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Enlarge ImageThis image was taken about two hours prior to Juno's closest approach to Jupiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Jupiter's south pole was well documented by Cassini on its way to Satu, but the north pole (home of Jovian Santa, one could only assume) has remained much more mysterious. This is set to change with the arrival of Jupiter probe Juno, which completed its first flyby of the north pole on August 27 and has already started delivering.On that flyby, Juno got busy taking photos with its JunoCam instrument from a distance of just 4,200 kilometres (2,500 miles) above Jupiter's clouds as it travelled over a period of six hours from the north pole to the south. The resulting 6 MB of data took NASA a day and a half to download.It will take even longer to fully analyse the data, but the photos have already revealed that there's nothing else like Jupiter's north pole in the solar system."First g,jupiter,jupiter ed,jupiter grades,jupiter north pole,jupiter florida,jupiter ascending,jupiter moons,jupiter pictures,jupiter ascending cast,jupiter ascending 2 ...ادامه مطلب

Enlarge ImageBrits hoping to see the Northe Lights earlier this week received a false alarm email. But hey, at least the lawn got mowed. Aloysius Low/CNET "Get off my lawn" took on new meaning on Tuesday. A group of British scientists sent out a notification that the Northe Lights would be visible in their area, but it tued out to be a backyard boo-boo.AuroraWatch UK is run by Lancaster University's space and planetary physics group, and uses readings from magnetometers to determine if the striking aurora borealis will be visible across Britain. The group uses Twitter,Facebook and email to let followers know when they should head outside and search the skies.They sent out such an alert on Tuesday, but withdrew the alert four hours later when it tued out the sensor has been set off by something much closer to the ground.[embedded content]"Unfortunately, the readings were spurious and not related t, ...ادامه مطلب

Josh Miller/CNET Samsung hoped that no Olympic athlete would leave Rio empty handed. The South Korean electronics giant provided the more than 11,000 athletes competing in the Rio 2016 Olympics with a special edition Galaxy S7 smartphone.One country, however, has refused the free gift. According to a report from Radio Free Asia, North Korea prevented the country's 31 competing athletes from receiving the complimentary smartphone. The report claims a North Korean official went to the Samsung office and took all of the phones that were to be provided to the country's athletes.Kim Song I, a North Korean athlete competing in table tennis, reportedly shook her head when asked by Radio Free Asia if she had received the phone. North Korea has strict rules for its athletes. The Washington Post reports that athletes are not allowed to visit places of interest and are discouraged from interacting with others, al,north korea not a threat,north korea notes,north korea not communist,north korea notepads,north korea nothing to envy,north korea not as bad,north korea not socialist,north korea noticias,north korea notebooks,north korea notam ...ادامه مطلب

Enlarge ImageThe big guy and three of its largest moons as seen from Juno. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS About a week after NASA's Juno spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, the first images taken from the spacecraft's perch around the largest planet in the solar system have made their way back to Earth. On Sunday, six days after starting its orbit, Juno's visible light camera was tued on and the JunoCam captured the above scene, proving it survived its first pass through the planet's intense radiation. (We already heard the audio evidence that it made it into Jupiter's magnetosphere.) The view shows Jupiter with its famous giant red spot on display, as well as three of its four major moons: Io, Europa and Ganymede. While Io is a turbulent world marked by violent volcanic activity, Europa and Ganymede are believed to harbor hidden ocean, with Europa a leading target for the search for life beyond Earth.NASA says high-resolution views of Jupiter itself from Juno will arrive in a few weeks. For more than a year and a half, the spacecraft will circle the gas giant, studying its huge auroras and peaking beneath its dense clouds to lea more about the planet's structure and maybe even look for signs of crazy sci-fi creatures inhabiting its atmosphere or unseen oceans. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers.Recommended article from FiveFilters.org: Most Labour MPs in the UK Are Revolting., ...ادامه مطلب

