SpaceCast - 4/8/2017
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NASA to deorbit Cassini probe into Saturn
- The Cassini-Huygens probe launched in 1997, reached Saturn in 2004, and has been providing imagery and other info about Saturn & its moons
- The probe will be put on a collision course on Sept. 15 of this year
- The reason is to avoid contamination of the moon Enceladus
- Enceladus was discovered (by Cassini) to have subsurface saltwater oceans which could harbor life
- NASA couldn’t risk Cassini crashing into Enceladus, which would make it exceedingly difficult to tell if any organic material found later came from the moon or from Earth
- The “death spiral” begins April 22; Cassini will perform one last flyby of Titan before passing between Saturn & its rings and crashing into the planet’s atmosphere
- The probe’s final orbits will provide the closest views of Saturn’s poles including the giant hexagon-shaped hurricane at the north pole
- As it passes thru Saturn’s atmosphere, the probe will attempt to collect composition data and transmit it to Earth
Apple backtracks on Mac Pro
- In Apple’s opinion they will improve the setup of the Mac Pro
- Only focusing on the Pro quadrant of products
- Talking about updates to those on Mac 16
- Increase of speed to updates and
- Improvement to graphics processing chip or single-threaded CPU performance,
“Earth sized telescope” to photograph milky ways black hole
- Nine different telescopes around the globe will be linking together to form a massive “earth sized” telescope this week.
- The nine telescopes will all be used to photograph the black hole at the center of our galaxy which is approximately 26,000 light years away from earth.
- Dr. Avery Broderick, a scientist working on the project, says the resolution will be so great that you could use it to watch a hockey game on the moon and see the puck
Soyuz docking time lapse
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