-proper-pers-1306914132). You can check the current location of voyager 1 here:
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/
According to data it is about 17 light hours away. I think this was a perfect analogy of a teenager moving out of parent's house into the college.
In voyager 1's case it is going to be a 30000 year long college in dorm with the Oort Cloud.
It's been hearing interesting interstellar noise (http://io9.com/the-sound-of-interstellar-space-is-actually-kind-of-ter-1302701737)
More about voyager: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1
You can look at other NASA videos on their Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCryGec9PdUCLjpJW2mgCuLw