Enlarge ImageHurrah! NASA's Juno satellite gets the Google Doodle treatment! Google To honor NASA's Juno spacecraft entering Jupiter's orbit, Google illustrated the successful mission with a animated doodle honoring the team who worked hard to get us our first color images of the gas giant. The Juno mission aims to take new measurements and photos with the nine instruments aboard the 3,500-pound satellite. Juno will spend 20 months making 37 trips around the planet. Even cooler, NASA is allowing the public to choose how the spacecraft's JunoCam takes color photos.Juno sent back its first photograph of Jupiter last week, as well as a spooky audio track as it crossed into the planet's magnetic field. We can't wait to see what other data and images Juno sends back during its mission. In the meantime, enjoy this adorable animated doodle celebrating NASA's impressive achievement. "Today's Doodle celebrates this incredible moment of human achievement," Google posted. "Bravo, Juno!"Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft arrives at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. NASA This Fourth of July, while the rest of America is busy eating hotdogs and lighting fireworks (hopefully at the same time), the dedicated scientists and engineers of NASA are once again putting in the long hours, this time to bring us never before seen pictures of Jupiter. But once NASA gets us there, it's up to us to take pictures of the action. After almost five years hurtling solo through space, the solar-powered Juno spacecraft is today set to enter Jupiter's orbit, before spending 20 months circling the gas giant. In this time, Juno will make 37 trips around Jupiter, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit the planet's poles, getting within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometres) of the cloud tops. And, for the first time, NASA is handing the camera over to the public. As part of the mission, members of the public will be able to choose points of interest for the spacecraft's JunoCam to capture in colour photos, before getting a chance to process them and share them online. It's another milestone for NASA, which has spent the past year celebrating its fair share of achievements in space science. Almost a year ago to the day, NASA's New Horizons space probe conducted its eagerly-anticipated Pluto fly-by, zooming past the dwarf planet at 30,000mph and sending back brilliant images and data. Now, it's Jupiter's tu for some attention, with NASA saying Juno will provide "new answers to ongoing mysteries about the planet's core, composition and magnetic fields." It's already been busy delivering data back to earth, sending its first photograph of Jupiter and four of its moons last week, before beaming back an eerie audio track as it crossed into the planet's magnetic field. Now, Juno is set to perform "a suspenseful orbit insertion maneuver" to get close to Jupiter, with a 35-minute bu of its main engine slowing the , ...ادامه مطلب

NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft arrives at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. NASA This Fourth of July, while the rest of America is busy eating hotdogs and lighting fireworks (hopefully at the same time), the dedicated scientists and engineers of NASA are once again putting in the long hours, this time to bring us never before seen pictures of Jupiter.But once NASA gets us there, it's up to us to take pictures of the action. After almost five years hurtling solo through space, the solar-powered Juno spacecraft is today set to enter Jupiter's orbit, before spending 20 months circling the gas giant. In this time, Juno will make 37 trips around Jupiter, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit the planet's poles, getting within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometres) of the cloud tops. And, for the first time, NASA is handing the camera over to the public. As part of the mission, members of the public will be able to choose points of interest for the spacecraft's JunoCam to capture in colour photos, before getting a chance to process them and share them online. It's another milestone for NASA, which has spent the past year celebrating its fair share of achievements in space science. Almost a year ago to the day, NASA's New Horizons space probe conducted its eagerly-anticipated Pluto fly-by, zooming past the dwarf planet at 30,000mph and sending back brilliant images and data. Now, it's Jupiter's tu for some attention, with NASA saying Juno will provide "new answers to ongoing mysteries about the planet's core, composition and magnetic fields."It's already been busy delivering data back to earth, sending its first photograph of Jupiter and four of its moons last week, before beaming back an eerie audio track as it crossed into the planet's magnetic field. Now, Juno is set to perform "a suspenseful orbit insertion maneuver" to get close to Jupiter, with a 35-minute bu of its main engine slowing the spac, ...ادامه مطلب

