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Nasa Announces Winners In 'space Poop Challenge

... "My mother's a textile designer so I think I started off really thinking about materials," he says. "Making something as comfortable as possible I thought was fairly important. a lot of your mechanism really has to be in, effectively, the first few millimeters away from the skin.". His solution, the "SWIMSuit — Zero Gravity Underwear," disinfects and stores waste inside the suit, like the second-place design does. Cardon won $15,000, while the trio from Houston took home $10,000 and Shelley netted $5,000. The next step is for NASA to start prototyping the ideas, and get working versions of a waste-management system up to the International Space Station for testing. Dustin Gohmert, the Orion crew survival system project manager at NASA, explains that NASA will combine existing ideas with elements of the winning designs to create a solution that will, indeed, go ...

Nasa's Juno Probe Will Keep Its Distance From Jupiter

... worth the risk since Juno can accomplish its mission objectives without changing its orbit. RELATED: Juno Looks Into a Fierce Jupiter Storm During Dramatic Orbital Dive. "We looked at multiple scenarios that would place Juno in a shorter-period orbit, but there was concern that another main engine burn could result in a less-than-desirable orbit," project manager Rick Nybakken, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said in a statement. "The bottom line is a burn represented a risk to completion of Juno's science objectives," he said. "The science will be just as spectacular as with our original plan," added lead researcher Scott Bolton, with the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. Juno, which reached Jupiter on July 4, makes its key science measurements when it passes closest to the planet, whether that happens every 14 days or every 53. "The worst-case scenario is I have to be patient and get the science slowly," Bolton said after the engine problem ...

Nasa Snow Study

... month. Scientists want to develop a satellite that can observe snow through obstacles such as forest canopies. Photo courtesy of NASA. NASA’s three-week snow study in western Colorado in February attracts volunteers throughout the snow research community, including people from Canada, Europe and the U. S. Photo courtesy of NASA. Researchers collect data on the ground, from instruments attached to snowmobiles, and from aircraft for NASA’s Snow Ex study. Photo courtesy of NASA. Researchers collect snow measurements on the ground and will compare the data to aerial observations with the intent of developing a multi-sensor satellite to observe snow for water management. Photo courtesy of NASA. Radar, LIDAR and special imagers to measure how fast snow will melt are among the equipment NASA researchers use over a three-week field study in the Silverton and Grand Mesa areas. Photo courtesy of NASA. Volunteers ...

This Summer's Solar Eclipse Brings Nasa Research To Rosman

... telescope and a 12-meter (40 ft.) radio telescope,” said Steve Saucier, PARI executive director. “This is the first time in history that an eclipse has passed over an array of sophisticated telescopes like these, giving us the opportunity to conduct scientific studies that have never before been possible. Another first for this site”. The path of totality will cut across the U. S., reaching 14 states, and most U. S. citizens will get to see the sun being eclipsed by greater than 75 percent. “We are happy to be welcoming NASA back to the campus for the eclipse,” said Don Cline, PARI founder and president. NASA chose PARI for these research projects because the 200-acre campus lies in the eclipse’s “path of totality” and has a well-documented track record for hosting research endeavors, PARI said in a press release. In addition to NASA, over 250 amateur astronomers will be in ...

Drug-resistant Superbug Sent To Space For Study

... of travelling on a rocket to the station. MRSA, often called staph, is resistant to antibiotic methicillin and many others. It causes a variety of health problems included sepsis, pneumonia, skin and bloodstream infections. Research has shown that the “stressful conditions” of the space station’s microgravity environment causes fungi to grow faster. Goel hopes that it will do the same for bacteria. “I have a hypothesis that microgravity will accelerate the mutation patterns. If we can use microgravity as an accelerator to fast forward and get a sneak preview of what these mutations will look like, then we can essentially build smarter drugs back on Earth,” said Goel. Scientists sent the superbug MRSA into space to improve our understanding of how it develops a resistance to drugs __link__/1 a HR 1 y KHd M. — PHYSICS FUNdamentals (@PHYSICS_FUN_01) February 20, 2017. Microbiologists found some space station astronauts in orbit experience subtle changes in the protective mix of microbes in their bodies, called the microbiome, that influence how well their immune systems ...

Nasa's New Space Agenda

... God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called he seas: and God that saw it was good. "And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas—and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth.". It has since been estimated that a quarter of everyone then alive on the Earth saw that broadcast, either as it happened or afterward. The Soviet propaganda newspaper Pravda quoted the head of the Soviet "Interkosmos" space program as calling Apollo 8 an "outstanding achievement of American space sciences and technology." Apollo 8's broadcast won an Emmy, and crew were named Time Men of the Year. And an atheist sued them for reading from the bible on government property. Apollo 8 was one of the defining moments in human history: the first voyage to Moon. The last voyage to the Moon was four years later in December of 1972. In the 45 years since, no one has gone further than Low Earth Orbit. NASA plans to send ...

