Today, I present to you some fun space links to see what's happening right now:
See what the International Space Station Sees: Live link at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/iss_ustream.html
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| Hey! I can see my house from here! |
Want to see the moon as well? Check out this site:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/
Remember the Voyager probes? We're still discovering stuff from them! They're in the heliosheath (the outer part of the heliosphere where solar wind is slowed by pressure from interstellar gasses--about 80 times the distance from the sun that the earth is! You can exactly how far they've traveled here:
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/index.html
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| Can you hear me now? |
Explore Mars! This site optimistically assumes we will be at Mars by 2019. (Gasp, choke, and heave a sigh.) However, it's given a great interactive look at what a Martian colony (by us, not little green men) would look like based on current science and engineering (as of 2009, but it's still awesome):
http://www.exploremarsnow.org/
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| No, John Carter is not your tour guide. |
If touring about isn't for you, you can play at space engineering here:
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/classroom/jason/a1_yd.html
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| Sadly, it didn't let me design this. Sigh. |
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