The new data on Jupiter keeps getting weirder and more wonderful as NASA's Juno spacecraft approaches the massive planet to begin orbiting it on Monday. The solar-powered probe, which began its jouey in 2011, has already been collecting data on the solar wind and more. In the video below, data from the moment Juno crossed into Jupiter's magnetic field is presented as an audio stream.Late last week, Juno crossed the bow shock, which NASA describes as analogous to a sonic boom on Earth. It's the threshold where the solar wind (basically energized particles thrown off into space by the sun) begins to be affected by the planet's powerful magnetosphere. Even more eerie is the sound of the spacecraft passing the actual boundary between the magnetic fields of the sun and Jupiter."We've just crossed the boundary into Jupiter's home turf," said Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute, in a news release. "We're closing in fast on the planet itself and already gaining valuable data." [embedded content] The sounds of space tend to be odd, as we've leaed from Rosetta and Voyager previously.Part of the reason these new sounds of crossing that border are so dramatic is that Jupiter's magnetosphere is considered the largest structure in the solar system, according to NASA. Yes, that means the planet's magnetic field is even larger than that of the sun's. You definitely don't want to put your credit cards or hard drives anywhere near the thing if you value your data. Presumably, NASA has figured out a way to shield Juno's components from it."If Jupiter's magnetosphere glowed in visible light, it would be twice the size of the full moon as seen from Earth," says the University of Iowa's William Kurth, lead co-investigator for the Juno's Waves investigation.Scientists report that the border region between the domains of Jupiter and the sun has been more complex than expected, with all sorts of weird signatu, ...ادامه مطلب

Enlarge Image"Visions of Harmony" is designed to highlight "the link between exploring space and making music." Apple Space exploration and music have a long history together, with astronauts on moon missions traditionally being woken up by mission control with a musical selection.So it makes sense, that with the Juno probe mere days from its destination of Jupiter's orbit, NASA would like some music to mark the occasion. So the US space agency teamed up with Apple to offer songs inspired by the mission.As part of the collaboration, Apple launched a Destination: Jupiter page on iTunes on Thursday that features songs by Brad Paisley, Corrine Bailey Rae, Trent Reznor and others. The songs sell for $1.29 a piece.The partnership also yielded a short film called "Visions of Harmony," which Apple says highlights "the link between exploring space and making music." It features songs from artists like Weezer and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor.After nearly five years en route to Jupiter, Juno is set to arrive Jupiter's polar orbit on July 4. From there, it will study the planet's poles, composition, atmosphere and magnetosphere, weather and gravity. Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageKim Jong-zuck? James Martin/CNET Many younger types imagine Facebook as a nirvana where you skateboard down corridors, code all night long and wait for the money to start rolling in.Antonio García Martinez thinks it's a little more like North Korea.The former (and fired) Facebook product manager today released a book called "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley."A snippet or two had already dribbled out: Martinez describing CEO Mark Zuckerberg as having a near-psychopathic stare, for example.But now several publications have offered excerpts and interviews with the author that describe Facebook as, oh, let's leave it to his own words."We had slogans on the walls, we were all wearing a uniform," he told CBS This Moing. "It all felt very North Korean or Cuban, almost. And so in that moment, I just realized...the motive force in history, which is one egomaniac's twitchy drive and then the common man's desire to be part of a compelling story -- which is what we were, we just were bit players in Zuckerberg's story."I fancy skateboards are in shorter supply in Kim Jong-un's fiefdom. I also fancy that even gray T-shirts with discreet logos would be frowned upon.Still, Martinez, who worked for the company between 2011 and 2013, wants to draw your attention to the similarities between Facebook and repressive regimes. In excerpts published by the Daily Mail, he writes that the company has a KGB-like security force called the Sec that monitors employees' actions.He writes that if you incurred Zuckerberg's wrath, it wouldn't go well: "Fuck with Facebook and security guards would be hustling you out the door like a rowdy drunk at a late-night Taco Bell.'"He claims HR gave lectures to people about allegedly distracting clothing and mentions a "male HR author, ...ادامه مطلب

Enlarge Image NASA, ESA, and D. Elmegreen (Vassar College), B. Elmegreen (IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center), J. Sánchez Almeida, C. Munoz-Tunon, and M. Filho (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), J. Mendez-Abreu (University of St. Andrews), J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin-Madison), M. Rafelski (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), and D. Ceverino (Center for Astronomy at Heidelberg University) A frenzy of starburst has been captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in a tiny galaxy relatively close to the Milky Way. Kiso 5639, located roughly 82 million light-years away, is what is known as a tadpole galaxy. It's just 8,800 light-years wide (compared to the Milky Way's 100,000 light-years), and appears side-on, so it looks like a streak in the sky led by a bright, star-forming "head."Kiso 5639 is a rarity, and a wonderful one. Around 10 percent of all galaxies are tadpole galaxies, according to the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, and this one is close enough to reveal what causes the intense starburst activity at one end of galaxy head.When they were discovered in the 1990s, it was thought that the heads of tadpole galaxies were caused by collisions with other galaxies. Now, based on simulations, a team of researchers at New York's Vassar College believes the galaxy's leading edge encountered a large filament of gas as it drifted through relatively empty space. This filament deposited a large amount of gas into the galaxy, triggering intense star formation.Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

