Showing posts with label Probe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Probe. Show all posts

Saturday, August 07, 2021

Expert, Dr. J. Allen Hynek Urges Probe of UFOs | UFO CHRONICLE – 1974

Expert Urges Probe of UFOs (Heading) - YoungsTown Vindicator 3-10-1974


     During the past 25 years hundreds of thousands of Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sightings have been reported to private and governmental agencies. The unexplained nature of an increasing number of reports from highly credible
By YoungsTown Vindicator
3-10-1974
observers throughout the world presents a modern scientific enigma.

“Any phenomenon which has occupied the thought of so many people for so many years is surely worthy of serious scientific study,” says Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the world’s foremost scientific authority of the subject.

Dr. Hynek feels that the “UFO phenomenon has not been given serious attention in the past, yet it is an interconvertible fact that a great many unsolved UFO reports exist.”

Tuesday, September 05, 2017

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Math on Voyager's Golden Record Tells a Story

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Copies of the Golden Record, sent journeying into deep space on the sides of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes in 1977, carries the sounds and music of Earth as well as a series of images to help characterize it.

     The Voyager 1 probe, which launched 40 years ago today (Sept. 5), is humankind's most distant physical emissary, at almost 13 billion miles (21 billion kilometers) from Earth. Voyager 1 and its sister-spacecraft, Voyager 2, which launched two weeks earlier in 1977,
By Sarah Lewin
Space.com
9-5-17
gave scientists their first close-up views of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. And the spacecraft famously carried with them what could be aliens' first views of Earth, its inhabitants and their culture: copies of the Golden Record.

The astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan curated the record selections, and it carried sounds and music from Earth as well as greetings in 55 languages. But the record also contains encoded photos seeking to teach aliens the mathematics — or really, the measurements — needed to understand humans' lives and their place in the universe.

Monday, July 07, 2014

Old NASA Spacecraft's Engines Started After 36 Years!

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Old NASA Spacecraft's Engines Started After 36 Years!

By Elizabeth Howell
Space.com
7-3-14

      An old NASA spacecraft under the control of a private team fired its thrusters yesterday (July 2) for the first time in a generation.

NASA's International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 probe (ISEE-3), which the agency retired in 1997, performed the maneuver in preparation for a larger trajectory correction next week. The spacecraft hadn't fired its engines since 1987, ISEE-3 Reboot Project team members said.

It took several attempts and days to perform the roll maneuver because ISEE-3 was not responding to test commands. But this time, controllers got in touch. They increased the roll rate from 19.16 revolutions per minute to 19.76 RPM, putting it within mission specifications for trajectory corrections. . . .

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

(Another) Message for Aliens To Be Carried on NASA Spacecraft


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(Another) Message for Aliens To Be Carried on NASA Spacecraft

By Nola Taylor Redd
Space.com
6-23-14

      A NASA probe that's expected to leave the solar system after it finishes its mission at Pluto and beyond will carry a message intended for any alien life-form that comes across it in the far future.

When NASA's New Horizons mission completes its study of Pluto in the summer of 2015, data from Earth will stream to the spacecraft to create a digital record that it will carry with it beyond the solar system. The record echoes the Golden Record carried by NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft in the 1970s and the plaques onboard the Pioneer spacecraft.

Jon Lomberg, who served as design director for NASA's Voyager Golden Record, worked with late astronomer Carl Sagan and four others to select a series of sounds and images that were combined on a gramophone record as representative of Earth. When Lomberg realized that New Horizons would become the next object to leave the solar system, he launched an online petition to include a similar message for New Horizons, called the One Earth Message. . . .

Monday, July 15, 2013

Alien Probes Could Be Surfing the Galaxy


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Alien Probes Could Be Surfing the Galaxy

By Ray Villard
news.discovery.com
7-14-13

      Computer simulations by a pair of researchers at the University of Edinburgh predict that a fleet of interstellar probes could explore the entire Milky Way galaxy within a fraction of the present age of Earth. This may seem like a tall order considering that our farthest interstellar spacecraft, Voyager 1, is still less than a light-day from Earth after being launched 36 years ago.

In the new simulation, however, alien probes only need to travel at 10 percent the speed of light to survey the entire galaxy within 10 million years. And, they could get a turbo-boost and save fuel by doing a slingshot off the gravitational fields of stars.

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The concept of self-aware and self-replicating probes traveling across the galaxy is nothing new, however; the idea goes as far back as 1960. It was promoted by SETI pioneer Ronald Bracewell as an alternative to listening for interstellar artificial radio signals. The idea of a machine capable of cloning itself goes back at least 100 years; mathematician John von Neumann detailed the operation of such a robot in 1949. . . .

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

NASA Unveils Last Video by Spacecraft That Crashed into Moon | VIDEO

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NASA Unveils Last Video by Spacecraft That Crashed into Moon



By Mike Wall
www.foxnews.com
1-15-13

     A NASA probe recorded a spectacular flyover video of the moon's far side shortly before intentionally slamming into a lunar mountain last month.

NASA's Ebb spacecraft shot the stunning final moon video on Dec. 14, just three days before it and its twin Flow ended their gravity-mapping mission, known as Grail, with a dramatic crash near the moon's north pole.

Ebb was just 6 miles above the lunar surface when it captured the images using its MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students) camera. The probe was skimming over the far side's northern hemisphere at the time, near an impact crater named Jackson.

Grail scientists pieced together about 2,400 individual frames to make the nearly two-minute video, NASA officials said. . . .