Archive for October, 2010
Goddard visit
by Tony on Oct.22, 2010, under outreach ideas
I’ll be visiting Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, MD next week for their “Tour and Tweet” event. I’ll be sending updates throughout the day via the Chapel Hill Astronomical and Observing Society’s twitter account
Photos are available here
Mas is back with a video on space suits
by Tony on Oct.19, 2010, under outreach ideas
Interesting video hosted by astronaut Mike Massimino on Space Shuttle crew suit preparations and close out crew roles.
by Tony on Oct.13, 2010, under outreach ideas
This is quite possibly the nerdiest thing I’ve come across but it’s oddly entrancing. Apollo era and sometimes live ISS or Shuttle mission audio over ambient electronica music. Listen hereBuying your first telescope
by Tony on Oct.12, 2010, under outreach ideas
Thanks to everyone who attended the “Buying your first telescope” talk at the West Regional Library in Cary, NC tonight. A PDF file of the slides is available here. Remember the best telescope you can buy is the one you’ll actually use…. often.
- PDF of slides
- Download Stellarium, free planetarium software for Windows, Mac and Linux
- print out free starmaps
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Launching Balloons to Study Space Weather
In Antarctica in January, 2013 – the summer at the South Pole – scientists released 20 balloons, each eight stories tall, into the air to help answer an enduring space weather question: when the giant radiation belts surrounding Earth lose material, where do the extra particles actually go? This NASA-funded mission is called BARREL, for Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses. Each balloon launched by the BARREL team floated for anywhere from three to 40 days, measuring X-rays produced by fast-moving electrons high up in the atmosphere.BARREL works hand in hand with another NASA mission called the Van Allen Probes, which travels directly through the Van Allen radiation belts. The belts wax and wane over time in response to incoming energy and material from the sun, sometimes intensifying the radiation through which satellites orbiting Earth must travel. Scientists need to understand this process better, and even provide forecasts of such space weather, in order to protect our spacecraft.› Read MoreImage Credit: NASA
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- NASA Administrator Visits California Centers, Meets Media May 20, 2013
