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NASA to Announce New Solar System Mission / Edit: Helicopter on a moon of Saturn!!!
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:38 pm
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:38 pm
Love it
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NASA will announce a major new science mission to explore our solar system during a broadcast of NASA Science Live at 4 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 27. The announcement will air on NASA Television, the agency's website, Facebook Live, YouTube, Periscope and USTREAM.
Media may ask questions during the program by emailing their name, affiliation, and phone number to Courtney O’Connor at oconnor@jpl.nasa.gov by 3:45 p.m. Thursday. The public can send questions during the event using the hashtag #askNASA or by leaving a comment in the chat section of Facebook, Periscope or YouTube.
NASA also will host a media teleconference at 5 p.m. the same day with:
Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate
Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division
Curt Niebur, Lead Program Scientist for New Frontiers
Principal investigator of the selected mission
To participate in the call, media must email their name and affiliation to oconnor@jpl.nasa.gov by 4:45 p.m. Thursday.
The teleconference audio will stream live at:
https://www.nasa.gov/live
I’m suspecting it will probes to land on one of Jupiter or Saturn's moons. We’ve done Mars and while we definitely need to keep that going I’d be excited to see exploration of the moons in our solar system, some of which are still very live places.
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NASA will announce a major new science mission to explore our solar system during a broadcast of NASA Science Live at 4 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 27. The announcement will air on NASA Television, the agency's website, Facebook Live, YouTube, Periscope and USTREAM.
Media may ask questions during the program by emailing their name, affiliation, and phone number to Courtney O’Connor at oconnor@jpl.nasa.gov by 3:45 p.m. Thursday. The public can send questions during the event using the hashtag #askNASA or by leaving a comment in the chat section of Facebook, Periscope or YouTube.
NASA also will host a media teleconference at 5 p.m. the same day with:
Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate
Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division
Curt Niebur, Lead Program Scientist for New Frontiers
Principal investigator of the selected mission
To participate in the call, media must email their name and affiliation to oconnor@jpl.nasa.gov by 4:45 p.m. Thursday.
The teleconference audio will stream live at:
https://www.nasa.gov/live
I’m suspecting it will probes to land on one of Jupiter or Saturn's moons. We’ve done Mars and while we definitely need to keep that going I’d be excited to see exploration of the moons in our solar system, some of which are still very live places.
This post was edited on 6/27/19 at 7:03 pm
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Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:39 pm to DavidTheGnome
Land on the Sun, motherfrickers. THEN I'll be impressed.
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:39 pm to DavidTheGnome
Manned deep space exploration or bust. Probes are for nerds and queer Europeans.
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:44 pm to LSU Alumnus
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Land on the Sun, motherfrickers.
While certainly not landing on it we do have the Parker Solar Probe which is the closest we’ve ever gotten. Very impressive feat of engineering.
Parker Solar Probe (previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus, or Solar Probe+, abbreviated PSP)[8] is a NASA robotic spacecraft launched in 2018, with the mission of repeatedly probing and making observations of the outer corona of the Sun.[3][9][6] It will approach to within 9.86 solar radii (6.9 million kilometers or 4.3 million miles)[10][11] from the center of the Sun and by 2025 will travel, at closest approach, as fast as 690,000 km/h (430,000 mph), or 0.064% the speed of light.[10][12]
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Parker Solar Probe (previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus, or Solar Probe+, abbreviated PSP)[8] is a NASA robotic spacecraft launched in 2018, with the mission of repeatedly probing and making observations of the outer corona of the Sun.[3][9][6] It will approach to within 9.86 solar radii (6.9 million kilometers or 4.3 million miles)[10][11] from the center of the Sun and by 2025 will travel, at closest approach, as fast as 690,000 km/h (430,000 mph), or 0.064% the speed of light.[10][12]
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:44 pm to DavidTheGnome
How are we going to explore the solar system in a warehouse studio?
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:47 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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Manned deep space exploration or bust. Probes are for nerds and queer Europeans.
Probes get real science done at realistic price points. Manned simply isn’t a cost effective or necessary thing to pursue until we get propulsion tech to get us off this planet at much, much lower price points per kg. And I’d argue that manned is a hindrance to the goal of exploration in many cases because it would rely on having to keep someone alive vs an unmanned probe that can do all of the science and exploration necessary and more (all while being controlled by...yes humans) without that additional and quite large burden.
I know we’ve done this arguement in circles many times and neither my opinion on it nor yours is likely to change so well just have to agree to disagree.
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:49 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:49 pm to DavidTheGnome
I don’t care dammit. People going to space is much cooler.
Plus we’d be doing plenty of science just by figuring out how to do deep spaceflight with people on board.
Plus we’d be doing plenty of science just by figuring out how to do deep spaceflight with people on board.
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:52 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Crazy that one of our satellites was able to get that photo.
Really puts it into perspective about how close our planets actually are.
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:54 pm to Bluefin
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Crazy that one of our satellites was able to get that photo.
The planets had to be perfectly aligned for such a thing to happen.
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:55 pm to Titus Pullo
quote:And it had to be in the day to get the right lighting.
The planets had to be perfectly aligned for such a thing to happen.
Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:58 pm to LSU Alumnus
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And it had to be in the day to get the right lighting
Good point. You work for NASA or just an enthusiast?
Posted on 6/26/19 at 11:44 pm to DavidTheGnome
We need to get the ball rolling on mining asteroids. Use the moon as the staging ground. Tons of money to be made and China is already pursuing this.
Posted on 6/26/19 at 11:54 pm to DavidTheGnome
It’s time to go back to the moon 
Posted on 6/27/19 at 5:05 am to Pelican fan99
The first element of Gateway for the Artemis Missions was awarded a couple of weeks ago. We are on our way.
NASA Awards Artemis Contract for Lunar Gateway Power, Propulsion
What is Artemis?
NASA Awards Artemis Contract for Lunar Gateway Power, Propulsion
What is Artemis?
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Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo and goddess of the Moon in Greek mythology. Now, she personifies our path to the Moon as the name of NASA's program to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024, including the first woman and the next man. When they land, our American astronauts will step foot where no human has ever been before: the Moon’s South Pole.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 6:10 am to DavidTheGnome
Pictures like this are why people wonder why we don't have manned missions to every nook and cranny in the solar system.
Posted on 6/27/19 at 6:22 am to DavidTheGnome
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NASA to Announce New Solar System Mission
Are we finally going to probe Uranus? I really wanna probe the shite out of Uranus!
Posted on 6/27/19 at 6:49 am to Animal
They’re gonna land a Walmart quadcopter on Titan.
Lame
Lame
Posted on 6/27/19 at 6:52 am to DavidTheGnome
Are these the assholes that took Pluto away from planet status?
Posted on 6/27/19 at 6:54 am to DavidTheGnome
NASA needs to send landers to just about any place one can land at. Mercury, the four Galilean satellites, and another on Titan and one to Triton. Take a stab at Venus; we should be able to create a lander that can survive a bit longer than the Venera landers. Hell, launch one to Pluto and those things past Pluto.
This post was edited on 6/27/19 at 6:55 am
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