Enlarge Image NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Just as Cassini has spent 12 years giving us an unprecedented look at Satu, so too does NASA hope the Juno probe will provide invaluable information about our solar system's biggest planetary resident. After nearly five years en route to Jupiter, Juno has nearly arrived at its destination.And it's sent back a little teaser of what's to come: a colour photograph of Jupiter and its four largest moons. Clockwise from top left, the white dots are Ganymede, Io, Europa and Callisto, with Jupiter appearing in yellow on the right, its cloud bands just visible. This image was taken on June 21, while Juno was still nearly a fortnight from its destination, with Juno's high-res optical camera, the JunoCam. The images are only going to get more spectacular from here.When Juno arrives on July 4, it's going to enter a polar orbit around Jupiter. From there, it will study the planet's poles, composition, atmosphere and magnetosphere, weather and gravity."This image is the start of something great," said southwest Research Institute Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton. "In the future we will see Jupiter's polar auroras from a new perspective. We will see details in rolling bands of orange and white clouds like never before, and even the Great Red Spot."Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

Enlarge ImageThe European Southe Observatory's Very Large Telescope captured this infrared image of Jupiter in preparation for the Juno spacecraft's arrival at the giant planet in July. ESO/L. Fletcher NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft has been cruising through space for about five years since it launched in 2011. Next month it will finally enter orbit around Jupiter to begin its study of the Jovian system. Some of the prep work here on Earth for the mission has included training big ground-based telescopes on the gas giant to piece together a map of the planet to aid in Juno's close-up exploration. On Monday, the European Southe Observatory released the above infrared image of Jupiter that makes the planet appear as a fiery infeo. It's just one of many views that will be used to create a more complete picture of Juno's destination."These maps will help set the scene for what Juno will witness in the coming months," said Leigh Fletcher, of the University of Leicester, in a news release. Fletcher leads a team helping with the mapping effort. "Observations at different wavelengths across the infrared spectrum allow us to piece together a three-dimensional picture of how energy and material are transported upwards through the atmosphere."This image was created by a method similar to the burst mode that many smartphones now employ. Basically, the Very Large Telescope at ESO was used to capture a series of shots of Jupiter. Then the one for each section of the planet with the least distortion from Earth's atmosphere was chosen and stitched together with a series of the other "lucky" shots to create a full infrared view.Juno is set to be inserted into orbit around Jupiter on July 4. For more on the mission check out the deep dive in the video below: , ...ادامه مطلب

Enlarge Image Mark Godefroy/Women on Waves Women's advocacy groups have used a drone to send abortion pills to women in Northe Ireland. In a protest against abortion laws in both Northe Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Dutch group Women on Waves teamed up with Northe Irish group Alliance for Choice, Irish group Rosa and Northe Irish group Labour Alteative to airlift the medicine.The drone was flown across the border from County Louth in the Republic of Ireland to Narrow Water Castle in County Down, just after 10 a.m. local time on June 21. Women there took pills containing the abortifacient drugs mifepristone and misoprostol, which are listed as essential medicines by the World Health Organisation.In Northe Ireland, which is part of the UK but not covered by its Abortion Act, it is unlawful to perform an abortion except in the case where it is required to save the life of the mother, or if the pregnancy poses a risk to the physical or mental health of the mother. Penalties can be as severe as life imprisonment, although this occurs rarely; a Belfast woman earlier this year was handed a suspended sentence for taking abortion pills procured over the inteet.In the Republic of Ireland, it is unlawful to perform an abortion unless the mother's life is at risk, with a potential sentence of 14 years' imprisonment.Enlarge ImageWomen swallow abortion pills in Northe Ireland. Women on Waves If a woman in either country wants an abortion, she generally has to travel to the UK mainland to get one from a private clinic, at personal expense. According to statistics from the UK Department of Health, at least 3,451 women travelled to England and Wales for abortions in 2015. Just 16 abortions were performed in Northe Ireland during 2014 and 2015.And of course, this number doesn't include the women who are trapped , ...ادامه مطلب