"New horizons" of discoveries. A new research target has been selected for the New Horizons probe
New Horizons is NASA's New Frontier spacecraft designed to study Pluto and its moon Charon. New Horizons was the first in history to transmit color images of a dwarf planet and will be the first to study it thoroughly. The apparatus left the vicinity of the Earth with the fastest speed among known vehicles. The device was launched in January 2006 and in almost ten years, by the summer of 2015, it will reach Pluto. In total, the mission is designed until 2026.
In early 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft flew past the most distant object studied by humans -. At the end of January, the researchers showed a qualitative one from which everyone had the impression that it was shaped like a dumbbell. It turned out that this representation was erroneous - new photos showed that the object has a flattened shape, with one of the parts much thinner than the other.
The dwarf planet Pluto, as it turned out, is a complex, geologically diverse world, the surface of which has been actively changing for billions of years. About this, collected by the spacecraft "". An eclectic mix of mountains, valleys and plains covers Pluto's surface. The composition of the surface of a dwarf planet is as extensive as the geography of the world. Scientists are gradually coming to the conclusion that Pluto may be one of the most unique objects in the outer solar system.
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July 14 past Pluto at a speed of about 50,000 km / h "whistled" the American spacecraft (SC) "New Horizons". It seemed like a big deal! People have long been accustomed to the fact that spacecraft, like ants, have already climbed almost the entire solar system. We visited all its planets, either flying around them, or sitting down (Mars, Venus, not counting the Moon, which, strictly speaking, is not a planet) on their surface, or even riding on it.
The “trifle” did not bypass the spacecraft as well. Flybys of the dwarf planet Ceres and the largest asteroid Vesta, landings on asteroids, delivery of asteroid samples to Earth, encounters with comets, ramming of one comet, flyby and landing on another. All this is no more surprising, and from a philistine point of view, no more difficult than sending another meteorological probe into the atmosphere.
Nevertheless, the mission of New Horizons is special. She put an end to one chapter of space research and at the same time began a new section of this endless book of knowledge of the solar system, and with it the universe.
“Now we've been everywhere"
NASA could have said so, and with it all of humanity, after New Horizons passed Pluto. In total, the spacecraft of the USSR, USA, Europe, Japan, India and China have now visited all known planets revolving around the Sun. In general, Pluto has also been not a planet for almost 10 years, but this is for scientists, and for the general public, it is still the owner of a proud planetary status.
Thus, New Horizons helped humanity overcome an important psychological barrier. Thanks to the success of this mission, there are practically no more “poles of inaccessibility” left for people in the solar system. Of course, this does not mean that the automatic messengers of our civilization have visited all the remote corners of our solar home.
After all, beyond the orbit of Neptune, the “Kuiper Belt” begins, followed by the “scattered disk” and, finally, the “Oort Cloud”. All these regions of space, related to the solar system and differing in a number of characteristics, are inhabited by the so-called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), that is, those located beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Pluto is now one of them. To better imagine the distance from Pluto to the boundaries of the solar system, indicated by the hypothetical “Oort Cloud”, it is enough to know that if light travels from the Earth to Pluto at the present time for four hours, then from the Earth to the “Oort Cloud” - a whole year.
Pluto to New Horizons...
This planet, or, as it is now commonly called, a plutoid, is located very far from the Sun and, accordingly, from the Earth. Due to its highly elliptical orbit, it either approaches the Sun at a distance of 30 astronomical units (I remind you that one AU is the distance from the Sun to the Earth, which is 150 million kilometers), then it moves away from it by 50 AU. But even such "distances of enormous size" did not prevent the Hubble Space Telescope from seeing a lot of interesting things on Pluto.
For example, he told us about the presence of ice on Pluto from methane, nitrogen and carbon dioxide. The resulting images also made it possible to estimate the density of Pluto. Scientists have suggested that it may be half composed of rocks, and half of ice, including water. It is also possible that there is an ocean of liquid water under its surface. New Horizons also confirmed the version that the surface of Hydra, one of Pluto's satellites, is covered with water ice.
But for dessert, Hubble gave the academic community, and indeed all those who do not want to feel alone in the universe, a real gift. He saw traces of complex hydrocarbons on Pluto. This gave grounds to put forward the assumption that simple forms of life could exist there.
…and after them
Most of the discoveries of New Horizons are related to the appearance of Pluto and its five satellites. The spacecraft saw canyons and gorges, as well as a flat, crater-free plain, under which geological processes can still take place. It also turned out that the atmosphere of Pluto wraps it in a thicker, albeit very loose, “blanket” stretching up to 1600 kilometers upwards.
The lenses of New Horizons saw ice-covered mountains rising up to 3,500 meters on Pluto. Their age is no more than 100 million years, which makes them "babies" compared to similar formations on other celestial bodies in the solar system. It is curious that the geological processes inside Pluto cannot be stimulated by the gravitational influence of other planets, such as Neptune or Uranus. So, they have their own autonomous “engine”. What - scientists have yet to figure out. Mountains were also discovered on Pluto's largest moon Charon.
