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1:57 AM

The von Kármán Lecture Series: Revealing Saturn - Cassini's Tenth Year is now live on USTREAM and NASA JPL (with captioning). More information here

Stu

2:28 AM

watching the Cassini talk?

TildalWave

Yup in the background, Linda Spilker is a good speaker, easy to listen to compared to ... ah, no, I won't :)

Stu

they were showing amazing pictures of Saturn's rings being pushed around by a tiny moon

its like "ring-waves" or tides

TildalWave

pile up :)

Stu

like that!

TildalWave

ah that, sorry I thought you meant those pillars

I wonder what the rings would play if we 3D printed their exact shape into a scaled-down LP record and placed it on turntable

Stu

2:35 AM

ugh what a sell-out haha

oh yea that would be amazing

sound all scratchy

white noise maybe?

TildalWave

well it was just a whacky idea the record wouldn't play anyway, those are not tracks that spiral in

Stu

ah but a circle would still make sound!

it just wouldn't stop.

TildalWave

it might sound a bit like something from Jean Michel Jarre, he was experimenting a lot with closed-loop sampling

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Stu

can you request images from NASA? Like the original copies with highest resolutions?

haha the selfie thing was pretty funny

you have NO selfies

TildalWave

2:52 AM

@Stu Which one you want? I didn't see any that I wouldn't see before, so they're all published.

for higher resolution, what you do is you open the one you have in browser, open Google Image Search, then drag-drop the one you have on the search bar and in results click on "all resolutions"

Stu

ahhh thanks for the tip

the Titan lakes image

TildalWave

Cassini-Huygens (Solstice) mission is really fantastic, it's nearly incomprehensible how much data we got from this sole spacecraft and one lander

and there's still much, much more to come

Stu

I found a "medium" res, but it didn't look as detailed

yea I knew about a lot of these things but never thought about it massed together like this.. very impressive!

okay time to run around. that was a great talk.

I will let you know if I find the high-res images o.o

TildalWave

You can specify in search minimum how big results should be, e.g. encrypted.google.com/…

Stu

well... if I had a choice, I would definitely visit Titan first.

later!

TildalWave

3:00 AM

of course, you can always head over to the Cassini Solstice Mission over at JPL and check images there: saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos

t/c

TildalWave

3:41 AM

Recording of The von Kármán Lecture Series: Revealing Saturn - Cassini's Tenth Year is now available on USTREAM

XKCD

4:03 AM

Once again topping the list of tonight's hottest rising stars in Hollywood is Î¾ Persei!

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Stu

1:32 PM

Here is a really great website with simple explanations and diagrams about planetary sciences: astronomynotes.com/solarsys/s1.htm

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1:47 PM

astrobites: Star Formation on a String

posted on July 18, 2014 by Korey Haynes

What's causing the "beads on a string" pattern of star formation around this interacting galaxy pair?

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2:40 PM

NASA Image of the Day: Astronaut John Glenn at Cape Canaveral

posted on July 18, 2014

Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., wearing a Mercury pressure suit, is photographed at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during preflight training activities for the Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) mission. Glenn made America's first manned Earth-orbital spaceflight on Feb. 20, 1962. Launched from Cape Canaveral (Florida) Launch Complex 14, he completed a successful three-orbit mission around the earth, reaching a max…

TildalWave

3:33 PM

The Space Show Special w/ Dr. Rachel Armstrong on Project Persephone (ICARUS Interstellar) is now podcast live. More info in The Space Show Newsletter

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TildalWave

5:26 PM

“The Next Giant Leap” event at the JPL: Conversation w/ Morgan Freeman is now live on NASA TV and JPL on USTREAM. More information here

nealmcb

6:07 PM

I'm seeing some small accelerometer movements on ISEE-3 telemetry. Where are the real-time isee-3 reboot chat fans?

isee3.p3s.nl

Good news: "Looks like thruster K fired. Looking to reconfigure and fire it again #ISEE3"

TildalWave

6:24 PM

heh I had some chaw, dunno about others

I do have their twitter feed open tho

ISEE3 Reboot Project

@ISEE3Reboot, Inner Solar System

Coming back soon to an orbit near you.

2.5k tweets, 8.5k followers, following 1.1k users

Looks like we have another change in Fine Sun Sensor from thruster K. That is a good sign. #ISEE3

Tweeted by ISEE3Reboot on July 18, 2014 at 6:24 PM

for those wondering what FSS is, here's a description (PDF): ssbv.com/resources/Datasheets/…

ISEE-3 has two of these located on its sides

they're gonna do ranging now to confirm sensor readings and update TLE

lock on transponder A confirmed

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7:17 PM

NASASpaceFlight.com: Soyuz 2-1A set for Foton-M launch with a crew of creatures

posted on July 18, 2014 by Chris Bergin

Russia will launch its fourth Foton-M research satellite Saturday to begin a sixty-day mission for an array of creatures and biological experiments. Liftoff atop a Soyuz-2-1a rocket from... No related posts.

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8:18 PM

TildalWave has removed an event from this room's schedule.

TildalWave

ATV-5 launch was postponed, no new date yet

geoffc

8:57 PM

Any reason given for delay?

TildalWave

> In order to proceed with complementary verifications on the Ariane 5 ES launch system, Arianespace has decided to delay the VA219 launch for a few days. This mission with ATV 5 “Georges Lemaître” had been scheduled for July 24.

A new launch date will be announced next week.

so in a nutshell, no ... just the usual vagueness

geoffc

Fair enough, thanks!

TildalWave

I wonder if TsEnki will transmit Soyuz / Foton launch

I did see some screen grabs on twitter, but now can't start the stream again, like last time when they just removed all announcements even

it's still announced tho this time

tsenki.com/en/launch_services/help_information/launch/2014/…

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TildalWave has removed an event from this room's schedule.

TildalWave

apparently not, and it's already launched anyway, they even moved it forward