Re: Barack Obama Pits Space Explorers Against School Children
- From: BradGuth <bradguth@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 15:51:33 -0800 (PST)
On Dec 2, 4:39 am, "Mark R. Whittington" <mwhitti...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Barack Obama wants to slash funding for the NASA program to develop a
replacement for the space shuttle that will not only fly to low Earth
orbit, but also beyond to the Moon and Mars. He is doing this "for the
children" as a means to pay for an education initiative. Whenever a
politician wants to do something "for the children", it's time to
watch out.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/465985/barack_obama_pits_spa...
China, Japan and eventually India are not sitting back or having to
take another NASA no for an answer. Perhaps our Barack Obama doesn't
have to keep taking no for an answer.
This following link will soon enough become just the start of good
things to come out of the KAGUYA(SELENE) mission. http://wms.selene.jaxa.jp/index_e.html
Just wait until their lunar exploration mission of mapping everything
in sight eventually works it's way down to orbiting at just 10 km
above that physically dark lunar surface, and gets those one meter or
better resolution images, plus hosting loads of nifty other gamma
spectrum obtained data as to detecting the sorts of accessible raw
elements that our moon has for us.
Notice how purple/blush or even somewhat violet hue saturated those
initial full color images turned out. It's exactly what happens
without using a very good set of optical spectrum filters in order to
exclude the strong primary and unavoidable secondary/recoil worth of
what those pesky UV-a photons create, as for having created what
unavoidably must exist from such raw solar illumination.
http://www.selene.jaxa.jp/en/communication/com_information_e.htm#NEW_20071116A
That other ongoing mission by China may not ever accomplish as good of
images, but their next and the ones after that should not be the least
bit disappointing, because most of anything Japan can do, China should
be fully capable of accomplishing one better and at not 10% the cost.
- Brad Guth
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