Posted on 01/01/2014 10:12:34 AM PST by Farnsworth
From a Chinese rover on the moon and new spacecraft orbiting Mars, to private spaceships and the most powerful digital camera ever built, space will be practically buzzing with human activities in 2014.
Here are some of the things to look out for when you're looking up next year:
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Rosetta Spacecraft Artist Impression [Pin It] In August 2014, the ESA's Rosetta Spacecraft will rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and deploy its Philae lander, as seen in this artist's impression. Credit: ESA–C. Carreau/ATG medialab View full size image
From a Chinese rover on the moon and new spacecraft orbiting Mars, to private spaceships and the most powerful digital camera ever built, space will be practically buzzing with human activities in 2014.
Here are some of the things to look out for when you're looking up next year:
New arrivals at Mars
Mars is going to be a busy place in 2014. Two new probes are expected to make it into Martian orbit in September and NASA's Curiosity and Opportunity rovers are still sending science back to Earth from the surface of the Red Planet. [11 Must-See Skywatching Events in 2014]
Both India's Mars orbiter Mangalyaan and NASA's MAVEN mission are expected to get into their orbits around Mars in September. MAVEN is going to investigate the Martian atmosphere and hopefully help piece together the history of how the Red Planet lost its atmosphere. Mangalyaan, India's first Mars probe, is designed to beam back images of Mars' surface and hunt for methane in the planet's atmosphere.
Philae lander
could use that in a ditty or a ballad
Happy union in space!
and a Nappy Yew Near ... uhhh HNY!!
I highly recommend the NASA Eyes on the Solar System app.
Its got some really cool stuff. (don’t bother with the eyes on the earth. Its what you think it is)
http://eyes.nasa.gov/index.html
I’m still waiting for the X-37B to return from 1+ year long orbit.
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>>space will be practically buzzing with human activities in 2014.<<
I hope it doesn’t piss off the neighbors...
here’ about Philae about Jack and Diane....
I was going more in a Hank Williams direction but that works.. lol
I used it when Curiosity was landing, it was like being their.
I would love what that thing is doing, how detailed the spying it can do
enjoy
Ha! don’t know much country, so if you got one let me know.
Eyes on the exoplanets is really awesome.
I’m very curious to know, too!
Not for public consumption
Think crawfish pie filet gumbo me o my o
(Drink)
Repeat and work it in.. Lol
ping. Thanks for that!
I’ll check it out
your welcome. If I find interesting space articles, I’ll be posting them.
you might find this article interesting if you like exoplanets
http://www.livescience.com/42217-most-amazing-exoplanet-discoveries-2013.html
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