From the Astronomy Picture of the Day feed, a lovely preview of next weeks Juno probe Jupiter orbital insertion, in the style of a Hollywood blockbuster trailer.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160628.html
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Cute. 
What ever happened to the European space programme?
What ever happened to the European space programme?
In your heart, you know it's flat.
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bloody overly dramatic yanks!! lol
Arthur: OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.
OR i could go with
Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
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OR i could go with
Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
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It's alive and well, and still doing clever comet stuff.Wildeblood wrote:What ever happened to the European space programme?
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JOI in five and a quarter hours - go Juno!
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And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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It's those little Lego figures I feel sorry for - they must be sh*tting bricks!
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Looks like the Juno probe has arrived successfully
https://www.theguardian.com/science/liv ... piter-live
https://www.theguardian.com/science/liv ... piter-live
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Aye, pretty good stuff... though I hope those Lego figures don't inspire some kind of cargo cult amongst the cloud-dwelling Jovians.
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Juno
Jupiter's south pole as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers).
The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in diameter.
The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in diameter.
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What is this blue area?!? 
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The press release labels the photo "enhanced colour", so it's probably not as it would actually appear to the human eye:Getafix wrote:What is this blue area?!?
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/a-wh ... no-mission
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I suspect many astropics would look rather dull without the enhanced colour stuff.
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They use quite a bit of the electromagnetic spectrum to scan. And a pretty good computer to convert them to what we can see.
I'm well impressed and curious as to what the weather is like from these images. I'm guessing my old parka won't do.
More curious as to what is sent back when the wee beastie takes it's swan dive to the never never.
By the way. JOI had a very different meaning before 'Mary Whitehouse' got to the internet.
I'm well impressed and curious as to what the weather is like from these images. I'm guessing my old parka won't do.
More curious as to what is sent back when the wee beastie takes it's swan dive to the never never.
By the way. JOI had a very different meaning before 'Mary Whitehouse' got to the internet.
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OOPS..
"Press Space" Commander
If you do not see "Press Space" more often than you want.. Your not trying!
OOPS..
"Press Space" Commander
If you do not see "Press Space" more often than you want.. Your not trying!
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APOD is good today!
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!