Night Skies Slowly Return to the North

The night skies slowly return to the northern hemisphere. Days shorten, nights grow longer. The continued search for life and the exploration of the universe continues to fascinate with ever more scientific discoveries. Making the potential for finding life in the universe ever closer. Possible bio-signatures on exo-planet's continue to intrigue us.

With plans to improve the navigation capabilities of travelling to the moon. With many probes already getting to the moon. Unfortunately there have been many crashes due to navigation errors. So plans are in place to set up a network of satellites. These satellites will help with navigation to the moon. They will also help monitor the various construction plans for the moon. Plans for a space-station on the moon have been around since 1975 during the Apollo era. Where the next step after the moon landings was to set up a colony or outpost on the moon. The TV series Space 1999 envisioned what such a colony would look like. However after the end of Apollo the plans for the moon were put on hold in favour of a number of space probes to explore the solar system in its entirety.

Voyager probes were built and voyaged across the solar system sending images of planets, that had been pointed out by Galileo. Galileo, who first spotted moons orbiting what would be called Jupiter.  Copernicus using maths and a vast database of observations worked out how the sun was the centre of the solar system. That planets including our own orbited this sun and each point of light in the night sky was another sun like our own. With the possibility that there might be similar planets to our own 

The planets that orbited our star came in many forms, shapes and sizes. Some were small and rocky like our own. Many were large clumps of gas on their way to becoming stars. Others were ice giants. Orbiting where the power of the sun to melt ice into water and gas waned. The probes navigated their way to these planets on a grand tour then after their tour voyages into the stellar void. The probes are fascinating explorers to this day.