Lineated Valley Fill in Deuteronilus Mensae - Mars
Flyover of the lineated valley fill in Deuteronilus Mensae on Mars. Many thanks to all working with HiRise, and also at the Freie Universitat Berlin #39;s Planetology and Remote Sensing department.From:John MooreViews:65 0ratingsTime:01:30More inScience Technology
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Astronaut Tom Jones on WMAL 08-03-12
INTERVIEW: DR. TOM JONES - former NASA astronaut -- flew 4 space shuttle missions, led 3 spacewalks lived/worked 53 days in spece -- and author of "Planetology" -- discussed the NASA land rover touching down on Mars this weekend and China #39;s plans for a lunar rover on the Moon. Mars Land Rover: (VOA) -- The US space agency is preparing for its newest Mars rover, Curiosity, to touch down on the Red Planet on August 6. The rover #39;s entry and descent will be nerve-wracking for NASA engineers, compounded by a 14-minute delay as the rover #39;s signals travel to Earth from Mars. If successful, Curiosity will be the sixth NASA spacecraft to land on the Red Planet. Curiosity is the centerpiece of the $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, launched in November aboard an Atlas V rocket. It #39;s traveled some 560 million kilometers toward its destination, the Red Planet. Curiosity is a "Mars scientist #39;s dream machine," said Deputy Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada ahead of its launch. "This rover is not only the most technically capable rover ever sent to another planet, but it #39;s actually the most capable scientific explorer we #39;ve ever sent out," he said. As seen in this NASA animation, Curiosity will be traveling at about 20000 kilometers per hour when it hits the Martian atmosphere. It will have only seven minutes to reduce its speed for a soft landing. NASA engineers will not be able to control or even witness the events in real time. They call this period "seven minutes of ...From:WMAL WashingtonViews:144 0ratingsTime:08:25More inNews Politics
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Astronomy 101: Orientation
Learn Astronomy and Use Telescopes in Chile, Australia, Elsewhere! Project Intro Astro: skynet.unc.edu Astronomy 101: The Solar System Orientation Next: Lesson 1 (www.youtube.com Related Lab: Introduction to Skynet (youtu.be In Astronomy 101, we will explore the following topics: celestial motions of Earth, the sun, the moon, and the planets; the nature of light; ground and space-based telescopes; comparative planetology; Earth and the moon; terrestrial and gas planets and their moons; dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets; planetary system formation; extrasolar planets; and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.comFrom:introastroViews:51 0ratingsTime:47:18More inEducation
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Our Last Transit of Venus
Our last Transit of Venus is a film project about the Transit of Venus 2012, supported by the European Planetology Network (Europlanet, http://www.europlanet-eu.org). Please visit http for other related videos. A Transit of Venus is when planet Venus passes in front of the Sun as seen from the Earth. This happens at intervals of 121.5, 8, 105.5, 8, 121.5, 8, etc. years. Transits of Venus were observed in 1639, 1761 and 1769, 1874 and 1882 and in 2004. After 2012, one will have to wait until 2117 to see another one. It was realised in the past that a Transit of Venus event observed from different places on Earth could lead to a direct measurement of the size of the Solar System. The events in the 18th and 19th century led to worldwide expeditions to do exactly that. In 2004, the exercise was repeated by amateur astronomers and students. Scientists used the Transit to learn more about the atmosphere of planet Venus and about how to observe exoplanets transiting their mother stars. In 2012, similar actions will be organised all over the world. The film is in the make at the moment and we are now getting footage of the aftermath of the event, the science results and people #39;s memories. More information on the Transit of Venus 2012 can be found on http://www.transitofvenus.nl, http sunearthday.nasa.gov and http://www.imcce.fr.From:LightcurvefilmstubeViews:9 0ratingsTime:09:24More inScience Technology
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Planetary Science - Wiki Article
Planetary science (rarely planetology) is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), moons, and planetary systems, in particular those of the Solar System and the processes that form them. It... Planetary Science - Wiki Article - wikiplays.org Original @ http All Information Derived from Wikipedia using Creative Commons License: en.wikipedia.org Author: US CIA Image URL: en.wikipedia.org Licensed under:This image is ineligible for copyright and therefore is in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship., This work is in the Public Domain., This work is in the public domain in the United States. Author: NASA Image URL: en.wikipedia.org Licensed under:This image is ineligible for copyright and therefore is in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship., This work is in the Public Domain., This work is in the public domain in the United States. Author: NASA/JPL/USGS Image URL: en.wikipedia.org Licensed under:This image is ineligible for copyright and therefore is in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship., This...From:WikiPlaysViews:0 0ratingsTime:19:23More inEducation
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April Flowers for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online
In the past week, two new exoplanets have been confirmed; one by the Planet Hunters citizen science project that uses NASAs Kepler mission data, and the other by a European team. The existence of PH1 and the as-yet unnamed planet in Alpha Centauri will reignite the race to find an Earth-like planet that could host extraterrestrial life.
