Starship Asterisk*

Humanity Explores the Solar System

Explanation: What spacecraft is humanity currently using to explore our Solar System? Presently, every inner planet has at least one robotic explorer, while several others are monitoring our Sun, some are mapping Earth's Moon, a few are chasing asteroids and comets, one is orbiting Saturn, and several are even heading out into deep space. The above illustration gives more details, with the inner Solar System depicted on the upper right and the outer Solar System on the lower left. Given the present armada, our current epoch might become known as the time when humanity first probed its own star system. Sometimes widely separated spacecraft act together as an InterPlanetary Network to determine the direction of distant explosions by noting when each probe detects high energy photons. Future spacecraft milestones, as indicated along the bottom of the graphic, include Dawn reaching Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, and New Horizons reaching Pluto, both in 2015.

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Excellent! Loved it!! Thanks APOD.

Gads! Datsa lotta stuff

Very good

Imagine adding all the space observation platforms too, like Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, etc. Talk about alot of stuff!

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Nice depiction and poster; one typo, "Venus Expess"

Yes....Humanity explores the Solar System....in the name of science, in the search for truth, and facts, and data about the universe around us....and in the process pollutes it.
Currently 19.000 objects larger than 5cm are tracked, and 300,000 pieces smaller than 1cm. And this is just Earth orbit. In the future it is likely to get more, and worse, and start interfering with missions. I remember the Star Trek Episode about how warping in space was actually WEARING SPACE OUT...a type of travel pollution, so to speak. So, in the future, space travel would be more limited...
I am reminded of "Jurassic Park"..."just because you Can do something...SHOULD you do something?"
Every Scientist should watch "Gamera Vs Zigra"..."Scientists should be trying to SOLVE EARTH'S POLLUTION PROBLEMS"...ruffly translated...
Well...maybe someday in the far flung future, when we are REALLY OUT THERE on a permanent basis, Garbage Scow Space Trucks, will gather up the debris and what can be salvaged will be recycled, and anything that can not be used, gets incinerated on the way to the Sun. YES, Friends there IS HOPE that mankind will do the right thing in the future!!!!! Oh, yeah...we are mankind....hmmm...going to take an act of the world congress, and someone to enforce the laws, and a Garbage committee to discuss which size of objects to collect, and of course the United States will get the biggest share of the blame, and cost, etc.....hmmmmm....OH WELL...NOT OUR PROBLEM, RIGHT????? That is one for the next millennium...by then it will be a monumental task, cost trillions, but will create jobs!!! Soooo,...Stay in school, and study SCIENCE!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris

Nice depiction of the missions going on, past and present...interesting way of using "inserts", and these missions HAVE taught us a lot about the solar system and beyond.
And maybe it will all work out...if we all just work together....HMMMPH!!! (Nodding my head with determination)...

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Nothing better than an " assembly drawing " for a complete perspective

Beyond wrote:
HeTay bustruseAy llusionAy rtificerAy asHay eallyRay utdoneOay imselfHay hisTay imeTay IpHay-ipHay oorahHay hisTay aveGay ymay utoAy pellcheckSay itsFay!!

"bustruseAy llusionAy rtificerAy"

Youyay eanmay: "Abstruseyay Allusionyay Artificeryay."

Artyay euendorfferNay

neufer wrote:

Beyond wrote:
HeTay bustruseAy llusionAy rtificerAy asHay eallyRay utdoneOay imselfHay hisTay imeTay IpHay-ipHay oorahHay hisTay aveGay ymay utoAy pellcheckSay itsFay!!

"bustruseAy llusionAy rtificerAy"

Youyay eanmay: "Abstruseyay Allusionyay Artificeryay."

Artyay euendorfferNay

Heck, i have no idea what i mean, not being familiar with this argonJay. But it would seem, that proper(??) names are only messed with at the end, so in that case, i messed up pigging up your Handle, to which i can only say inkOay, which may mean sorry(?) in this dead pig language.

Mr. Frohn even put the planets and the Moon in the right places in their orbits for May 1, 2013. Ellway oneday!

Boomer12k wrote:Yes....Humanity explores the Solar System....in the name of science, in the search for truth, and facts, and data about the universe around us....and in the process pollutes it.......
........Well...maybe someday in the far flung future, when we are REALLY OUT THERE on a permanent basis, Garbage Scow Space Trucks, will gather up the debris and what can be salvaged will be recycled, and anything that can not be used, gets incinerated on the way to the Sun. YES, Friends there IS HOPE that mankind will do the right thing in the future!!!!! ...

Wall-E an official clip My favorite movie almost bc of it's message or warning. Lots and lots of garbage! It's a love story btw.

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