Google has officially released their newest feature known as Google Image Search. This new tool will allow all users who use Google to bookmark their images much more easily. It is also looking like this new feature could end up competing with what Pinterest does. Let’s take a look at Google’s latest hit.
GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH FULL DETAILS
Google announced that the main aspect that this feature is doing is allowing users to star and bookmark their images. They also mention how this Google Image Search will allow their users to sort their bookmarked and starred images in folders and collections. Google also announced in a blog post that all images will automatically be added to a folder with similar images. Google has made sorting and surfing through images much more convenient with this Google Image Search. The hassle of forgetting where you forgot an image online is over.
GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH TO RIVAL PINTEREST
Pinterest is an online social networking site that allows their users to pin images and have others online view them. This Image Search is clearly going to rival them. Both of these features/programs are going to test users on which one to use. On the one hand, the Google Image Search might be better in the organization field. However, when it comes to social media and sharing with others, Pinterest may have Google still beat. This will be a good thing for Pinterest because this will force them to make sure their program continues to get better and better.
GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH SHOWS THAT THEY CONTINUE TO IMPROVE
Google just seems to keep getting better and better with their products. There is a reason why Google is one the best technology companies in the world and that is because they always continue to improve on whatever it is that they make.
It’s not an unusual a thing, more of an everyday occurrence that there is some news about asteroids flying by Earth. Usually sparking intrigue and some small discussion about what would happen if it would hit Earth. Most flybys have a name and The peanut asteroid is no different.
The peanut asteroid
Picture this, it is nearing the end of the twentieth century, and all the world is abuzz with the end of the world and new millennia mania. But in the May of 1999, a new asteroid was discovered at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Az. From that point on, because of its appearance akin to that of a peanut, it was dubbed the space peanut. The peanut asteroid’s official name is the 1999 JD6. Footage compiled over several images over seven hours can be seen here. Additional information is available there as well. The instruments used to compile the images that you see in the video were located in two different places. One of which was the Deep Space Network antenna located in Goldstone, California. The other instrument was the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. Using both of these, the signal was shot to the peanut asteroid in order for the telescope in Green Bank to receive the signal reflections, and capture the images.
Additional information
The data was collected on the 25th of July, marking this flyby as the peanut asteroid’s closest approach to Earth ever. However the peanut asteroid won’t make another flyby debut until around forty years from now, sometime around 2054. From what has been gathered, the scientists examining the information have said that disagreements on the actual size of the asteroid will be resolved. Before this, it was an estimation from educated guesses to other information, but hopefully it will be resolved now. The asteroid has been a focus of many studies, so a lot about the asteroid is now known, and not so much a mystery any more. There is plenty of time wait until the asteroid’s next flyby around 2054.
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The New Horizons spacecraft is closing in on Pluto, and every day it sends fascinating new images of the dwarf planet that–as expected–are exceeding our expectations. The most recent photos show two distinct faces and a series of intriguing spots in full color. Earlier worries of lethal space debris have been reneged, much to the New Horizons’ NASA team’s relief.
IMAGE ORIENTATION
The newest images of Pluto and its moon Charon, captured by New Horizons’ Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and its Ralph Instrument, show the two bodies as they would appear to the naked eye, with half of Pluto imaged over its circular body (on the right). This would mean that what looks like the south pole is actually the equator.
INTRIGUING FEATURES TO NOTE
Around the equator, or what appears as the South Pole, are spots of about 300 miles (480 km) in diameter, with a surface area approximately the size of Missouri. These spots seem to have consistent size and spacing, and they trace a band across the dwarf planet. Their origin is still a mystery to scientists, but some answers may be revealed upon New Horizons’ arrival on July 14th.
“It’s a real puzzle – we don’t know what the spots are, and we can’t wait to find out,” Dr. Alan Stern of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announced from Boulder, Colorado. He is also New Horizons’ principal investigator.
CHARON IS MYSTERIOUS, TOO
Another puzzle lies in wait in the form of finding out why and how Pluto differs so much from its dark and gray moon Charon. When two bodies form in space, they are generally composed of the same material, and so are expected to appear as such.
