Thursday, June 16, 2011
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Morning Dune Hike
Now that it is getting hotter in the afternoon -- plus with my schedule heating up -- I am going to be hiking in the early morning or late evening. Yesterday I headed up into the dunes early. There is something about starting the day with nature's beauty....
I went part way down the Masse Hoomestead trail. There were lots of wild flowers on the path...
The dunes are gorgeous in the morning.
There were lots of flowers in the dunes, too.
These are the fluffy seeds from the flowers that I posted a picture of a couple of weeks ago.
Yet another view of Au Sable Lighthouse. Each bluff along the lake and each dune high point gives you another view.
The lake was calm for a second day in a row.
I went part way down the Masse Hoomestead trail. There were lots of wild flowers on the path...
The dunes are gorgeous in the morning.
There were lots of flowers in the dunes, too.
These are the fluffy seeds from the flowers that I posted a picture of a couple of weeks ago.
Yet another view of Au Sable Lighthouse. Each bluff along the lake and each dune high point gives you another view.
The lake was calm for a second day in a row.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Chandra Sheds Light on Black Holes
A 25-minute NASA-hosted news conference in Washington highlights imagery and data captured by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory about the early universe's growth of supermassive black holes in galaxies.
Moscow Gets Ahead on Missile Defense?
The geopolitics of missile defense in Central Europe explained.
Chinese-US Space Cooperation at Standstill
Some months ago, this blogger recommended a space policy proposal to the northern Virginia member of the Congress suggesting a course of US-Chinese relations that would benefit all the 'envoys of mankind' in the future. There is still the opportunity to accept the idea and advance a mutually beneficial bilateral space policy in 2012.
It appears to be of growing political importance in Washington that the Chinese start a civilian and commercial space programs to interface with the United States in space. The military face of the Chinese space program and the risk of technology transfer has policy currency in the more conservative US House of Representatives, as evident in the federal budget provision.
The Chinese are expected to launch a mini-space station late this year and perform automated docking procedures followed by orbiting human space crews in 2012, among them the first Chinese female.
The Chinese are expected to launch a mini-space station late this year and perform automated docking procedures followed by orbiting human space crews in 2012, among them the first Chinese female.
Night Head Lamp Hike in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
The other night when camping at 12 Mile Beach with my friends, we decided to go on a night head lamp hike. We walked the nature trail above the campground, and then hiked the beach back to our camp site. If you have ever walked down a beach at night, it is difficult to see exactly where you are and when you have to head up to your camp. To help us know where our camp site was, Marsha hung a light on the steps.
The trail travels up the bluff from the center of the campground and winds its way through different forest communities.
To get this shot of the stump, rather than use a flash -- we all directed our head lamp beams to the stump.
I used the flash for this stump...
When hiking at night, you find yourself focusing on just the things within the beam of your light. You see the vegetation in front of you much more intimately.
I tried to capture the white birches.
The camera would not focus on it, but as we finished the nature trail and worked our way to the beach, we saw the International Space Station go overhead. It was almost like it greeted us.
The full moon was rising. While in the woods it didn't help us see our way since the tree canopies blocked out the moon light. On the beach, however, the moon light was quite bright.
Since we arrived back at the camp site quite late, we reignited our fire and enjoyed it for a short time before getting some sleep.
The trail travels up the bluff from the center of the campground and winds its way through different forest communities.
To get this shot of the stump, rather than use a flash -- we all directed our head lamp beams to the stump.
I used the flash for this stump...
The camera would not focus on it, but as we finished the nature trail and worked our way to the beach, we saw the International Space Station go overhead. It was almost like it greeted us.
The full moon was rising. While in the woods it didn't help us see our way since the tree canopies blocked out the moon light. On the beach, however, the moon light was quite bright.
Since we arrived back at the camp site quite late, we reignited our fire and enjoyed it for a short time before getting some sleep.
Robotic Lunar Lander Project Advances
On Monday, June 13, the robotic lander mission team was poised and ready when the lander prototype in the adjacent building lifted itself off the ground and rose unrestrained higher and higher. Applause broke out in the control room when the lander gently sat back down. This marks the first free flight of this prototype for the Robotic Lunar Lander Development Project managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The robotic lander flew up to 7 feet for 27 seconds.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Another Night at 12 Mile Beach
It was such a beautiful night last night that after working all day I decided to head back out to spend the night with my friends at 12 Mile Beach Campground.
Some of the locals still grumble about the paving of H58 between Grand Marais and Munising. I must admit that I like the road. Here are a couple of shots I took while driving west 14 miles to the campground.
After visiting for a while to hear about their Chapel Loop hike that Marsha and Denise had done the day before, we moved over to the bluff to watch the sunset. All three of us have the REI comfort lounger. We rocked back, put our feet up, and enjoyed the amazingly calm evening on the south shore of Lake Superior. There are not many days a year when the Big Lake is this calm.
Some of the locals still grumble about the paving of H58 between Grand Marais and Munising. I must admit that I like the road. Here are a couple of shots I took while driving west 14 miles to the campground.
