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Planetary Society Blog for Saturday 31 January 2015
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/////////////////////////////////////////// Camera now measuring even fainter Near-Earth Objects Posted: 30 Jan 2015 05:03 PM PST http://www.planetary.org/blogs/bruce...r-objects.html Camera purchased with the support of a 2009 Shoemaker NEO Grant is now on a new telescope providing follow-up measurements for even fainter near-Earth objects. /////////////////////////////////////////// Talking to Pluto is hard! Why it takes so long to get data back from New Horizons Posted: 30 Jan 2015 07:53 AM PST http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily...o-is-hard.html As I write this post, New Horizons is nearing the end of a weeklong optical navigation campaign. The last optical navigation images in the weeklong series will be taken tomorrow, but it will likely take two weeks or more for all the data to get to Earth. Two weeks! Why does it take so long? /////////////////////////////////////////// Dawn Journal: Closing in on Ceres Posted: 30 Jan 2015 06:31 AM PST http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest...-on-ceres.html Dawn's chief engineer Marc Rayman gives an update on the mission as it gets ever closer to its next target: The dwarf planet Ceres. |
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