Photos - Camilla, un poulet en caoutchouc devenu vedette de la NASA Avez-vous déjà partagé cet article? Partager sur Facebook Partager sur Twitter Pour sensibiliser le public à sa mission d’étude, l’Observatoire des dynamiques solaires (SDO) de la NASA a mis en scène un personnage quelque peu particulier : un poulet en caoutchouc qui rêve de s’envoler dans l’espace. Camilla Corona aurait pu rester une simple et anonyme cocotte de caoutchouc destinée à divertir les animaux de compagnie, toutefois le destin en a voulu autrement. Sa mission quotidienne consiste à partager ses expériences à travers les différents réseaux sociaux sur lesquels la suivent plus de 20.000 internautes. Dans un entretien téléphonique, il confie à Wired : "J’espère pouvoir emmener Camilla à la Station Spatiale Internationale et lui apporter une bonne visibilité". Un succès inattendu Mais comment Camilla est-elle passée du simple poulet de caoutchouc à l’astronaute en formation ? "Nous ne savions pas comment le public réagirait face à un poulet en caoutchouc.
NASA spacecraft due for rendezvous with comet Tempel 1 It's not exactly young love, but some might find it romantic. On Valentine's Day, an aging Lothario that has been flitting from beauty to beauty through the solar system will make his final stop, taking pictures of a battered dowager to send to the folks back home before disappearing forever. The Stardust spacecraft, which has already taken images of asteroid Annefrank and captured interstellar dust from comet Wild 2, on Monday night will swing by comet Tempel 1. There, it will take new pictures of the devastation wrought on the comet by NASA's 2005 Deep Impact mission. In that historic encounter six years ago, the Deep Impact spacecraft released an 820-pound probe that crashed into Tempel 1 at 23,000 mph, sending a luminous plume of debris into space and allowing researchers to determine what the comet was made of. There was so much debris, in fact, that the spacecraft could not get a clear look at the impact crater. The encounter is expected to begin about 8:30 p.m.
Stellarium aqua profunda Jupiter, Cassini Time-Lapse Movie Home > Other Planets > Jupiter, Cassini Time-Lapse Movie Between October 31 and November 9 2000, the Cassini space probe took a series of global images of Jupiter. NASA processed and assembled these into a global Time-lapse movie. This file creates an interactive 3d version of this movie by wrapping it around Google Earth as a series of time stamped image overlays, and using GE’s time control to enable playback. Download the animation7MB Viewing the Animation After opening the file the time slider will appear at the top of the GE Window. Although the animation sequence is only 12 frames long, several features of Jupiter’s atmosphere evolution are visible: Counterclockwise rotation of the Great Red SpotHorizontal bands move at different ratesStorms - the white ovals, rotate clockwise North of the equator and anti clockwise to the SouthFlashing spots. caused by Jupiter’s moons, Io and Europa passing in front of the camera Images Courtesy - Nasa/JPL/University of Arizona Related posts:
NASAs 'Curiosity' Search for Life Targets Water-Altered Rock This rock's composition is unlike any other Opportunity has investigated during nine years on Mars -- higher in aluminum and silica, lower in calcium and iron. "Based on our current solar-array dust models, we intend to reach an area of 15 degrees northerly tilt before Opportunity's sixth Martian winter," said JPL's Scott Lever, mission manager. "Solander Point gives us that tilt and may allow us to move around quite a bit for winter science observations." Northerly tilt increases output from the rover's solar panels during southern-hemisphere winter. The first drive away from Esperance covered 81.7 feet (24.9 meters) on May 14. "There appears to have been extensive, but weak, alteration of Whitewater Lake, but intense alteration of Esperance along fractures that provided conduits for fluid flow," Squyres said. NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Project launched Opportunity to Mars on July 7, 2003, about a month after its twin rover, Spirit. The Daily Galaxy via NASA/JPL
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Environment | Fortuna Cool Eco-Reminder Stickers by Hu2 Hu2 is a design studio in London that creates imaginative, creative, inspiring, thought provoking and some time poetic stickers to remind you of scarcity of energy on planet earth. 7 Centuries old Stone Houses in Iran This is pretty impressive. San Francisco quake of 1906 Now In Color When you think of photos from the early 1900′s, you probably don’t picture them in color. Posted in Bizarre, Object, Pics, environment, extreme, featured Tagged 1906, color photography, Frederick Eugene Ives, In Color, photos, San Francisco quake The Bizarre zoo in Saudi Arabia Couple of month ago we had a post about Bizarre Zoo in Argentina, and here’s one in Saudi Arabia, but this one is private, and the owner is letting his child to play with one of the greatest Predators. . … Continue reading Posted in Animals, Bizarre, Pics, environment, featured, travel Tagged Animals, Bizarre zoo, Cheetah, Images, photos, Pics, Saudi Arabia, weird, Zoo Hunting Rabbits In Kazakhstan
Kepler Mission To Find Earth-like Planets By Studying Planetary Transits Earlier this week we spoke about finding Earth-like planets, and how hard it is to find them. We would like to see other planets similar to Earth, and we have a few absolutely necessary conditions: the planet must be rocky, solid, dense like Earth, a source of power like a Sun, chemicals resulted from volcanic activity, and liquid water. The most important thing however, is that the planet must be located in the Goldilocks zone, the area where the planet is not too far and not too close from a star. In order to find such planets NASA has begun the Kepler Mission which will last four year. In the search of alien life scientists will have to be pay a lot of attention to the planetary transits because the changes of the brightness are very, very small. If you thought that it’s easy then please note that the Suns might change their brightness due to natural variation, and if a transit doesn’t repeat itself more than once in a year then chances are that’s not an exoplanet. via Physorg
Nano electronics; new devices and incremental nanotechnology Guosheng Cheng - Yale University, USA AWAITING CAPTION ... Elena Cimpoiasu - Yale University, USA AWAITING CAPTION ... Paul Edwards - University of Strathclyde, UK SEM image of an array of gallium nitride micropyramids ... Stan Guthrie - Yale University, USA TEM image of a CVD nanowire with a 10 nm amorphous coating ... Marcus D. M. D. A. Shuqing Sun et al - University of Sheffield, UK A scanning near-field optical micrograph (SNOM) ... Yong Peng - University of Sheffield, UK Single carbon nanotubes being picked up from an aligned CNT-bundle layer ... Christian Schönenberger - University of Basel, Switzerland Planar chemical vapour deposition (CVD) growth of nanotubes ... Seung Uk Son - Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea AWAITING CAPTION ... J. Click here to view a movie which reveals how it is nanotechnology that makes your iPod tick ... Click here to view a movie about how nanotechnology could provide the key to preventing a future global energy crisis ... top
Earth-Like Planet Discovery Buoys Search for Life — Discovery of an Earth-like planet in a habitable zone was found after looking at just nine nearby stars. — Such a small sampling implies that worlds like Earth are extremely common. — Techniques are under development to look for the chemical fingerprints of life in the atmospheres of such planets. A new chapter in the search for life beyond Earth opened this week with the discovery of the first rocky world well positioned around its parent star to hold pools of water, an environment believed to be necessary for life. Due to an unfortunate viewing angle, scientists can't determine if this particular planet, known as Gliese 581 g, is indeed endowed, but they don't expect to have to wait too long to find similar worlds that can be probed. The key is finding planets that pass in front of their parent stars, relative to Earth's line of sight. NEWS: Earth-Like Planet Can Sustain Life SLIDE SHOW: Top 10 Places to Find Alien Life The science of exoplanet atmospheres is in its infancy.