After visiting for a while to hear about their Chapel Loop hike that Marsha and Denise had done the day before, we moved over to the bluff to watch the sunset. All three of us have the REI comfort lounger. We rocked back, put our feet up, and enjoyed the amazingly calm evening on the south shore of Lake Superior. There are not many days a year when the Big Lake is this calm.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Robotic Refueling Mission Set for Space Station
On the very last space shuttle flight to orbit, Atlantis STS-135 will carry the Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) developed by the Satellite Servicing Capabilities project at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. It plans to demonstrate the technology and tools to refuel satellites in orbit by robotic means. After the proof of concept, the long-term goal of NASA is to transfer the technology to the commercial sector.
The Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) is an external International Space Station experiment that paves the way for future robotic refueling missions by demonstrating robotic refueling tasks and servicing technologies in a zero-g environment. RRM uses the ISS's Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (also known as "Dextre"), "representative satellite fueling interfaces" and four unique RRM tools to validate the tasks, tools, and techniques needed to repair "legacy" satellites, spacecraft not designed to be refueled in orbit, (NASA).
Dr. Brian Cox: "Star Lecture" at Manchester
The hugely popular scientist Brian Cox held his second 'Star Lecture' at The University of Manchester on Wednesday 8 June 2011 in England. Brian is an academic in the School of Physics and Astronomy, The lecture goes one hour and fifteen minutes.
Republican Presidential Candidates Debate Federal Role in Human Space Flight
Debate moderator John King of CNN asked the other six candidates in attendance whether they would continue federal funding for human space flight. Not a single candidate - Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain — raised their hand.
The unanimous verdict came during a New Hampshire presidential debate tonight and following a scathing assessment of NASA management by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.
GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says "NASA has become an absolute case study in why bureaucracy cannot innovate,” he said. “What we have is bureaucracy after bureaucracy, failure after failure.”
Gingrich went further saying it is about how to "get into space faster, better, more effectively, more creatively if you decentralize it, get it out of Washington and cut out the bureaucracy." He added "it is about getting to a space program that works." More from SpacePolitics.
Gingrich went further saying it is about how to "get into space faster, better, more effectively, more creatively if you decentralize it, get it out of Washington and cut out the bureaucracy." He added "it is about getting to a space program that works." More from SpacePolitics.
LRO to take moon's surface temperature
'During the June 15, 2011 lunar eclipse, scientists will be able to get a unique view of the moon. While the sun is blocked by the Earth, LRO's Diviner instrument will take the temperature on the lunar surface. Since different rock sizes cool at different rates, scientists will be able to infer the size and density of rocks on the moon.'
ESA's Space Hazards Program Debris Watch
European Space Agency member states asked its space agency to embark on a new program, known as Space Situational Awareness , or SSA. to develop Europe's own scanning, detection and warning capabilities against space weather, space debris and natural near-earth objects.
Europe's Johannes Kepler ATV Job Done
After practically four months attached to the International Space Station, Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle will plunge into the atmosphere over the South Pacific on 20 June. The Johannes Kepler mission was the second flight of this space freighter resupplying and servicing the orbital complex. For ESA and its international partners all the mission objectives - and more - were fully achieved and thoughts have now immediately turned to the next ATV flight early next year.
StratoShuttle Plans 120,000 Feet Flight
"Strato-Shuttle," a balloon-borne unmanned aerial vehicle with a 5-to-6-foot wingspan. The idea is that the balloon rises up to an altitude of more than 120,000 feet, and then releases the UAV to fly back to earth under remote control. Quest for Stars organizer Bobby Russell is recruiting student interns and plans to test the system in Mojave, Calif. — the same locale where the pros are working on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo and XCOR Aerospace's Lynx.
Mysterious Feature Spotted on Vesta Asteroid
This movie shows surface details beginning to resolve as NASA's Dawn spacecraft closes in on the giant asteroid Vesta. The framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained the images used for this animation on June 1, 2011, from a distance of about 300,000 miles. A mysterious feature roughly 60 miles in diameter (moving from left to right across the field of view) was snapped by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on its approach to the massive asteroid. More from the BBC, Space.com,and USA Today.
McKinnon Talks Saturian Mimas & Enceladus
Pity poor Mimas! The "that's no moon" moon of Saturn ought to be as famous as its sibling Enceladus. All other things being equal, Mimas should be more strongly tidally heated, but this is clearly not the case. This talk will review the latest Cassini findings for both moons, including the astonishing heat flow coming from Enceladus' south pole.
It turns out that Mimas' lack of geologic activity is no surprise — the real question is how does Enceladus support its heat flow, active tectonics, and erupting plumes? Episodicity may be key, but even more radical notions have been proposed. These ideas, and perhaps new ones from the 23-24 May Enceladus Workshop at the SETI Institute, are discussed by Bill McKinnon for 1-hour.
x-ray rose
the work of nich veasey. i think the x-ray rose is nice.
the hands over the laptop though are a bit creepy!
the hands over the laptop though are a bit creepy!
Bob Bigelow: Cosmic Landlord of 21st Century
Forbes Magazine writer David Ewalt shared with readers a profile of space business entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, 67, of Las Vegas, Nevada with the title reference of the "Cosmic Landlord."
If all goes in accord with the Bigelow Business Plan, the first space launches with infrastruture payloads will commence in 2014 followed by private astronauts in the 2016-2017 timeframe. Many hope the launch facilities for human occupation of the Bigelow Aerospace orbiting station(s) will be based at Wallops Island, Va.
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