Dare2Bare: 2020-02-23

Saturday 29 February 2020

Darshan K Bhambiru (@Dare2Bare) | Twitter

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Julius Caesar and Leap Days February 29, 2020 via NASA In 46 BC Julius Caesar reformed the calendar system. Based on advice by astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria, the Julian calendar included one leap day every four years to account for the fact that an Earth year is slightly more than 365 days long. In modern terms, the time it takes for the planet to orbit the Sun once is 365.24219 mean solar days. So if calendar years contained exactly 365 days they would drift from the Earth's year by about 1 day every 4 years and eventually July (named for Julius Caesar himself) would occur during the northern hemisphere winter. By adopting a leap year with an extra day every four years, the Julian calendar year would drift much less. In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII provided the further fine-tuning that leap days should not occur in years ending in 00, unless divisible by 400. This Gregorian Calendar system is the one in wide use today. Of course, tidal friction in the Earth-Moon system slows Earth's rotation and gradually lengthens the day by about 14 milliseconds per century. That means that leap days like today will not be necessary ... about 4 million years from now. #NASA https://go.nasa.gov/38cQJf4

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Julius Caesar and Leap Days February 29, 2020 via NASA In 46 BC Julius Caesar reformed the calendar system. Based on advice by astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria, the Julian calendar included one leap day every four years to account for the fact that an Earth year is slightly more than 365 days long. In modern terms, the time it takes for the planet to orbit the Sun once is 365.24219 mean solar days. So if calendar years contained exactly 365 days they would drift from the Earth's year by about 1 day every 4 years and eventually July (named for Julius Caesar himself) would occur during the northern hemisphere winter. By adopting a leap year with an extra day every four years, the Julian calendar year would drift much less. In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII provided the further fine-tuning that leap days should not occur in years ending in 00, unless divisible by 400. This Gregorian Calendar system is the one in wide use today. Of course, tidal friction in the Earth-Moon system slows Earth's rotation and gradually lengthens the day by about 14 milliseconds per century. That means that leap days like today will not be necessary ... about 4 million years from now. #NASA https://go.nasa.gov/38cQJf4

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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Saturday on February 29, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Saturday on February 29, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
Darshan Bhambiru

NASA TV Coverage Set for SpaceX’s Next Space Station Resupply Mission

NASA TV Coverage Set for SpaceX’s Next Space Station Resupply Mission February 28, 2020: NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting 11:49 p.m. EST Friday, March 6, for the launch of its 20th resupply mission to the International Space Station. #NASA #Trending #News https://go.nasa.gov/38fde3e

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting 11:49 p.m. EST Friday, March 6, for the launch of its 20th resupply mission to the International Space Station.

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NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for the Psyche Mission

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for the Psyche Mission February 28, 2020: NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Psyche mission. The Psyche mission currently is targeted to launch in July 2022 on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. #NASA #Trending #News https://go.nasa.gov/2VA34av

NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Psyche mission. The Psyche mission currently is targeted to launch in July 2022 on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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Tracy Drain: Systems Engineer February 28, 2020 via NASA Tracy Drain, with one of her childhood inspirations … Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura #NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2Tv43Gy

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Seattle Students to Speak with NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station

Seattle Students to Speak with NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station February 28, 2020: Students from the greater Seattle area will have an opportunity next week to talk with a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station. #NASA #Trending #News https://go.nasa.gov/2VrwRCi

Students from the greater Seattle area will have an opportunity next week to talk with a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

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Friday 28 February 2020

Tracy Drain: Flight Systems Engineer February 28, 2020 via NASA Tracy Drain, with one of her childhood inspirations … Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura #NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2TsPHpQ

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NASA, Boeing to Provide Outcome of Starliner OFT Review

NASA, Boeing to Provide Outcome of Starliner Orbital Flight Test Reviews February 28, 2020: NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EST Friday, March 6, to discuss the outcome of the joint independent review team investigation into the primary issues detected during the company’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test in December as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. #NASA #Trending #News https://go.nasa.gov/2PywLVP

NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EST Friday, March 6, to discuss the outcome of the joint independent review team investigation into the primary issues detected during the company’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test in December as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

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Wishing Everyone a Very Happy, and Enjoyable Weekend! 👌 Cheers !! 👍😊👊 Friday

Wishing Everyone a Very Happy, and Enjoyable Weekend! 👌 Cheers !! 👍😊👊 Friday
Darshan Bhambiru

South Celestial Rocket Launch February 28, 2020 via NASA At sunset on December 6 a Rocket Lab Electron rocket was launched from a rotating planet. With multiple small satellites on board it departed on a mission to low Earth orbit dubbed Running Out of Fingers from Mahia Peninsula on New Zealand's north island. The firey trace of the Electron's graceful launch arc is toward the south in this southern sea and skyscape. Drifting vapor trails and rocket exhaust plumes catch the sunlight even as the sky grows dark though, the setting Sun still shinning at altitude along the rocket's trajectory. Fixed to a tripod, the camera's perspective nearly aligns the peak of the rocket arc with the South Celestial Pole, but no bright star marks that location in the southern hemisphere's evening sky. Still, it's easy to find at the center of the star trail arcs in the timelapse composite. #NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2VpKp1b

