Podcasts about new horizons mission

Will Neil take back what he said about Pluto? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore planets, dwarf planets, and the Kuiper belt with planetary scientist and principal investigator for the New Horizons Mission, Alan Stern. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/debating-plutos-planethood-with-alan-stern/Thanks to our Patrons laura, Mihajlo Jovanovic, Heather Smith, Juan Ignacio Galán, Artsaveslife, Frank Wagner, Adam Brown, Greg Albrecht, Mickey Fuson, and Jeremy Green for supporting us this week.

For decades, all the planets of the solar system had been reconnoitered—except Pluto. That last planetary body had been seen, at best, as just a faint smudge by the Hubble Space Telescope. Then, in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft sped by Pluto, sending back a swath of exciting images and science data, transforming our view of the planet. It subsequently visited the Kuiper Belt object Arrakoth and may rendezvous with another, more distant body—or not. NASA's new budget seems to spell the end of active science for New Horizons, something that does not sit well with the program's Principal Investigator, Dr. Alan Stern. Join Alan as he speaks with us about this very exciting project and what it may take to keep it alive. Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Alan Stern Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

Folge 14 startet mal wieder mit zwei aktuellen Themen, die aber leider beide unerfreulich sind: Russland hat die Zusammenarbeit auf der ISS beendet & die Schauspielerin Grace Dell „Nichelle“ Nichols ist am 30. Juli gestorben. Sie war vor allem für ihre Rolle als Lieutenant Uhura in Star Trek bekannt („Hailing Frequencies Open“). Lynn Margulis war Biologin & hat zu Lebzeiten vor allem kontroverse Theorien vertreten. Wofür man sie allerdings kennen sollte, ist die Weiterentwicklung Endosymbiontentheorie. Zum Thema Pluto stellt Juni heute sogar zwei Wissenschaftlerinnen vor: Alice Bowman leitet die New Horizons Mission zum Pluto und darüber hinaus ins Universum. Die Daten, die 2015 über Pluto gesammelt wurden, werden seit 2016 ausgearbeitet. Daran ist unter anderem auch Kelsi Singer beteiligt, sie ist Planetologin. Nun gab es auf Pluto zwei ungewöhnlich Entdeckungen, bei deren Schlussfolgerung sich die Frage stellt, ob es Leben auf Pluto geben kann… PS: an dem Duzen arbeiten wir (Philipp) noch ;) Doku Terra X Pluto (nur noch bis zum 31.08. verfügbar) https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/zdfinfo-doku/zwergplanet-pluto-entdeckung-einer-fernen-welt-100.html Richard Dwarkins „It works… bitches“ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n6hxo1sC-dU Intro/Outro-Music: A Few Moments Later by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com Episodenbilder: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis#/media/Datei:Lynn_Margulis.jpg, Self-published work by Jpedreira, CC BY-SA 2.5 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/46506443632, NASA/Joel Kowsky https://thebridge.agu.org/files/2019/08/Pluto_Kelsi-Singer.jpg, Photo by Rayna M Tedford/WUSTL Photos

