NASA more than stars
Antarctic loss speeds sea rise
Amazon trees fall
haiku by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) explores space, a stellar mission. However, NASA studies much more than that. They delve in earth research from an aerial or space view helping us to observe nature on our own planet.
“Flying over the Brazilian Amazon with an instrument firing 300,000 laser pulses per second, NASA scientists have made the first 3D measurements of forest canopies in the region. With this research they hope to shed light on the effects of prolonged drought on forest ecosystems and to provide a potential preview of stresses on rainforests in a warming world.
Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jefferson Beck” quoted from 3D View of Amazon Forests Captures Effects of El Niño Drought
Antarctica.
Credits: University of Washington/I. Joughin
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/ramp-up-in-antarctic-ice-loss-speeds-sea-level-rise
As you can see from this list of today’s NASA headlines in order, while NASA is concerned primarily with space, they are looking at the earth too like the Antarctic and the Amazon.
Mars: NASA encounters the perfect storm for science
People: Record-Setting NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Retires
Technology: Sample Return Technology Successfully Tested on Xodiac Rocket
Ice: Ramp-Up in Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Sea Level Rise
Image of the Day : Bang and Whoosh! (Mars)
Tweets from NASA : Good night from the Space Station
Aeronautics: NASA Flies Large Unmanned Aircraft in Public Airspace Without Chase Plane for First Time
Earth: 3D View of Amazon Forests Captures Effects of El Niño Drought
Mars Curiousity : NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars
Moon and Mars : New NASA Position to Focus on Exploration of Moon, Mars and Worlds Beyond
About the top photograph: Using visible light, the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera photographed Tethys, a Saturn moon, on Aug. 17, 2015, at a distance of about 28,000 miles / 44,500 kilometers). Several of those photographs were composited to create this view. The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017. The Cassini mission was a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency.
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars California’s JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) from the 1940s to now. In the 1940s, JPL hired women “computers”. The woman in charge of the rocket girls, “Macie Roberts, hired only women for the department, because she wanted to preserve the camaraderie and team spirit so essential to this critical work. Thus, in a benevolent form of gender discrimination, JPL developed a sterling team of brilliant women. Macie often reminded the women, “In this job you need to look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, and work like a dog.” “As we learn about the development of rocketry, the author, Nathalia Holt, weaves in cultural developments, such as the invention of pantyhose and the rise of the women’s liberation movement. She also includes snippets from the women’s personal lives (like the fact that pregnancy meant instant termination–until the program realized it was dead without the women computers, and adapted flexibility to accommodate them).” quoted from Lynne Spreen, Amazon Reviewer |
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References:
Cassini Legacy : 1997-2017
Cassini Science Communications Team at
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Photograph: Mighty Odysseus by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.
RDP #17 – Stellar
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