I found it interesting that NASA were going up to photograph the eclipse with their old modified B57 aircraft which were originally based on the British Canberra bomber:
https://www.outono.net/elentir/2024/04/ ... -eclipses/
Astronomy, cosmology and space thread
Re: Astronomy, cosmology and space thread
NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voy ... s-to-earth
"After some inventive sleuthing, the mission team can — for the first time in five months — check the health and status of the most distant human-made object in existence.
For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again. The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between stars)."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voy ... s-to-earth
"After some inventive sleuthing, the mission team can — for the first time in five months — check the health and status of the most distant human-made object in existence.
For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again. The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between stars)."