Entre los regalos de cumple que me hsn caído hoy había un muñeco de Camember, mi personaje favorito de Animal Crossing.
Está hecho con una impresora 3D y pintado a mano por mi madre. ¿No está cuquísimo? :ablobcatenjoy: #animalcrossing#pocketcamp#newleaf#newhorizons#wildworld
Just finished watching The Orville New Horizons and... wow - how awesome was THAT! This season was great, and much more serious than previous ones with a lot of good character development and some really good stories too!
I always said that The Orville did Star Trek better than Star Trek does (even when it was more comedic at the start) and that was even more true in this season - the Moclan and Kaylon story arcs were really meaty and were really well done! And they even tied up some of the loose ends leftover from previous seasons too (though I do wonder what the deal was with the Chak'Tal...).
The last episode was more like an epilogue but even if they don't do another season (it doesn't seem likely at this point) I think it had a really good run and did what it set out to do. I would love to see more of this setting, in some form (books? comics? cartoons?) but I'd also be OK if this is all we're going to get. "Future Unknown", indeed!
if you're still on the fence about this and you like sci-fi, then I would definitely recommend that you start watching it - it's very good stuff! #scifi#TheOrville#NewHorizons
#PPOD: All members of the Pluto system as taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft and shown at 1 km/pixel. Pluto and Charon, technically a binary planetary system, anchor this eclectic group, and the small moons are tantalizingly interesting as well. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Ted Stryk
Currently, New Horizons is speeding across the Kuiper Belt at 49,400 km/h, 58 AU away, collecting and sending data from the heliosphere.
Interestingly, some data from the Arrokoth flyby still remains to be downloaded, given that the data rate is < 1 kbps.
Other activities for 2024 include a software upgrade to reduce power consumption, analysis of new science data and selection of a new KBO flyby target.
NASA DSN site in Goldstone, CA is currently communicating with the New Horizons spacecraft.
Downlink rate: 944.8 bps
Distance: 8.8 billion km; 8.15 light-hours
NASA's #NewHorizons
2015-07-14 at 33958 km
Instrument: MVIC
OPUS ID: Color Composite of
mc2_0299178092 Filter IR
mc0_0299178092 Filter Red
mc1_0299178092 Filter Blue
When New Horizons flew past Arrokoth in 2019, it revealed close-up images of the Kuiper Belt Object for the first time. Astronomers are still studying all the data sent home by the spacecraft. Scientists have identified 12 mounds on Arrokoth's larger lobe, which are roughly the same size, shape, color, and reflectivity. The scientists think their similar look is because they formed the same way, where icy material slowly accumulated on the surface of Arrokoth. We can see something similar when Lucy arrives in Jupiter's Trojan Belt.
🛰️✨ La #NASA a décidé de poursuivre la mission #NewHorizons en se concentrant sur la science multidisciplinaire. Ces opérations prolongées se poursuivront jusqu'à ce que la sonde quitte la ceinture de Kuiper, ce qui est prévu en 2028-2029.
The Universe glows in visible light in a way that cannot be accounted for by known sources of light within and outside our galaxy.
So was discovered by the New Horizons spacecraft, when it was over 51 AU from the Sun, its camera pointed towards the darkest parts of the skies.
New Horizons will point its camera over the next few months, not at stars or galaxies, but in the dark void in between, making additional measurements in visible and UV light.
Here is the current location of the New Horizons spacecraft, speeding away from the solar system, far beyond the orbit of Pluto, 7.75 light-hours from the Sun.
This paper by PI Tod Lauer et al describes measurements of the dark sky in visible light taken by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2021 and the methodology used to subtract out light from various sources within and outside the Milky Way galaxy.
The table below shows the contributions from various sources which leaves a substantial unaccounted gap in the "Flux in the Cosmic Optical Background," for which we do not have a clear explanation yet.
Launched on Jan 19, 2006, New Horizons made a spectacular flyby of Pluto in July 14, 2015.
On Jan 1, 2019, it flew by the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft, the contact binary trans-Neptunian object 2014 MU6, nicknamed Arrokoth.
Arrokoth means "sky" in the Powhatan/Algonquin language.
New Horizons also saw evidence for methanol, water ice and organic molecules on the red surface of the 36 km Kuiper Belt object.
A list from Tod Lauer on some hypotheses to account for the Anomalous Flux in the Cosmic Optical Background as measured by the New Horizons spacecraft -
1 We screwed up the analysis (but Symons et al. 2023 see it)
2 Unknown spacecraft light (checked gobs of ideas)
3 Galaxies are more extended (most say not)
4 New faint galaxies (watch JWST)
5 Stars unbound from galaxies (theoretically hard)
6 Dark matter decay (OK, then)
On #Jupiter, high-altitude clouds are shown in blue and deeper #clouds in red. Just visible in the #Io image is an ongoing volcanic eruption on its nightside, in which incandescent lava glows red beneath a high #volcanic plume lit by sunlight