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Landsat 7 Landsat 7 is a sun-synchronous satellite operated as a joint project between NOSA, NOAA and the US Geological Survey. It continued the US long-term earth observation Landsat program. It have been successfully launched on 15th Aprial 1999 from the Western Test Range of Vandenberg Air Force Base with the altitude of 705 km and revisit time of 16 days. The service time of Landsat 7 is 5 years from July 1999 to October 2014. The detailed characteristic of Landsat 7 as blow Figure 5…

Looking up at the vast night sky, the wonder and excitement of space captivates many people. We wonder what is out there, or who is out there? The Pixar animated film Lifted takes our curiosity and puts it on the big screen. The story focuses on a little teen alien named Stu, as he tries to pass his human abduction exam, graded by Mr. B. Stu attempts to abduct a rural farmer named Ernie. Stu, being an overconfident teen, hilariously messes up the entire abduction, amazingly not waking up Ernie.…

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” - Neil Armstrong, the man who first set his foot on the moon, then a distant object and a source of awe; and it is in this quest of surmounting the unconquered and taming the wild which denotes man’s insatiate desire to understand Nature. Evolution has been the fundamental reason for progress of life on earth and the eclectic strategies employed by Mother Nature in the eternal perpetuation of the process are simply…

Fractal: A complex geometric pattern exhibiting self-similarity in that small details of its structure viewed at any scale repeat elements of the overall pattern. Fractal (Alternate Definition): A complex set of objects exhibiting self-similarity in that small details of relationships viewed at any scale repeat throughout the overall pattern, providing meaning to the objects within. Vonnegut’s Fractal: A perspective offered in Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan defining the meaning of life…

“We’ve grown used to the idea of space, and perhaps we forget that we’ve only just begun. We’re still pioneers.” On January 28, 1986, President Ronald Reagan addressed the Nation’s fears and sorrows after the explosion of the NASA Space Shuttle, the Challenger. Almost a half-century ago, man began to look past the stars and into the cosmos and planets beyond Earth. The brilliant mind behind the curtain, Wernher von Braun, “The Father of Modern Rockets”, sparked the curiosity and imagination of…

The Space Race After World War Two and during the Cold War, The United States of America and the USSR were in competition with one another to see who could conquer spaceflight capability. The Space race included efforts to launch artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, sending humans into space and setting foot on the moon. The First part of the race was to launch a successful artificial satellite. The USSR beat the United States to this with the successful launch of Sputnik 1 on…

was a space mission that some may have viewed as a failure; it was, in fact, the complete opposite. Space entry has improved immensely, with the efforts and struggles gained from previous missions. In addition, one of the astronauts of this mission, Jim Lovell, “believed it was a success. The astronauts and the Space Control Center were tested on their ability to work together and that is how Apollo 13 succeeded” (Anastasio 90). Apollo 13 has bettered the space program by allowing future space…

Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 and orbited the Earth for three months. At this moment the Soviet Union had officially started the Space Race and was currently in the lead. During this time the US citizens reacted differently. “From the 1950's, the United States and the Soviet Union attempted to surpass each other in feats of space exploration. What became known as "the space race" began with the Soviet's successful launch of the first ever artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957.…

Game- Colonel Graff. This theme also shows the audience how the characters right there wrongs were Cooper doesn’t give up on Earth and Ender dedicates his life to resurrect an alien species. Setting: The most important setting of the two films is ‘space’. However the difference between the two is that in Interstellar is mainly set in a foreign galaxy, whereas Ender’s Games begins in Earths solar system and branches out further into the film. These films are similar being that they both portray…

It was a stormy day and the blank family decides to go on a vacation because they are sick of the nasty weather. The Blank parents decide on a destination to go on so they call down there kids liam and michael they are twins but do not get along at all. There parent finally announce they are going on vacation to pluto to see the moon rise. the next day they head to nasa to take off to pluto. The Blank family loads up the rocket with there stuff and they headed for pluto. Liam starts to pick on…