The most powerful telescopes ever built are about to come online, adding more fuel to the discussion about where life could exist. Scientific discussion about the possibility of alien life forms is becoming more mainstream as well.
I think scientists are very happy having a rational conversation about the likelihood of life out there, said Bob Nichol, an astronomer at Portsmouth University in Britain.
New Planets
This conversation is partly driven by the planetary discoveries. Over 800 of these exoplanets have been discovered since the early 1990s.
The high number of planets makes it more likely that life will be found, according to Nichol. He cites the many formats of life that are found on Earth as indirect evidence that life is out there.
A research team from the Geneva Observatory reported that the newest planet found is too close to its own sun to support life; however, previous studies have suggested that when one planet is found orbiting a star, there are usually others in the same system.
The planet in the Alpha Centauri system is Earth-sized, but far from Earthlike. It circles its parent star, Alpha Centauri B, in just 3.2 days, making it likely that the surface is molten with temperatures in excess of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Just finding a new planet so close to Earth, even one inhospitable to life, is a huge success for exoplanetology. It raises the possibility that smaller, more hospitable planets could be found in the same system.
The Alpha Centauri system is 4.3 light-years from Earth in the Centaurus constellation. There are two stars in the system; Alpha Centauri A is a yellow star, slightly larger and brighter than our Sun, and Alpha Centauri B is a red star, fainter than our Sun. The two circle around a common center of gravity, taking about 80 years to complete a circuit. There is a third star, Proxima, which is a very dim red dwarf star. Proxima is actually the closest known star to our Sun.
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The Board of Trustees of the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) has elected Professor Rafael Rodrigo from Spain to head the Institute as its Executive Director. Rafael Rodrigo will succeed Professor Roger-Maurice Bonnet, who will retire after 10 years of service on December 31, 2012. ISSI is an Advanced Study Institute that invites space scientists from all over the world with the intention to gain deeper insights from data collected by space probes.
Professor Rafael Rodrigo was born in Granada, Spain in 1953 and graduated in Mathematics and Ph. D. in Physics from the University of Granada. His scientific career began at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, of which he was Director until 2004. Rafael Rodrigo served on a number of high-level international committees particularly for the European Space Agency, where his expertise in Planetology was appreciated. Besides, he has worked with a number of research Institutions in the USA, the UK, Russia, China, Germany, France, Holland and Switzerland. During the last four years he served as President of the Spanish National Research Council, the "Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas". Presently he is on a sabbatical mission in the Arecibo Radio Astronomy Observatory in the Universidad Metropolitana de Puerto Rico.
Rafael Rodrigo will be the third Executive Director of ISSI after Roger-Maurice Bonnet and the "Founding Father" Johannes Geiss. The Institute has continued its spectacular rise in prominence during the 10 years of leadership by Roger-Maurice Bonnet. The number of scientists that come to Bern for high-level scientific work has risen to close to 800 in the last year. Scientific Institutions of several countries have asked to join the ISSI network, among them the Academies of Russia and China. The European Space Agency (ESA), the Swiss Confederation, and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) provide the financial resources for ISSI's operation.
