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Space exploration: Where do we go from here?

Kepler said:
Highest resolution photograph of Mars yet taken:

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Incredible! That kind of detail is great. I suppose you don't even need to zoom in, because from this magnification the planet looks amazing, and the greater detail of the landscape can lead to the fact that some parts of the visible side of Mars will not be visible, there will be the effect of a cropped photo.
 
Challenger007 said:
Incredible! That kind of detail is great. I suppose you don't even need to zoom in, because from this magnification the planet looks amazing, and the greater detail of the landscape can lead to the fact that some parts of the visible side of Mars will not be visible, there will be the effect of a cropped photo.
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What's your favorite college hockey team?
 
The spent stages of a Chinese rocket are currently orbiting the Earth while losing altitude, where they will eventually de-orbit and break apart in the atmosphere.

Why is this important? Because despite it being 60 years after man first strapped himself to a ballistic missile built by the lowest bidder, not a single space agency can predict when this thing will fall. Best guess is a window that Comcast looks at as generous.

Sometime between now and Monday is when it will de-orbit, and the landing zone is unknown. Best guess, at 70%, is that it will land in the ocean, but then you remember that 70% of the Earth is ocean, so..... best guess is that it has a 100% chance of landing on Earth...
 
aparch said:
The spent stages of a Chinese rocket are currently orbiting the Earth while losing altitude, where they will eventually de-orbit and break apart in the atmosphere.

Why is this important? Because despite it being 60 years after man first strapped himself to a ballistic missile built by the lowest bidder, not a single space agency can predict when this thing will fall. Best guess is a window that Comcast looks at as generous.

Sometime between now and Monday is when it will de-orbit, and the landing zone is unknown. Best guess, at 70%, is that it will land in the ocean, but then you remember that 70% of the Earth is ocean, so..... best guess is that it has a 100% chance of landing on Earth...
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Many years ago, there was a neighborhood kid, somewhat friends with my brother, who was doing a year of high school as an exchange student in Australia. He got a piece of the Skylab which landed on the farm where he was staying. It was all over the town newspapers.

Meanwhile, all I can think of right now is the TV show, Debris. :-)
 
I hope the press pushes this like Sputnik. If it takes a Space Race to get the derps to fund science and space exploration, fine, WE MUST BEAT TEH YELLOW HORDE!!!11!!
 
Slap Shot said:
Correct me if I'm wrong - but this means since launch in 1977, Voyager 2's distance from Earth is the same as had it traveled at light speed for 17 hours, 33 minutes....?
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That's correct. Obviously Voyager has traveled much farther because they have no described a straight trajectory.
 
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