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UC San Diego Physicists Locate Long Lost Soviet Reflector on Moon
- gjm11 17y ago"In the coming months, he estimates it will be possible to establish the reflector’s coordinates to better than one-centimeter precision." On the moon.
- rbanffy 17y agoQuite impressive, isn't it?
- kylemathews 17y agoAnd some days I can't even find my keys :)
- plesn 17y ago> “It turns out we were searching around a position miles from the rover,” said Murphy. This guy should make a law about improbable things happening ;)
- ovi256 17y agoWell, if you'd spend 4 years of undergraduate education on key related studies, then 3 to 5 years on key-finding PhD research, then all your life on the same subject, I'm sure you'd be able to get millimeter accuracy on your keys position ! That, and the help of a rich key-finding research community and literature. That being said, anything mood/astronomy/physics related is freaking awesome, so yeah, the moon people.
- jcdreads 17y ago> "The best signal we’ve seen from Lunokhod 2 in several years of effort is 750 return photons, but we got about 2,000 photons from Lunokhod 1 on our first try." I was trained as a physicist and I'm still impressed by astronomers' ability to learn things from countably small numbers of individual photons that make it through a telescope.
- whimsy 17y ago"Lunokhod 1, by virtue of its location, would provide the best leverage for understanding the liquid lunar core..." The moon has a liquid core?! Why was I not informed?