Where Are The Black Physicists? Black scientists make up less than one percent of physics PhDs in the U.S. And since 1999, most physics departments in the country have failed to graduate more than one or two Black undergraduates. Furthermore, the share of Black students in physics is declining: If the number receiving a bachelor's degree in physics had kept pace with the rising popularity of the major, there would be 350 Black physicists graduating every year. Instead, in 2020, that number was 262. But why is this number so small? A comprehensive investigative series in Science Magazine this week examines those statistics, the academic climate of physics departments, and how academia may be limiting the achievement of Black students. The series also highlights some success stories about proposed solutions, with mixed results. But why is physics a uniquely white, male discipline—and how can institutions make the climate more friendly to students from marginalized backgrounds? Ira talks to Apriel Hodari, one of 150 Black women to receive a PhD in physics in the U.S., who now researches the culture of higher education in STEM fields.   Why The Equinox Can Make Your Credit Card Fail Twice a year, people listening to signals from satellites in geostationary orbit face a problem known as a solar outage, a solar transit, or sun fade. Around the spring equinox, the Sun approaches the equator from the south, as the north gets ready for spring. In the fall, near the autumnal equinox, the Sun appears to move back below the equator. During these times, it comes into the view of Earthbound satellite dishes directed at geostationary satellites positioned some 22,000 miles above the equator. When a ground receiver, the satellite it's looking at, and the Sun all line up, the radiation from the Sun can temporarily overwhelm the satellite receiver. Think of it like when you're driving on a westbound road close to sunset, and you're staring straight into the setting sun—it gets hard to read the road signs. The effect is temporary: a maximum of 12 minutes at any given location for several days in a row. But it can affect everything from a satellite TV dish to credit card processing at your local gas station—even public radio stations receiving live programming over the satellite network. SciFri's Charles Bergquist talks with Chris DeBoy, who teaches a course in satellite communications at the Johns Hopkins University (and is also the RF communications lead for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto, and the Space Engineering Branch Manager at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory), about the advantages and disadvantages of geostationary satellites, and what can be done to minimize the impact of solar outages. They are joined by MaryJane Peters, technical operations chief at KAZU in Monterey, California, who describes the effect the seasonal outages have on station operations. Can Meteorites On Earth Point To Ancient Life On Mars? In 1996, the late astrobiologist David McKay and his team published a paper arguing that a four-pound rock from Mars, called Allan Hills 84001 (found in Antarctica), showed evidence of ancient microbial life on the planet Mars. The team pointed to several mineral structures, including tiny beads of magnetite, as well as shapes that might be fossilized bacteria. This hypothesis ignited a storm of controversy and a flurry of research that contradicted the team's theory. But decades later, ALH 84001, like the other meteorites that have been linked to the Red Planet, remains an important insight into Martian geology and the formation of organic molecules in the absence of biological processes. Producer Christie Taylor talks to astrobiologist Andrew Steele, who has been studying ALH 84001 and other meteorites for decades. He discusses the process of probing meteorites for data, the difficulty of studying rocks without their original contexts, and how new samples from the Perseverance rover could change everything. Plus, how the original controversy over ALH 84001 changed the trajectory of planetary science.   From Zero To 100 Butts: The Wild World Of Invertebrate Behinds Recently, the staff of Science Friday came across a tweet that caught our attention, sent out by researcher Dr. Maureen Berg.   Turns out, it was a call to source comic ideas for Invertebrate Butt Week, a celebration of—you guessed it—the butts of invertebrates. “Invertebrates really get the short end of the stick,” says Rosemary Mosco, the creator of the comic series Bird And Moon and #InverteButtWeek organizer. “People are not as excited about them as, say, a majestic whale or a beautiful bird. And I love my birds, but [invertebrates have] such an incredible diversity. So, butts are sort of a cheeky way to access some of that amazing diversity and celebrate it.”   Rosemary and other scientists and illustrators teamed up to create #InverteButtWeek, a celebration of the behinds of the backbone-less. “It's a chance for some people who do science communication to do the silliest thing that they can possibly think of,” says Dr. Ainsley Seago, curator of invertebrate zoology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.   Science Friday's Daniel Peterschmidt talks to the organizers of #InverteButtWeek about how it came together, their favorite invertebrate butt facts (like how sea cucumbers have anal teeth), and how you can participate in the celebration.  

Dr. Jeffrey M. Moore is a Research Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Moore is Imaging Team Lead for NASA's New Horizons Mission to the Jupiter system, the Pluto system, and the Kuiper Belt, which flew past the Pluto system on 14 July 2015, and provided our first view of the geology of Pluto […]

Dr. Jeffrey M. Moore is a Research Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Moore is Imaging Team Lead for NASA's New Horizons Mission to the Jupiter system, the Pluto system, and the Kuiper Belt, which flew past the Pluto system on 14 July 2015, and provided our first view of the geology of Pluto […]

