Week of March 20, 2016
This section 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
- ESA: ExoMars Operations timeline
- DoE: How SuperTruck is Making Heavy Duty Vehicles More Efficient
- Planetary Society: Continuing the Hunt for Exoplanets
- Universal Science: Hubble breaks cosmic distance record
- Centauri Dreams: A Transiting Jupiter Analog
- Scientific American: No Man's Land - Where on Mars Should Astronauts Go?
- BBC: The Cold War space missions that never
- spaceREF: LISA Pathfinder Begins Its Science Mission
- Planetary Society: "Planet Nine" update - Possible resonances beyond the Kuiper belt?
- spaceREF: OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in thermal vacuum testing
- JPL: NASA Targets May 2018 Launch of Mars InSight Mission
- NASA: NASA Prepares to Fly – First RS-25 Flight Engine Test Set for March
- spaceREF: Sharpest View Ever of Dusty Disc Around Aging Star
- PSI: Planetary Science Institute Funded for Expanded Education Public Outreach Effort
- Centauri Dreams: Into the ‘Transit Zone’
- NASA: NASA's K2 mission - The Kepler Space Telescope's Second Chance to Shine
- gbtimes: China's space station - 2 arms, 'wings', and a 'Chinese Hubble'
- spaceREF: Mysterious infrared light from space resolved perfectly
- Pale Red Dot: Directly Imaging Exoplanets
- NASA: What’s Eating at Pluto?
- NASA: Pluto’s ‘Snakeskin’ Terrain - Cradle of the Solar System?
- NASA: NASA Selects Proposals to Build Better Solar Technologies for Deep Space Missions
- spaceREF: SDU researchers present a new model for what dark matter might be
- ScienceNews: Support grows for a return to ice giants Uranus and Neptune
- Planetary Society: ExoMars launch successful! What to expect for the Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli missions
- CICLOPS: Rev234: Mar 21 - Apr 18 '16
- Planetary Society: Looking Forward to the 2016 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Concepts & White Papers
- Solar Polar Orbit Telescope (SPORT)
- OSA: Designs for a large-aperture telescope to map the CMB 10× faster
- arxiv: Quantum Telescopes: feasibility and constrains
- NTRS: Forward Skirt Structural Testing on the Space Launch System (SLS) Program
- NTRS: The Cosmic Microwave Background - Detection and Interpretation of the First Light
- arxiv: Jumping Jupiter can explain Mercury's orbit
- arxiv: Large size and slow rotation of the trans-Neptunian object (225088) 2007 OR10 discovered from Herschel and K2 observations
- arxiv: Corralling a distant planet with extreme resonant Kuiper belt objects
- arxiv: The Frequency of Giant impacts on Earth-like Worlds
- arxiv: Telling twins apart: Exo-Earths and Venuses with transit spectroscopy
- NTRS: Potential for Additive Manufacture in Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP)
- NTRS: Friction Stir Welding and NASA
- arxiv: Mineralogy and Geology of asteroid (4) Vesta from Dawn Framing Camera
- arxiv: The mineral clouds on HD 209458b and HD189733b
- Science: The small satellites of Pluto as observed by New Horizons
- Science: The atmosphere of Pluto as observed by New Horizons
- Science: Surface compositions across Pluto and Charon
- Science: The geology of Pluto and Charon through the eyes of New Horizons
- Science: Pluto’s interaction with its space environment: Solar wind, energetic particles, and dust
- RAS: Daily variability of Ceres’ albedo detected by means of radial velocities changes of the reflected sunlight - (Sci-Hub)
- arxiv: Possible ground fog detection from SLI imagery of Titan
Events & Involvement
- Mar 14: ESA / ExoMars 2016 launching from Baikonur Cosmodrome on a Proton rocket @ 04:30 EDT
- Mar 15: House Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science Subcommittee on NASA FY2017 budget @ 10:30 EDT
- Mar 15: NASA Advisory Council Astrophysics Subcommittee @ 08:00 EDT
- Mar 16: NASA Advisory Council Astrophysics Subcommittee @ 08:00 EDT
- Mar 17: House Science, Space Design & Technology, Space Subcommittee hearing on NASA FY2017 budget @ 10:00 EDT
- Mar 21: LPSC - News Horizons - Peering into Pluto @ 01:00 PM EDT
- Mar 21: LPSC - New Horizons - The Exploration of the Pluto System and the Kuiper Belt Beyond @ 2:30 PM EDT
- Mar 21: LPSC - NASA Headquarter Briefing on Planetary Sciences @ 6:30 PM EDT
Videos
- Griffith Observatory: Sky Report - March 2016
- Ian Regan: Neptune — Voyager 2 Approaches (ROUGH DRAFT)
- Planetary Radio Live: All these worlds… Planet 9 and our expanding solar system
- NEAF: New Horizons - Mission to Pluto and What Planethood Really Means
- JHU-APL: The "Hopkins Beast" Mobile Automaton
- JHU-APL: "Ferdinand" the Mobile Automaton
- JHU-APL: Transit - The World's First Satellite Navigation System
- TMT Overview
- NASA-Stenis: First SLS Flight Engine Test
- Concorde Chases An Eclipse - 1973
- DELIVERY FROM EARTH
- Approaching Neptune
Data
Spacecraft Updates
- Mar 8: LISA Pathfinder begins science operations phase
- Mar 8: OSIRIS-REx enters thermal vacuum testing phase
- Mar 9: InSight being repaired by JPL for launch in 2018
- Mar 20: Juno - 803,398,000 km from Sol, 59,635,000 km from Jupiter @ 25,501-km/h - 106 days until JOI
- Mar 20: New Horizons - 5,232,284,000 km from Sol, 312,928,000 km from Pluto, 1,266,620,000 km to KBO-JimGreene @ 51,966-km/h - 1016 days until flyby
- Mar 20: Voyager 1 - 20,101,040,000 km from Sol @ 61,230-km/h
- Mar 20: Voyager 2 - 16,557,785,000 km from Sol @ 55,416-km/h
- Mar 21: Cassini start of Revolution 234
- Mar 22: Cassini Rev234 - ISS / UVIS observation of Saturn's atmosphere
- Mar 23: Cassini Rev234 - ISS observation of Titan in half phase, in search of cloud and haze layer changes from approximately 1.99 million kilometers
- Mar 23: Cassini Rev234 - CIRS observation of Saturn's atmosphere
- Mar 24: Cassini Rev234 - ISS observation tracking clouds on Saturn
- Mar 25: Cassini Rev234 - ISS / UVIS observation of Saturn's atmosphere
- Mar 26: Cassini Rev234 - ISS observation tracking clouds on Saturn
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