Well it was worth the wait, after a momentous journey, New Horizons probe has arrived at Ultima Thule in the distant Kuiper Belt. Images are only now beginning to arrive and the first clear image reveals two asreoidal bodies fused together like a giant snowman!
More images will arrive as the probe speeds onward into deep space and whilst we wait Osiris Rex silently orbits Bennu plotting the landing which will retrieve material to send back to Earth in a pod. Who says the space race is over?
Added 03/01/19 - China has just landed a rover on the lunar farside!
Simply amazing. Ta for sharing Bill. I love the name Osiris Rex! It harks back to my beloved Collosus Rex of the Courforms Outwr Space Men. Mel Birnkrant was ahead of his time!
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ReplyDeleteChina have just landed on the dark side of the moon as well!
ReplyDeleteAnd is there a comet or asteroid heading close to our moon?
ReplyDeleteThere is no Dana, only Thule! -Mark J Southcoast Base (can't believe no one else said it)
ReplyDeleteI know that line! What's it a reference to MJ?
DeleteGhostbusters!- Mark J Southcoast Base
Deleteha ha! yes! nice one MJ! What a movie. The keymaster and the gatekeeper! Never cross the beams!
DeleteShush listen, can you smell something? And it's all the fault of dick-less over there! Is this true? Yes this man has no dick!! Floor me every time! - Mark J Southcoast Base
ReplyDeleteha ha, every line was a gem in Ghostbusters. I remember me and the Missus saw it at the flicks in Llandudno and the following morning our daughter was born! We very nearly called her Slimer! ha ha
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