This week we are excited to welcome Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator from the New Horizons Mission, back to the WSH. In October, it was announced that Alan will be the first NASA-funded commercial space crewmember aboard a Virgin Galactic suborbital space mission. The flight is expected to take place in 2022; there he will perform astronomical and space physiology experiments. Alan is a planetary scientist, space program executive, aerospace consultant, and author. He leads NASA's New Horizons mission to the Pluto system and the Kuiper Belt. In both 2007 and 2016, he was named to the Time 100. In 2007, he was appointed NASA's chief of all science missions. Since 2009, he has been an Associate Vice President and Special Assistant to the President at the Southwest Research Institute. Additionally, from 2008-2012 he served on the board of directors of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, and as the Chief Scientist and Mission Architect for Moon Express from 2010-2013. From 2011- 2013, he served as the Director of the Florida Space Institute. Alan's career has taken him to numerous astronomical observatories, to the South Pole, and to the upper atmosphere aboard various high performance NASA aircraft including F/A-18 Hornets, F-104 Starfighters, KC-135 Zero-G, and WB-57 Canberras. He has been involved as a researcher in 24 suborbital, orbital, and planetary space missions, including 9 for which he was the mission principle investigator; and he has led the development of 8 scientific instruments for NASA space missions. In 1995, he was selected as a space shuttle mission specialist finalist, and in 1996 he was a candidate space shuttle payload specialist. In 2010, he became a suborbital payload specialist trainee, and is expected to fly several space missions aboard XCOR and Virgin Galactic vehicles in 2016-2017. Before receiving his doctorate from the University of Colorado in 1989, Alan completed twin master's degrees in aerospace engineering and atmospheric sciences (1980 and 1981), and then spent six years as an aerospace systems engineer, concentrating on spacecraft and payload systems at the NASA Johnson Space Center, Martin Marietta Aerospace, and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado. His two undergraduate degrees are in physics and astronomy from the University of Texas (1978 and 1980). His academic research has focused on studies of our solar system's Kuiper Belt and Oort cloud, comets, the satellites of the outer planets, the Pluto system, and the search for evidence of solar systems around other stars. He has also worked on spacecraft rendezvous theory, terrestrial polar mesospheric clouds, galactic astrophysics, and studies of tenuous satellite atmospheres, including the atmosphere of the moon. Alan is a fellow of the AAAS, the Royal Astronomical Society, and is a member of the AIAA, AAS, IAF, and the AGU; he was elected incoming chair of the Division of Planetary Sciences in 2006. He has been awarded the Von Braun Aerospace Achievement Award of the National Space Society, the 2007 University of Colorado George Norlin Distinguished Alumnus Award, the 2009 St. Mark's Preparatory School Distinguished Alumnus Award, Smithsonian Magazine's 2015 American Ingenuity Award, and the 2016 Sagan Memorial Award of the American Astronautical Society. In his free time, Alan enjoys running, hiking, camping, and writing. He is an instrument-rated commercial pilot and flight instructor, with both powered and sailplane ratings. He and his wife Carole have two daughters and a son; they make their home near Boulder, Colorado. You can learn more about Alan and stay up to date with him by visiting his website: https://alanstern.space/ You can stay up to date with New Horizons by visiting the Mission's Webpage: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ **************************************** The Weekly Space Hangout is a production of CosmoQuest. Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are some specific ways you can help: ► Subscribe FREE to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest ► Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! ► Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx – follow and subscribe! ► Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx ► Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast ► Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx ► Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/X8rw4vv ► Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ Don't forget to like and subscribe! Plus we love being shared out to new people, so tweet, comment, review us... all the free things you can do to help bring science into people's lives.

