Thursday, November 12, 2015

One year on a comet

It's the anniversary of Philae landing on Comet 67P! Rosetta is still orbiting the comet and sending back science, but poor little Philae has been out of touch for a while.
Still, it is an awesome mission and doing really well. I'm kinda surprised Rosetta is still doing ok while flying around in the comet's debris.

Monday, November 9, 2015

Future targets

You know what? Next time the sky is clear (not holding breath) and Centaurus is nice and high, I'm gonna make a big effort to tick off NGC5128 from my must see list. Can't really believe I haven't made an effort on that one before. Still a noob ;)
I'll officially tick of NGC5139 while I'm there as well.

Thursday, November 5, 2015

A new mission to be excited about

Cassini will wrap up all too soon. Ending with a plunge into Saturn's atmosphere. So a new mission is needed to get excited about with new images and science to drool over - and a new one is almost there.
In July 2016 Mission Juno will reach orbit around Jupiter, and start sciencing from a mere 5000km above the clouds.
Awesome.
Can't start soon enough!
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/