There’s a dust storm kicking up around me, making it harder to generate solar power. I’m alive and stable, but holding off on science work. For now I’m hunkered down in “safe mode,” but hopefully skies will be clearer next week. https://t.co/GJHiBlaS3s
In the five months of cleanup operations with System 002 (aka Jenny), we have recorded 40,273kg plastic collected (or 1/2500th of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch).
When you throw something fast up into the air, it gets slower and slower as it gets higher, and then starts to fall again. We will throw JWST up at 25000 mph and it will head upwards for a month, slowing to a stop at a height of one million miles... and then:
Coming up for the @NASAWebb telescope (UTC-5):
✨ Dec. 21 at 2pm ET: Pre-launch briefing
✨ Dec. 24 at 6am ET: Live launch broadcast
✨ Dec. 24 at 6:30am ET: @NASA_Es launch broadcast
We're ready to #UnfoldTheUniverse! Get details on how you can watch: https://t.co/S1DWqchN0l
JWST is scheduled to launch from French Guiana on Dec. 22, the result of a $10 billion NASA / Canadian Space Agency / European Space Agency effort. It will be another six months before we see its first official images. https://t.co/Qs2IwCBIuL via @TorontoStar@smckinley1
Jenny and crew are returning to shore tomorrow after a successful 12-week campaign, but in case you're still wondering how System 002 works, check this out: https://t.co/2Ol7TYklkT.
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BREAKING: the final test of System 002 is completed, and we have another big catch on deck. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned.
The crew is already sorting the catch, and lots of information is still to be processed. Stay tuned!
It's exactly 10 years ago that I first learned about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Back then, everyone told me there was no hope of ever cleaning it up.
They were right then; no method existed to do it. Proud (and relieved!) to say that now there is.