Apollo's Moon Shot AR on the App Store Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing with an immersive AR app that places you right in the action of NASA’s daring space missions of the 1960s. The perfect companion to Smithsonian Channel’s landmark six-part series, the “Apollo’s Moon Shot AR” app gives you an out-of-this-world close-up of some of the landmark events that defined the start of the Space Age. Download for free now and blast off into space with us! App Features: Place yourself in the middle of the moon mission: Launch your own Saturn V rocket, sit inside the Lunar Command Module of Apollo 11, and step through a portal to explore the lunar landscape with several exciting AR features. Take a selfie on the Moon, suited up in the authentic Apollo 11 spacesuit, and share with friends on social. Play two thrilling AR simulation games, the “Moon Shot Challenge” and the "Lunar Landing Challenge," to test your ability at navigating a course to the moon and dodging craters and boulders to make a smooth lunar landing.
Mission Overview Studying Mars' Habitability, Seeking Signs of Past Microbial Life, Collecting and Caching Samples, and Preparing for Future Human Missions The Perseverance rover has four science objectives that support the Mars Exploration Program's science goals: All address key astrobiology questions related to the potential of Mars as a place for life. The first three consider the possibility of past microbial life. Even if Perseverance does not discover any signs of past life, it paves the way for human life on Mars someday. Mars 2020 Technology: Heritage and Innovation Technologies for Entry, Descent, and Landing The mission uses technological innovations already demonstrated successfully, especially for entry, descent, and landing (EDL). This type of landing system provides the ability to land a very large, heavy rover on the surface of Mars in a more precise landing area than was possible before Curiosity's landing. Technologies for Surface Operations
Correction the Sun 101 by sandrine.lambour on Genially Dans le coeur, les températures atteignent au moins 15 millions dedegrès Celsius (environs 27 millions de degrès Fahrenheit)Les temperatures combinées avecles molecules d'hydrogène et la puissante gravité du soleil fusionnent pour créer de l'helium.Cette action - la fusion thermonucléaire libère une énorme quantité d'énergie sous forme de radiation, d'electricité et de vent solaire et comme nous en faisons l'expérience sur terre, la chaleur et de la lumière nécessaire à toute forme de vie. Sun 101 | National Geographic - Partie 1- correction Sun 101 | National Geographic - Partie 2- correction
Ποίηση: Κίπλινγκ - Αν... / Poetry: Kipling - If... - published by Myronas on day 622 Θεωρώντας ότι η νέα τάση στον eΕλληνικό τύπο, της δημοσίευσης έργων ποίησης, προωθεί τον πολιτισμό στην κοινότητά μας, θα προσπαθήσω με τη σειρά μου να συμβάλω κι εγώ. Ξεκινώ με ένα σημαντικότερα ποιήματα της αγγλοσαξωνικής λογοτεχνίας και την ελληνική του μετάφραση, που παρατίθεται στο τέλος της δημοσίευσης, μετά το πρωτότυπο κείμενο. Πρoτίθεμαι να συνεχίσω στο μέλλον με ελληνική ποίηση και τις μεταφράσεις της στα αγγλικά. Δυο λόγια για τον ποιητή: Ο Τζόζεφ Ράντγιαρντ Κίπλινγκ (30 Δεκεμβρίου 1865 - 18 Ιανουαρίου 1936) ήταν Βρετανός συγγραφέας και ποιητής. Following the new trent of peotry publications, I would like to contribute with one of the most significant poems written in English language, and it's translation to Greek. About the author: Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was a British author and poet. If... Αν… Αν να κρατάς καλά μπορείς το λογικό σου, όταν τριγύρω σου όλοι τάχουν χαμένα και σ’ εσέ της ταραχής τους ρίχνουν την αιτία.
The Lunar Library: Genesis — Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity fo... The Arch Lunar Library™ represents the first in a series of lunar archives from the Arch Mission Foundation, designed to preserve the records of our civilization for up to billions of years. It is installed in the SpaceIL “Beresheet” lunar lander, which crashed on the Moon in April of 2019. The Lunar Library contains a 30 million page archive of human history and civilization, covering all subjects, cultures, nations, languages, genres, and time periods. The Library is housed within a 100 gram nanotechnology device that resembles a 120mm DVD. The first four layers contain more than 60,000 analog images of pages of books, photographs, illustrations, and documents - etched as 150 to 200 dpi, at increasing levels of magnification, by optical nanolithography. The first analog layer is the Front Cover and is visible to the naked eye. Beneath the analog layers of the Library are 21 layers of 40 micron thick nickel foils, each containing a DVD master.
