Pluto has captured people’s imagination for nearly a century.
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Mendeley Report: New Horizons: From Research Paper to PlutoElsevier
This report, released on the eve of the New Horizons Pluto flyby, examine the role of academic publishing in deep-space exploration. Read more about the report and Mendeley's events with NASA on Elsevier Connect: http://elsevier.com/connect/follow-pluto-flyby-with-Mendeley-at-NASA
ILOA Galaxy Forum NY Scarsdale 2014 -- Alan Stern, New HorizonsILOAHawaii
ILOA will again help host the community of Scarsdale High School students, teachers, administrators and alums in the 1960, 1961 and 1962 Classes — at the 4th annual Galaxy Forum SHS.
The program features a science talk by Dr. Alan Stern on the New Horizons mission currently traveling at 14.72 km/s almost 3.9 Billion kilometers from Earth on its way to explore Pluto and its moons. The mission, is expected to arrive July 14, 2015, will help us understand the icy worlds at the edge of our solar system. Scientists hope to find answers to basic questions about the surface properties, geology, interior makeup and atmospheres on these bodies. The mission will then visit one or more Kuiper Belt Objects beyond Pluto.
Galaxy Forums public events with presentations, panel discussions and attendee participation. Efforts are made to integrate local cultures, perspectives, and traditional knowledge. Galaxy Forums have been held in Hawaii, Silicon Valley, Canada, China, India, Southeast Asia, Japan, Europe, Africa, Chile, Brazil, Kansas and New York. Steve Durst organized Galaxy Forum Scarsdale to bring this innovative 21st Century Education to his alma mater.
Steve Durst celebrated his 50th SHS 1961 Class Reunion with the 1st Galaxy Forum at SHS on September 23 2011. The 50th SHS 1962 Reunion starting October 5, 2012, continued the Galaxy Forum SHS program with Jeff Hoffman, 5-time Shuttle Astronaut and SHS 1962 alum, sharing his experience repairing the Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxy Forum SHS 2013 featured Dr. Denton Ebel, Curator / Chair of the Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC speaking on Asteroids in matters of Science, Resources and Security.
Pluto has captured people’s imagination for nearly a century.
Register to explore the whole course here: https://school.bighistoryproject.com/bhplive?WT.mc_id=Slideshare12202017
Mendeley Report: New Horizons: From Research Paper to PlutoElsevier
This report, released on the eve of the New Horizons Pluto flyby, examine the role of academic publishing in deep-space exploration. Read more about the report and Mendeley's events with NASA on Elsevier Connect: http://elsevier.com/connect/follow-pluto-flyby-with-Mendeley-at-NASA
ILOA Galaxy Forum NY Scarsdale 2014 -- Alan Stern, New HorizonsILOAHawaii
ILOA will again help host the community of Scarsdale High School students, teachers, administrators and alums in the 1960, 1961 and 1962 Classes — at the 4th annual Galaxy Forum SHS.
The program features a science talk by Dr. Alan Stern on the New Horizons mission currently traveling at 14.72 km/s almost 3.9 Billion kilometers from Earth on its way to explore Pluto and its moons. The mission, is expected to arrive July 14, 2015, will help us understand the icy worlds at the edge of our solar system. Scientists hope to find answers to basic questions about the surface properties, geology, interior makeup and atmospheres on these bodies. The mission will then visit one or more Kuiper Belt Objects beyond Pluto.
Galaxy Forums public events with presentations, panel discussions and attendee participation. Efforts are made to integrate local cultures, perspectives, and traditional knowledge. Galaxy Forums have been held in Hawaii, Silicon Valley, Canada, China, India, Southeast Asia, Japan, Europe, Africa, Chile, Brazil, Kansas and New York. Steve Durst organized Galaxy Forum Scarsdale to bring this innovative 21st Century Education to his alma mater.
Steve Durst celebrated his 50th SHS 1961 Class Reunion with the 1st Galaxy Forum at SHS on September 23 2011. The 50th SHS 1962 Reunion starting October 5, 2012, continued the Galaxy Forum SHS program with Jeff Hoffman, 5-time Shuttle Astronaut and SHS 1962 alum, sharing his experience repairing the Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxy Forum SHS 2013 featured Dr. Denton Ebel, Curator / Chair of the Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC speaking on Asteroids in matters of Science, Resources and Security.
A powerpoint presentation I made for our physics class. It was actually a group thing but I had to edit and start all over again but this looks not that good for me because this is a result of "cramming"! If you were part of my physics class, I swear, God bless!
The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. Continuing on their more-than-40-year journey since their 1977 launches, they each are much farther away from Earth and the sun than Pluto. In August 2012, Voyager 1 made the historic entry into interstellar space, the region between stars, filled with material ejected by the death of nearby stars millions of years ago. Voyager 2 entered interstellar space on November 5, 2018 and scientists hope to learn more about this region. Both spacecraft are still sending scientific information about their surroundings through the Deep Space Network, or DSN.
The primary mission was the exploration of Jupiter and Saturn. After making a string of discoveries there — such as active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io and intricacies of Saturn's rings — the mission was extended. Voyager 2 went on to explore Uranus and Neptune, and is still the only spacecraft to have visited those outer planets. The adventurers' current mission, the Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM), will explore the outermost edge of the Sun's domain. And beyond.
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The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. Continuing on their more-than-37-year journey since their 1977 launches, they each are much farther away from Earth and the sun than Pluto. In August 2012, Voyager 1 made the historic entry into interstellar space, the region between stars, filled with material ejected by the death of nearby stars millions of years ago.
Scientists hope to learn more about this region when Voyager 2, in the “heliosheath" -- the outermost layer of the heliosphere where the solar wind is slowed by the pressure of interstellar medium -- also reaches interstellar space. Both spacecraft are still sending scientific information about their surroundings through the Deep Space Network, or DSN.
