Category Archives: Space participation

Gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, et al, Space participation, Space Science

Latest images from the Juno probe for the 10th perijove

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The enhanced Juno images of Jupiter’s clouds never get old. New ones are now available from the tenth low pass (perijove) over the multi-colored clouds of the gas giant.

High Above Jupiter’s Clouds

NASA’s Juno spacecraft was a little more than one Earth diameter from Jupiter when it captured this mind-bending, color-enhanced view of the planet’s tumultuous atmosphere.

Jupiter completely fills the image, with only a hint of the terminator (where daylight fades to night) in the upper right corner, and no visible limb (the curved edge of the planet).

Juno took this image of colorful, turbulent clouds in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere on Dec. 16, 2017 at 9:43 a.m. PST (12:43 p.m. EST) from 8,292 miles (13,345 kilometers) above the tops of Jupiter’s clouds, at a latitude of 48.9 degrees.

The spatial scale in this image is 5.8 miles/pixel (9.3 kilometers/pixel).

Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager.

JunoCam’s raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at:

www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam

More information about Juno is at: https://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu

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A couple more from the Juno gallery of images processed by members of the public:

Credits: Sarah Liberatore

 

Credits: Ralf Vandebergh

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Activism, Education, Space participation

Applications for Space Camp student scholarships from Mars Generation due by Jan.15, 2018

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The Mars Generation is offering students a chance to win a free 1 week scholarship for Space Camp located in Huntsville, Alabama for summer of 2018: Space Camp Scholarship Application | The Mars Generation

TMG Space Camp Scholarship Applications are now open through January 15, 2018.

This scholarship is for 100% of the tuition to 1 week of space camp (July 7-14, 2018) and includes a flight suit, transportation and a small spending stipend. The total value is approximately $3,000.

Welcome students! We are happy you are here. Please review the application requirements below to make sure you qualify before applying. If you choose to apply, please make sure you complete all 3 parts of the application by January 15, 2018 to be considered for selection.

Applications are due no later than 11:59 pm CST on January 15, 2018

Application requirements include:

  • Must join the TMG Student Space Ambassador Leadership Program (see themarsgeneration.org for information and to signup)
  • Family must qualify for the USDA free and reduced lunch program. We do require verification of your family qualification of the USDA free and reduced lunch program if you are awarded a scholarship.
  • Must live in the continental U.S. (Lower 48 states)
  • Must be able to attend Space Camp the week of July 7-14, 2018
  • Have never attended Space Camp USA in Huntsville, Alabama
  • Must be between the age of 15-17 as of July 1, 2018.
  • Application must be submitted by 11:59pm January 15, 2018

Application for the scholarship consists of 3 parts:

  1. Fill out the application form which includes an outreach project proposal. Students who are awarded a TMG Space Camp Scholarship will be required to complete an outreach presentation where they share their Space Camp experience with their community.
  2. Student will need to create and submit a short video (under 3 minutes) introducing themselves and explaining why STEM education and/or space exploration are important to the future of humankind. Students should also talk about why they think they would benefit from attending Space Camp. Videos will need to be emailed to scholarships@themarsgeneration.org with the student’s full name and words “Space Camp Scholarship Application 2018” in Subject line of the email as well as in the title of the video file.
  3. Students will need to have a mentor or teacher fill out out a recommendation form.

*** If student is chosen to receive a scholarship their family will need to pay a $150 deposit at the time of accepting the scholarship. The deposit will be returned after the student attends Space Camp and upon submitting a video of the presentation.

Activism, Space participation, Space Science

Videos: The Planetary Post with Robert Picardo – Space Haiku

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Here is the latest Planetary Post with Robert Picardo courtesy the Planetary Society:

This video shows a Facebook “Giving Tuesday 2017” event held this past Tuesday with Picardo and the Society’s Bill Nye and Danielle Gunn. They talk about the various activities and projects of the Society such as the LightSail 2 solar sail that is to be launched in 2018:

A recent video about Lightsail 2:

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Space Arts, Space participation

Space art: Trevor Paglen’s “Orbital Reflector” sculpture to launch in 2018

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Artist Trevor Paglen is designing a work of art that will go into orbit. The Orbital Reflector will launch as a secondary payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in the spring of 2018. In collaboration with the Nevada Museum of Art they have a Kickstarter campaign underway. With 8 days to go, $61,787 has been pledged towards a goal of $70,000 goal. 

Art is about taking risks. Join us as we become the first artist-museum team to launch a sculptural satellite into space.

A couple of years ago, contemporary artist Trevor Paglen approached the Nevada Museum of Art with a bold idea: launch the first satellite into space that would exist purely as an artistic gesture. The Museum knew that his radical vision — Orbital Reflector — could help to change the way we see our place in the world. Orbital Reflector is a satellite that will have no commercial, military, or scientific purpose. Instead, it will be a public sculpture, visible from the ground without a telescope — a satellite that belongs to everyone.

“Design concept rendering for Trevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector, co-produced and presented by the Nevada Museum of Art, 2017”

More about the project:

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Activism, Space participation, Space Science

Video: Spacecraft Bonanza! – The Planetary Post with Robert Picardo

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Here is the Planetary Society‘s latest Planetary Post video with Robert Picardo:

From the caption:

William Shatner sends a message to Voyager 1, Cassini crashes into Saturn, asteroid-seeking OSIRIS-REx gets a gravity assist, and The Planetary Society’s citizen-funded solar sailing spacecraft LightSail® 2 is making news again. Robert Picardo is here to tell you all about it in this month’s Planetary Post. Get space updates delivered straight to your inbox: http://planet.ly/TI0Pf

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Here is the full video  mentioned by Picardo that shows an animation of the LightSail 2 spacecraft development and launch.

 

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