Browsing Archive: February, 2010
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Friday, February 26, 2010,
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Activity Talks
 I WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL MY ACTIVITY FRIENDS AND THE ONCE READING THIS BLOG A VERY VERY HAPPY HOLI AND MAY THIS COLORFUL FESTIVAL FILL COLOR IN YOUR LIFE AND YOUR IMAGINATIONS ABOUT YOUR FUTURE . I LIKE TO SPECIALLY THANKS MY ASTRONOMY TEACHER Mrs. NEHA SINGH. Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Tuesday, February 23, 2010,
This composite
image of M31 (also known as the Andromeda galaxy) shows X-ray data from
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in gold, optical data from the
Digitized Sky Survey in light blue and infrared data from the Spitzer
Space Telescope in red. The Chandra data covers only the central region
of M31 as shown in the inset box for the image.
New results show that the Chandra image would be about 40 times
brighter than observed if Type Ia supernova in the bulge of this galaxy
were triggered by m... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Monday, February 22, 2010,
 “And so we just wanted to let you know that the amazing work that's
being done on the International Space Station not only by our American
astronauts but also our colleagues from Japan and Russia is just a
testimony to the human ingenuity; a testimony to
extraordinary skill and courage that you guys bring to bear; and is
also a testimony to why continued space exploration is so important,
and is part of the reason why my commitment to NASA is unwavering,”
said President Barack Obama durin... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Wednesday, February 10, 2010,
 Members of the STS-129 shuttle mission present a specially minted
silver medallion to National Football League officials on Wednesday,
Jan. 27, 2010, at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The
coin, which was flown in space during the November flight of Atlantis,
will be used for the official coin toss prior to the kickoff of Super
Bowl XLIV on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. One member of Atlantis' crew, Leland
Melvin, was drafted by the NFL's Detroit Lions in 1986. The crew also
flew other... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Wednesday, February 10, 2010,
 The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
(ASTER) instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft captured this false-color
image of Haiti on Jan. 21, 2010, nine days after a magnitude 7.0
earthquake struck the region and caused massive damage and loss of
life, and one day after a large 5.9 aftershock caused additional
damage. While ASTER's 50-foot resolution is not sufficient to see
damaged buildings, it can be used to identify other results. Tiny dots
of white against the p... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Wednesday, February 10, 2010,
 This view from the navigation camera near the top of the mast on
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the tracks left by the rover
as it drove southward and backward, dragging its inoperable right-front
wheel, to the location where the rover broke through a crust in April
2009 and became embedded in soft sand. The rover team's strategy to
extricate Spirit from the sand trap was to follow these tracks out,
heading north. Spirit took this image during the 2,092nd Martian day,
or sol, of t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Wednesday, February 10, 2010,
NASA'S Mars Rover Spirit Topic Of Media Call Jan. 26
WASHINGTON
-- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan.
26 to discuss the status of the agency's Mars rover Spirit. The robotic
explorer has been stuck in sandy soil on Mars for the past eight
months. The participants are: - Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program, NASA Headquarters in Washington - John Callas, project manager, Mars Exploration Rovers, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laborator... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Monday, February 8, 2010,
In :
Activity Talks
On this Wednesday ma'am told me me that she want's to leave the activity as she is to much tensed in organizing the activity for the founders day . to this I replied to ma'am that you don't have to take any tension because I will take care of everything concerned with the activity but she did not agreed to this and remain fixed at her point but for this I tried to convince ma'am that till I am in this activity their is nothing for you to be tensed because space for me is a passion for m... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Friday, February 5, 2010,
 With its suite of science instruments, Juno will investigate the
existence of a solid planetary core, map Jupiter's intense magnetic
field, measure the amount of water and ammonia in the deep atmosphere,
and observe the planet's auroras. Juno’s principal goal is to
understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. Underneath its dense
cloud cover, Jupiter safeguards secrets to the fundamental processes
and conditions that governed our solar system during its formation. As
our primary example ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Friday, February 5, 2010,
Rover Gives NASA an "Opportunity" to View Interior of Mars
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars.
Perched on a rippled Martian plain, a dark rock not much bigger than a
basketball was the target of interest for Opportunity during the past
two months. Dubbed "Marquette Island," the rock is providing a better
understanding of the mineral and chemical makeup of the Martian
interior. "Marquette Island is ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Friday, February 5, 2010,
NASA Extends the World Wide Web Out Into Space
HOUSTON -- Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a
special software upgrade this week - personal access to the Internet
and the World Wide Web via the ultimate wireless connection.
Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer made first use of the new
system Friday, when he posted the first unassisted update to his
Twitter account, @Astro_TJ, from the space station. Previous tweets
from space had to be e-mailed to th... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Friday, February 5, 2010,
High School Students Can Send Experiments Flying with NASA
CLEVELAND
-- NASA is inviting student teams nationwide to design and build an
experiment or technology demonstration to be sent to the near space
environment of the stratosphere, an altitude of 100,000 feet. The
Balloonsat High Altitude Flight competition will launch on a NASA
weather balloon May 25-27 in Cleveland. To participate,
student teams in grades nine through 12 must submit a research or
flight demonstration proposa... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Friday, February 5, 2010,
 Two spectacular tails of X-ray emission have been seen trailing behind
a galaxy using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. A composite image of the
galaxy cluster Abell 3627 shows X-rays from Chandra in blue, optical
emission in yellow and emission from hydrogen light -- known to
astronomers as 'H-alpha' -- in red. The optical and H-alpha data were
obtained with the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) Telescope in
Chile. At the front of the tail is the galaxy ESO 137-001. The brighter
of the two... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Friday, February 5, 2010,
Stellar Students Selected As NASA Ambassadors
WASHINGTON
-- NASA has selected 105 of its best and brightest interns and fellows
for the NASA Student Ambassador Program. The agency uses the program to
engage undergraduate and graduate students in NASA science, technology,
engineering and mathematics, or STEM, research and interactive
opportunities. Selected students represent 33 states and 81
universities from across the nation. NASA managers and
mentors nominated the recipients fro... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Friday, February 5, 2010,
STS-130 Launch Rehearsal 01.22.10
The STS-130 astronauts visited NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a week of launch training for their upcoming mission.
It's called the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, or TCDT, and every space shuttle crew goes through it before liftoff.
Led by Commander George Zamka, the six astronauts arrived in T-38
training aircraft, touching down at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility
on January 18.
George D. Zamka /STS-130 Commander: It's a... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Friday, February 5, 2010,
NASA Astronauts Presenting Special 'Space Veteran' Super Bowl Coin
WASHINGTON
-- The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis' STS-129 mission will deliver
a specially minted silver medallion to National Football League
officials at 10 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at the Pro Football
Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The medallion will be used for the
official coin toss prior to the kickoff of Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday,
Feb. 7. Shuttle commander Charlie Hobaugh, a graduate of
North Ridgev... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Friday, February 5, 2010,
NASA Tweetup Gives Public Birds-Eye View Of Space Shuttle Mission
WASHINGTON
-- For the first time, NASA Twitter followers can personally go inside
the heart of a space shuttle mission at the agency's Johnson Space
Center in Houston. NASA is hosting a unique Tweetup on Wednesday, Feb.
17 during Endeavour's STS-130 mission to the International Space
Station. Endeavour is targeted to launch on Sunday, Feb. 7.
"We're excited to be hosting NASA's seventh Tweetup," said NASA
astronaut M... Continue reading ...
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