Voyager 1

A lot of things happened in 1977- The Atari 2600 gaming system was released, Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as the 39th U.S president, and NASA launched Voyager 1. But something else happened, a huge breakthrough for the marine science world. An expedition to the Galápagos Rift revealed hydrothermal vents, and along with it new and unknown creatures that somehow has survived in very harsh conditions. Hydrothermal vents are most commonly found along mid-oceanic ridges, such as the Mid-Atlantic…

1957 Sputnik 1 weighing about 98 pounds was successfully launched using liquid fuel and took about 98 minutes to make one orbit. Less than a month later Sputnik 2 which had a heavier load was also successfully launched. Sputnik 2 was the first vehicle to carry anything human on board, a dog named Laik (http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3642). For the next six years NASA was in Space every year conquering and Space Vehicles. 1958 United States launched its first satellite (the Explorer 1),…

less than pleasant for him and his fellow passengers. The lack of vitamin C put the lives of all aboard in danger. Scurvy was widespread in such conditions and took the lives of many voyagers. Columbus’s unawareness of nearby vegetation sources that would provide plenty of vitamin C, threatened him and his crew (Tielser 1) If modern medicine was introduced to the time of Columbus, malnutrition would have ceased to be an issue. Due to Christopher Columbus and his disease-ridden ships, the Native…

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the most distant that can be seen with the naked eye. Saturn is the second largest planet and is best known for its fabulous ring system that was first observed in 1610 by the astronomer Galileo Galilei. Saturn is a gas giant and is composed of similar gasses including hydrogen, helium and methane. Saturn can be seen with the naked eye. It is the fifth brightest object in the solar system.Saturn was known to the ancients, including the Babylonians…

000 560 ft up” (Greene, para 2). After the Launch of Sputnik, Dwight D Eisenhower was accused of slowing down the United States space program, he responded by speeding up the space program and Nasa eventually launched the space satellite Explorer 1, on January 31st…

America could lose its global power if they don’t get back into space. I know that NASA just shut down manned missions due to budget cuts, and if we don’t go back to space, the U.S. will seem weak. This could cause war, and make more budget issues. However, if they start sending more people to space the U.S. will have more debt, and might be unprepared when a war occurs. The U.S. should go to space because almost all of the countries the U.S. has been competing with have access to space, and…

Newton’s 3 laws of Motion 1. If a body is as rest it remains at rest or, if it is in motion, it moves with uniform velocity, until it is acted on by a resultant force. 2. Acceleration is dependent on the forces acting upon an object and the mass of the object. Therefore, if the force is increased, the acceleration is increased. And the more mass the object has, the more acceleration decreases. So the resultant force (F) is equal to mass (m) times acceleration (a) (F = ma). 3. For every action,…

and lastly astronomer Observer Zone Godfrey GAO German they all managed to predict and find Neptune the planet was named after the Roman God of oceans mostly because it's blue color we are already being able to discover parts of Neptune through the Voyager Neptune actually has 13…

chemistry to be decoded by a recipient. Almost none of the unbiased scientists could correctly decipher a pictorial message of the Pioneer plaques. Needless to say, that the chance for extraterrestrial life to understand it is vanishing. Even the Voyager golden records, containing sounds and images, are “comprehensible to a scientifically literate society” only (Sagan 13). Images with some linguistic representation, which were seen as a powerful way to transmit unambiguous interstellar messages,…

used this concept. His name was simply “Q,” and he was a constant nuisance to the Enterprise and to the Voyager…