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Apollo, Space & Science: June 2004
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Apollo, Space and Science. Apollo, space and science in general. Sunday, June 27, 2004. Of Venus and Iridium flares. Have you ever seen an Iridium flare? Iridium satellites were launched a number of years ago as a global telephone communication network that went bankrupt (those dang cell phones took over that market! To come full circle with Venus (remember I mentioned you can see it in the daytime if you know where to look), the brightest Iridium flares can also be seen in the daytime! The Pot of Gold.
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Apollo, Space & Science: October 2005
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Apollo, Space and Science. Apollo, space and science in general. Wednesday, October 26, 2005. Has taken high resolution images of the F-ring. And have figured out how the small moon Prometheus causes the structure seen in the F-ring using a simple dynamical model. A paper is being published in the next issue of Nature. If you want more details than you can find on the web. Posted by Jim at 10:49 AM. Friday, October 21, 2005. HST images the Moon. Jim Garvin recently used the HST. Posted by Jim at 12:55 AM.
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Apollo, Space & Science: December 2004
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Apollo, Space and Science. Apollo, space and science in general. Friday, December 17, 2004. Despite the humanocentric view of the Universe that most of humanities religions espouse, the Universe does not care about the existence of Humanity. What if a dinosaur species developed the intelligence and ability to build telescopes and spacecraft and had been able to deflect that asteroid or comet before it hit? Posted by Jim at 2:17 PM. Arizona, United States. View my complete profile. The Google Earth Blog.
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Apollo, Space & Science: September 2004
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Apollo, Space and Science. Apollo, space and science in general. Tuesday, September 28, 2004. It's hard being a science geek while watching a movie. In the movie, he goes flying into the back of the plane. Physics would have him go flying right into the front bulkhead - 200 knots to zero in a couple seconds at best is a lot of G's into the direction of motion. So there I am laughing at the TV, trying to watch the rest of the scene. Ah, the life of a critical thinker. Posted by Jim at 5:20 PM.
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Apollo, Space & Science: July 2004
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Apollo, Space and Science. Apollo, space and science in general. Friday, July 16, 2004. Posted by Jim at 8:55 PM. Thursday, July 01, 2004. Spacecraft successfully made it into orbit around Saturn last night. It had to successfully pass through the ring plane of Saturn twice and fire its rocket engine for 96 minutes to change its velocity by 626 meters per second (about 1,400 miles per hour). I watched NASA TV. On the web and in the news. Some of my friends designed and built the camera that will show us.
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Apollo, Space & Science: October 2004
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Apollo, Space and Science. Apollo, space and science in general. Monday, October 04, 2004. It was 47 years ago today that Sputnik 1 launched (literally! Congratulations to the folks who made SpaceShipOne so successful and to Peter Diamandis who launched the dream of the X-Prize! Posted by Jim at 11:21 AM. Congratulations to the folks who made SpaceShipOne so successful and to Peter Diamandis who launched the dream of the X-Prize! Posted by Jim at 9:06 AM. Posted by Jim at 9:06 AM. Arizona, United States.
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Apollo, Space & Science: January 2005
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Apollo, Space and Science. Apollo, space and science in general. Friday, January 14, 2005. Deep Impact and Huygens on Titan. It's been a good week for science - Deep Impact successfully launched on its mission to impact comet Tempel 1 on July 4th this year and the Huygens probe successfully landed on Saturns moon Titan this morning. Spacecrafts flyby of comet Wild 2. This time is certainly exciting to be interested in comets! BTW, be sure to grab your binoculars and go look at comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz).
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Apollo, Space & Science: September 2005
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Apollo, Space and Science. Apollo, space and science in general. Monday, September 26, 2005. It's well worth a read. Posted by Jim at 10:51 AM. Thursday, September 22, 2005. I didn't have time to carefully focus, so my first few images were not focused well and then when I put the zoom on and took a few more shots of the distorted lower plume, I discovered that there were some telephone wires in the way. Sheesh, that Murphy is a devious character. Anyway, I put the images in my photoblog. I think they ha...
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Apollo, Space & Science: August 2005
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Apollo, Space and Science. Apollo, space and science in general. Friday, August 19, 2005. Posted by Jim at 10:12 AM. Thursday, August 04, 2005. To Boldy Go Where No One has Gone Before. So, while past missions suffered an AVERAGE of about 150 dings to the tiles, this mission, from the preliminary orbital inspection only had around 25 tile dings! That is a huge improvement! Posted by Jim at 9:43 AM. Arizona, United States. View my complete profile. Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. The Google Earth Blog.
