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Natu Nobilis
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.04.29 18:40:00 -
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Due to the annoucments at Fanfest, wide speculation is in place, making fuel extremely expensive at the market, and promoting a chaos on supply.
Because of this, CCP just broke Herschel, that is now out of liquid helium coolant and is no longer making observations.
Shame on you CCP.
PASADENA, Calif. -- The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected.
The European Space Agency mission, launched almost four years ago, revealed the universe's "coolest" secrets by observing the frigid side of planet, star and galaxy formation.
"Herschel gave us the opportunity to peer into the dark and cold regions of the universe that are invisible to other telescopes," said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington. "This successful mission demonstrates how NASA and ESA can work together to tackle unsolved mysteries in astronomy."
Confirmation the helium is exhausted came today, at the beginning of the spacecraft's daily communication session with its ground station in Western Australia. A clear rise in temperatures was measured in all of Herschel's instruments.
Herschel launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in May 2009. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., built components for two of Herschel's three science instruments. NASA also supports the U.S. astronomical community through the agency's Herschel Science Center, located at the California Institute of Technology's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center in Pasadena.
Herschel's detectors were designed to pick up the glow from celestial objects with infrared wavelengths as long as 625 micrometers, which is 1,000 times longer than what we can see with our eyes. Because heat interferes with these devices, they were chilled to temperatures as low as 2 kelvins (minus 271 degrees Celsius, or 456 Fahrenheit) using liquid helium. The detectors also were kept cold by the spacecraft's orbit, which is around a stable point called the second Lagrange point about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth. This location gave Herschel a better view of the universe.
"Herschel has improved our understanding of how new stars and planets form, but has also raised many new questions," said Paul Goldsmith, NASA Herschel project scientist at JPL. "Astronomers will be following up on Herschel's discoveries with ground-based and future space-based observatories for years to come."
The mission will not be making any more observations, but discoveries will continue. Astronomers still are looking over the data, much of which already is public and available through NASA's Herschel Science Center. The final batch of data will be public in about six months.
"Our goal is to help the U.S. community exploit the nuggets of gold that lie in that data archive," said Phil Appleton, project scientist at the science center.
Highlights of the mission include:
-- Discovering long, filamentary structures in space, dotted with dense star-making knots of material.
-- Detecting definitively, for the first time, oxygen molecules in space, in addition to other never-before-seen molecules. By mapping the molecules in different regions, researchers are learning more about the life cycles of stars and planets and the origins of life.
-- Discovering high-speed outflows around central black holes in active galaxies, which may be clearing out surrounding regions and suppressing future star formation.
-- Opening new views on extremely distant galaxies that could be seen only with Herschel, and providing new information about their high rates of star formation.
-- Following the trail of water molecules from distant galaxies to the clouds of gas between stars to planet-forming solar systems.
-- Examining a comet in our own solar system and finding evidence comets could have brought a substantial fraction of water to Earth.
-- Together with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, discovering a large asteroid belt around the bright star Vega.
Other findings from the mission include the discovery of some of the youngest stars ever seen in the nearby Orion "cradle," and a peculiar planet-forming disk of material surrounding the star TW Hydra, indicating planet formation may happen over longer periods of time than expected. Herschel also has shown stars interact with their environment in many surprising ways, including leaving trails as they move through clouds of gas and dust. More information is online at http://www.herschel.caltech.edu , http://www.nasa.gov/herschel and http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Herschel .
Whitney Clavin 818-354-4673
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
[email protected]
J.D. Harrington 202-358-5241
NASA Headquarters, Washington
[email protected]
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calisk galern
BurgezzE.T.F
Orion Empire
84
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Posted - 2013.04.29 18:42:00 -
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wtf did I just read O.o |
BlG MAMA
Mannar Focused Warfare
Gallente Federation
62
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Posted - 2013.04.29 18:46:00 -
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calisk galern wrote:wtf did I just read O.o
another nerdy imaginary story?
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Lord-of-the-Dreadfort
The Lions Guard
86
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Posted - 2013.04.29 18:53:00 -
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da **** is this? |
Natu Nobilis
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
133
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Posted - 2013.04.29 18:54:00 -
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Explaining kinda ruins the fun, but at Fanfest there was a change in mining mechanics that led to speculation at the markets and the increase in price of fuel due to this specualtion.
And today, we have confirmation that a cool satelite ran out of Coolant and Helium, the first being a subproduct of Planetary Interface, intreface that will be touched by our actions at Planetary Conquest here in Dust 514.
So, you correlate "Fanfest - Market Speculation - Increase in prices - Space equipment running out of items that got price increased" and there you connect the dots. |
Daedric Lothar
Onslaught Inc
RISE of LEGION
286
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Posted - 2013.04.29 18:56:00 -
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Yea sorry, this thread is bad.
Bacon Sundae is good
Nom nom nom |
Natu Nobilis
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
134
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Posted - 2013.04.29 19:06:00 -
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Daedric Lothar wrote:Yea sorry, this thread is bad. Bacon Sundae is good Nom nom nom
It-¦s not that bad....
Bacon is always good however.
CCP, get your secondary market right so we can speculate and make people unable to acess gear prior to battles =p |
Knarf Black
Subdreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
612
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Posted - 2013.04.29 19:20:00 -
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In spite of its galactic abundance, Helium is kind of hard to obtain here on Earth (we extract it during natural gas mining) and desperately needs to be freed from government price controls. Cheap helium encourages wasteful (and boring) Thanksgiving parades that eat up our finite supply of 'low hanging fruit', depriving science and industry. |
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GM Hercules
Game Masters
C C P Alliance
428
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Posted - 2013.04.29 19:27:00 -
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This thread has been moved from 'General Discussion' by a forum moderator.
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DeadlyAztec11
One-Armed Bandits
Atrocitas
122
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Posted - 2013.04.29 19:31:00 -
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GM Hercules wrote:This thread has been moved from 'General Discussion' by a forum moderator.
+1
Thanks, you're a sweetheart  |
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Heavy Salvo
Silver Talon Corporation
0
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Posted - 2013.04.30 08:17:00 -
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GM Hercules wrote:This thread has been moved from 'General Discussion' by a forum moderator.
so he pretty much just fed this post to the wolves?
GG bud. |
Jackof All-Trades
Bojo's School of the Trades
112
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Posted - 2013.05.01 11:23:00 -
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I thought this was funny ^_^
Pity no one shares the humour. Oh well, just know that it's appreciated! |
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