Gatlinburg, Tennessee, just outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was festively decorated with Christmas decorations in November. Here is a collection of photos taken at night of Downtown Gatlinburg.
Mars 70 meter Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone near Barstow, CA.
The second speaker at the Goldstone deep Space Network NASA Social was Deputy Project Manager Wayne Sible. Sible talked about the missions that the Deep Space Network (DSN) supports and what each Deep Space Communications Complex (DSCC) has to offer.
Goldstone Deep Space Network near Barstow, CA.
The first speaker at the Goldstone Deep Space Network NASA Social was Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Communications Badri Younes. He works under William Gerstenmaier, who oversees NASA’s human exploration and operations.
Younes started off by thanking attendees of the NASA Social. He mentioned it is a partnership between NASA and the community. NASA does a lot of great things, but great things that are done, if not communicated, especially to the young folks will lose their value. It is a partnership that NASA wants to build on to get the message out, to sensitize the minds of the young generation about the importance of the work NASA does and to stimulate their minds to pursue science, engineering, technology, and mathematics as a career of choice.
Two weeks ago, I attended the Space Camp Math Alive! tweetup in Huntsville, AL. The rainy morning started off rather wet and dreary. Fortunately, this tweetup was inside for the most part and allowed the soggy shoes from the short sprint across the puddle-laden parking lot to dry.
The launch of Mars Curiosity Laboratory at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Sunset in Rocket Park at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL.
At the MathAlive! Space Camp tweetup in Huntsville, tweetup attendees got an opportunity to play around in the MathAlive! exhibit presented by Raytheon. The 5,000 square foot exhibit contains nearly 40 unique, interactive experiences that take math from its native form into the applied worlds of design, engineering, technology and science.
The first station I went to explained how music is made through fractions. A note on a keyboard has a fundamental frequency, or pitch, that determines if a note sounds high or low. Frequency is measured in hertz and is based of vibrations per second. Double the hertz of the frequency of a note and the pitch is one octave higher. Divide it by two and the pitch is one octave lower.
