Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
NASA Science Update to Discuss Mars Atmosphere Activity www.nasa.gov the Martian atmosphere that raises the possibility of life or geologic activity.
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Rocco L. Mancinelli, a Senior Research Scientist with the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, discusses organisms’ potential for survival, adaptation and biological evolution in the atmosphere and beyond to outer space. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Full Course Available on Stanford on iTunes U [iTunes Link]: deimos3.apple.com Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
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NASA Science Update to Discuss Mars Atmosphere Activity www.nasa.gov the Martian atmosphere that raises the possibility of life or geologic activity.
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NASA Science Update to Discuss Mars Atmosphere Activity www.nasa.gov the Martian atmosphere that raises the possibility of life or geologic activity.
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ITV News Volcano erupts in south Iceland. Man takes pictures from space on digital camera. A man in West Yorkshire has managed to snap some stunning photos of the Earth from space using a compact Canon digital camera and a hot air balloon kit that cost him just £500. Robert Harrison, of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, constructed his space photography kit using off-the-shelf components that cost him around £500. He mounted a standard, four mega pixel Canon digital camera to a hot air balloon. The camera was hooked up to a small, Linux-based computer that was set to wake up the camera at set intervals and snap a picture. A GPS unit allowed Harrison to recover his camera when the balloon eventually came back to Earth. The resulting photos are so stunning, that NASA has apparently been in touch with Harrison to learn how he managed to capture such high quality images so cheaply. Several galleries of photos can be seen at Harrisons Flickr page, while his blog contains details of his various launches and the hardware used to construct his clever hot air balloon rig.
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Explore the universe – super nova, nebulae, galaxies ect… – Hubble telescope video with a rare extremely close up view of the space shuttle lifting off. A GREAT CLASSIC BY THE VENTURES.CALLED “SLEEP WALK” ENJOY!!!
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Understanding The Sun – The NASA Heliophysics Program. — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — Heliophysics Science We live in an exciting environment: the heliosphere, the exotic outer atmosphere of a star. The space beyond Earths protective atmospheric cocoon is highly variable and far from benign. It is the one part of the cosmos accessible to direct scientific investigation, our only hands-on astrophysical laboratory. Our technological society is increasingly susceptible to space weather disturbances in this curious region. A host of interconnected physical processes, strongly influenced by solar variability, affect the health and safety of travelers in space and the habitability of alien environments. We call the science of the Sun-Solar System Connections “Heliophysics”. Building on nasas rich history of exploration of the Earths neighborhood and distant planetary systems, we are poised to develop the quantitative knowledge needed to help assure the safety of the new generation of human and robotic explorers. The Heliophysics Program has been completely reevaluated to address the needs of the Vision for Space Exploration. nasas future research and exploration within its Heliophysics program aims to “explore the Sun-Earth system to understand the Sun and its effects on Earth, the solar system, and the space environmental conditions that will be experienced by explorers, and to demonstrate technologies that …
Tags: Earth, Telescopes, technologies, hsd
I’m remixing a number of the Climate Denial Crock of the Week videos, in order to address some complaints people have had. Number one, my sound mixing and quality have been poor, and I’ve gotten some better equipment and more experience, so I can make them a lot easier to listen to. Number two, people have asked for related urls and sites they can go to, in order to follow up on arguments presented in the video, so I am doing that here. The first-up remix is my debunking of the perennial denier favorite, ‘There’s Global Warming on Mars”, one of my favorites for content, and biggest embarrassments for sound. Here are the supporting links. Mars “global warming”: www.timesonline.co.uk Pluto “global warming”: www.space.com supposed warming on other planets: www.skepticalscience.com Uranus cooling: www.boulder.swri.edu related vid, solar activity: www.youtube.com discussion here: www.skepticalscience.com www.newscientist.com www.newscientist.com www.realclimate.org
Tags: Earth, petition, banned video, environment
Discovered in 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, Titan is the biggest of the 52 known moons orbiting Saturn. It is a cold world enclosed by a thick, hazy atmosphere impenetrable by telescopes and cameras. With an equatorial radius of 2575 kilometers (1600 miles), Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system. It’s bigger than our own moon and even the planet Mercury. Only Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is larger than Titan, with a diameter barely 112 kilometers (62 miles) greater. The temperature at Titan’s surface is about minus 178 degrees C (minus 289 degrees F). Titan orbits Saturn at a distance of about 1.2 million kilometers (745000 miles), taking almost 16 days to complete a full orbit – 15.94 days to be exact. Titan is of great interest to scientists because it is the only moon in the solar system known to have clouds and a mysterious, thick, planet-like atmosphere. In 1980, nasa’s Voyager 1 spacecraft tried to take close up images of the natural features of Titan’s landscape but was unable to penetrate the thick clouds. Instead, the images showed only slight color and brightness variations in the atmosphere. Titan’s atmospheric pressure is about 60 percent greater than Earth’s – roughly the same pressure found at the bottom of a swimming pool. In 1994, nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope recorded pictures of Titan, which suggested that a huge bright “continent” exists on the hemisphere that faces forward in orbit. These Hubble results don’t prove that …
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Vorticity model of an exosolar planet. The planet is in an eccentric orbit and is heated by the star. This movie represents some work I’ve been doing towards understanding and characterizing planets orbits around other stars (exoplanets). This particular planet is very exciting. It is approximately the size of Jupiter but orbits closers to the it’s star than Mercury and the orbit is non-circular (e=0.7). As a result is it heavily irradiated and continuously heating up and displaying dramatic dynamics.
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