New Horizons failed to restore Pluto's status as a planet, but it returned the title of the largest TNO to it. For a time, the Eris plutoid, located twice as far from Earth (100 AU) as Pluto, was thought to be slightly larger. After measurements made using New Horizons, it turned out that the diameter of Eris is 2,326 kilometers, and Pluto is 2,370, although Eris is still 27% heavier than it.
But be that as it may, both Pluto and Eris are “babies”. The moon is almost one and a half times the size of each of them. Its diameter reaches 3,475 kilometers.
And finally, the most beautiful discovery. It turned out that Pluto has ... a tail. The solar wind blows its atmosphere into space, which stretches tens of thousands of kilometers behind the planet. Every hour, 500 tons of atmosphere are blown off Pluto into space. For comparison: Mars loses only one ton in the same period of time. Thus, if Pluto were closer to the Sun, it would decorate the night sky with the view of a tailed comet constantly hanging among the stars.
New Horizons for New Horizons
Pluto is important to scientists, but it is not the final or main goal of the scientific mission that materialized in New Horizons. Having visited this planet, the spacecraft began the process of exploring the Kuiper Belt. “The reason why we are so interested in exploring this belt is that it opens up a window in time through which we can see what the solar system was like 4.6 billion years ago,” said in an interview with the Washington Post. ” Harold Weaver, New Horizons scientist.
Weaver compared the Kuiper Belt to a refrigerator, where, due to very low temperatures, primordial materials can be preserved unchanged, from which the solar system was later formed.
Question of questions: where to fly after Pluto? Hubble came to the aid of New Horizons. Last year, he spent 45 days inspecting the area of \u200b\u200bthe starry sky where New Horizons is located, looking for suitable “post-Pluto” targets for the spacecraft. And I found five of them.
Of these, two were selected. The first is 2014 MT69, a celestial body with a diameter of about 60 kilometers. It is 44.3 times farther from the Sun than the Earth. “New Horizons” should approach her on the eve of the New Year, 2019. From 2014 MT69 is located just three months of flight another object - 2014 MT70.
The final choice of target will depend on who - engineers or scientists - will prevail. If the former, then New Horizons will travel to 2014 MT69, as it takes less propellant to get to it, which can be useful for subsequent spacecraft maneuvers. After all, New Horizons is expected to last until 2039.
However, if the scientists still have the last word, that the spacecraft will head towards 2014 MT70, because this object is brighter and larger. Its diameter is about 70 kilometers, so it can contain more interesting information for researchers. But in any case, a new chapter has opened in the world history of space exploration, the name of which is the “Kuiper Belt”.
No need to naively believe that life stands still. Change is an integral part of our being It's impossible to hide from them. Changes in a person's life do not always bring joy and positive emotions. Sometimes they completely destroy our habitual way of life. Change can force you to move forward or take a few steps back. Life changes are like the flow of a raging river. So that all our values, all positive emotions, positive moments, experience and achievements are not carried away by a swift stream of changes, need to learn how to maneuver, maintain balance.
Confident people positive attitude to any changes in habitual existence. For them, living in an era of change is a way to change their comfort zone., the opportunity to get out of it and use the situation to open new horizons. They use all the changes that occur for their own benefit. But insecure people, timid by nature, are afraid of change. They are very dependent on their own comfort zone, they try not to leave it. Consequently, such people will avoid any change, even if it can lead to growth and success.
You need to choose your own changes in life, then they will not be perceived as something hostile, threatening your well-being. Change should be like an adventure that you decide on your own. Such trials make it possible to more steadily endure the hardships of life and unpleasant gifts of fate. You can easily adapt to a new situation, easily cope with hardships.
A positive outlook on change helps to strengthen harmony. Any change should be seen as an opportunity to make new strides in completely new areas. Do not be afraid of change in life, otherwise it will lead to stagnation. Here it is worth recalling the well-known saying: "You cannot enter the same river twice." Water is constantly flowing, this principle also works over time. See how much the world has changed in just a few years. The use of computers and the Internet has significantly affected various areas of life, changed the way we communicate, the way we do business. We are learning every day, trying to keep up with the fast paced time. And life is getting harder and harder every year.
Scientists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rage developed stress scale. They found that at the beginning of the 21st century, people began to live 44% more difficult than the inhabitants of the middle of the 20th century. We must control life in an era of change, otherwise change will control us. This pressure will carry over to self-esteem, relationships, health. If you do not adapt to change, you can inherit the fate of the dinosaurs. They, too, could not adapt to the rapidly changing conditions, so they died.
Life changes are needed. There are many examples of changes in history that allowed a person to reach sky-high heights. For example, the story of Thomas Watson. He worked in a prestigious and highly paid job at the National Cash Register NCR. But he was fired. Watson did not let negative changes break him, but opened his own company, which is now known throughout the world. He founded International Business Machines or IBM. Naturally, the name of Thomas Watson has become legendary in the business world.
