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Voyager spacecraft detects 'persistent hum' beyond our solar system
One of the Earth's longest-flying spacecraft has detected a "persistent hum" beyond our solar system, according to a new study.
NASA's Voyager 1 launched on September 5 1977, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket, just weeks after its sister craft, Voyager 2. Although they were initially designed to last five years, more than 43 years after they launched, the crafts are still sending back data as they explore interstellar space.
Instruments aboard Voyager 1, which has moved past the edge of the solar system, through the solar system's border with interstellar space, known as the heliopause, and into the interstellar medium, have detected the sounds of plasma waves, according to research published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
A Cornell University-led team studied data transmitted from the spacecraft, sent from 14 billion miles away and discovered the interstellar gas emissions.
"It's very faint and monotone, because it is in a narrow frequency bandwidth," Stella Koch Ocker, a Cornell University doctoral student in astronomy, said in a statement. "We're detecting the faint, persistent hum of interstellar gas."
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft flew by Jupiter in 1979, and by Saturn in 1980, before crossing the heliopause in August 2012.
https://www.microsoftnewskids.com/en-us/kids/science-tech/voyager-spac
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Look at these stunning images of Jupiter
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/look-at-these-stunning-image
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Civilian flight to station moves forward with NASA contract
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/civilian-commercial-flight-to-space-stati
on-moves-forward-with-nasa-contract/
Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission by NASA
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/International_cutting_edge_SWOT_sat
ellite_to_survey_the_worlds_water_999.html
Commercialisation of space a 'priority' for European agency
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/268960286/commercialisation-of-spa
ce-a-priority-for-european-agency
ROSS, the new Russian space station: when and why?
https://www.aerotime.aero/27872-ROSS-the-new-Russian-space-station-whe
n-and-why
JWST - Webb’s Golden Mirror Wings Open One Last Time on Earth
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/webb-s-golden-mirror-wings-o
pen-one-last-time-on-earth
China-made meteorological satellite for dawn-dusk orbits has passed a factory review in Shanghai, one step closer to launching it into space.
The satellite is called Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) and was designed and built by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, affiliated with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It will be the world's first meteorological satellite in a dawn-dusk orbit.
A dawn-dusk orbit is a sun-synchronous orbit where the satellite tracks but never moves into the Earth's shadow.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-05/10/c_139936961.htm
China's Yutu 2 rover about to 'wake up' on the far side of the moon
https://www.space.com/china-yutu-2-moon-rover-chang-e-4-wake-up-may-20
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Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson each have a different plan for space. Here's how they stack up.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-richard-123500365.html
Branson lags Musk and Bezos in the billionaire space race?
https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/branson-lags-musk-and-bezos-i
n-the-billionaire-space-race-11620845078691.html
Japanese tycoon planning space station visit, then moon trip
https://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/article/Japanese-tycoon-pl
anning-space-station-visit-16173875.php
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Hey Ted. Do a face reveal in this thread so we can see a picture of Uranus. 
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There's a Space Race?
I never knew...nobody told me
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/550708-will-bidens-nasa-win-
the-space-race-with-china
'Will Biden's NASA win the space race with China?'
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Quote:Whatever it is, don't bring it back here!!!
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Researchers speculate strange 'puffball-like' rocks on Mars could be fungi
Researchers studying photos from NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars speculate that strange "puffball-like" rocks on the red planet might actually be fungi.
The objects in question seem to change shape and move over time, the researchers said in "Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior From Sequential Images," and they grow in tracks left behind by the Curiosity rover.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/researchers-speculate-strang
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
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I remember the sci-fi story "Expedition Venus", which scared the crap out of me as a kid. The expedition brought back a grey mold that covered and killed everything, and survived normal methods to eradicate it (short of a nuclear bomb) ... because it was able to survive where it came from, which was much worse than anything humans could throw at it. In one scene, people in space suits went to visit an area completely covered by the mold, and someone pointed out an area that seemed to be moving. It turned out to be a dog, still barely alive, taking a few mindless steps, that scratched feebly at its side, then collapsed.
One can also take a lesson from the ISS that's growing stuff EVERYwhere, even between the inner and outer panes of glass. How'd mold get THERE?
Even something as relatively complicated as a water bear (tardigrade) can survive extended periods exposed to naked space.
My biggest fear is that we haven't properly decontaminated our ships that we're landing-on- and crashing-into- other planets. Aside from potentially killing-off any endogenous life forms, biological contaminants are exposed to extreme environments - like the hard radiation on Mars - that could mutate them in dangerous and unpredictable ways. Unless of course you think 'who WOULDN'T want an earthbound life form mutated to survive everything that could possibly kill it, brought back to earth?'.
One of my former coworkers did his graduate work at JPL on developing a utility for Mars-bound craft that can detect water in soil. And I'm sure there are other element-identifying and life-detecting tools on board. It seems like it should be possible to stop the crafts and turn them back on their own tracks to test these things and end the mystery.
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Elon Musk Is Maybe, Actually, Strangely, Going to Do This Mars Thing
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/05/elon-musk-spacex-s
tarship-launch/618781/
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Elon Musk Is Maybe, Actually, Strangely, Going to Do This Mars Thing
He already did.
And it was the funnies skit SNL did in years.
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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.
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