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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Clipper and the Comet
NASA ^
| 17 Oct, 2024
| Image Credit & Copyright: Ben Cooper (Launch Photography)
Posted on 10/17/2024 2:17:10 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: NASA's Europa Clipper is now headed toward an ocean world beyond Earth. The large spacecraft is tucked into the payload fairing atop the Falcon Heavy rocket in this photo, taken at Kennedy Space Center the day before the mission's successful October 14 launch. Europa Clipper's interplanetary voyage will first take it to Mars, then back to Earth, and then on to Jupiter on gravity assist trajectories that will allow it to enter orbit around Jupiter in April 2030. Once orbiting Jupiter, the spacecraft will fly past Europa 49 times, exploring a Jovian moon with a global subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. Posing in the background next to the floodlit rocket is Comet Tsuchinsan-ATLAS, about a day after the comet's closest approach to Earth. A current darling of evening skies, the naked-eye comet is a visitor from the distant Oort cloud
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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To: MtnClimber
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posted on
10/17/2024 2:17:35 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; A Navy Vet; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; ...
Pinging the APOD list
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posted on
10/17/2024 2:18:17 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
I saw the comet last night. And the forecast is for clear through the next 10 days. Good viewing for any astronomical events.
If they happen.
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posted on
10/17/2024 2:30:54 PM PDT
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
10/17/2024 2:37:53 PM PDT
by
xoxox
To: metmom
I photographed it last night with my cellphone camera. I couldn’t actually SEE it, I just pointed the camera where it was supposed to be, and got lucky.
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posted on
10/17/2024 2:38:30 PM PDT
by
telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: telescope115
Nice.
I saw it about 7-7:30 when it had gotten dark enough.
Binoculars help.
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posted on
10/17/2024 2:46:51 PM PDT
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
10/17/2024 2:54:04 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(ck)
To: metmom
In what direction do I look?
My wife and I have looked several times but have not seen it yet. Maybe we’re looking in the wrong direction.
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posted on
10/17/2024 2:55:53 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
To: libertylover
Near the bright dot that is Venus, low towards the horizon. One or two fists above the horizon.
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posted on
10/17/2024 4:18:44 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
To: libertylover
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posted on
10/17/2024 4:34:54 PM PDT
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
To: libertylover
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posted on
10/17/2024 4:35:26 PM PDT
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
To: MtnClimber
Secret picture from the Jovian moon by the secret probe sent on a secret mission a year ago, secretly.
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posted on
10/17/2024 4:58:31 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Robert A Cook PE; metmom
Thanks. That’s where we’ve looked but we’ll look again.
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posted on
10/17/2024 5:01:50 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
To: Seruzawa
Can you tell us who sent it?
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posted on
10/17/2024 6:15:46 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If the government won't protect the vote, the border, the citizens, then why have that government?)
To: null and void
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posted on
10/17/2024 9:59:36 PM PDT
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
To: null and void
Irwin Allen, producer of documentaries. This vessel captures rare chemicals used in chemtrails. The Gray Aliens transport them to Earth. It’s a CIA/KGB/MI6/Mossad operation.
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posted on
10/18/2024 8:15:24 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Seruzawa
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posted on
10/18/2024 8:30:21 AM PDT
by
null and void
(If the government won't protect the vote, the border, the citizens, then why have that government?)
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