Space Mission Scrapbook - Willoughby
... determine if life existed on Mars. Although some chemicals were discovered, life was not. Another interesting aspect of the Viking 1 mission was that only a few months later an identical spacecraft, Viking 2, was launched. Spacecraft Design and Instruments: Viking 1 was essentially two spacecraft in ...
... determine if life existed on Mars. Although some chemicals were discovered, life was not. Another interesting aspect of the Viking 1 mission was that only a few months later an identical spacecraft, Viking 2, was launched. Spacecraft Design and Instruments: Viking 1 was essentially two spacecraft in ...
Optical Metrology Progress on Technology and Flight Hardware
... and the testbed called SCDU. But the thermal properties of the chamber ...
... and the testbed called SCDU. But the thermal properties of the chamber ...
Document
... Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Views from the Hubble Space Telescope Lesson Subject Matter: Astronomy and Hubble Space Telescope Lesson Time: 1-2 hours (Individual slides from the accompanying PowerPoint presentation can be used as mini-lessons or content from individual slides can be expanded into ...
... Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Views from the Hubble Space Telescope Lesson Subject Matter: Astronomy and Hubble Space Telescope Lesson Time: 1-2 hours (Individual slides from the accompanying PowerPoint presentation can be used as mini-lessons or content from individual slides can be expanded into ...
TU Muscae and the Early-type Overcontact Binaries
... Binary orbital plane is oriented so that the two stars pass in front of one another as seen from Earth. The light curve is rich in information about the two stars. ...
... Binary orbital plane is oriented so that the two stars pass in front of one another as seen from Earth. The light curve is rich in information about the two stars. ...
I. What is an Exoplanet?
... orbits around their stars will undergo reflected light variations. This is because, like our Moon, they also go through phases from full to new and back again. Since telescopes cannot resolve the planet from the star, they see only the combined light. The brightness of the host star will seem ...
... orbits around their stars will undergo reflected light variations. This is because, like our Moon, they also go through phases from full to new and back again. Since telescopes cannot resolve the planet from the star, they see only the combined light. The brightness of the host star will seem ...
Ch. 27 Stars & Galaxies
... Light Years: The distance that light travels in one year. Speed of light is 300,000 km/sec. Light travels about 9.5 trillion km in one year. Fun Fact: Light from the sun takes 8 min. to reach Earth!!! ...
... Light Years: The distance that light travels in one year. Speed of light is 300,000 km/sec. Light travels about 9.5 trillion km in one year. Fun Fact: Light from the sun takes 8 min. to reach Earth!!! ...
PHYS 175 Fall 2014 Final Recitation Ch. 16 The Sun
... time are both aspects of a single spacetime, and the perception of that spacetime is dependent upon the observer’s frame of reference. While special relativity only takes into account relative motion (not gravity), it correctly predicts many observed distortions of mass, length and time. Ch. 22 The ...
... time are both aspects of a single spacetime, and the perception of that spacetime is dependent upon the observer’s frame of reference. While special relativity only takes into account relative motion (not gravity), it correctly predicts many observed distortions of mass, length and time. Ch. 22 The ...
What MSU Astronomers Will Do with the SOAR
... • Long-lived stars from just after initial round of star formation • Found by searches through huge samples • Then detailed follow-up observations with SOAR and other even larger telescopes ...
... • Long-lived stars from just after initial round of star formation • Found by searches through huge samples • Then detailed follow-up observations with SOAR and other even larger telescopes ...
Stars: Other Suns
... • Inverse relation: Smaller parallax, greater the distance • Hipparcos satellite measured over 100,000 stars precisely (±1 mas), over 1 million with less precision ...
... • Inverse relation: Smaller parallax, greater the distance • Hipparcos satellite measured over 100,000 stars precisely (±1 mas), over 1 million with less precision ...
Earth in the Universe
... Evolution of Solar System • About 5 billion years old. Started as a gas cloud many times the size of today’s solar system. Gravitation caused the cloud to condense, most of the mass was pulled to the center and formed our sun. • After Earth and other planets were formed, their gravity pulled on oth ...