Lee Iacocca did not agree with Henry Ford II, for which he was fired from a major automobile concern. We now know Lee Iacocca as the savior of Chrysler Corp. He was able to bring the company out of the crisis, gradually developed it and independently earned a fortune.
Most often, positive changes in life are based on the experience gained. It is impossible to become a successful hockey player if you do not play with stronger opponents. It is impossible to become a good speaker if you do not speak in public and are afraid of public speaking. Experience is not only knowledge, it is also awareness of pitfalls. Experienced people make fewer mistakes because they know how to get around them. The more experience, the more self-confidence.
At the beginning of the last century, people dreamed that soon all production would be automated. We will transfer our powers to machines, and we ourselves will receive the finished product. These times have come, but they turned out to be completely different from what our ancestors dreamed of. Automated production, high-tech specialties require even more time. If earlier an ordinary manager spent 8-9 hours at work, and higher positions - 10-11 hours, today a ten-hour working day is not uncommon for ordinary specialists.
Such a life in an era of change greatly tears us away from everyday affairs, leaves less time for family. Big companies are trying to fix this. Many firms open corporate kindergartens so that their employees pay more attention to children. Some can work from home (you probably know what remote work is), which allows you to be with your family and at the same time perform your duties. According to Azim Premji, an employee of the Indian company Wipro Corporation, change catches up with all people at once. But not everyone is able to immediately realize them.
To overcome the fear of change in life, you need to perform a series of actions.. With them, you will be able to adapt faster.
- Learn to adapt to unusual situations.
- Embrace change, don't try to avoid it.
- Learn to predict changes, then they will not take you by surprise.
- Gain experience in overcoming change, solving problems that have arisen.
- Don't give in to despair, use change as an opportunity to grow.
- Don't stop learning throughout your life.
- Keep your own principles, change should not break you.
- Break patterns of behavior, go beyond your comfort zone.
- Leverage the lessons learned from change.
Ecology of knowledge. The work of the New Horizons spacecraft continues. After a historic flyby of Pluto on July 14 this year, the NASA aerospace agency has chosen a new potential destination for its unmanned space probe. This place is the planetoid 2014 MU69, located 1.5 billion kilometers from the orbit of Pluto.
The work of the New Horizons spacecraft continues. After a historic flyby of Pluto on July 14 this year, the NASA aerospace agency has chosen a new potential destination for its unmanned space probe. This place is the planetoid 2014 MU69, located 1.5 billion kilometers from the orbit of Pluto. It will take more than three years for the probe to reach this icy representative of the early history of the solar system.
Located in the Kuiper Belt, 2014 MU69 has been nicknamed "PT1" or "Potential Target 1" by the New Horizons team. According to NASA, the diameter of this cosmic body is less than 45 kilometers, but it is about 10 times larger and 1000 times heavier than an ordinary asteroid. The small size of this object makes it of interest to scientists, who believe that PT1 is the remnant "building blocks" of the solar system, which ended up in the backyard of a dark, cold, deep space and has not changed much over the past 4.6 billion years.
PT1 turned out to be one of several potential targets that were considered by the New Horizons team after extensive research into the issue in 2011. Ground-based telescopes could not pick up other candidates with sufficient efficiency, so the Hubble Space Telescope stepped in. He found five suitable targets, after which their number was reduced to two. And now the choice is finally made.
Even though New Horizons won't reach PT1 until January 1, 2019, the team had to choose a target in a bit of a hurry because the probe needs to make four orbital course corrections in late October and early November to get going. At any other time, the vehicle would have to use much more fuel to make the next mission successful.
After a 2007 maneuver using the gravitational forces of Jupiter, New Horizons reached a speed of 83,600 km / h. And only on July 14 of this year, after nine and a half years of space travel through deep space, the device flew past Pluto at a distance of 12,500 kilometers from the planet at a speed of 14 km / s, which allowed it to examine in detail this mysterious world for scientists. At the moment, the probe is located 4.9 billion kilometers from Earth and will transmit information about its flight home over the next 15 months.
As is the case with most NASA deep space missions, New Horizons was planned and developed with additional missions in mind after completing its primary mission. It has additional hydrosine fuel tanks, its nuclear generator is designed to run continuously for many years, its communications systems are designed for distances behind Pluto's orbit, and its scientific instruments require even less light to operate than Pluto reaches.
NASA indicates that the decision to visit PT1 is still preliminary and requires formal approval before the probe proceeds with orbital maneuvers. By next year, the New Horizons team is to prepare a proposal that will be reviewed by an independent team of experts. If the project gets the green light, then the probe team will begin preparations for a new science mission.
“The 2014 MU69 is an excellent choice. Firstly, it is one of the oldest space objects in the Kuiper belt, and secondly, the flight to this planetoid fits into NASA's ten-year Decadal Survey program, "says Alan Stern, head of the New Horizons project, from the Southwestern Research and Development Institute (USA, Texas).
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“Moreover, flying to this Kuiper belt object will require much less fuel (compared to other candidates). There will be enough fuel to fly past the planetoid, and to conduct scientific research, and there will also be enough fuel for foreseen circumstances. ” published
