The Space Thread

PBS - Why Cassini Had to Be Destroyed:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/analysis-nasas-cassini-probe-must-destroyed/

I smell a BOC conspiracy...

Very Large Array in New Mexico set to start new 7 year long survey of approx. 80% of the visible sky:

https://public.nrao.edu/news/vla-begins-huge-project/

Hadn't heard about that VLA survey they'll be doing. Pretty cool stuff.

Rare twin comet currently traveling thru our Solar System:

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/hubble-spots-something-strange-hurtling-solar-system-100031657.html

Russia & USA to make friends and build a bro camp on the Moon:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/news/a28304/russia-nasa-cis-lunar/

edit: looks like this might be a fake news story that got picked up by several mainstream news outlets

NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission will launch next year:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-41410107/nasa-s-mission-to-touch-the-sun

4 posts in a row full on malfunction mode. Bring some of your personality to future posts.

cheers rubin, keep em posts ere and not on funny pic thread pls thx

  On 9/27/2017 at 10:10 AM, Rubin Farr said:

NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission will launch next year:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-41410107/nasa-s-mission-to-touch-the-sun

I wonder what it's made out of to survive even getting remotely close to the sun...

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/01/opinions/gravitational-waves-black-holes-opinion-lincoln/index.html

Remains of giant lake found on Mars:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/news/a28549/mars-spacecraft-finds-evidence-of-gigantic-martian-lake/

The missing baryons in the universe seem to have been found:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10378v1

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2149742-half-the-universes-missing-matter-has-just-been-finally-found/

potential extra-solar asteroid coming our way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtCkvEHTzEE

Spooky NASA sound files. Pretty neat. Check playlists

Scientists say they now have a clearer picture of the post-comet catastrophe on Earth:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41825471

NASA's next gen Mars rover:

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/11/03/nasas-next-mars-rover-will-have-nearly-two-dozen-cameras.html

3 hours of a GoPro tied to the J.W.Astronomy Stratos Project balloon, rising into the atmosphere:

Saturn moon Enceladus may have or still capable of harboring microbe life forms in its subsurface:

http://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/techandscience/aliens-on-enceladus-chances-of-et-living-in-subsurface-ocean-of-saturn%e2%80%99s-icy-moon-given-major-boost/ar-AAuxojp?li=BBqrVLO&ocid=wispr

  On 11/1/2017 at 6:54 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Scientists say they now have a clearer picture of the post-comet catastrophe on Earth:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41825471

Yep the shit an impactor actually hits will have a huge impact (lol) on the environmental effects. Compare Chixulub with Manicouagan in Quebec, both craters with roughly the same size. The Manicouagan impactor hit a bit pile of bullshit granites, so it didn't pump much into the atmosphere save for silicate dust, which would have been crap for a couple of years but caused nary a ripple in the wider sedimentary record. Whereas the Chixulub impactor hit limestones and evaporites, essentially vapourising the lot into CO2 and SO2 which caused all sorts of long-term knock-on bollox in the atmosphere and oceans. 

Star discovered to have gone supernova more than once:

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/08/us/zombie-star-survives-supernova/index.html

happy International Astronomy Day

NASA has released an animatic of what the Orion crew would go through in case of a catastrophic failure, and safety abort jettison. It would be a Hell of a ride:

Almost 3 years after I created this thread in anticipation of the SLS test flight and debut of the Orion capsule, inevitable delays, part of NASA's culture, have pushed the first manned flight, EM-1, to a probable launch date of June, 2020.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/11/20/nasa-expects-first-space-launch-system-flight-to-slip-into-2020/