Stare And Watch This Image Disappear. The Story Of The Pioneer Plaque – Beginning. Pioneer 10 was the first object made by humans to ever go past the solar system and travel into the universe at large. It was a spacecraft that was sent by NASA to methodically snap photos of Jupiter and beam them back to Earth. But it also carried with it pictures of it’s own that were etched into a small golden plaque. These pictures are intended to communicate very specific stories to anyone or anything Pioneer 10 might come across in it’s voyage across the galaxy. NASA didn’t originally intend to send such an unusual object out with Pioneer 10. Trying to communicate far in the future with aliens in some remote corner of the galaxy was something the cautious bureaucracy definitely did not want to venture into back then. It was only through the efforts of someone as dedicated and charismatic as Carl Sagan that it even had a remote chance of being approved by NASA administrators. There was only one problem, NASA said the plaque had to be done in three weeks or not at all.
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Terrific Science Videos. Awesome comparison of size of plants & stars. The Incredible Relative Speed of the Earth. Embed This Quick Fact: <a href=" title="The Incredible Relative Speed of the Earth"><img src=" alt="" title="The Incredible Relative Speed of the Earth" border="0" /></a><br />Source: <a href=" title="Random Quick Facts">Random Quick Facts</a> Click Here for the Sources and to Learn More Interesting Astronomy/Earth Related Facts Text Version Along with orbiting around the sun at 66,600 mph, the Earth is also rotating at its axis at about 1,070 miles per hour. So you are simultaneously hurtling around the sun at 66,600 mph while sitting on a rock that is spinning at 1,070 mph.
On top of that, our whole solar system is rocketing through space around the center of the Milky Way at around 559,234 mph. Glass melts when it gets cold. An Atlas of The Universe. Molecular Movies Go Hollywood. BioVision's latest animation shows how food is converted into energy. By John Roach, Contributing Writer, NBC News Biologists are using the kind of animation technology you might see in a multimillion-dollar "Toy Story" movie to show the general public how molecules inside a cell work.
The resulting high-tech visual aids have found their way into thousands of high-school classrooms, and they've been watched millions of times on video-sharing websites such as YouTube. That's the kind of success Robert Lue, director of life sciences education at Harvard University and the creator of the BioVisions project, has been hoping to achieve. "It is very much about how do you put science in context, how do you take advantage of the fact that we are visual animals, that we in fact understand the world through our eyes to a significant degree, and apply that reality of who we are as animals to the way in which we perceive science," he told me.
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