https://youtu.be/skzxLaYkiGQ Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )Special Guest: This week we are excited to welcome Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator from the New Horizons Mission, back to the WSH. In October, it was announced that Alan will be the first NASA-funded commercial space crewmember aboard a Virgin Galactic suborbital space mission. The flight is expected to take place in 2022; there he will perform astronomical and space physiology experiments.   Alan is a planetary scientist, space program executive, aerospace consultant, and author. He leads NASA’s New Horizons mission to the Pluto system and the Kuiper Belt. In both 2007 and 2016, he was named to the Time 100. In 2007, he was appointed NASA’s chief of all science missions. Since 2009, he has been an Associate Vice President and Special Assistant to the President at the Southwest Research Institute. Additionally, from 2008-2012 he served on the board of directors of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, and as the Chief Scientist and Mission Architect for Moon Express from 2010-2013. From 2011- 2013, he served as the Director of the Florida Space Institute.   Alan's career has taken him to numerous astronomical observatories, to the South Pole, and to the upper atmosphere aboard various high performance NASA aircraft including F/A-18 Hornets, F-104 Starfighters, KC-135 Zero-G, and WB-57 Canberras. He has been involved as a researcher in 24 suborbital, orbital, and planetary space missions, including 9 for which he was the mission principle investigator; and he has led the development of 8 scientific instruments for NASA space missions. In 1995, he was selected as a space shuttle mission specialist finalist, and in 1996 he was a candidate space shuttle payload specialist. In 2010, he became a suborbital payload specialist trainee, and is expected to fly several space missions aboard XCOR and Virgin Galactic vehicles in 2016-2017.   Before receiving his doctorate from the University of Colorado in 1989, Alan completed twin master's degrees in aerospace engineering and atmospheric sciences (1980 and 1981), and then spent six years as an aerospace systems engineer, concentrating on spacecraft and payload systems at the NASA Johnson Space Center, Martin Marietta Aerospace, and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado. His two undergraduate degrees are in physics and astronomy from the University of Texas (1978 and 1980).   His academic research has focused on studies of our solar system's Kuiper Belt and Oort cloud, comets, the satellites of the outer planets, the Pluto system, and the search for evidence of solar systems around other stars. He has also worked on spacecraft rendezvous theory, terrestrial polar mesospheric clouds, galactic astrophysics, and studies of tenuous satellite atmospheres, including the atmosphere of the moon.   Alan is a fellow of the AAAS, the Royal Astronomical Society, and is a member of the AIAA, AAS, IAF, and the AGU; he was elected incoming chair of the Division of Planetary Sciences in 2006. He has been awarded the Von Braun Aerospace Achievement Award of the National Space Society, the 2007 University of Colorado George Norlin Distinguished Alumnus Award, the 2009 St. Mark’s Preparatory School Distinguished Alumnus Award, Smithsonian Magazine’s 2015 American Ingenuity Award, and the 2016 Sagan Memorial Award of the American Astronautical Society.   In his free time, Alan enjoys running, hiking, camping, and writing. He is an instrument-rated commercial pilot and flight instructor, with both powered and sailplane ratings. He and his wife Carole have two daughters and a son; they make their home near Boulder, Colorado.   You can learn more about Alan and stay up to date with him by visiting his website: https://alanstern.space/   You can stay up to date with New Horizons by visiting the Mission's Webpage: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ Regular Guests: Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ & @Astroguyz ) Michael Rodruck ( https://sites.psu.edu/mrodruck/ / @MichaelRodruck ) Beth Johnson - SETI Institute ( @SETIInstitute / @planetarypan ) This week's stories: - The first detection of a built-in wobble on another planet. - Astronomers improve the distance scale to the Universe. - Japan planning to launch a wooden satellite.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! 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The New Horizons Mission to Pluto, the Juno Mission to Jupiter: What have we learned and what's in store? Prof. Fran Bagenal is a Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and a researcher in the fields of space plasmas and planetary magnetospheres. Her career spans involvement in the exploration of the outer solar system with NASA’s Voyager, Galileo, New Horizons, and Juno missions. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scientificsense/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/scientificsense/support

Paul is joined by Amy Shira Teitel, a spaceflight historian, author, and public speaker who, much like her subjects, is one of the few academically trained young women in her field. Amy came to talk about her new book Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight. Amy has written for more than two dozen websites including the BBC and Time Magazine online, earned a Group Achievement Award from NASA as part of the New Horizons Mission to Pluto team, and appears frequently as an expert interviewee on a number of TV shows and documentaries. She also maintains her blog, The Vintage Space, and its companion YouTube channel.

Why Pluto Matters, According to the Scientist Who Got Us Closest to the Dwarf Planet (0:30)Guest: Alan Stern, Principal Investigator, New Horizons Mission, NASAThe solar system you learned in grade school got a major shakeup in the late 1990s. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are all still there. But Pluto was always the odd planet out. So distant and small and not like the little rocky planets near the sun or gas giants, either. But then, high-powered telescopes revealed in the 1990s that tiny Pluto was just one of a whole class of dwarf planets way out there that far outnumber the planets we all memorized in school. So NASA said, “We gotta go explore that place.” And planetary scientist Alan Stern said, “I'm your man.” 737 Max Crisis Fuels Major Losses for Boeing in 2019 (21:18)Guest: Scott Hamilton, Managing Director of the Leeham CompanyBoeing said today it lost half a billion dollars in 2019 –that's the first annual loss for the company in more than two decades and there's one reason for it: the 737 Max. Should We Be Scared of Facial Recognition Technology? (35:39)Guest: Eric Goldman, Law Professor, Santa Clara UniversityA privacy advocacy group and 40 other organizations wrote a letter to the government this week, calling for a ban on facial recognition technology. The letter was prompted by a recent New York Times expose on a company called Clearview AI. It's all really speculative right now, but the article claims that Clearview is pulling images from social media sites to create a facial recognition program and that more than 600 law enforcement agencies have used it to solve crimes. The Apple Seed (50:39)Guest: Sam Payne, Host, The Apple Seed, BYUradioSam tells the story of how the Grammys came to be and some of the surprise winners of those first awards. Jane Austen's Unfinished Novel Hits The Small Screen (58:44)Guest: Jane Hinckley, Professor of Comparative Arts & Letters, Brigham Young UniversityWhen Jane Austen died of illness at the age of 41, she was working on another novel, but she only finished 11 chapters. It's got an unusual setting for an Austen story and it features her only black character. What did she have in mind for this novel? A writer known for adapting Jane Austen for film and television has taken a stab at finishing it for a series airing now on PBS Masterpiece. It's called Sanditon. Lost and Found: Young Fathers in a New Age (1:20:31)Guest: Paul Florsheim, PhD, "Coauthor of Lost and Found: Young Fathers In the Age of Unwed Parenthood," Professor of Community and Behavioral Health Promotion, University of WisconsinThe rate of teenage pregnancy in America has declined drastically over the last 20 years –which is good news. But over that same period, we've seen a steady rise in unwed parenthood –especially among young parents under the age of 25, and the kids end up being raised by a very young –often very poor-single mother. What about the young fathers? What could help them be more involved in the lives of their children?

