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June 11th, 2020 | #1 | |
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NASA’s New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment
NASA’s New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment
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This two-frame animation of Proxima Centauri blinks back and forth between New Horizons and Earth images of each star, clearly illustrating the different view of the sky New Horizons has from its deep-space perch. This two-frame animation of Wolf 359 blinks back and forth between New Horizons and Earth images of each star, clearly illustrating the different view of the sky New Horizons has from its deep-space perch. Stereo for 3D Glasses: These anaglyph images can be viewed with red-blue stereo glasses to reveal the stars' distance from their backgrounds. On the left is Proxima Centauri and on the right is Wolf 359.
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June 12th, 2020 | #2 |
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I hope NASA will have New Horizons' cameras look back and take another 'Family Portrait' of the Solar System like Voyager 1 did back in 1990. At the time Voyager was 13 years into its flight and roughly the same distance (3-4 billion miles) from Earth as NH is now. A new 'Pale Blue Dot' photo of Earth would be great.
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Voyager 1 took its pictures long after its main planetary flyby objectives were achieved, and its camera was shut down shortly after the Pale Blue Dot photo was taken to conserve power. New Horizons' nuclear power source should keep the spacecraft operating into the 2030s, so maybe they can try it sometime before the probe's power and fuel are exhausted.
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