Spacecraft Updates | SciByte 23

Posted on: November 30, 2011

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Spacecraft Updates | SciByte 23

Find out the latest on Russia’s failed attempt to reach Mars, NASA’s new mission, and we’ll update you on the biggest stories of the month, including a few updates that could have huge impacts for physics!

Too much out there is just plain distraction, why can’t we have our cake and eat it too? There are a lot of interesting things going on out there in science, but getting to the interesting bits without all the hype you get from major media outlets is a trick we at Jupiter Broadcasting are hoping to pull off.

SciByte will provide you with a treasure trove of small talk for your next cocktail party, the knowledge to show off to friends and family, and provide you the means, with the help of our trusty show notes, to further investigate the things that interest you the most.

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Phobos-Grunt : Update

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory “Curiosity” Rover : Updates and more

YU55, the molten asteroid : Update

Faster than light Neutrinos : Update

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Super Saturnian storm

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Looking back

  • Dec 04, 1819 : 192 years ago : Watermarking – A triple paper was patented in Britain by Sir William Congreve that could incorporate a colored watermark visible when the paper was held up to the light, to make currency harder to counterfeit
  • Dec 6, 1830 : 181 years ago : US Navel Observatory – One of the oldest scientific agencies in the U.S., was established as the Depot of Charts and Instruments in Washington, D.C. Its primary mission was to care for the U.S. Navy’s chronometers, charts and other navigational equipment.
  • Dec 6, 1850 : 161 years ago : Ophthalmoscope – Hermann von Helmholtz announced his invention, the ophthalmoscope, to the Berlin Physical Society. It revolutionized ophthalmology, enabling a view inside a person’s eye to see the details of the living retina, diagnose eye diseases and prevent blindness. Ophthalmoscope Retina from Ophthalmoscope
  • Dec 06, 1945 : 66 years ago : Microwave Oven – The microwave oven was patented.
  • Nov 30, 1954 : 57 years ago : The Sky WAS Falling – In Alabama, USA, Ann Hodges, was bruised on the arm and hip by a meteorite that fell through the roof of her house, smashed the case of her wooden radio and struck her as she lay resting on her sofa. The meteor made a fireball visible from three states, even though it fell early in the afternoon Image Image Image of Meteorite
  • Dec 01, 1997 : 14 years ago : Planets align – Eight planets from our Solar System lined up from West to East beginning with Pluto, followed by Mercury, Mars, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, and Saturn, with a crescent moon alongside that lasted until Dec 8. The planets also aligned in May 2000, but too close to the sun to be visible from Earth. It will be at least another 100 years before so many planets will be so close and so visible.IMAGE

Looking up this week

  • Keep an eye out for …

  • All this week during dawn hours, Saturn and Spica remain 5 degrees apart all this week, or about half the width of your fist held at arm’s length. IMAGE

  • Friday, Dec 2nd : Moon hits first quarter IMAGE

  • Monday, Dec 5th : Jupiter will be to the lower left of the Moon at nightfall. Only the Moon and Venus outshine it.

  • More on whats in the sky this week

  • Sky&Telescope

  • AstronomyNow

  • SpaceWeather.com

  • HeavensAbove

  • StarDate.org

  • Swooper_101

    Good show guys. Was really happy to see a video scibyte.

  • Champion1701

    I do not know if it my Trekieness getting to me, but my gut tells me that the Neutrino anomaly is more than we think. For all we know, it could be the discovery of “Subspace”. I will be following this story for awhile.

  • “Teary Eyes” Anderson

    Congratulations on finaly getting back to a video episode. I’ve missed them since September. I’m also impressed with this new episode, no long ackward pauses ;) “umm..” I was hoping for a donut eclipse video, someday that’s all we’ll get from the Earth, but the link to the picture was nice. Thank You! I’m also glad to hear more about the ‘Faster than light Neutrinos’, way back in the first audio edition of the show Episode 17, Oct 18, it seemed Heather discussed mostly why the experiment had to be wrong, and didn’t really tell much of how the experiment was done. I love that tech stuff, and since you and the other media didn’t seem to explain it very well I decided to sit down and share my thoughts with the ‘Short Science’ podcast episode 121. I tell how the nutrinos are produced and possible errors, but I also suggested that the results could be correct, and that I think it was the vaccum tunnel that the nutrinos are sent through that allowed these results. It’s good to see that Heather might be agreeing with me, hehe, but just remember if that’s right ‘I totally called it first’ ;) S.S. posted Wednesday 9th November 2011. I also want to remind you that the tech stuff is cool to hear about also, it’s like calling the LHC ‘a big round thing with magnets, which makes Big Bangs’, sounds rather dull that way. Keep up the good work!!!

  • Jacob Whitaker

    GO SCI-BYTE!

  • Duncan

    Love the show, as always. I do however have one small correction and one suggestion.

    Stating with the correction, Regarding the 2 Mars-missions being so close together Heather stated that it has to do with the alignment of the planets and that this happens “once a year, or so”. That’s a bit off, the synodic period (as it is called) between Earth and Mars is 779.96 days (2.135 earth years), so Heather was a bit off.

    And now for my suggestion. I had hoped the video version would have some sections that really can’t be done in an audio format. Something like a SciByte math section. I know from my own field (Aerospace) that most first order calculations use only very basic physics, can be easily understood by people from other fields, and are remarkably close to the real solutions. A section about the synodic period would have helped Heather avoid making a mistake here.

  • M05ES

    I assumed Heather was talking about a Martian year! I also really enjoyed the show!

  • M05ES

    Holy show notes!
    Great show, guys!
    My brain is still on fire from the NASA ISS footage!
    There’s an even better video here:
    http://nasawatch.com/archives/2011/11/video-iss-flies.html