Coss Posted January 1, 2019 Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 New Horizons zoomed past the small celestial object known as Ultima Thule. Scientists said it will take nearly two years for New Horizons to beam back all its observations of Ultima Thule, a full billion miles (1.6 billion kilometres) beyond Pluto. At that distance, it takes six hours for the radio signals to reach Earth... https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/109696917/nasa-boldly-goes-where-noone-has-gone-before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted January 2, 2019 Report Share Posted January 2, 2019 There's some interesting stuff on the WP page. At Jupiter New Horizons was managing 38kbps, at Pluto the data rate was down to 1kbps. Add another 1.6 Billion km and I guess they need to drop the rate a bit more. Note that b is a small b for bits not Bytes. Images are 12 mega pixels with lossless compression down to 2.5 mega pixels which at Pluto were being sent back 125 Bytes per second. And you thought you had internet speed issues! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted January 4, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2019 here y' go And notable, China just landed a craft on the far side of the moon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted August 27, 2019 Report Share Posted August 27, 2019 Already opened the first laundry on the moon ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted August 27, 2019 Report Share Posted August 27, 2019 A Trump casino is coming soon 55555555555555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baa99 Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 Just don't use the Moon as a nuclear waste dump! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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