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    Science Trivia

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    lionfish has crept to unexpected depths: Off the coast of Florida‚ researchers say they found the venomous invader thriving around a sunken ship at 300 feet (91 meters) below the water’s surface. Kepler Spacecraft Should Pin Down ’Alien Earth’ Planets Despite Glitch NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft should be able to achieve its primary mission goal regardless of whether or not it can bounce back from a recent malfunction‚ researchers say. Student Team Set for Zero-Gravity Fire Experiment on

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    American (Matson‚ 2012)‚ on July 6th‚ for the first time ever‚ a sun-watching spacecraft has traced a comet’s route directly into the sun. The magazine boasts this as the “Solar Swan Song” (Matson‚ 2012) and compares this comet’s demise to dramatic exits in the movie Dr. Strangelove. Discovered by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory‚ otherwise known as SOHO‚ the comet‚ called C/2011 N3 (SOHO)‚ was observed by the spacecraft traveling at 600 kilometers per second. Although the comet never actually

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    Lots of small solar cells spread over a large area that can work together to provide enough power to be useful. The more light that hits a cell‚ the more electricity it produces‚ so spacecraft are usually designed with solar panels that can always be pointed at the Sun even as the rest of the body of the spacecraft moves around‚ much as a tank turret can be aimed independently of where the tank is going. Solar Panel absorbs solar energy which is a combination of light and heat produced by the

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    agriculture before becoming associated with the Greek Ares; those in favor of colonizing and terraforming Mars may prefer this symbolism.) The name of the month March derives from Mars.The first spacecraft to visit Mars was Mariner 4 in 1965. Several others followed including Mars 2‚ the first spacecraft to land on Mars and the two Viking landers in 1976. Ending a long 20 year hiatus‚ Mars Pathfinder landed successfully on Mars on 1997 July 4. In 2004 the Mars Expedition Rovers "Spirit"

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    ICT Folio Current technology Class : 2 Thomson Teacher : Pn Leader : Member : Submit Date : 3.3.2013 Stereo Display [pic] A stereo display (also 3D display) is a display device capable of conveying depth perception to the viewer by means of stereopsis for binocular vision. Real 3D displays displaying an image in three full dimensions. The most notable difference to stereoscopic displays with only

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    The Challenger space shuttle exploded shortly after launch‚ killing all of the crewmembers aboard at the time including the “first teacher in space”‚ Christa McAuliffe. This disaster was felt all across the world as people looked in aww that what happened to the crewmembers. The explosion ended up call NASA a total of about two billion dollars and then years of distrust for the organization. After the Explosion NASA launched a major investigation to determine why the shuttle had exploded. In the

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    Figure 1 (Sputnik-1)

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    Introduction In 1957 when the Soviets launched “Sputnik 1”‚ humanity’s first artificial satellite‚ the space age began. Sputnik 1 was a sphere made of aluminium alloy; space travel is known as the discovery and exploration of celestial structures in outer space in order to continue evolving technology. Figure 1: (October 4‚ 1957/ launch of Sputnik-1) This image shows the first artificial satellite‚ its main function was to place a radio into orbit around Earth. The numerical investigation of

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    Issue : 1 Rev : 1 Date : 19/03/2007 Page : 1 of 11 Phase B/C Telemetry and Telecommand Transfer Frames Format Without uplink Prepared by: Florian George Checked by: Per Hemso (ESA/ESTEC) Ted Choueiri (EPFL) Approved by:  ESA/ESTEC Noordwijk Netherland  19/03/07  Issue : 1 Rev : 1 Date : 19/03/2007 Page : 2 of 11 1 RECORD OF REVISIONS ISS/REV 1/0 1/1 Date 15/03/2007 19/03/2007 Modifications Initial release Update after commentaries by Per Hemso Created/modified

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    meteorological forecasting‚ providing advanced disaster warning‚ search and rescue measures and distance education to remote areas. A mission to the Moon The Indian space program has plans to launch an un-piloted spacecraft to the moon in 2007. India would be the fourth country to send a spacecraft to the moon‚ joining Russia‚ the United States and Japan. India’s space program has been running since 1972‚ but a mission to the moon would be its first venture into deep space. To date Indian space launches

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    A successful failure means to have a mission to be done and something bad happens‚ but it turned out to be ok. In the article 9 Brilliant Inventions Made by Mistake scientist from around the world have made mistakes and created a completely different invention. Even astronauts make mistakes like Lovell‚ Haise‚ and Swigert. The reason why this article is called a successful failure is because some scientist was trying to do something and they did something else I return. William Perkin was trying

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