Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
Hubblecast Episode 40: Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) – Hubble’s New Miracle Camera In early 2009, a team of astronauts visited Hubble to repair the wear and tear of twenty years of operating in a hostile environment – and to install two new instruments, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, and Wide Field Camera 3 – better known as WFC3. — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) is a combined ultraviolet, visible and infrared camera that dramatically extends Hubble’s ability to image astronomical objects. With these new capabilities, Hubble is still pushing the boundaries of science after two decades in orbit. In episode 30 of the Hubblecast, we saw some of the very first pictures to come back from Wide Field Camera 3, Hubble’s newest and most advanced instrument. Today we’re going to look at some of the science behind these pictures. We’ll find out how this remarkable new camera is helping Hubble to see the invisible, look far back in time and spot objects further away from us than ever before. WFC3 was installed on Hubble in place of WFPC2, the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which for many years had been the main workhorse instrument on Hubble. Not only do the two instruments have very similar names, and look virtually identical, the capabilities of WFC3 are also in some respects just a tweaked version of those of its predecessor — although with sharper pictures and more …
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This is Part III of IV of a Powerpoint presentation that can be found and downloaded at sciencepowerpoint.com which is one part of a teaching unit for students in grades 5-10. Each few seconds represents one slide on the actual Powerpoint Presentation. The entire unit covers Earth System History and Astronomy Topics. This unit includes an interactive and engaging Powerpoint Presentation of over a 1000 slides with built in class notes (Red Slides), lab activities, project ideas, discussion questions, assessments (Quiz Wiz), challenge questions with answers, links to create educational websites, videos, and much more. Text is in large print (32 font) and is placed at the top of each slide so it can seen and read from all angles of a classroom. Also included is a 13 page assessment that chronologically follows the slideshow for nightly homework and the end of the unit assessment, as well as a 10 page modified assessment for students who require. 12 pages of class notes with images are also included for students who require modifications, as well as answer keys to both assessments for support professionals, teachers, and home school parents. 39 video shorts (FLV files) are provided and a slide within the slideshow cues teacher / parent when the videos are most relevant to play. Video shorts usually range from 2-7 minutes and are included in organized folders. Two Powerpoint Jeopardy games are included. Answers to the Powerpoint Jeopardy games are also provided in Powerpoint …
Tags: middle, Planets, gas, Satellites
Life Beyond Earth: Origin And Evolution Of Life In The Universe – Best Of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos (Part 20). Carl Edward Sagan, Ph.D. (1934-1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage”, which has been seen by more than 600 million people in over 60 countries, making it the most widely watched PBS program in history. A book to accompany the program was also published. He also wrote the novel “Contact”, the basis for the 1997 Robert Zemecki’s film of the same name starring Jodie Foster. During his lifetime, Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles and was author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books. In his works, he frequently advocated sceptical inquiry, secular humanism, and the scientific method. • www.carlsagan.com ‘Our Place in the Cosmos’ (ft. Sagan, Dawkins, Kaku, Jastrow)- Symphony of Science- http Carl Sagan – We Are All Connected- www.youtube.com The Size of The Universe- www.youtube.com The Known Universe (Take A Journey through The Stars)- www.youtube.com What Are the Odds that- Aliens Exist? (Find Out)- www.youtube.com CNN:NASA Search For Earth Like Planets & Alien Life- www.youtube.com …
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Another picture-music video. This time about Terraforming: The process of Changing other planets and moons to fit our needs. The Song is “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong. (PS – I don’t own or claim the music or images to be my own.) My Twitter: twitter.com
Tags: galaxy, system, Venus, planet
You really have to admire the Hubble Space Telescope. This orbiting telescope has shown mankind more in 10 yrs. Then astronomy has since the days of the Sumerians. We have seen to the edge of the visible universe. We have seen star nurseries and we have witnessed stellar death as well. We have seen the majesty of our galaxy only to have it trumped by even larger more majestic galaxies. We truly are a gifted race of carbon chains. To actually behold these images should touch your heart, as well as your mind. Enjoy these images and music by “Enigma”
Tags: astronomy, Telescope, galaxy, Field
From the acclaimed Science Screen Report DVD series, provided to schools nationwide free of charge since 1970. Saturn, Lord of the Rings & Outer Gas Giants, Uranus & Neptune Second largest of the gas planets, Saturn rules a dazzling domain. Its famous rings are billions of moon-lets that range from the size of tanks to grains of dust. The planet is so light it would float in water, and its largest moon, Titan, is bigger than Mercury. Uranus is twice as far from the Sun as Saturn, while Neptune is so distant it takes 165 years to orbit the Sun. Uranus rotates on its side, possibly knocked over in a collision. Triton, Neptunes largest moon, is the coldest place in our Solar System.
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Voyager 1 Approaching Jupiter Date: 02.03.1979 This is the original Voyager ‘Blue Movie’ (so named because it was built from Blue filter images). It records Voyager 1′s approach during a period of over 60 Jupiter days. Notice the difference in speed and direction of the various zones of the atmosphere. The interaction of the atmospheric clouds and storms shows how dynamic the Jovian atmosphere is. As Voyager 1 approached Jupiter in 1979, it took images of the planet at regular intervals. This sequence is made from 66 images taken once every Jupiter rotation period (about 10 hours). This time-lapse movie uses images taken every time Jupiter longitude 68W passed under the spacecraft. These images were acquired in the Blue filter from Jan. 6 to Feb. 3 1979. The spacecraft flew from 58 million kilometers to 31 million kilometers from Jupiter during that time. This time-lapse movie was produced at JPL by the Image Processing Laboratory in 1979. Image and Description Credit: NASA If you read this far you are also intrigued by the universe. Take a look at my other video titled “Ever Seen the Other Side of Our Moon?”
Tags: astronomy, probe, science, Voyager
myworldtravel.weebly.com Travel through space and time to all the largest Known observable galaxies known. Enjoy the journey! Please subscribe. Thank you. For more exciting places to see, travel videos, photos and tips check out my website at myworldtravel.weebly.com
Tags: Venus, gas, Nova, civilization
For Grades 2-6. From the acclaimed Science Screen Report DVD series, provided to schools nationwide free of charge since 1970. Second largest of the gas planets, Saturn rules a dazzling domain. Its famous rings are billions of moon-lets that range from the size of tanks to grains of dust. The planet is so light it would float in water, and its largest moon, Titan, is bigger than Mercury. Uranus is twice as far from the Sun as Saturn, while Neptune is so distant it takes 165 years to orbit the Sun. Uranus rotates on its side, possibly knocked over in a collision. Triton, Neptunes largest moon, is the coldest place in our Solar System. From the Space Files series by York Films, London.
Tags: free, sun, Planets, videos
Long-ish and somewhat odd program on aero physiology by the California Academy of Sciences. Kinescope of Fifties science TV program featuring discussions and demonstrations. This episode is dedicated to the study of the effects of space travel on human physiology.
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