Nasa Spots Short-lived Tropical Cyclone Alfred

... of the planet's core, calling into question a prevailing theory about the events that shaped. Over time, nuisance flooding can cost more than extreme, infrequent events. February 21, 2017. Global climate change is being felt in many coastal communities of the United States, not always in the form of big weather disasters but as a steady drip, drip, drip of nuisance flooding. Legal marijuana sales creating escalating damage to the environment. February 21, 2017. Marijuana sales have created an economic boom in U. S. states that have fully or partially relaxed their cannabis laws, but is the increased cultivation and sale of this crop also creating escalating environmental damage and. Study finds 6,600 spills from fracking in just four states. February 21, 2017. Each year, 2 to 16 percent of hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells spill hydrocarbons, chemical-laden water, hydraulic fracturing fluids and other substances, according to a new study. The analysis, which appears Feb. Fifth of world's food ...

The Nasa Rocket Scientist Leaving Mars For Politics

... pick up the paperwork she would need to run for Congress. Doing so would mean giving up her role as an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory—a dream job that she had held for 13 years. Her plan was to pick up the papers, think about them over the weekend, and make a decision afterwards. Sitting outside the building, she wavered, and decided to call her senators to voice her opposition against Betsy De Vos—the since-confirmed nominee for Secretary of Education. She got a busy tone. She tried again. Another busy tone. “It was at the fifth one that I thought: Okay, I need to get to Washington and get a seat at the table,” she says. “That motivated me to get into the building and get on with it.”. Related Stories. What Sets the Smart Heroines of Hidden Figures Apart. Van ...

Nasa Sees Development Of South Pacific's Tropical Cyclone Bart

... being pushed to the southeast as a result of northwesterly wind shear. On Feb. 21 at 10 a.m. EST (1500 UTC) the Joint Typhoon Warning Center or JTWC noted Bart's maximum sustained winds were near 46 mph (40 knots/74 kph). At that time, Bart was centered near 22.4 degrees south latitude and 161.3 degrees west longitude, about 762 nautical miles west-southwest of Papeete, Tahiti. Bart was moving to the east-southeast at a speedy 25.3 mph (22 knots/40.7 kph) and over open waters of the South Pacific Ocean. The JTWC noted that Bart is located along the northeast edge of a deep subtropical shortwave trough (elongated area of low pressure) and "environmental conditions are forecast to degrade over the next 24 to 36 hours with increasing vertical wind shear and cooler sea surface temperatures, which will eventually lead to ...

Nasa's Audacious Europa Missions Are Getting Closer To Reality

... where you say, 'Okay, if we measure that, then there's life,'" she said. Since the lander's samples would only come from 10 centimeters below Europa's radiation-flooded surface, what are the chances of finding anything alive. Hörst said reconnaissance work by the Clipper spacecraft might yield younger sections of ice that have been bombarded by less radiation. Additionally, not all areas of the moon are irradiated at the same level. Europa, like Earth's moon, is tidally locked, meaning the same side always faces Jupiter. And even if the lander scoops up some life that, as Hörst puts it, is "no longer intact," there might be leftover chemical footprints showing something was once there. "Even samples that have been highly radiation-processed on Earth still retain chemical signatures that you could interpret as a evidence of life," she said. NASA / JPL / Ted Stryk. Europa in color: trailing hemisphere. Galileo captured this global view of Europa on its 10 th orbit of ...

Nasa In Tooele County? Lawmakers Endorse Resolution Encouraging New Testing Facility

... would encourage NASA to choose Tooele County for a new drone testing facility. HCR 21 , sponsored by Rep. Doug Sagers, R-Tooele, passed the House Political Subdivisions Committee with a unanimous vote and now goes to the House floor. Milne said a NASA facility would not only put Tooele County on the map for the high-tech sector, but it would also increase educational opportunities for schoolchildren and provide a few hundred jobs for the rural county's workforce. "We need to do something to diversify our economy," he said. "This is a really awesome opportunity for our citizens and our county's economic growth.". Milne said the location under consideration — the site of the former Deseret Chemical Depot, currently known as the Tooele Army Depot South Area — already has restricted airspace and physical isolation, making it appealing for drone testing. Sagers said "there has been a great deal of work" to put Tooele County on the map for NASA's considerations. NASA officials did not return an emailed request for comment Tuesday. State economists estimate a NASA testing facility would provide an economic benefit to ...

Nasa Aims To Measure Vital Colorado Snow Data From Satellites

... A hyperspectral imager and a multispectral imager will measure how much sunlight the snow is reflecting, which helps determine how fast it will melt. Aircraft will take the instruments on multiple passes over two areas in western Colorado, Grand Mesa and Senator Beck Basin. Ground crews will also analyze the snow to verify how accurate the instruments are. One key technology used to predict snow runoff in the American West is the Snow Telemetry Network, or SNOTEL, operated by the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service. More than 800 automated SNOTEL ground stations scattered across the West measure the depth and weight of the snow, the temperature and other data and transmit them to a central database. Federal agencies use SNOTEL to produce daily state-by-state reports and maps on how the current snow water equivalent compares to the long-term average. Water utilities, farmers, public safety agencies and wildland firefighters track the ...