FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Rocket debris from the European Union's satellite Galileo washed up on the beach in Fort Lauderdale on Sunday morning.
Beachgoers noticed the debris about midnight.
Fort Lauderdale police said the debris was part of a rocket that launched several satellites into space. The satellites are part of a global navigation system.
The rocket is believed to have launched from French Guiana, a northeast region in South America. It is believed this piece of debris has been floating for a year and somehow ended up on the beach.
Police collected the debris until a team from the Federal Aviation Administration arrives to inspect it.
No description foundNo description foundNo description foundNASAS:New close-up images of a region near Plutos equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body.The mountains likely formed no more than 100 million years ago -- mere youngsters relative to the 4.56-billion-year age of the solar system -- and may still be in the process of building, says Jeff Moore of New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging Team (GGI). That suggests the close-up region, which covers less than one percent of Plutos surface, may still be geologically active today.NASA: Remarkable new details of Plutos largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles (466,000 kilometers). A swath of cliffs and troughs stretches about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from left to right, suggesting widespread fracturing of Charons crust, likely a result of internal processes. At upper right, along the moons curving edge, is a canyon estimated to be 4 to 6 miles (7 to 9 kilometers) deep.NASA: Since its discovery in 2005, Pluto's moon Hydra has been known only as a fuzzy dot of uncertain shape, size, and reflectivity. Imaging obtained during New Horizons' historic transit of the Pluto-Charon system and transmitted to Earth early this morning has definitively resolved these fundamental properties of Pluto's outermost moon. Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) observations revealed an irregularly shaped body characterized by significant brightness variations over the surface. With a resolution of 2 miles (3 kilometers) per pixel, the LORRI image shows the tiny potato-shaped moon measures 27 miles (43 kilometers) by 20 miles (33 kilometers).Like that of Charon, Hydra's surface is probably covered with water ice, the most abundant ice in the universe. Observed within Hydra's bright regions is a darker circular structure with a diameter of approximately 6 miles (10 kilometers). Hydra's reflectivity (the percentage of incident light reflected from the surface) is intermediate between that of Pluto and Charon. "New Horizons has finally nailed the basic physical properties of Hydra," says Hal Weaver, New Horizons Project Scientist and LORRI science operations lead. "We're going to see Hydra even better in the images yet to come." Hydra was approximately 400,000 miles away from New Horizons when the image was acquired.No description foundNASA: New Horizons has obtained impressive new images of Pluto and its large moon Charon that highlight their compositional diversity. These are not actual color images of Pluto and Charonthey are shown here in exaggerated colors that make it easy to note the differences in surface material and features on each planetary body. The images were obtained using three of the color filters of the Ralph instrument on July 13 at 3:38 am EDT. New Horizons has seven science instruments on board the spacecraftincluding Ralph and Alice, whose names are a throwback to the Honeymooners, a popular 1950s sitcom.NASA: On July 11, 2015, New Horizons captured a world that is growing more fascinating by the day. For the first time on Pluto, this view reveals linear features that may be cliffs, as well as a circular feature that could be an impact crater. Rotating into view is the bright heart-shaped feature that will be seen in more detail during New Horizons closest approach on July 14. The annotated version includes a diagram indicating Plutos north pole, equator, and central meridian.NASA: An annotated image of Pluto indicates features and includes a reference globe showing Plutos orientation with the equator and central meridian in bold.NASA: Theyre a fascinating pair: Two icy worlds, spinning around their common center of gravity like a pair of figure skaters clasping hands. Scientists believe they were shaped by a cosmic collision billions of years ago, and yet, in many ways, they seem more like strangers than siblings.No description found
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