... Evolution of Solar System • About 5 billion years old. Started as a gas cloud many times the size of today’s solar system. Gravitation caused the cloud to condense, most of the mass was pulled to the center and formed our sun. • After Earth and other planets were formed, their gravity pulled on oth ...
Some 250 years ago, the philosopher Immanuel Universal
... special either. Except that some exoplanets are special. It is tempting to describe the many planetary systems that have been discovered so far as weird. Rather than the ‘inevitable’ orderly arrangement of our own Solar System — with small planets close, large planets far, and everything going aroun ...
... special either. Except that some exoplanets are special. It is tempting to describe the many planetary systems that have been discovered so far as weird. Rather than the ‘inevitable’ orderly arrangement of our own Solar System — with small planets close, large planets far, and everything going aroun ...
It might not work. And therefore is not enhancing the technology or
... 8-10 years [9]. If the reaction wheels fail, forcing the JWST to retire early, then NASA is forced to decide whether to abort the mission and move on, or spend another $ 9 billion dollars designing another telescope. What happens if the mission is so important that they do not have a choice but to d ...
... 8-10 years [9]. If the reaction wheels fail, forcing the JWST to retire early, then NASA is forced to decide whether to abort the mission and move on, or spend another $ 9 billion dollars designing another telescope. What happens if the mission is so important that they do not have a choice but to d ...
After Dark in Allenspark
... Because 1 billion mph/1 thousand mph = 1 million = mass of Ed/mass of planet). So, to find the planet, you look at the light from the star. When the star moves toward us, the light from the star is shifted slightly to the blue, and when it moves away, the light's shifted slightly to the red. Looking ...
... Because 1 billion mph/1 thousand mph = 1 million = mass of Ed/mass of planet). So, to find the planet, you look at the light from the star. When the star moves toward us, the light from the star is shifted slightly to the blue, and when it moves away, the light's shifted slightly to the red. Looking ...
Perimeter Dark Matter Online Game Worksheet #2 1. Match the
... a. Physicists know exactly what dark matter is. b. Physicists have no idea what dark matter is. c. Only some physicists know what dark matter is made of. d. Physicists have some ideas about dark matter, which they are currently testing by experiments. 6. What can you add to a galaxy that increases m ...
... a. Physicists know exactly what dark matter is. b. Physicists have no idea what dark matter is. c. Only some physicists know what dark matter is made of. d. Physicists have some ideas about dark matter, which they are currently testing by experiments. 6. What can you add to a galaxy that increases m ...
Chapter27
... capacity of water protects organisms from getting too hot or too cold. The large range of temperatures for which water is a liquid helps prevent organisms from freezing or boiling. The high heat of vaporization of water makes it easy for evaporation to cool organisms. Ammonia and methyl alcohol are ...
... capacity of water protects organisms from getting too hot or too cold. The large range of temperatures for which water is a liquid helps prevent organisms from freezing or boiling. The high heat of vaporization of water makes it easy for evaporation to cool organisms. Ammonia and methyl alcohol are ...
PowerPoint. - teachearthscience.org
... Consider the model situation where the Earth is the only planet in the solar system. Since the Sun is over 300,000 times more massive than Earth, the center of mass is very near the center of the Sun. Both objects will orbit around the barycenter and the Sun would have a very small wobble. barycent ...
... Consider the model situation where the Earth is the only planet in the solar system. Since the Sun is over 300,000 times more massive than Earth, the center of mass is very near the center of the Sun. Both objects will orbit around the barycenter and the Sun would have a very small wobble. barycent ...
d Kepler Telescope Lies from NASA The Claims "NASA`s Kepler
... "Kepler, a space telescope, looks for planet signatures [How?] by measuring tiny decreases in the brightness of stars caused by planets crossing in front of them [the stars]. They see nothing... This is known as a transit." It's "…like looking at a headlight at a great distance and trying to sense t ...
... "Kepler, a space telescope, looks for planet signatures [How?] by measuring tiny decreases in the brightness of stars caused by planets crossing in front of them [the stars]. They see nothing... This is known as a transit." It's "…like looking at a headlight at a great distance and trying to sense t ...
