Pioneering NASA Spacecraft Mark 30 Years of Flight |
Pioneering NASA Spacecraft Mark 30 Years of Flight |
Sep 3 2007, 07:47 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 9-January 06 Member No.: 639 |
Here's a quote from that shutdown proposal article that I found a bit odd:
QUOTE Today Voyager 1, about 9 billion miles from Earth and traveling at 46,000 mph, and Voyager 2, about 7 billion miles away doing 63,000 mph, are flirting with the edge of the solar system, where the sun's magnetic field and the solar wind give way to interstellar wind. I'd say those velocities are off a bit! Voyager 1 is actually traveling at 38,000 mph, and Voyager 2 traveling at 34,000 mph. Later! J P |
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Sep 5 2007, 02:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 213 Joined: 21-January 07 From: Wigan, England Member No.: 1638 |
-------------------- "I got a call from NASA Headquarters wanting a color picture of Venus. I said, “What color would you like it?” - Laurance R. Doyle, former JPL image processing guy
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Sep 6 2007, 08:36 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 11-October 04 From: Oxford, UK (Glasgow by birth) Member No.: 101 |
Voyager 1 launched on September 5, 1977, the day before my 10th Birthday!
So , erm, yes, today is my 40th Birthday!! There, said it. Brian -------------------- "There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary code, and those who don't."
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Sep 6 2007, 10:42 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
I got a dozen years on ya, ya young whipper-snapper!
I turn 52 this coming October 17th... I was born just short of two years before Sputnik 1. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Dec 8 2007, 10:14 PM
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I always enjoyed the design of the 1970s and 1980s pinback buttons made by JPL.
Here's an example of a nice on; Goodbye Saturn and upside down it says Hello Uranus |
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Dec 8 2007, 11:25 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
That's cool as hell, Phil! Never saw that before.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 9 2007, 10:27 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
Those were based in the calligraphic magic of a wunderkid calligraphic "geek"/"artist" who'd just made a distinct splash in the sci/techie world. I don't recall his name, but I think he was discovered or at least promoted by Martin Gardiner and his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American.
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Dec 11 2007, 02:37 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
It appears that Voyager 2 has indeed crossed over to the other side...
"Voyager 2 entered the termination shock almost 1 billion miles closer within the southern hemisphere of the heliosphere of the solar system than Voyager 1 previously had," said Voyager Project scientist Edward Stone of the California Institute of Technology. http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews...044867120071211 -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 11 2007, 03:55 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 204 Joined: 29-June 05 Member No.: 421 |
The artist most famous for the calligraphic text inversions is Scott Kim, but the Saturn/Uranus pin doesn't really look like his work. His tend to be a bit more polished and fancier calligraphy...
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Dec 11 2007, 05:15 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Transcendentally cool, nonetheless...
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 12 2007, 11:27 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
"but the Saturn/Uranus pin doesn't really look like his work. " That's who I was thinking of... if those weren't Kim's work, they certainly were inspired by it. It was a microscopic "all the rage" at the time.
"It appears that Voyager 2 has indeed crossed over to the other side..." ONWARD! 0UTWOARD! TO THE HELIOPAUSE! |
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Dec 12 2007, 04:06 PM
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We could go on & on about the NASA-JPL pinback buttons as I have a nice collection
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Feb 26 2008, 10:08 PM
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Already looking forward to the upcoming 30th anniversary of the Voyager asteroid belt crossings and the Voyager 1 Jupiter encounter, I guess it's time to put on our best clothes
the other Philip |
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Feb 27 2008, 03:44 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
I think I saw an IguanaCon namebadge in there somewhere...
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Feb 27 2008, 08:24 AM
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That photo was taken in January 1986 during the Voyager 2 Uranus encounter...
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