Week of March 5, 2016
This feature is a curated list of articles, white papers, concepts, events, videos, and data releases. Some listed items may not be current but are nonetheless quite interesting.
Articles & Sites of Interest
- Space.com: Bigelow Aerospace - Inflatable Modules for ISS
- DSFP: The Last Days of the Nuclear Shuttle (1971)
- Spaceflight Insider: Solar Electric Propulsion - NASA’s engine to Mars and Beyond
- International Association of Astronomical Artists
- Ames Laboratory will lead new consortium to research caloric materials, advance refrigeration technology
- European conductor for ITER Toroidal Field coils ready
- Big milestone at ORNL reactor - 1 Million Megawatts Days
- AstroBio: Searching for Extraterrestrials Who Might Have Found Us First
- AstroBio: Avoiding False Positives in the Search for Living Worlds
- AstroBio: Telling Twins Apart: Exo-Earths and Venuses With Transit Spectroscopy
- OSA: OSA Century of Optics
- How ExoMars-2016 will be launched
- The High Frontier: Once around the Moon - The Soviet circumlunar race
- CNRS: Great tilt gave Mars a new face
- ORNL: ORNL researchers stack the odds for novel optoelectronic 2D materials
Concepts & White Papers
- arxiv: Radar scattering of linear dunes and mega-yardangs: Application to Titan
- arxiv: The Age Distribution of Potential Intelligent Life in the Milky Way
- arxiv: Could Jupiter or Saturn Have Ejected a Fifth Giant Planet?
- arxiv: Next Generation Very Large Array Memo No. 6, Science Working Group 1: The Cradle of Life
- arxiv: Probing exoplanet clouds with optical phase curves
- NTRS: Development and Utilization of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
- NTRS: Mars Surface Tunnel Element Concept
- arxiv: Transiting Exoplanet Studies and Community Targets for JWST's Early Release Science Program
- arxiv: Demonstrating High-precision, Multiband Transit Photometry with MuSCAT - A Case for HAT-P-14b
- ESA / JUICE: Mission Scenario and Operations
- ESA / JUICE: Science Payload
- arxiv: Interaction Cross Sections and Survival Rates for Proposed Solar System Member Planet Nine
- JGR: Sequence and relative timing of large lakes in Gale crater (Mars) after the formation of Mt. Sharp (Sci-Hub)
- arxiv: Identifying Planetary Biosignature Impostors - Spectral Features of CO and O4 Resulting from Abiotic O2/O3 Production
- arxiv: Telling twins apart: Exo-Earths and Venuses with transit spectroscopy
- arxiv: A Transiting Jupiter Analog
- Nature: Late Tharsis formation and implications for early Mars (Sci-Hub)
- arxiv: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Earth's Solar Transit Zone
- NTRS: Launch and Commissioning of the Deep Space Climate Observatory
Videos
- Eternal 5D optical data storage: high density data storage for all-time
- ESO: Hubblecast 90 - The final frontier
- NASA Goddard: (AUDIO ONLY) Affording and Sustaining Human Mars Exploration - Recommendations from the Third Community Workshop
- LASP: Pluto - The pugnacious planet!
- US-Gov Hearing: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ocean Worlds Budget
- NASA Johnson: A One-Year Mission Retrospective
- NASA Johnson: The Science of the One-Year Mission
- NASA SSERVI / ESA: ESA Looks to Build Permanent Moon Base
- FORMS IN NATURE - Understanding Our Universe
- ESA: ExoMars prepares for launch
- ColumbiaU: Discovery of Kepler-167e - A Jupiter Twin
- Mar 6, 1869: Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society
- Mar 6, 1981: Walter Cronkite's final presentation as hosting journalist to CBS Evening News
- Mar 6-19, 1986: Four spacecraft (Vega 1, Suisei, Vega 2, Sakigake) perform flybys of Halley's Comet in the Halley Armada
- Mar 6, 1992: The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers
- Mar 7, 2009: Launch of Kepler space observatory, to search for transiting exoplanets
- Mar 8, 1618: Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion
- Mar 8, 2001: Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-102 - Post-flight Presentation
- Mar 12, 1894: Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn
- Mar 12, 1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers the first of his series of 'Fireside Chats'.
- Mar 12, 1993: The 'Storm of the Century' begins, dropping large amounts of snow across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures - the storm would go on to last 30 hours
Spacecraft Updates
- Feb 29: JAXA / Hitomi (ASTRO-H) - completion of critical operations phase, instrument tests to follow
- Mar 5: Juno - 801,082,000 km from Sol, 66,662,000 km from Jupiter @ 25,872-km/h - 120 days until JOI
- Mar 5: New Horizons - 5,214,507,000 km from Sol, 294,987,000 km from Pluto, 1,272,700,000 km to KBO-JimGreene @ 51,990-km/h - 1030 days until flyby
- Mar 5: Voyager 1 - 20,079,965,000 km from Sol @ 61,233-km/h
- Mar 5: Voyager 2 - 16,539,098,000 km from Sol @ 55,418-km/h
- Mar 6: Cassini - ISS movie sequence of the narrow F ring
- Mar 8: Cassini - ISS observation during distant flyby of Titan at 425,863-kilometers
- Mar 8-10: Cassini - ISS movie sequence of the A ring Encke Gap
- Mar 9: Cassini - ISS / CIRS observation of Mimas at 201,880-kilometers
- Mar 10: Cassini - ISS observation of F ring in high resolution
- Mar 10-11: Cassini - ISS movie sequence of the D ring
- Mar 11: Cassini - UVIS observation of Enceledus and plumes at 979,130-kilometers
- Mar 12-19: ISS / CIRS / UVIS observations of the Saturn atmosphere
Blog Entries
- Weekly Read & Watch List - Week of Feb 28
- Juling and Fluusa craters, an Oblique Mosaic
- LAMO 36
- LAMO 37
- LAMO 38
- LAMO 39
- LAMO 40
- Saturday Morning Films - Mar 5
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