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![]() First noticed one of these on William Shatner's twitter a couple of weeks back and wondered what the heck he was on about with a picture of a ticket to Mars for next March! For some reason it printed without my name though. |
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Clearest image yet of the bright spots on Ceres https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/cer...ing-new-detail
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Latest images from Pluto http://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-plut...-s-complicated
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Latest images from Pluto http://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-plut...-s-complicated
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Foggy haze on Pluto http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34285426
This humble little dwarf planet is going to be keeping astronomers busy for a long time. |
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Foggy haze on Pluto http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34285426
This humble little dwarf planet is going to be keeping astronomers busy for a long time. ![]() This is a story on Pluto from a few days ago. http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ures-on-pluto/ Here is a nice recent article on Enceladus - I really think that if there is life elsewhere in the solar system it is going to be on one of the oceanic moons. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...restrial-life/ |
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Indeed.
![]() This is a story on Pluto from a few days ago. http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ures-on-pluto/ Here is a nice recent article on Enceladus - I really think that if there is life elsewhere in the solar system it is going to be on one of the oceanic moons. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...restrial-life/ |
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Thanks for those links. Amazing stuff!
Some beautiful images here from the 2015 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. ![]() http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34256496 |
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The Plutonian system is the gift that keeps on giving - some truly astonishing new high resolution images of the dwarf planet.
New Horizons has been a real triumph of scientific discovery. ![]() http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....-res-closeups/ http://www.nasa.gov/feature/perplexi...m-new-horizons |
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The Plutonian system is the gift that keeps on giving - some truly astonishing new high resolution images of the dwarf planet.
New Horizons has been a real triumph of scientific discovery. ![]() http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....-res-closeups/ http://www.nasa.gov/feature/perplexi...m-new-horizons |
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Pluto's been hogging the limelight recently but now it's Mars' turn
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/n...mystery-solved |
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Intriguing. I wonder if they've found a fossil or something. That will be 4pm in the UK.
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Intriguing. I wonder if they've found a fossil or something. That will be 4pm in the UK.
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The Daily Mirror seems to think that the Mars announcement on Monday could be the BIG one about life in the form of microbes. No chance!
Meanwhile back here on Earth there will be a decent supermoon lunar eclipse to view from the UK through the night in the early hours of Monday, 28th September from not long after midnight and the skies across Britain look favourable. |
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Daily Mirror are bonkers (like all the tabloids).
Supermoon preview, one day early, just in case it's cloudy! Pentax K-3 & 300mm+1.4x converter. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/640/2...7a7b9a0c_b.jpg by D'@ve on Flickr |
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NASA and others have a habit of of big publicity and then big let downs, e.g. all these Earth II reports when the exoplanets concerned aren't anywhere near being exact matches for Earth.
Yes, they don't seem to realise that ordinary people aren't as excited about the things that drive scientists wild. What's major news to a geologist might be a bit "meh" to Joe public, especially after the media have hyped something big happening.I think the most likely news tomorrow will be about water on Mars. Either more than first realised or it exists in liquid form. |
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Yes, they don't seem to realise that ordinary people aren't as excited about the things that drive scientists wild. What's major news to a geologist might be a bit "meh" to Joe public, especially after the media have hyped something big happening.
I think the most likely news tomorrow will be about water on Mars. Either more than first realised or it exists in liquid form. |
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The Guardian reckons it could be water related http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...er-speculation
The rest of the media seems to be convinced it's Martians
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I am completely underwhelmed by this un-new news: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/28/94...iscovery-proof
It's been pretty darn obvious from the Mariner 9 orbiter images (1972) onwards that liquid water has flowed at some point in Mars' history as we can see here: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wa...w=1024&bih=659 In particular, the pictures here http://pages.uoregon.edu/jimbrau/Bra...gure_10_09.jpg show channels and semi-lemniscate (that's tear-shaped in English) islands that can only have been created by fluid water and not winds or the ghosts of a long departed Martian civilisation. Here's a relevant paper: http://link.springer.com/referencewo...9_547-1#page-1 (click on Look Inside on the right hand side) |
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If NASA keep on hyping stories like this, when they do have something exciting no one will be paying attention.
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If NASA keep on hyping stories like this, when they do have something exciting no one will be paying attention.
Fly through a nebula instead. ![]() http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150...of-a-dead-star Last week's best space photos from NG. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...tures-science/ |
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I am completely underwhelmed by this un-new news: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/28/94...iscovery-proof
It's been pretty darn obvious from the Mariner 9 orbiter images (1972) onwards that liquid water has flowed at some point in Mars' history as we can see here: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wa...w=1024&bih=659 In particular, the pictures here http://pages.uoregon.edu/jimbrau/Bra...gure_10_09.jpg show channels and semi-lemniscate (that's tear-shaped in English) islands that can only have been created by fluid water and not winds or the ghosts of a long departed Martian civilisation. Here's a relevant paper: http://link.springer.com/referencewo...9_547-1#page-1 (click on Look Inside on the right hand side) |
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