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NASA into deep planning for Asteroid Redirect Mission

All of this will set the stage for the third phase of the ARM project, the Asteroid Redirect Crewed Mission (ARCM) of an Orion vehicle to the boulder placed into lunar orbit.

According to the ARM presentation, this flight is targeted for 2026 – placing it notionally as the EM-5 mission (based on EM-2 in 2023 and a once-per-year flight rate of Orion thereafter) – and would be a 24.3 day, 2-person crewed mission launched aboard an Orion vehicle augmented with an ARCM mission kit.

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spaceplasma: “ Solar Magnetic Arcade A major X5.7 solar flare produced this arcade resembling a popular slinky toy, on 14 July 2000, in Active Region 9077 (AR9077). The enormous loops are actually magnetic field lines which trap the glowing, cooling...
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 Solar Magnetic Arcade

A major X5.7 solar flare produced this arcade resembling a popular slinky toy, on 14 July 2000, in Active Region 9077 (AR9077). The enormous loops are actually magnetic field lines which trap the glowing, cooling plasma above the relatively dark solar surface.The event also blasted an enormous cloud of energetic charged particles toward planet Earth, triggering magnetic storms and dramatic auroral displays. The false-color image covers an expansive 230,000 by 170,000 kilometer area on the Sun’s surface (Earth’s diameter is about 12,800 kilometers) and was recorded in extreme ultraviolet light. 

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NASA’s Transition Region And Coronal Explorer, known as TRACE,  observed the event in three colors: the red image shows the ultraviolet continuum, generally characteristic of cool, dense gas; the blue image shows the 171 Å pass band, characteristic of material around 1 million degrees; the green channel – 195 Å, shows material hotter than about 1.5 million degrees up to approximately 10 million degrees.


Credit: TRACE, Stanford-Lockheed ISR, NASA
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Behind the curtain: Ars goes inside Blue Origin’s secretive rocket factory

Jeff Bezos' rocket company invited just a few reporters for its first media tour.

But Blue Origin also plans to build its own larger launch vehicle based around the BE-4 engine. This rocket, capable of reaching orbit, has a placeholder name, “Very Big Brother.” Pressed for information about this rocket, which the company hopes to launch from Florida in 2019, Bezos said the company would be ready to release more details later this year.

Why does the company want its own bigger vehicle? To launch satellites and take people into orbit. And that rocket, the Very Big Brother, is just the beginning. “To do the kinds of things we’re doing, I believe it’s going to be efficient to have very large orbital vehicles,” he said. “Bigger than anything we’ve ever built before. Our first orbital vehicle will not be our last, and it will be the smallest orbital vehicle we will ever build.”

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Tabby's Star for the Perplexed
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At present, everyone is stumped, and we need more data. The James Webb Space Telescope is still about 3 years away from on-orbit commissioning, and its “first light” image is unlikely to be Tabby’s Star. It could be some time before it studies the system in depth. However, skilled amateur astronomers are out in clear nights, keeping a watch on Tabby’s star for anomalous dimming events. Since these events last on the order of days, there will be time to swing a big telescope onto the star and attempt to get detailed spectra in the visible and infrared, while smaller telescopes measure the fluctuations in brightness. This could give us a much better idea of what it is that is blocking Tabby’s Star. Whether this will solve or deepen the mystery, no one knows.

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“ This snapshot from deep space captures planet Earth on March 9. The shadow of its large moon is falling on the planet’s sunlit hemisphere. Tracking toward the east (left to right) across the ocean-covered world the moon shadow moved quickly in the...

This snapshot from deep space captures planet Earth on March 9. The shadow of its large moon is falling on the planet’s sunlit hemisphere. Tracking toward the east (left to right) across the ocean-covered world the moon shadow moved quickly in the direction of the planet’s rotation. Of course, denizens of Earth located close to the shadow track centerline saw this lunar shadow transit as a brief, total eclipse of the Sun. From a spacebased perspective between Earth and Sun, the view of this shadow transit was provided by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC).

Source: apod.nasa.gov
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Narrated by Orson Wells, this 1975 NASA film explores the view of extraterrestrial life emerging from the results of probes to the planets and interstellar discoveries and findings about the nature of life itself. The film discusses the conclusion drawn by a number of distinguished scientists that other intelligent civilizations exist in the universe.

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“ Gaze across the frozen canyons of northern Pluto in this contrast enhanced color scene, imaged last July by the New Horizons spacecraft. Currently known as Lowell Regio, the region has been informally named for Percival Lowell, founder of the...

Gaze across the frozen canyons of northern Pluto in this contrast enhanced color scene, imaged last July by the New Horizons spacecraft. Currently known as Lowell Regio, the region has been informally named for Percival Lowell, founder of the Lowell Observatory. Also famous for his speculation that there were canals on Mars, in 1906 Lowell started the search that ultimately led to Pluto’s discovery. Pluto’s North Pole itself is above and left of center in the the frame. The pale bluish floor of the broad canyon on the left is about 70 kilometers (45 miles) wide, running vertically toward the south. Higher elevations take on a yellowish hue. New Horizon’s measurements have determined that in addition to nitrogen ice, methane ice is abundant across northern Pluto’s Lowell Regio.

Source: apod.nasa.gov
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