For the Board of Trustees Simon Aegerter
ISSI, October, 2012
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NASA #39;s CloudSat 3-D View: Hurricane Sandy
NASA #39;s CloudSat spacecraft flew over Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 27th at 2:17pm EDT, when the storm was southeast of Charleston, SC, and had maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour (65 knots).From:clarksvilletennViews:0 0ratingsTime:00:53More inNews Politics
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UFO Footage From NASA Satellite
Watch this UFO captured from a NASA satellite. If this is positive proof of a UFO spacecraft, shouldn #39;t this information and all UFO information from NASA be disclosed? Does the government think the public would go bonkers? Related terms: alien artifacts alien greys aliens ancient...From:above scienceViews:33 1ratingsTime:01:47More inPeople Blogs
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Synthetic Vision System - Wiki Article
A Synthetic Vision System (SVS) is a computer-mediated reality system for aerial vehicles, that uses 3D to provide pilots with clear and intuitive means of understanding their flying environment. Syn... Synthetic Vision System - Wiki Article - wikiplays.org Original @ http All Information Derived from Wikipedia using Creative Commons License: en.wikipedia.org Author: Unknown Image URL: en.wikipedia.org Licensed under:Creative Commons ASA 3.0, This work is in the public domain in the United States. Author: NASA Image URL: en.wikipedia.org Licensed under:This image is ineligible for copyright and therefore is in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship., This work is in the Public Domain., This work is in the public domain in the United States. Author: Spartan7W Image URL: en.wikipedia.org Licensed under:Creative Commons ASA 3.0, Creative Commons License Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported This work is in the public domain in the United States.From:WikiPlaysViews:0 0ratingsTime:10:57More inEducation
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(((SANDY))) NY POWERPLANT EXPLOSION
LINKS TO TRACK HURRICANE SANDY: Satellite Tracking: http://www.weather.gov http://www.weather.com radar.weather.gov http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.govFrom:LeeCountyFloridaViews:10 1ratingsTime:00:53More inNews Politics
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A Little Black Boy Named Henry - My Best Friend Pt 2
This is a true story about 2 - 9 year old boys who were born raised for the most part in the South. They met in 1962 while their fathers were stationed there in the Navy. I would like to think that there are many more true stories like this one and that this is not unique. One 9 year old was white and the other 9 year old boy was black. They were both raised in a military family with strict, but great fathers mothers. In the 1960s America was tearing herself apart from the Vietnam war because of the racial divide of our country. The only difference that I saw in Henry then and now is that Henry was born - "blind". We grew up together thru the 1960s. With the Cuban missile crisis, the assassinations of JFK, MLK RFK, Watching man first walk on the moon together. Henry knew from the day Neil Armstrong walked on the moon that he wanted to work for NASA. Do not forget that Henry was "blind" as a bad and could not see Armstrong walking on the moon. Henry could see volumes by just listening that was nothing by comparison of what Henry could dream with his great imagination. Our families remained in Norfolk, VA thru the 60s. Henry #39;s father decided to retire from the navy as of 1970 or so. My dad got orders for one last assignment and that meant we would be leaving Norfork. The years went by, but we kept in touch. Then in 1977 I had joined the navy. Soon I would be returning to Norfolk, VA and I would finally get to see my brother Henry once again. Only life has it #39;s ...From:Obamaastein2012Views:0 0ratingsTime:05:35More inPeople Blogs
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LINKS TO TRACK HURRICANE SANDY: Satellite Tracking: http://www.weather.gov http://www.weather.com radar.weather.gov http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.govFrom:MiamiDadeCountyFLViews:85 3ratingsTime:00:55More inNews Politics
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Hurricane Sandy time-lapse animation from Space
Nasa has released a time-lapse animation showing the movement of Hurricane Sandy on Sunday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration GOES-14 satellite captured images of Sandy every minute from 11:15 GMT to 22:26 GMT on 28 October.From:sandyvideozViews:0 0ratingsTime:00:35More inNews Politics
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ngayong nasa ibang bansa ka na .. ginawa ko ito para sayo .. simple lang pero sana magustuhan mo .. mamimiss kta bi .. :(From:Michie TanViews:3 0ratingsTime:03:57More inPeople Blogs
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Sallim Atebar | Kyle Nasa Films | "Poppin Freestyle"