BACK TO PLUTO
Pluto’s color has been confirmed by these images. It is a brown planet, whose color is the result of “radiation chemistry acting on the methane and nitrogen ices there,” said Dr. Stern. But a stranger surprise is yet to come, for both the Lorri and Ralph Instrument are going to search for clouds.
CLOUDS ON PLUTO?
Science team postdoc Kelsi Singer of SwRI said “we’re looking for clouds in our images using a number of techniques…if we find clouds, their presence will allow us to track the speeds and directions of Pluto’s winds.”
Some artist renderings of what Pluto may look like from low orbit can really take one aback–thin, wispy systems of white contrails all but rotating across the brown and yellow landscape. If this surreal possibility turns out to be true, it could indicate that Pluto has a much more complex weather system than we’d originally thought.
NEW HORIZONS ITINERARY UPDATES
NASA gave the all clear for the spacecraft to continue its approach to the Plutonian system yesterday, after several weeks of scanning for dust clouds, rings, hidden moons or other interplanetary hazards posing an imminent threat to the probe. As a last ditch effort, the team even considered the possibility of using the large high gain antenna dish (used to communicate with us, on Earth) as a physical shield against debris. Space dust is lethal because, regardless of size, a particle travelling at 30,800 miles per hour (49,600km/h) would turn anything we’ve built into swiss cheese.
The New Horizons team engaged a 23 second thruster burn to increase the probe’s speed, but overall “we’re breathing a collective sigh of relief knowing that the way appears to be clear,” remarked Jim Green, director of NASA’s planetary science division. The New Horizons team was worried they’d have to adopt a Safe Haven by Other Trajectory (SHBOT), a decision they needed to have made by this week, but it turned out to be an unnecessary precaution.
PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS
The New Horizons team partially expected to detect new moons or rings, but the lack of either was a “bit of a scientific surprise,” to Dr. Stern. “As a scientist I’m a bit disappointed that we didn’t spot additional moons to study, but as a New Horizons team member I am much more relieved that we didn’t find something that could harm the spacecraft,” added John Spencer of SwRI, leader of the New Horizons hazard analysis team. The possibility of a faint ring does exist, but it would be extremely sparse and almost invisible to equipment.
The path is open and the stage is set for New Horizons to make history in the age of interplanetary exploration in twelve days’ time.
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The teams in charge of the interplanetary satellite New Horizons are burning the midnight oil in an attempt to correct the spacecraft’s trajectory and flight time. The ETA for these corrections was June 14th, so hopefully everything turns out okay when it reaches Pluto.
The director of space navigation and flight dynamics for KinetX Aerospace, Dr. Bobby Williams said this series of course corrections was just an early part of three advanced planned activities.
WHAT WILL NEW HORIZONS DO WITH PLUTO?
Every day, NASA releases images of Pluto, but the upcoming flyby means that New Horizons’ Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) camera will finally be able to photograph the closest images ever taken of Pluto. This will be at a distance of approximately 7,750 miles from Pluto’s frigid crust. As such, Williams explained, these will be the most clear and focused images of Pluto ever, and things are only going to get better.
BUT WE DIDN’T COME HERE JUST FOR THE TOUR
New Horizons will also assist scientists hoping to estimate the mass of Pluto and its moons, a subject of long-standing curiosity among scientists. The only spacecraft that have been farther away from Earth are the twin probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched in the 1970s to study the outer-planets and the edges of our solar system. One passed by Jupiter and Saturn, only to slingshot up out of our solar system in a vertical vector, while the other followed its curve out, passing by Uranus and Neptune before wandering out into that massive abyss. The two are still transmitting data by radio.
New Horizon’s mission upon arrival is to investigate the unknown surface of Pluto, supplying more data with which to hopefully quell the decades-long debate about the categorical status of the little planet (many scientists believe Pluto to be too small, and with too little mass to qualify as a planet).
WHAT CAN WE LOOK AT NOW
We have been informed that the newest photos reveal a bright spot on Pluto’s polar cap. The meaning of this luminescence is still under investigation. Hopefully, the Plutonians are not alerted to New Horizons’ presence.
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