THE KING Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Anyone know what New Horizons is planning to do next apart from sending back the Pluto data? Pick up some Russian porn channels? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Anyone know what New Horizons is planning to do next apart from sending back the Pluto data? Looking for a positive case for the union? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 It is carrying the ashes of the astronomer who discovered Pluto. Nice touch. I don't know if any of the Voyager probes carried human DNA so this could be the furthest any part of a human has traveled. Looked up Voyager 1 details, in just 38,000 years it will meet a star.... Not long to wait then. You would think it was traveling really slow but in the time I was on the site it had travelled 500km. Absolutely mindblowing distances. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 It is carrying the ashes of the astronomer who discovered Pluto. Nice touch. I don't know if any of the Voyager probes carried human DNA so this could be the furthest any part of a human has traveled. Looked up Voyager 1 details, in just 38,000 years it will meet a star.... Not long to wait then. You would think it was traveling really slow but in the time I was on the site it had travelled 500km. Absolutely mindblowing distances. New Horizons is the fastest one ever, Earth to Pluto in only 9 years I think. I was wondering if it might catch up with one of the Voyagers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Provided Voyager 1 does not collide with anything and is not retrieved, the New Horizons space probe will never pass it, despite being launched from Earth at a faster speed than either Voyager spacecraft. New Horizons is traveling at about 15 km/s, 2 km/s slower than Voyager 1, and is still slowing down. When New Horizons reaches the same distance from the Sun as Voyager 1 is now, its speed will be about 13 km/s (8 mi/s).[79] Guessing it's to do with slingshot effects or trajectory? 15km/s - hard to image how fast that is and still absolutely laughable in terms of useful speed required for actual space travel. Definitely worth the money to send these probes out though. Incredible to think that every planet has now been flown by or explored. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Here's a graph of Voyager 2's speed, including sling shots. I don't understand the slowing down after each sling shot, I thought space was supposed to be a vacuum, but I suppose the planet creating the sling shot would have a gravitational drag on the spacecraft after it left? Might have answered my own question there.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Easier for getting up trees with as well. Who the hell is John F Kennedy? Amazing and haunting shot of Pluto. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 New Horizons phones home safely. Hooray! 16 months to send all the data back. Must still be using dial up. NASA wish they had dial up speeds for communicating with New Horizons. Dial up can get you 56 kbit\s. New Horizons will be sending its data back at 1kbit\s. It takes 42 minutes to send back a single image - http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/01300800-talking-to-pluto-is-hard.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Space porn is out of the question then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Here's a graph of Voyager 2's speed, including sling shots. I don't understand the slowing down after each sling shot, I thought space was supposed to be a vacuum, but I suppose the planet creating the sling shot would have a gravitational drag on the spacecraft after it left? Might have answered my own question there.. Pretty much, it slows down losing energy climbing back out of the gravity well, but obviously still with a net gain by going down into the well in the first place. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 I'd recommend giving it a download http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 NASA have been releasing a few more images from the fly by. Here is Charon as you've never seen it before... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33543383 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 (edited) Couple of scary staring eyes up and to the left of the creepy smile at bottom centre. P.S. On Charon courtesy of Northern Lights. Edited July 15, 2015 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE KING Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 NASA have been releasing a few more images from the fly by. Here is Charon as you've never seen it before... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 That's no moon... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 That's no moon... DOO! DOO! DOO! DOO DOO-DOO! DOO DOO-DOO! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Airdrie Onions Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 I prefer the 2005 form. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 The new one too black for you? Shots fired 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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