India Is Headed to the Moon India has successfully launched its second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2. The country hopes that the launch will make bring it into the exclusive club of nations that have successfully made a soft landing on lunar soil. Riding on an Indian-built rocket known as a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, or GSLV MkIII-M1, the successful launch from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center, located on a small island off India's southeastern coast, took place at 2:43 pm Indian Standard Time (IST). "Today is a historical day for Space Science and Technology in India. I am extremely happy to announce that GSLV MkIII-M1 successfully injected Chandrayaan-2 into an orbit of 6000 Km more than the intended orbit and is better," said Dr. The launch wasn't entirely smooth. “Today is the beginning of the historical journey of India towards Moon and to land at a place near south pole to carry out scientific experiments to explore the unexplored. What is Chandrayaan-2? What Is ISRO?
NASA's Juno spacecraft enters Jupiter's orbit | NASA News Fast Facts The $1.1bn mission will last 20 months Juno has travelled 2.7bn km since its launch in 2011 It's an unmanned solar-powered observatory A key concern are high radiation levels NASA's Juno spacecraft has begun to orbit Jupiter to investigate the origin of the solar system, the US space agency has said. The $1.1bn mission launched five years ago successfully entered the orbit of Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, after a 35-minute manoeuvre, NASA said on Tuesday. "Success! The unmanned solar-powered observatory has travelled 2.7bn kilometres since it was launched five years ago from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Once in position to begin its 20-month science mission, Juno will fly in egg-shaped orbits, each one lasting 14 days, to peer through the planet's thick clouds, map its gargantuan magnetic field and probe through the crushing atmosphere for evidence of a dense inner core. 'Into the scariest place' SOURCE: Al Jazeera and agencies
China's Chang'e 4 makes historic first landing on the moon's far side By Leah Crane For the first time, a spacecraft has landed on the side of the moon that is always facing away from Earth – an area that, until now, we had only seen from orbit. The China National Space Administration’s Chang’e 4 lander launched on 7 December and has spent the past month reaching the correct orbit to attempt the historic landing. The CNSA also launched a lunar satellite in May to facilitate communication with the lander, as there is never a direct line of sight between the moon’s far side and Earth. That lack of visibility meant that Chang’e 4 had to make its landing almost completely autonomously, with no input from mission control. This basin is particularly important because it is thought to be a crater from a huge impact during the moon’s early years. The mission will also help prepare for the moon’s possible future. Chang’e 4 is also carrying a “biosphere” with potato seeds, cress and silkworm larvae to see if they can thrive in a sealed container on the moon.
New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up to Prepare for Historic Flyby of Distant Object NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has woken up from hibernation to prepare for a historic New Year's Day flyby at the edge of our solar system. The New Horizons probe, which flew by Pluto in July 2015, has been in hibernation mode since Dec. 21 to preserve resources. But, on June 5, the mission operations team at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory received confirmation, through NASA's Deep Space Network, that the spacecraft had exited hibernation, as it was programmed to do. The spacecraft will now begin preparations for a New Year's flyby encounter with the farthest planetary encounter in history. "Our team is already deep into planning and simulations of our upcoming flyby of Ultima Thule and excited that New Horizons is now back in an active state to ready the bird for flyby operations," the mission's principal investigator, Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said in a statement.
Watch the Final Moments of the ESA's Rosetta Spacecraft as It Crashes Into a Comet In Brief After more than 10 years in space, the ESA's "comet chaser" has ended its mission. Rosetta's missions have been credited with revitalizing public interest in comets. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft finished its final mission on her comet, the 67P, today at 5 AM Eastern Time. “Rosetta has entered the history books once again,” says Johann-Dietrich Wörner, ESA’s Director General, in a press release. The much-accomplished satellite contributed a great deal to space exploration, particularly to the study of comets. For additional insight, the ESA has released a video that shows Rosetta’s final trajectory. Bittersweet feeling as Cassini mission embarks on its 'grand finale' ahead of death plunge It’s the slow beginning of what will be a violent end for the Cassini mission. At 10.00 BST on April 26, the spacecraft became the first ever to dive between Saturn and its spectacular innermost ring. This marks the start of its “grand finale” consisting of 22 daring orbits – enabling a new era of science. Then, on September 15, it will crash into the planet’s atmosphere and burn up. It is sure to be a sad but proud moment for those of us who have worked on the mission. Cassini was initially set on its path to destruction on April 22 when it flew by Saturn’s moon Titan. During the next few months, the instrument teams have several new observations to make in this region. Hazardous journey But there are risks. However, it is thought that the risks of a significant dust hit in the ring plane are low. The only protruding features beyond the shield are a 10-metre electric field antennae and an 11-metre magnetometer boom (used to make magnetic observations). Personal highlights