Episode 24: Spaced Out – In this episode we speak with Alice Bowman, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Mission Operations Manager for NASA’s unprecedented New Horizons Mission, to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. We also talk to Jonathon Roth author of BEEP & BOB, a the children’s book series set in outer space, and Courtney Gardinier, Teen Instructor and Research Specialist for HCLS who is literally bringing outer space down to earth.

What's up with David Aguilar? (Featuring "Justice Day," and "Secret Rendexvous," performed by David Aguilar and Chocolate Watchband) Author, Artist, musician and enrichment lecturer, David A. Aguilar. AGUILAR is the past Director of Science Information and Public Outreach at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts as well as a naturalist, astronomer, author and space artist. He was member of the Hubble Space Telescope repair team; & past Marketing Director for PBS’s Emmy-winning 7-part NOVA series, Evolution. While at Harvard he hosted the popular Observatory Nights’ series, “Everything I Know About Science – I Learned At The Movies!”.  In 2015, he directed NASA’s New Horizons Mission special media team on the historic Pluto Flyby Mission.   He is author and illustrator of seven National Geographic and three Random House books on astronomy including this year's smash:  "Cosmic Catastrophes- 7 Ways to Destroy a Planet Like Earth". His new book called, "7 Wonders of the Solar System"  - details a wondrous celestial journey through our own solar system. David is also a member of the San Francisco psychedelic garage rock band, the Chocolate Watchband. The band formed in Los Altos, California in 1965 and continues to play live and release albums.    

This week on we're turning our attention to Pluto – what we used to think of as our ninth planet – and also to the mysterious new Planet 9 that might be orbiting on the outskirts of our solar system. We speak to Jeffery Moore, a research scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center, about what we've learned so far about Pluto from the New Horizons Mission. And we speak with Mike Brown, Professor of Planetary Astronomy at Caltech, about the search for Planet 9, and why we think there's another large planet out there revolving around our sun.

Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons Mission, explains that with Pluto in the rearview mirror, the spacecraft will continue on to a smaller Kuiper Belt body  

Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons Mission, explains that with Pluto in the rearview mirror, the spacecraft will continue on to a smaller Kuiper Belt body  

