Water, Storms and Other Space Stuff

I have sites listed below that I share with educators who have taken or will take my Space Workshops. These sites are open to anyone who visits my blog. Enjoy this week's entries.

Lots of water in our solar system and beyond

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4541&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NASAJPL&utm_content=daily20150407-2

Dawn Spacecraft visits Dwarf Planet Ceres

http://www.space.com/29043-dawn-spacecraft-one-month-ceres.html?cmpid=514630_20150408_43451966&adbid=10152745093381466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465

Ice Mole Drill will one day cut through the 24 km ice of Enceladus (a moon of Saturn) to explore the ocean beneath it for signs of life.

http://www.space.com/28930-icemole-drills-glacier-saturn-moon-enceladus.html?cid=514630_20150408_43377416&cmpid=514630_20150408_43377416&adbid=10152745517721466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465

Mark Sykes, (director of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona) on Pluto’s demotion by the IAU.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5788798

Giant white spots on Saturn Explained

http://www.space.com/29088-saturn-giant-storms-mystery-solved.html?cmpid=514630_20150413_43750306&adbid=10152755126436466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465

The year was 1968!!!!

I'm sure you've seen the world's most famous photograph, "Earthrise". It's been on the cover of TIME and on stamps. But did you know it almost didn't happen? This occurred over 45 years ago, on Christmas Eve, 1968. The site below is outstanding. It takes you right onto the module with the 3 astronauts and you hear them as they see it for the first time. (It begins occurring around 3 minutes, 38 seconds.)  Just think we were alive and watching when this happened.  A picture like this, taken by a human.....

 The Untold Story Of The World's Most Famous Photo

 https://www.youtube.com/embed/dE-vOscpiNc

Lunar Eclipse and Stuff

Large Hadron Collider is broken. See the fiasco to repair it at http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/reports-state-that-the-large-hadron-collider-lhc-has-been-irreperably-damaged/

Shortest Lunar Eclipse of the Century https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCOR2FFXf4I&list=PLiuUQ9asub3RHqKdK_XZSZ8I_981UPhvX&index=0

Breathtaking Auroras http://www.space.com/28857-aurora-photos-northern-lights-2015.html?cmpid=514630_20150405_42952016&adbid=10152737496841466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465

39 Days to Mars http://rt.com/usa/246581-mars-39-days-rocket/

Front end Loader and intro to my book, Taylor's Pneumatic Toys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXgg69xUnoI

Pneumatically Controlled Canadarm Video Part 1 on YouTube http://youtu.be/pvv7lDy0nds

Orion & Space Stuff 3

1960s film, “Universe” shows pics of David Dunlop Observatory, Toronto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu64xbgprWY

Check out the largest star party at http://astronomerswithoutborders.org/gam2015-programs/observing/1558-global-star-party-for-gam-2015.html

Watch the moon pass by Jupiter over the next few nights at http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-and-gemini-stars-high-in-south-at-nightfall-march-28?utm_content=bufferabda6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

This past week’s solar eclipse http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/fieldnotes/2015/03/20/total-solar-eclipse/#.VRbBkvnF-wR

Dark Matter http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1506/?utm_content=buffer1e9bb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The Orion Spacecraft http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Orion_Monthly_Newsletter_2-2015.pdf

Meet Molly White, an engineer who is working on Orion’s heat shield. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/journey-to-mars-meet-molly-white-an-engineer-helping-to-build-the-spacecraft-orion/2015/03/02/3beb33e8-b11b-11e4-886b-c22184f27c35_story.html

Reinstate Pluto and other Space Stuff

Andromeda Galaxy

http://www.thedailyepic.com/nasa-just-released-the-largest-picture-ever-taken-and-its-mind-blowing/

Search for extra-errestrials using infrared

http://astrobiology.com/2015/03/instrument-extends-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence-to-new-realms.html

Do gamma ray photons would travel faster than normal light? See books by Lee Smolin,  a physicist at

the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, who predicted this concept a decade ago.

Data on the ISS

http://www.space.com/16748-international-space-station.html?cmpid=514630_20150321_42452446&adbid=10152708235881466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465

NASA confirms water on Jovian moon

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nasa-confirms-ocean-jupiter-moon-raising-prospects-life-040217638.html#QGs7tIC

“Imagine teachers starting the lesson on solar systems by saying, ‘Our star has literally hundreds of planets, including the eight major ones, and many we still haven’t discovered.’ Wouldn’t that be cool?” Reinstate Pluto. See

http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/planet-pluto/

Space Stuff

Puzzling Bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres. http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2015/27feb_cerespuzzle/

Monster Black Hole Discovered in Distant Universe http://uanews.org/story/monster-black-hole-discovered-at-cosmic-dawn

Deep Space Exploration with Orion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx_dj8u3Pvg&feature=youtu.be

Dawn spacecraft arrives at dwarf planet Ceres this week.

http://www.space.com/28689-nasa-spacecraft-dwarf-planet-ceres-arrival.html?cmpid=514630_20150302_41315796&adbid=10152669488216466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465

Teleportation http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=249#transporter

Supernova http://www.space.com/28744-cosmic-lens-4-supernova-views-photo.html?cmpid=514648_20150306_41597316&adbid=573641676868055041&adbpl=tw&adbpr=15431856

Amazing rocket launches in pictures http://www.space.com/13875-amazing-rocket-launch-photos-2011.html

What Star Trek has given us that through our Scientists/Engineers that has become reality:

http://www.space.com/9705-top-10-star-trek-technologies.html?cmpid=514630_20150302_41315826&adbid=10152669003786466&adbpl=fb&adbpr=17610706465 PLUS

Cell phones

The "iPad" Picard used before it was invented.

The voice recognition and voice command.

The Holodeck that Microsoft has a functional test system of.

The Bluetooth technology like Uhura's ear piece.

A warp drive formula that was also calculated by Spock (NASA is still working on this one)

I taught secondary teachers and university professors how to make my pneumatically controlled Canadarm at the Ontario Association of Physics Teachers Annual Conference held at UOIT in Oshawa, ON, Canada in May, 2013.

In Feb 2015, I'll be teaching educators at the Space Exploration Educators Conference (SEEC) at Johnson Space Center in Houston how to build my Canadarm so they can teach their students how to make one and use mine as a basic model to build their own robotic arms with their students.

The following is the Title Page of the booklet that I am giving to those who have signed up for my workshop at SEEC 2015, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, February 7th.

Pneumatically Controlled Canadarm

Stan Taylor

SRTENT@rualwave.ca

Stan Taylor (www.stanleyrtaylorcommunicationsblogspot.com), 

Scientists in School (www.scientistsinschool.ca) & SEEC 2015