The excitement continued throughout the second day of our annual user conference, Planet Explore 2020. There was no shortage of great content from Planet and our community of users, partners, and influencers. Here are a few highlights.
Planet co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Robbie Schingler, took the stage to discuss three major trends impacting the remote sensing and geospatial industries: the digital transformation, the business of the environment and sustainability, and truth and transparency. He closed his presentation out the way a satellite company co-founder should: with some insights about the space sector!
This may worth something:
Mercury Is in Retrograde Starting This Week — and It Lasts Until Election Day | Travel + Leisure
You’ve probably heard this question posed by your astrology-loving friends from time to time when things go awry. Believers blame all kinds of mishaps on Mercury’s retrograde, and the dates for Mercury’s final retrograde of 2020 might even make skeptics wary of the planet’s backward motion.
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Without delving into astrology, we can explain why Mercury appears to move backward in the sky during its retrograde.
All the planets in our solar system orbit around the sun in the same direction, but some planets orbit faster than others. Mercury orbits the sun about four times in the same period that it takes the Earth to orbit once. Apparent retrograde motion is when planets appear to go “backward” in their orbit, creating what looks like a loop before returning to their usual direction.
The Search for Superhabitable Planets. Worlds Even More Habitable Than Earth - Universe Today
If you said Hoth , that's a good guess. But, it's actually Earth depicted in one of two known "snowball" states. The entire planet's surface was locked beneath glacial ice during the Cryogenian Period 650 million years ago and during the Huronian Glaciation 2 – 2.4 billion years ago.
But that what the authors have set out to find – planets even more habitable than Earth or "Superhabitable"
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So, are there any planets that meet the conditions!? It's a solid…maybe. We can't measure all these criteria from the distances we are observing with current technologies. We can't, for example, yet determine if an exoplanet features active plate tectonics or hosts a moon. But we can measure the mass of an exoplanet, whether it orbits within the habitable zone, estimate its age, and classify the parent star.
A spacecraft is about to slingshot around Venus, putting it on course for Mercury - The Verge
A joint European and Japanese spacecraft is about to slingshot around the planet Venus, performing a short gravitational dance that will change the vehicle's course through space. This critical maneuver will take place just before midnight Eastern Time, and the spacecraft has to nail its routine in order to reach its ultimate destination — Mercury — within the next five years.
The spacecraft making this planetary swing is BepiColombo, which is really two spacecraft wrapped into one. The vehicle consists of one spacecraft overseen by the European Space Agency and another overseen by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency. Once they reach Mercury, the spacecraft will separate and independently orbit the tiny world, gathering data about Mercury's structure, atmosphere, magnetic field, and more.
And here's another article:
Seventh planet Uranus reaches opposition right before Halloween
The classical planets are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, which were observed by many civilizations around the globe.
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The credit for this discovery goes to astronomer William Herschel, who had stalked the skies for years with his small telescope and landed on this now famous planet by accident.
Back some 239 years in history, the seventh planet from the sun opened up a new era in astronomy by expanding the size of our known solar system by literally billions of miles!
News | NASA Missions Spy First Possible Planet Hugging a Stellar Cinder
An international team of astronomers using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope has reported what may be the first intact planet found closely orbiting a white dwarf, the dense leftover of a Sun-like star, only 40% larger than Earth.
The Jupiter-size object, called WD 1856 b, is about seven times larger than the white dwarf , named WD 1856+534. It circles this stellar cinder every 34 hours, more than 60 times faster than Mercury orbits our Sun.
To boldly go: Penn State launches planetary science consortium
The Consortium for Planetary and Exoplanetary Sciences and Technology aims to provide a new approach to studying how planets form, evolve and become habitable, and detecting and potentially exploring these worlds. It brings together researchers from across departments, colleges and Penn State campuses.
"Penn State already has many of the pieces in place to establish a world-class planetary science program," said Jim Kasting, Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences and inaugural director of the consortium. "This initiative provides a unique opportunity to coordinate our efforts and to become a leader in the emerging field of planetary system science. Together, we can address some of the most fundamental questions asked by humans."
Planet Announces Powerful New Products at Planet Explore 2020
Today marked the start of our second annual conference and we were thrilled to virtually host almost 6,000 attendees from over 140 countries, representing 16 verticals and markets.
"To be able to make an impact customers need the best information quickly and in a form they can work with," said Marshall. "Today's product announcements are aimed at helping more customers get the insights they need from our data."
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Fusion Monitoring combines Planet's high-frequency, daily data with other datasets, such as Copernicus's Sentinel data, MODIS, Landsat and VIIRS, to provide a complete, gap-free imagery product for time-series analysis
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