Some fun stuff expected in 2016 in astrophysics...
January 12, 2016 at 12:53 pm
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2016 at 12:53 pm by Fake Messiah.)
- Russia and the European Space Agency will launch ExoMars on March 14th, 2016 which will enter Martian orbit on December 2016, atmosphere of Mars, looking for methane - where does it comes from? Possibly even from some sort of life on Mars? It will also prepare the way for rover which will be sent in 2018
-New Horizons will still send more data with many new sensational findings. Geology of Pluto and atmosphere are expected to be more understood.
- Juno spacecraft will come to Jupiter on July 4th, after 4 years of travel. It will try to find out if Jupiter has a rocky core underneath all that gass. We will have more chances to have a better look at those moons around Jupiter. For instance today on Earth we already have such powerful telescopes that we can actually see volcanic activities on Io. Galileo was, so far, the only craft that flew around Jupiter and also ended 12 years ago. So it will be interesting to see those moons again. Juno will also investigate Jupiter's magnetosphere.
-Dawn probe is also on a verge of detecting that there is steam going on above dwarf planet Ceres which would be a big deal and could be the biggest discovery of the year.
-Work will still be done on James Webb Space Telescope which costs 8 billion USD and will be launched in 2018.
-OSIRIS-REx will be launched in September by NASA. OSIRIS-REx will be traveling to the asteroid Bennu, take a sample and come back to Earth in 2023.
- Rosetta spacecraft (ESA) is expected to end in September this year because it doesn't have fuel anymore and it will probably crash land on the comet it's orbiting, but not before scientists try to contact little lander Philae that probably has lot of interesting data in it.
-New Horizons will still send more data with many new sensational findings. Geology of Pluto and atmosphere are expected to be more understood.
- Juno spacecraft will come to Jupiter on July 4th, after 4 years of travel. It will try to find out if Jupiter has a rocky core underneath all that gass. We will have more chances to have a better look at those moons around Jupiter. For instance today on Earth we already have such powerful telescopes that we can actually see volcanic activities on Io. Galileo was, so far, the only craft that flew around Jupiter and also ended 12 years ago. So it will be interesting to see those moons again. Juno will also investigate Jupiter's magnetosphere.
-Dawn probe is also on a verge of detecting that there is steam going on above dwarf planet Ceres which would be a big deal and could be the biggest discovery of the year.
-Work will still be done on James Webb Space Telescope which costs 8 billion USD and will be launched in 2018.
-OSIRIS-REx will be launched in September by NASA. OSIRIS-REx will be traveling to the asteroid Bennu, take a sample and come back to Earth in 2023.
- Rosetta spacecraft (ESA) is expected to end in September this year because it doesn't have fuel anymore and it will probably crash land on the comet it's orbiting, but not before scientists try to contact little lander Philae that probably has lot of interesting data in it.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
