The Juno spacecraft made a low altitude flyover of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot this week: NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Completes Flyby over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Here are a couple of images made by Citizen Scientists quickly processing the raw images: JunoCam : Processing | Mission Juno .
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A world premier performance of the Red Planet anthem “Rise to Mars!”
From the caption:
Rise to Mars! Men and women
Dare to dream! Dare to strive!
Build a home for our children
Make this desert come alive!
There are challenges before our eyes
That nature never knew
But the power of human enterprise
Shall take us through and through!
Rise to Mars! Men and women
Dare to dream! Dare to strive
Build a home for our children
Make this desert come alive!
Come along raging nations
Altogether hopeful spirits
Bring an end to strife
For our future lies beyond the skies
Rise to Mars! Men and women
Dare to dream! Dare to strive!
Build a home for our children
Make this desert come alive!
Come along, altogether
For our future
Rise to Mars!
by Oscar Castellino
words Oscar Castellino and Robert Zubrin
orchestration James Welland
Orchestra Royal Welsh REPCo Sinfonia, soloist Oscar Castellino
venue Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff
Here is an excellent overview for a general public audience of the question, “How to Find an Inhabited Exoplanet”:
The speaker is David Charbonneau of Harvard University. He gave the presentation at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland for one of their public lectures:
Over the past couple decades, research has uncovered thousands of exoplanets in orbit around other stars. In particular, the NASA Kepler Mission taught us that Earth-sized planets are commonplace throughout the Galaxy. But the big question remains – did life take root on any of these distant worlds? Using upcoming large telescopes, astronomers will examine the atmospheres of Earth-like planets for the telltale chemical fingerprints of life. The search for life in the universe has entered an exciting new phase.
NextBigFuture.com hosts the latest Carnival of Space.
The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week:
1. Monday, July 10, 2017: 2-3:30 pm PDT (5-6:30 pm EDT, 4-5:30 pm CDT): We welcome T.S. Kelso, senior research astrodynamicist for AGI and the COMSpOC team, regarding commercial space situational awareness and more.
2. Tuesday, July 11 , 2017: 7-8:30 pm PDT, 10-11:30 pm EDT, 9-10:30 pm CDT: We welcome back Bob Zimmerman to dazzle, annoy and inform us as never before. Don’t miss Bob for the best in relevant and exciting space news and developments.
3. Wednesday, July 12, 2016: Hotel Mars with Anatoly Zak of RussianSpaceWeb.com.
4. Friday, 14, 2017; 9:30-11 am PDT, 12:30-2 pm EDT, 11:30 am -1 pm CDT: We welcome back Mike Mongo, to share with us his award winning children’s book on space – The Astronaut Instruction Manual
5. Sunday, July 16, 2017: 12-1:30 pm DST (3-4:30 pm EDT, 2-3:30 pm CDT): Ms. Kim Holder of Moonwards is back with us regarding Moonwards updates and her plans for the upcoming Starship Congress.
See also:
* The Space Show on Vimeo – webinar videos
* The Space Show’s Blog – summaries of interviews.
* The Space Show Classroom Blog – tutorial programs
The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.
