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  • Arrokoth: Naming the Kuiper Belt Object Visited by NASA’s New Horizons

    Arrokoth: Naming the Kuiper Belt Object Visited by NASA’s New Horizons

    In a fitting tribute to the farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft, the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 has been officially named Arrokoth, a Native American term meaning “sky” in the Powhatan/Algonquian language.

    With consent from Powhatan Tribal elders and representatives, NASA’s New Horizons team – whose spacecraft performed the record-breaking reconnaissance of Arrokoth four billion miles from Earth – proposed the name to the International Astronomical Union and Minor Planets Center, the international authority for naming Kuiper Belt objects. The name was announced at a ceremony at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.

    Learn more here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/far-far-away-in-the-sky-new-horizons-kuiper-belt-flyby-object-officially-named-arrokoth

  • Italy to Indian Ocean

    Italy to Indian Ocean

    Similar to ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti’s night timelapse over Italy and Egypt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgw36RCQPvM) but taken during the day, this video takes you on a 30-second journey over Italy, passing Greece while flying over the Mediterranean Sea to follow the Nile and finish at the Indian Ocean.

    Looking out from the International Space Station’s Cupola observatory while circling Earth at speeds of 28 800 km/h, the 5500 km flight took Samantha around 12 minutes. Images from a Space Station camera were joined together to create this video and make the flight seem even faster.

    The astronauts on the Space Station spend as much time as possible on science. During her 40-hour working week Samantha runs many experiments from Italy’s ASI space agency and ESA, and takes part in even more from scientists all over the world.

    Samantha is living and working on board the International Space Station as part of the six-strong Expedition 42 and 43 crew. Follow her Futura mission at http://samanthacristoforetti.esa.int.