Measuring the Stars
... (linked at bottom of course web page) • Tonight is a great time to start the Phases of the Moon project! ...
... (linked at bottom of course web page) • Tonight is a great time to start the Phases of the Moon project! ...
Press release - ASTRONOMY GROUP – University of St Andrews
... Researcher Dr Alan Penny will use the brightness of half a dozen stars to refine estimates of how big the Universe actually is. Dr Penny hopes to solve the problem using the ‘extreme precision’ of NASA’s Kepler satellite launched into space last month. Developed for the search for new planets, Keple ...
... Researcher Dr Alan Penny will use the brightness of half a dozen stars to refine estimates of how big the Universe actually is. Dr Penny hopes to solve the problem using the ‘extreme precision’ of NASA’s Kepler satellite launched into space last month. Developed for the search for new planets, Keple ...
ASTR101
... Icy leftovers in the outer solar leftovers in the outer solar system • Some rocky material as well ...
... Icy leftovers in the outer solar leftovers in the outer solar system • Some rocky material as well ...
HST reveals upheaval in Jupiter`s clouds
... “Gravity appears to be the key to creating these jets, not some trick of the event horizon,” said Sebastian Heinz of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who led the study. The X-ray jets of highenergy particles are powerful enough to create and maintain “balloons” of gas that cause the diffuse l ...
... “Gravity appears to be the key to creating these jets, not some trick of the event horizon,” said Sebastian Heinz of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who led the study. The X-ray jets of highenergy particles are powerful enough to create and maintain “balloons” of gas that cause the diffuse l ...
Space Interferometry Mission
The Space Interferometry Mission, or SIM, also known as SIM Lite (formerly known as SIM PlanetQuest), was a planned space telescope developed by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in conjunction with contractor Northrop Grumman. One of the main goals of the mission was the hunt for Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zones of nearby stars other than the Sun. SIM was postponed several times and finally cancelled in 2010.In addition to hunting for extrasolar planets, SIM would have helped astronomers construct a map of the Milky Way galaxy. Other important tasks would have included collecting data to help pinpoint stellar masses for specific types of stars, assisting in the determination of the spatial distribution of dark matter in the Milky Way and in the Local Group of galaxies and using the gravitational microlensing effect to measure the mass of stars.The spacecraft would have used optical interferometry to accomplish these and other scientific goals. This technique collects light with multiple mirrors (in SIM's case, two) which is combined to make an interference pattern which can be very precisely measured.The initial contracts for SIM Lite were awarded in 1998, totaling US$200 million. Work on the SIM project required scientists and engineers to move through eight specific new technology milestones, and by November 2006, all eight had been completed.SIM Lite was originally scheduled for a 2005 launch, aboard an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV). As a result of continued budget cuts, the launch date has been pushed back at least five times. NASA has set a preliminary launch date for 2015 and U.S. federal budget documents confirm that a launch date is expected ""no earlier"" than 2015. The budget cuts to SIM Lite are expected to continue through FY 2010. As of February 2007, many of the engineers working on the SIM program had moved on to other areas and projects, and NASA directed the project to allocate its resources toward engineering risk reduction. However, the preliminary budget for NASA for 2008 included zero dollars for SIM.In December 2007, the Congress restored funding for fiscal year 2008 as part of an omnibus appropriations bill which the President later signed. At the same time the Congress directed NASA to move the mission forward to the development phase. In 2009 the project continued its risk reduction work while waiting for the findings and recommendations of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Astro2010, performed by the National Academy of Sciences, which would determine the project's future.On 13 August 2010, the Astro2010 Decadal Report was released and did not recommend that NASA continue the development of the SIM Lite Astrometric Observatory. This prompted NASA Astronomy and Physics Director, Jon Morse, to issue a letter on 24 September 2010 to the SIM Lite project manager, informing him that NASA was discontinuing its sponsorship of the SIM Lite mission and directing the project to discontinue Phase B activities immediately or as soon as practical. Accordingly, all SIM Lite activities were closed down by the end of calendar year 2010.