Here is this week’s Space to Ground report on activities aboard the Int. Space Station:
Video: The Gemini Planet Imager and the first planet it found
A brief video from the SETI Institute describing the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), an instrument attached to the installed on the 8-meter Gemini South Telescope in Chile.
Carnival of Space #430 – The Universe
The Universe blog hosts the latest Carnival of Space.
Videos: Planets Labs takes daily snapshots of the the Earth
This NASA video highlights Planet Labs, which is using a constellation of small satellites to image the earth daily. So far, most of the Planet Labs Dove satellites have been inserted into orbit from the Int. Space Station via the assistance of the company NanoRacks, which has an agreement with the Japanese space agency for the use of its facilities on the ISS.
Here is a video about the Planet Labs open access image archive of California:
“COSMOS: Timeless, Magnetic, Wooden Toys” from Huzi Design
The young company Huzi Design has combined Beech wood, powerful magnets, and some imagination to create an elegant collection of space toys: Spaceship Building Blocks For Budding Rocket Scientists – gizmodo.com
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Unfortunately, they are not available yet but you can make them happen and also obtain your own collection by supporting their crowd-funding campaign: COSMOS: Timeless, Magnetic, Wooden Toys by huzi — Kickstarter
No blinking lights. No complicated electronics. No forgettable plastic toys that end up in garbage dumps.
Instead, we set out with the ambition to create toys loaded with meaning like imagination and simplicity. Toys that are long-lasting in both meaning and quality, so beautiful that kids and grownups will want to keep forever. Classic toys, reinvented. Simple values, restored.