Post by auntym on Jan 10, 2015 14:43:57 GMT -6
www.universetoday.com/118022/nasa-exoplanet-travel-posters-aim-to-help-with-space-trip-planning/
NASA Exoplanet “Travel Posters” Aim To Help With Space Trip Planning
by Elizabeth Howell
January 8, 2015
December 15, 2014
Like Luke Skywalker's planet "Tatooine" in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler-16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn. Prospects for life on this unusual world aren't good, as it has a temperature similar to that of dry ice. But the discovery indicates that the movie's iconic double-sunset is anything but science fiction.
A NASA “travel poster” touting the benefits of exoplanet Kepler-16b, which has two Suns. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
What beauty, and what awesome travel slogans! NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has created a set of “Exoplanet Travel Posters” to bring you — at least in your imagination — to actual exoplanets.
Whether you have a fancy for skydiving, or doing astronomy with two Suns, it appears there is a spot to whet your imagination. We have another example of the fantastic artwork below.
Where the Grass is Always Redder on the Other Side
December 30, 2014
Kepler-186f is the first Earth-size planet discovered in the potentially 'habitable zone' around another star, where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface. Its star is much cooler and redder than our Sun. If plant life does exist on a planet like Kepler-186f, its photosynthesis could have been influenced by the star's red-wavelength photons, making for a color palette that's very different than the greens on Earth. This discovery was made by Kepler, NASA's planet hunting telescope.
CONTINUE READING: www.universetoday.com/118022/nasa-exoplanet-travel-posters-aim-to-help-with-space-trip-planning/
You can download all three posters so far in glorious high-definition here.
planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/media_categories?category=6
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS POSTER WEBSITE: www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=see%20america&co=wpapos
NASA Exoplanet “Travel Posters” Aim To Help With Space Trip Planning
by Elizabeth Howell
January 8, 2015
December 15, 2014
Like Luke Skywalker's planet "Tatooine" in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler-16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn. Prospects for life on this unusual world aren't good, as it has a temperature similar to that of dry ice. But the discovery indicates that the movie's iconic double-sunset is anything but science fiction.
A NASA “travel poster” touting the benefits of exoplanet Kepler-16b, which has two Suns. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
What beauty, and what awesome travel slogans! NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has created a set of “Exoplanet Travel Posters” to bring you — at least in your imagination — to actual exoplanets.
Whether you have a fancy for skydiving, or doing astronomy with two Suns, it appears there is a spot to whet your imagination. We have another example of the fantastic artwork below.
Where the Grass is Always Redder on the Other Side
December 30, 2014
Kepler-186f is the first Earth-size planet discovered in the potentially 'habitable zone' around another star, where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface. Its star is much cooler and redder than our Sun. If plant life does exist on a planet like Kepler-186f, its photosynthesis could have been influenced by the star's red-wavelength photons, making for a color palette that's very different than the greens on Earth. This discovery was made by Kepler, NASA's planet hunting telescope.
CONTINUE READING: www.universetoday.com/118022/nasa-exoplanet-travel-posters-aim-to-help-with-space-trip-planning/
You can download all three posters so far in glorious high-definition here.
planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/media_categories?category=6
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS POSTER WEBSITE: www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=see%20america&co=wpapos
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