Intro The Orbital Mechanics highlighted how little we know about planetary formation, so let’s talk about Pluto and what we’ve learned from the New Horizons Mission. Pluto Basics Officially a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt About 0.18 the radius of Earth Mass 0.178 of the moon’s Very low density Gravity 0.63 g Neptune and Pluto were both predicted to exist from orbital perturbations of Uranus Percival Lowell (founder of Lowell observatory) started the hunt for pluto in 1906. Tombaugh found Pluto using a blink comparison technique Moons of Pluto Orbit is chaotic, we can predict forwards and backwards for several million years, but over the Lyapunov time we have no idea. New Horizons New Horizons Wiki Page Launched January 20, 2006 Fly-by July 14, 2015 Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) Solar Wind At Pluto (SWAP) Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI) Alice (UV imaging spectrometer) Ralph telescope Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (VBSDC) Radio Science Experiment (REX) The Glitch July 4, 2015 the software went into safe mode Turned out to be a flaw in the timing of the commands in the fly-by prep software. Full functionality restored July 7 9 hour round trip radio delay Glaciers/Geology Bright heart shape observed on the side of the planet during approach is ice (Tombaugh Regio) Nitrogen ice flows like glaciers on Earth. Water ice is very brittle at surface conditions –390 F (–234 C) Active surface is exciting, it’s not a dead planet! Glacier Like Flows News Article from Science Atmosphere As UV light from the sun strikes the thin atmosphere, eventually making tholins that color the surface of the planet Some particles remain suspended, shouldn’t be over 30 km (20 mi) off the sfc. Particles were found to be up to 130 km (81 mi) above the surface Atmospheric pressure is dropping Charon Space.com Article Just as geologically exciting as Pluto Likely atmospheric in origin, but could still be geologic Low gravity of Pluto means it won’t hold onto its atmosphere…and Charon is near its same size, so it can pick up gravitationally what Pluto is putting down. Red coating could take less than a million years to form Near loss of the image Science Magazine Article Team opened the image file, but it was of Charon. They momentarily freaked wondering if the spacecraft wasn’t in the right position. Ended up that they were looking in the wrong directory on a FTP server. Future 2 months of particle and plasma instrument gathering Will choose between two Kuiper belt objects and head that way to meet in 2019 Data transmission home for about 16 months Getting the data back Tops out about 1 kilobit per second on the 70 m dishes of the deep space network Can double the rate using different polarization transmissions from the two amps “twittas”, but something else must be shut down to have enough power to run both at the same time Links Super Planet Crash APOD Pluto time tool shows you when your lighting matches that on Pluto. Tweet your photos to us and NASA! Article Announcing Haze and Ice Flows Fun Paper Friday This week’s fun paper sounds a little bit like Jurassic Park to us. What do you think? Blood vessels recovered from fossils. Schweitzer, Mary H., et al. “Soft-tissue vessels and cellular preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex.” Science 307.5717 (2005): 1952–1955. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

Supplemental Episode: Alex talks about his weekend trip for the NASA Social Event at APL in Laurel, Maryland & the private tour at the National Air & Space Museum to see the new exhibits for New Horizons and the Mars Rovers. He talks about getting through nerves before the trip, the people he met, the experience of the private tour & some interesting facts about Pluto & the New Horizons mission. Next week's episode will have a COMPLETE overview of what Alex and the NASA Social-peeps learned from the APL Staff and the event itself. To keep up with the New Horizons Mission & new pictures of Pluto as we get closer to the July 14th, check out this link here - http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ SPACE LINKS: Expedition 43 returns safely to Earth aboard a Soyuz http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/06/11/u-s-russian-italian-crew-returns-to-earth/ "NASA Awards SpaceX $30 Million for Successful Dragon Pad Abort Test Milestone" http://www.americaspace.com/?p=83005 "NASA Orders First Ever Commercial Human Spaceflight Mission from Boeing" http://www.universetoday.com/120523/nasa-orders-first-ever-commercial-human-spaceflight-mission-from-boeing/ Planetary Society - LightSail team & Bill Nye celebrate the LightSail deploying successfully https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QpByj9QdTw&feature=youtu.be NASA's Eyes Program http://eyes.nasa.gov/

"The Year in Science" Discussion Panel (Part 1 of 2). Topics: mind-uploading of a round worm which then successfully operated a Lego-robot; the world's first warm-blooded fish; a noninvasive treatment for Alzheimer's using ultrasound; the dangers of e-cigarettes; the Pluto flyby New Horizons Mission; landing a space probe on a comet (the Rosetta spacecraft and Philae lander); an earth-sized exoplanet located in a habitable zone; cryovulcanism on the moon Io; the dino-chicken; and many other topics. Speakers are James Maxey (Author), Jim Craig (planetarium director), and your host as moderator.   Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the June 3, 2015 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 34 minutes] This is the first half of a discussion panel I moderated in front of an audience at the science fiction and fantasy convention ConCarolinas in Charlotte NC on May 29, 2015. Stephen Euin Cobb has interviewed over 350 people for his work as an author, futurist, magazine writer and award-winning podcaster. A contributing editor for Space and Time Magazine; he has also been a regular contributor for Robot, H+, Grim Couture and Port Iris magazines; and he spent three years as a columnist and contributing editor for Jim Baen's Universe Magazine. For the last nine years he has produced a weekly podcast, The Future And You, which explores (through interviews, panel discussions and commentary) all the ways the future will be different from today. He is an artist, essayist, game designer, transhumanist, and is on the Advisory Board of The Lifeboat Foundation. Stephen is the author of an ebook about the future entitled: Indistinguishable from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary Future Science.