Sallim Atebar Of "Team Nasa" First Freestyle Poppin #39; Video Filmed/Edit By : Kyle Nasa @Kyle_Nasa Sacramento , CA *I Do Not Own The Music* Passion Pit - Sleepyhead (Borgore Remix)From:KyleNasaFilmViews:7 0ratingsTime:02:03More inEntertainment
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Storm Sandy causes severe flooding in eastern US
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the storm surge was higher than the highest forecast, but he expected the waters to start receding from midnight local time. Back-up power at New York University hospital had failed and authorities were trying to get people out, he said. Elsewhere in the city, the storm left a construction crane bent double next to a skyscraper and caused the facade off a four-storey building to collapse. Nasa released time-lapse animation of the hurricane from Space - courtesy Nasa GOES Project Trading on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will stay suspended for a second day on Tuesday. The United Nations headquarters in New York has also been closed. Associated Press reported 10 deaths in New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Connecticut - several due to fallen trees.From:ExclusiveTVNewsViews:0 0ratingsTime:00:35More inNews Politics
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There are many good NASA-sponsored or NASA-related apps for the iPad, NASA Television, NASA Visualization Explorer 1.5 and 3D Sun to name a few, but none compares in breadth of content with NASA App HD. This app, compiled by NASA's Ames Research Center, combines insightful articles and news stories, dazzling images and videos, live TV feeds, and more as a one-stop portal for most everything NASA. It's similar to NASA App (for iPhone), but with additional content and more screen area to display it on. Everyone from children and young students to hardcore space geeks will find fascinating things in this app, and it's an easy pick for an Editors' Choice educational iPad app.
A Tour of the Solar System While NASA App (for iPhone) arranges its section icons in a grid that fills most of an iPhone's home page screen, the iPad's much larger screen size afforded NASA the luxury of App HD (for iPad) has the luxury of placing the home-page icons on the top and bottom of the screen, leaving most of the screen open to show a representation of the solar system, a section particularly good for students. Tapping the Sun, Moon, or any of the planets brings up images of the object, data about its physical characteristics, as well as historical and descriptive information, a timeline of important events related to our understanding of the orb and an overview of NASA missions. Pluto is included, along with a discussion of what constitutes a planet; dwarf planets; and the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. There is also a section on Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors, and one on the Universe, largely in the context of how NASA has helped increase our understanding of these.
Cool Space Pics Along the bottom of the screen are seven thumbnails, labeled Images, News, NASA TV, Videos, Tweets, Featured, and Radio, respectively. Tapping Images takes you to a frequently updated collection of more than 10,000 beautiful, captioned images, representing a wide range of space-related activities, most with some connection to NASA. You can search on different subjects; rather than a list, the results are a bank of images related to the subject that you can swipe through. You can also access images from a given date by tapping on a calendar icon. You can share them on Twitter or Facebook, email them, save them to your camera roll, or print them.
What's New in the Cosmos? News takes you to a repository of informative news stories and feature articles, accessible to a general audience. They range from late-breaking items to stories going back two years. It's arranged in 10 sections: News and Features; Shuttle and Station; Solar System; Universe; Aeronautics; Earth; Technology: NASA in your Life; NASA History & People; and Breaking News. New items are frequently added. You can post links to stories to Twitter or Facebook, email stories, or print them from within the app. One drawback is that unlike NASA App (for iPhone), there's no feature for searching for news items on a specific subject.If you get NASA App HD, there's no need to get the separate NASA TV app, as it's incorporated into this app. NASA TV lets you tune in to live and recorded content from NASA's TV station, and provides a program schedule. The Videos section hosts a frequently updated collection containing a wide range of informative and fun videos: Mars Curiosity and International Space Station (ISS) updates, NASA TV stories, and much more. You can search for videos by topic, share them on Twitter or Facebook, or email them.The Tweets section accesses tweets from a variety of NASA feeds. You can retweet them after a fashion, post them to Facebook, email them, or more. The catch with retweeting is that it doesn't automatically fill in the name of the NASA feed, so to retweet or respond, you have to type in the NASA Twitter handle yourself. (You can also access your Twitter account and send tweets unrelated to NASA, but it's awkward as a Twitter client.)
