Monday, September 29, 2014

Solar System Missions Update 10/2014

My map of all active and future Solar System Missions as of October 1st 2014. After MAVEN and Mars Orbiter Mission are tucked in safely at Mars, this month it's comet time: Flyby of C/2013 A1 Siding Spring at Mars and Rosetta's ongoing adventures at Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Un espaciotrastornado intentando aprender español

He decidido a publicar un nuevo blog en español, Un espaciotrastornado intentando aprender español, para motivarme a escribir más. ¿Y mi primera entrada? Sobre asterismos, por supuesto, extendida de le entrada en este blog con fondo negro y realmente una explicación tan larga.

Monday, September 8, 2014

Space Robots from Sol III

I have been told that Solar System Exploration History as a title for the interactive graphic is a bit bland. So, ummm, well...


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Universe not to scale. Or any scale whatsoever, really. The image uses material from POCKN , from Wikipedia contributor Eclipse.sx and from all the depicted missions.

Oh, and I also updated said interactive graphic with new data and some links to weather information for all solar system bodies where this is available, findable with this icon:
Sun: www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/
Earth: earth.nullschool.net/
Mars: www.msss.com/msss_images/latest_weather.html
and for small bodies information about Potentially Hazardous Objects (PHAs), since that imho is kind of like asteroid weather:
Small Bodies: neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/