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SpaceX and other space stuff
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Woot! I'm actually going to mark this on my calendar.
I already did. Beat ya tuit.
Can't wait for the helicopter video in a month or two.
I knew you didn't want to miss it.
Showin' my geek flag...
Right before the Spacex SN9 crash, there was a sequence from a camera that looked almost directly below the ship. It wasn't, but that was a cool dramatic angle to me. Starts at 6:37 in the clip below.:
The geek in me was reminded of a scene from Battlestar Galactica when Adama did the "Adama Maneuver" with the Galactica.:
Anyway, really excited about the Perseverance landing. And that helicopter. Just wow. I still check on the Curiosity rover in Gale Crater for images and location. Still going strong since landing in Aug of 2012.
Right before the Spacex SN9 crash, there was a sequence from a camera that looked almost directly below the ship. It wasn't, but that was a cool dramatic angle to me. Starts at 6:37 in the clip below.:
The geek in me was reminded of a scene from Battlestar Galactica when Adama did the "Adama Maneuver" with the Galactica.:
Anyway, really excited about the Perseverance landing. And that helicopter. Just wow. I still check on the Curiosity rover in Gale Crater for images and location. Still going strong since landing in Aug of 2012.
In 12.5 hours (well, 13+ to know if it worked) the UAE Mars orbiter Hope should be inserting into orbit around Mars.
“NASA has been exploring Mars since Mariner 4 performed a flyby in July of 1965, with two more flybys, seven successful orbiters, and eight landers since then,” Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement on January 27. “Perseverance, which was built from the collective knowledge gleaned from such trailblazers, has the opportunity to not only expand our knowledge of the Red Planet, but to investigate one of the most important and exciting questions of humanity about the origin of life both on Earth and also on other planets.”
I remember reading about Mariner 4 when it happened. (In my "Weekly Reader"!)
I remember reading about Mariner 4 when it happened. (In my "Weekly Reader"!)
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Cool. I haven't thought about the Weekly Reader in forever. Used to love that.
That speed of 48,120 miles/hour is mind blowing. 802 miles in 1 minute. 13.4 miles in one second.
Now I gotta go walk my dog at about 5 feet per second LOL
Now I gotta go walk my dog at about 5 feet per second LOL
When I start tracking this online, it was traveling in excess of 70,000 mph! Apparently it slows down in its elliptical orbit. Science, I guess.
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Yay, Science!
Yeah, I haven't been tracking it, just used the chart you posted to amuse and amaze myself with some high numbers. In excess of 70,000 miles/hour got it up to ~19.5 miles/second. The amazement and wonder just keeps getting better today LOL.
"White dwarfs wear crushed corpses" sounds like Sabbath lyrics! White dwarfs wear the crushed corpses of planets in their atmospheres | Live Science
If faeries can wear boots, I see no reason dwarfs shouldn't have crushed corpses
Ya gotta believe me, I saw it, I saw it, with my own two eyes!
Here's a neat animation of Perseverance starting about 1000 miles high, 2,250 miles from landing site, about 17 minutes to landing. All done in real time (1 sec = 1 sec).
You can zoom in/out, rotate view. Landing site is marked on the planet. Interestingly, the craft isn't pointed at the landing site. Heading adjustments start after atmospheric interface.
Altitude, distance, speed, and times to milestone events at lower left. Lower right has different controls, such as speeding up from real time. I enjoyed watching Mars move serenely below me, though, so kept it real time LOL.
Mars 2020 Entry Descent Landing
I didn't look to hard in here to see if previously posted. If so...well...nevermind then.
You can zoom in/out, rotate view. Landing site is marked on the planet. Interestingly, the craft isn't pointed at the landing site. Heading adjustments start after atmospheric interface.
Altitude, distance, speed, and times to milestone events at lower left. Lower right has different controls, such as speeding up from real time. I enjoyed watching Mars move serenely below me, though, so kept it real time LOL.
Mars 2020 Entry Descent Landing
I didn't look to hard in here to see if previously posted. If so...well...nevermind then.
