Science Porn

[Mystical]

Or.. sound waves did it.

[vorlon13]

We are nearing the end of the Cassini mission at Saturn and I have recently found out Hubble may be able to watch the burn up in Saturn's upper atmosphere.

Sad the mission is over, but a well earned blaze of glory perhaps . . . .

[Anomalocaris]

We are nearing the end of the Cassini mission at Saturn and I have recently found out Hubble may be able to watch the burn up in Saturn's upper atmosphere.

Sad the mission is over, but a well earned blaze of glory perhaps . . . .

If Hubble can resolve an object a few tons in mass burning up in saturn's atmosphere, I am surprised we haven't seen more images of natural meteors burning up in saturn's atmosphere, I would imagine objects comparable to Cassini in mass would enter saturn's atmosphere fairly often.

[vorlon13]

the trick is knowing beforehand when its going to happen

[Whateverist]

Is there really anything to this?

http://www.physics-astronomy.com/2015/07...aX5RTKZOCQ

[vorlon13]

Is there really anything to this?

http://www.physics-astronomy.com/2015/07...aX5RTKZOCQ

I'm itching for someone to stick it on the side of a satellite, fire it into space, and see if it works "the old fashioned way" by making the satellite move.

[Fireball]

From what little reading I have done, the thrust is picoscopic...i.e., micro-microscopic. But it's in the early stages of the technology, and improvements may be made. Claims of getting to the moon in four days are pie-in-the-sky at this point.

[Anomalocaris]

Is there really anything to this?

http://www.physics-astronomy.com/2015/07...aX5RTKZOCQ

That article was published in 2015. Since no nobel prize has been awarded for such a fundamental and easily verified over turning of basic precepts of physics, I will go out on a limb and say it has not proven to work.

[vorlon13]

I'll check, but at this late date, I'm not even sure a VASIMIR has been tested in space either.

[vorlon13]

Didn't find anything about VASIMIR being tested in space yet.

Until someone gets either of these technologies in space and actually moves something with them, I can't see how they can be characterized as successful . . . .