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The primary mission was the exploration of Jupiter and Saturn. After making a string of discoveries there -- such as active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io and intricacies of Saturn's rings -- the mission was extended. Voyager 2 went on to explore Uranus and Neptune, and is still the only spacecraft to have visited those outer planets.
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977 to study the outer planets. Part of the Voyager program, it was launched 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1, on a trajectory that took longer to reach Jupiter and Saturn but enabled further encounters with Uranus and Neptune. It is the only spacecraft to have ever visited either of the ice giants.
How science works
its primary mission ended with the exploration of the Neptunian system on October 2, 1989, after having visited the Uranian system in 1986, the Saturnian system in 1981, and the Jovian system in 1979. Voyager 2 is now in its extended mission to study the outer reaches of the Solar System and has been operating for 38 years, 2 months and 11 days. It remains in contact through the Deep Space Network.
science depends on interactions within the scientific community. Different parts of the process of science may be carried out by different people at different times and this mission has made space exploration history by becoming the first spacecraft from Earth to leave the solar system behind and enter interstellar space.
How science works
The "assist" is provided by the motion of the gravitating body as it pulls on the spacecraft. It was used by interplanetary probes from Mariner 10 onwards, including the two Voyager probes' notable flybys of Jupiter and Saturn.
Voyager 1 first detected the increased pressure of interstellar space on the heliosphere, the bubble of charged particles surrounding the sun that reaches far beyond the outer planets, in 2004. Scientists then ramped up their search for evidence of the spacecraft's interstellar arrival, knowing the data analysis and interpretation could take months or years. The science behind "The team’s hard work to build durable spacecraft and ...
As we are about to say goodbye to 2019, let’s take a moment and recall some of the exciting Space events and Astronomical discoveries that took place this year.
1. Pluto on the horizon
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This image of Pluto was captured by New Horizons on Monday, July 13, about 16 hours before the
moment of closest approach. The spacecraft was 476,000 miles from Pluto's surface. New Horizons
was launched in 2006 on a 3 billion-mile journey to the dwarf planet.
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Members of the New Horizons team react to seeing the spacecraft's latest and sharpest image of
Pluto before the closest approach later in the day on Tuesday, July 14, at the Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
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This image of Pluto was captured by New Horizons on Sunday, July 12. The spacecraft was 1.6
million miles (2.5 million kilometers) from Pluto at the time.
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New Horizons snapped this photo of Pluto's largest moon Charon on July 12. It reveals a system of
chasms larger than the Grand Canyon. The spacecraft was 1.6 million miles away when the image
was taken.
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New Horizons was about 3.7 million miles from Pluto and one of its moons, Charon, when it took this
image on Wednesday, July 8.
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Do you see a heart on Pluto? This image was taken on Tuesday, July 7, by New Horizons when it was
about 5 million miles from the planet. Look to the lower right, and you'll see a large bright area --
about 1,200 miles across -- that resembles a heart.
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2. New Horizons took six black-and-white photos of Pluto and Charon between June 23 and 29. The
images were combined with color data from another instrument on the space probe to create the
images above. The spacecraft was 15 million miles away when it started the sequence and 11 million
miles when the last photo was taken.
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Pluto is shown here along with Charon in images taken on June 25 and 27. The image on the right
shows a series of evenly spaced dark spots near Pluto's equator. Scientists hope to solve the puzzle
as New Horizons gets closer to Pluto.
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New Horizons took a series of 13 images of Charon circling Pluto over the span of 6½ days in April.
As the images were being taken, the spacecraft moved from about 69 million miles from Pluto to 64
million miles.
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Look carefully at the images above: They mark the first time New Horizons has photographed Pluto's
smallest and faintest moons, Kerberos and Styx. The images were taken from April 25 to May 1.
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New Horizons used its color imager, called Ralph, to capture this image of Pluto and Charon on April
9. This was the first color image taken by a spacecraft approaching Pluto and Charon, according to
NASA. The spacecraft was about 71 million miles away from Pluto when the photo was taken.
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In August 2014 New Horizons crossed the orbit of Neptune, the last planet it would pass on its
journey to Pluto. New Horizons took this photo of Neptune and its large moon Triton when it was
about 2.45 billion miles from the planet -- more than 26 times the distance between the Earth and
our sun.
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New Horizons captured this image of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io in early 2007.
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3. On its way to Pluto, New Horizons snapped these photos
of Jupiter's four large "Galilean" moons. From left is Io,
Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
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A white arrow points to Pluto in this photo taken in
September 2006 from New Horizons. The spacecraft was
still about 2.6 billion miles from Pluto.
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Pluto was discovered in 1930 but was only a speck of
light in the best telescopes on Earth until February
2010, when NASA released this photo. It was created by
combining several images taken by the Hubble Space
Telescope -- each only a few pixels wide -- through a
technique called dithering. NASA says it took four years
and 20 computers operating continuously to create the
image.
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This was one of the best views we had of Pluto and its
moon Charon before the New Horizons mission. The
image was taken by the European Space Agency's Faint
Object Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope on
February 21, 1994.
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A Hubble Space Telescope image of Pluto and its moons. Charon is the largest moon close to Pluto.
The other four bright dots are smaller moons discovered in 2005, 2011 and 2012: Nix, Hydra,
Kerberos and Styx.
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New Horizons launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on January 19, 2006. The probe, about
the size of a piano, weighed nearly 1,054 pounds at launch. It has seven instruments on board to
take images and sample Pluto's atmosphere. After it completes its five-month study of Pluto, the
spacecraft will keep going deeper into the Kuiper Belt.
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