Year of the Solar System The Featured tab sends you to featured content, a series of very informative, accessible, and well written multimedia articles under the umbrella heading Year of the Solar System. (A filing cabinet icon so far contains only Year of the Solar System, but seemingly anticipates that there will be other future themes.) Stories can be tweeted, posted to Facebook, emailed, or printed. From the main theme page, a camera icon takes you to related images, and a film icon to videos.
Rock On with NASA The Radio icon takes you to Third Rock Radio, a NASA station where the Rock is rock music, streamed over the Internet. Its a nice selection of music, though a bit ad-laden.Across the top of the home page are six more icons. Launch Services covers NASA's launch services program, the space agency's management of missions (its own, as well as ones with commercial payloads) and expendable launch vehicles (from the Atlas and Delta rockets built by the United Launch Alliance to SpaceX's Falcon and Orbital Sciences' Taurus and Pegasus rockets. It discusses past and future missions, and has sections on launch sites, which in addition to Cape Canaveral include Wallops Island in Virginia, the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the Ronald Reagan ballistic missile defense site in the Marshall Islands, and the Kodiak launch complex in Alaska. Sighting Opportunities gives information on viewing the brightest NASA satellites/spacecraft from your location.
Visiting NASA NASA Centers displays a map of the U.S., with each NASA center marked by a red pin, and your location marked in blue. Tapping a pin brings up information on visiting that center, including hours of operation, ticket info, and links to other useful information.
Launch Schedule gives information about upcoming launches by NASA (and SpaceX; the first mission mentioned is that company's Falcon9 ongoing resupply flight to the ISS) and its ISS partners, giving info that may include the launch date; name of mission; launch vehicle, site, and pad; launch window; and description of the mission.
Missions calls up a list of current and future NASA missions in alphabetical order; tapping one takes you to a page with information about it. They include well-known missions such as the Cassini Saturn mission and more obscure ones like Jason-1, an oceanography satellite that monitors global ocean circulation and helps improve global climate predictions.
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NASA Visitor Centers boldly go where most other museums and entertainment venues have not gone before: provide unique family edutainment in world class facilities that not only showcase NASAs rich history with its diversified collection of priceless space artifacts, but offer quality family entertainment offerings with wildly interactive exhibitions, engaging well-themed shows and demonstrations as well as exclusive behind-the-scenes tours.
As the nations space program turns 50 this year, along with the recent successful Mars landing, nearly four million visitors from around the world are drawn -now more than ever- to the nations 10 visitor centers that are conveniently located in major metropolitan cities from coast to coast including California, Florida and Houston.
Each center offers one-of-a-kind family experiences that entertain, inspire and educate, said Roger Bornstein, director of marketing for Space Center Houston. Millions of visitors are drawn to them, and it gives our sponsors exclusive opportunities that other venues just cant offer.
The NASA Visitor Centers include Kennedy Space Center in Florida; Johnson Space Center in Texas; U.S. Space & Rocket Center at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama; Glenn Visitor Center at Great Lakes Science Center in Ohio; Virginia Air & Space Center at Langley Research Center in Virginia; Ames Research Center in California; Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland; Stennis Space Center in Mississippi; Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and Dryden Flight Research Center in California.
About NASA Visitor Centers
The visitor centers all support NASAs mission and goals of maintaining the integrity of NASAs memorable past, present and future; increase public interest in math and science careers through educational programs as well as promoting the extensive benefits of space exploration. For additional information on each visitor center, please visit http://www.visitNASA.com.
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[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 209 (Monday, October 29, 2012)] [Rules and Regulations] [Pages 65496-65497] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2012-26546]
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
48 CFR Part 1812
RIN 2700-AD64
Commercial Acquisition; Anchor Tenancy
AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
ACTION: Final rule.
SUMMARY: NASA has adopted as final, with minor changes, a proposed rule amending the NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) to include authority, under limited conditions, to issue Anchor Tenancy contracts. Anchor Tenancy means ``an arrangement in which the United States Government agrees to procure sufficient quantities of a commercial space product or service needed to meet Government mission requirements so that a commercial venture is made viable.''
DATES: Effective Date: November 28, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leigh Pomponio, NASA, Office of Procurement, Contract Management Division (Suite 5G84); (202) 358-0592; email: leigh.pomponio@nasa.gov.
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