We got some updates on the Uranus orbiter and probe spacecraft and now it looks SO much like a Cassini sequel #solarsystem #planets iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384…
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Extrema ⚣
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Extrema ⚣
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Katılım Nisan 2026
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@astro_jaz Dragonfly should have more hype than the 283738474838373837th mission to Mars honestly. It's a cool planet but the outer solar system gets barely any priority when it comes to missions
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people should be WAY more excited about dragonfly. we’re sending a CAR-SIZED rotorcraft to fly on saturn’s moon titan to study its habitability!!!!
NASA Solar System@NASASolarSystem
NASA's Dragonfly mission has reached a major milestone. ✅ After years of design, fabrication, assembly, and testing, NASA’s Dragonfly is starting to look less like a collection of spacecraft parts and more like the rotorcraft that will fly across the surface of Saturn’s hazy moon Titan. go.nasa.gov/4y4Z8hM
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I should mention here that by "dust from other moons" it's mostly dust from Phoebe, the one forming the Phoebe ring. Pointing it out because people forget about Phoebe TOO often despite being an interesting object
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day@apod
What has happened to Saturn's moon Iapetus? Vast sections of this strange world are dark as coal, while others are as bright as snow. To help better understand this unusually tinted moon, in 2007 NASA directed the robotic Cassini spacecraft then orbiting Saturn to swoop within 2,000 kilometers. Pictured here, from about 75,000 kilometers out, is the hemisphere of Iapetus that is always trailing. A large impact crater seen in the south spans 500 kilometers and appears superposed on an older crater of similar size. The dark material is seen increasingly coating the easternmost part of Iapetus, darkening craters and highlands alike. A leading hypothesis is that the dark material is mostly a form of carbon-rich soil leftover from when relatively warm but dirty ice sublimates. An initial coating of this dark material may have been effectively painted on by the accretion of meteor-liberated debris from other moons. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team
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Images of Mimas and Enceladus I had processed a while ago but forgot to post them #cassini #cassinihuygens #cassinisaturn
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@Worst_Trends True like can we PLEASE let him develop after how badly he was treated during the whole Fourse thing 🙏
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@monopurplee The hate to tpot in this community is getting insanely ridiculous🥀
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someone made a petition to unrelease tpot 23.......??
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Saturn this morning from the backyard - What a beauty!
Captured under tremendously good conditions from south UK, with Tethys and Enceladus in transit across the northern hemisphere.
24" Dobsonian & IMX585 camera(s) at 9000mm focal length. South-up view.
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Chaos, look, I know we don't get along but just as long that you and I understand that you run your forces and I run my forces we won't have any issues. Just consider this a truce for the time being #beltwars #plutosreprisal
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@ToughSf And from what I've heard it might have possibly had a thick atmosphere of CH4/CO/N2 back when Neptune captured it, along with hot seas of NH3/H2O arxiv.org/abs/2409.16983
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Sometimes it feels like the biggest haters of BFDI and the OSC in general are the fans themselves I swear
oscconfessions@oscconfession
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Solar electric propulsion completed! BepiColombo's @ESA_MTM today finished the final burn of its 8-year cruise. With MTM, @esascience's @ESA_Bepi and @JAXA_en's @JAXA_MMO are now coasting together towards planet Mercury. Check back for updates - busy times ahead! #bepicolombo
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