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Trish Space Junk - Watch Out !!

Weight: 1400-lb. Size: Like a double-wide refrigerator. The Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS), pictured above, was thrown overboard from the International Space Station on July 23, 2007, almost one year ago. At the time, the castaway was in a high orbit and barely visible from Earth's surface. N… Continue

Posted by Trish on 22 July 2008 at 3:38pm — No Comments

Trish Fly me to the moon!!!

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Posted by Trish on 18 July 2008 at 11:37am — No Comments

Trish The Perfect Sunset

Contrary to appearances, the landscape is not on fire. "This is just a cloudy sunset over open countryside in France," says Patrice Arnaudet, who took the picture on July 13th using a Canon 350D digital camera. "There was no fire." Blame the trickery on Rayleigh scatter… Continue

Posted by Trish on 16 July 2008 at 10:44am — No Comments

Kasun Somaratne My first photo of the sun!

I've been observing the sun for quite a time, but this is the first time I got a picture of it. I was using my binoculars (20X50) with a home-made Baader Solar filter. I took this photo by holding a digital camera closer to one of the eye pieces of my binoculars, which is not by far… Continue

Posted by Kasun Somaratne on 30 June 2008 at 4:25pm — 1 Comment

Trish Attention All Students on Summer Vacation - Participate in the Space Centre Summer Astronomy Picture Contest

Even though school is out there is still one home work assignment for you over the summer. Participate in the Space Centre's Summer Astronomy Picture Contest ! Take a picture of the night sky, summer star gazing or the Moon at it's various stages and email it… Continue

Posted by Trish on 27 June 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Trish It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it...

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander placed a sample of Martian soil in the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory today for the first time. Results from that instrument, part of Phoenix's Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer, are expected to provide the first measur… Continue

Posted by Trish on 26 June 2008 at 8:28am — No Comments

Trish What to wear on the moon in 2015...

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Posted by Trish on 16 June 2008 at 10:37am — No Comments

Trish Color View 'Dodo' and 'Baby Bear' Trenches

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager took this image on Sol 14 (June 8, 2008), the 14th Martian day after landing. It shows two trenches dug by Phoenix's Robotic Arm. Soil from the right trench, informally called "Baby Bear,"… Continue

Posted by Trish on 12 June 2008 at 9:27am — No Comments

Trish Construction on mars ?

This image was taken by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager on Sol 11 (June 5, 2008), the eleventh day after landing. It shows the Robotic Arm scoop containing a soil sample poised over the partially open door of the Th… Continue

Posted by Trish on 6 June 2008 at 11:58am — No Comments

Trish The inside scoop!

This image from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Robotic Arm Camera (RAC) shows material from the Martian surface captured by the Robotic Arm (RA) scoop during its first test dig and dump on the seventh Martian day of the mission, or Sol 7 (June 1, 20… Continue

Posted by Trish on 3 June 2008 at 9:24am — No Comments

Trish Martian soil

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Posted by Trish on 3 June 2008 at 9:22am — No Comments

Trish Footprints in the sand ?

This view from the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows the first impression –- dubbed Yeti and shaped like a wide footprint -- made on the Martian soil by the robotic arm scoop on Sol 6, the sixth Martian day of the mission, (May 31, 2008). Touc… Continue

Posted by Trish on 2 June 2008 at 9:35am — No Comments

Trish Rock or Ice ?

This contrast-enhanced image was acquired at the Phoenix landing site on Sol 4 by Phoenix's Robotic Arm Camera (RAC). As seen in the top center, the exhaust from the descent engine has blown soil off to reveal either rock or ice, which has not y… Continue

Posted by Trish on 30 May 2008 at 3:31pm — No Comments

Lisa McIntosh Phoenix has landed!

The Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully reached Mars to begin its three-month study of the Mars' polar region. For more information visit http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/ Continue

Posted by Lisa McIntosh on 25 May 2008 at 7:24pm — No Comments

Trish Discovery's Big Tow

Towed on its 76-wheeled orbiter transporter, space shuttle Discovery begins its turn away from the Orbiter Processing Facility to roll over to the Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, at Kennedy Space Center. In high bay 3 of the VAB, Discovery will be attached to… Continue

Posted by Trish on 16 May 2008 at 8:44am — No Comments

Trish Spring Flowers

Lake Naivasha, Kenya Outside the ground is frozen, quite possibly covered in snow and ice, and yet, stroll through a supermarket in North America or Europe in February, and you'll be confronted with large displays of roses. We expect flowers in winter, and Kenya helps meet those expectati… Continue

Posted by Trish on 23 April 2008 at 9:34am — No Comments

Trish No Speed Limit on Mars

This image shows a perfectly functioning parachute with the canopy fully open at the opposite end of the wind tunnel after being fired from the cannon. It's a good thing there's no speed limit on Mars, because the next parachute to fly to the red planet will deploy faster than you can le… Continue

Posted by Trish on 7 April 2008 at 4:02pm — No Comments

Trish Something to for the Kids !

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Posted by Trish on 4 April 2008 at 9:44am — No Comments

Trish The Phoenix Mars Lander

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j72quVM7c9Y Great Link to a video on the Mars Lander Phoenix landing on May 25th 2008! Continue

Posted by Trish on 3 April 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Trish Jules Verne

The Jules Verne, the first European Space Agency Automated Transfer Vehicle, docked to the aft port of the International Space Station's Zvezda Service Module at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday. The unpiloted cargo spacecraft carries more than 7,500 pounds of equipment, supplies, water, f… Continue

Posted by Trish on 3 April 2008 at 10:27am — No Comments

Lisa McIntosh Interview with Arthur C. Clarke

Eleanor Wachtel on Writers and Company re-broadcasted an interview she conducted with Arthur C. Clarke in 2000. Their discussion covers not only his writings but landmark events in science and his views on space travel. The hour-long interview can be downloaded as a podcast and is well worth a listen. You can download the interview from the CBC's podcasting page. Continue

Posted by Lisa McIntosh on 30 March 2008 at 6:17pm — No Comments

Kasun Somaratne Famous Science Fiction writer Arthur C. Clark passed away at 90

Arthur C. Clark was one of the famous science fiction writers who wrote books like 2001: Space Odysse, 2061:Odysse three 3001: The Final Odysse, The other side of the sky and much much more.... He was a fiction writer, an Inventor an a futurists. He was the first one to suggest that telecommunication around the globe is possible and the first one to propose the idea of geosynchronous (geostationary - satellites with orbital period equal to the rotational period of Earth) sa… Continue

Posted by Kasun Somaratne on 18 March 2008 at 7:58pm — No Comments

Trish Great Dextre Video !

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Posted by Trish on 18 March 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Trish Japanese Kibo module

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Posted by Trish on 13 March 2008 at 3:35pm — No Comments

Lisa McIntosh Saturn's Moon Rhea Also May Have Rings - NASA press release

"NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of material orbiting Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon. This is the first time rings may have been found around a moon. A broad debris disk and at least one ring appear to have been detected by a suite of six instruments on Cassini specifically designed to study the atmospheres and particles around Saturn and its moons." For more information on how this discovery is changing our understanding of our solar system read the… Continue

Posted by Lisa McIntosh on 12 March 2008 at 2:01pm — No Comments

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Posted by Trish on 11 March 2008 at 12:21pm — No Comments

Trish Endeavour and Crew Ready for March 11 Launch

Preparations are on track for Tuesday's 25th flight to the International Space Station, said NASA test director Steve Payne during today's STS-123 Countdown Status Briefing, the first for the mission. The launch remains on schedule for 2:28 a.m. EDT on March 11. The or… Continue

Posted by Trish on 7 March 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Trish Marsville Mission Patch

Marsville is a complete cross-curricular program, which allows students from across Canada to work towards a common goal. Applying knowledge from variety of subject areas including: science, math, technology, communications, humanities, and social sciences, student… Continue

Posted by Trish on 3 March 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Lisa McIntosh Resources from the February 8th Pro-D workshop

I've included my presentation in a couple of different formats - powerpoint (I apologize that some of the formatting has gone a little strange as I originally developed the presentation in Keynote), a pdf file, and a pdf file with my notes which includes the web links to the resources I used in each section (you should be able link directly from the pdf file to the web page listed). If you download the power point file you'll need to download the files in the folder as well - it contains all the… Continue

Posted by Lisa McIntosh on 11 February 2008 at 10:55am — No Comments

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