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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Friday on February 28, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Friday on February 28, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
Darshan Bhambiru

Thursday 27 February 2020

First Flight of Saturn IB February 27, 2020 via NASA On Feb. 26, 1966, AS-201, the first Saturn IB rocket, lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. #NASA https://go.nasa.gov/3alUfWb

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Two Hemisphere Night Sky February 27, 2020 via NASA The Sun is hidden by a horizon that runs across the middle in this two hemisphere view of Earth's night sky. The digitally stitched mosaics were recorded from corresponding latitudes, one 29 degrees north and one 29 degrees south of the planet's equator. On top is the northern view from the IAC observatory at La Palma taken in February 2020. Below is a well-matched southern scene from the ESO La Silla Observatory recorded in April 2016. In this projection, the Milky Way runs almost vertically above and below the horizon. Its dark clouds and and bright nebulae are prominent near the galactic center in the lower half of the frame. In the upper half, brilliant Venus is immersed in zodiacal light. Sunlight faintly scattered by interplanetary dust, the zodiacal light traces the Solar System's ecliptic plane in a complete circle through the starry sky. Large telescope domes bulge along the inverted horizon from La Silla while at La Palma, multi-mirror Magic telescopes stand above center. Explore this two hemisphere night sky and you can also find the Andromeda Galaxy and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. #NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2PsFOaE

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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Thursday on February 27, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Thursday on February 27, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
Darshan Bhambiru

NASA Selects New Instrument to Continue Key Climate Record

NASA Selects New Instrument to Continue Key Climate Record February 26, 2020: NASA has selected a new space-based instrument as an innovative and cost-effective approach to maintaining the 40-year data record of the balance between the solar radiation entering Earth’s atmosphere and the amount absorbed, reflected, and emitted. #NASA #Trending #News https://go.nasa.gov/394FKp9

NASA has selected a new space-based instrument as an innovative and cost-effective approach to maintaining the 40-year data record of the balance between the solar radiation entering Earth’s atmosphere and the amount absorbed, reflected, and emitted.

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Gullies on Mars February 26, 2020 via NASA Gullies on Mars form during the winter, made liquid by carbon dioxide frost. #NASA https://go.nasa.gov/3a4Comj

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Wednesday 26 February 2020

NGST 10b: Discovery of a Doomed Planet February 26, 2020 via NASA This hot jupiter is doomed. Hot jupiters are giant planets like Jupiter that orbit much closer to their parent stars than Mercury does to our Sun. But some hot jupiters are more extreme than others. NGTS-10b, illustrated generically, is the closest and fastest-orbiting giant planet yet discovered, circling its home star in only 18 hours. NGTS-10b is a little larger than Jupiter, but it orbits less than two times the diameter of its parent star away from the starâ€™s surface. When a planet orbits this close, it is expected to spiral inward, pulled down by tidal forces to be eventually ripped apart by the starâ€™s gravity. NGTS-10b, discovered by researchers at the University of Warwick, is named after the ESOâ€™s Next Generation Transit Survey, which detected the imperiled planet when it passed in front of its star, blocking some of the light. Although the violent demise of NGTS-10b will happen eventually, we don't yet know when. #NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2wIOYsY

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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Wednesday on February 26, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Wednesday on February 26, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
Darshan Bhambiru

Tuesday 25 February 2020

Angela Mason-Butcher: Multidisciplinary Engineer February 25, 2020 via NASA Angela Mason-Butcher is as the Capabilities Manager for the Integration and Management Office in the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. #NASA https://go.nasa.gov/32pvsh3

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Florida Students to Speak with NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station

Florida Students to Speak with NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station February 25, 2020: Florida students will have an opportunity this week to talk with a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station. #NASA #Trending #News https://go.nasa.gov/3a6kNKy

Florida students will have an opportunity this week to talk with a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

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Darshan K Bhambiru (@Dare2Bare) | Twitter

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Moon Corona, Halo, and Arcs over Manitoba February 24, 2020 via NASA Yes, but could you get to work on time if the Moon looked like this? As the photographer was preparing to drive to work, refraction, reflection, and even diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals turned the familiar icon of our Moon into a menagerie of other-worldly halos and arcs. The featured scene was captured with three combined exposures two weeks ago on a cold winter morning in Manitoba, Canada. The colorful rings are a corona caused by quantum diffraction by small drops of water or ice near the direction of the Moon. Outside of that, a 22-degree halo was created by moonlight refracting through six-sided cylindrical ice crystals. To the sides are moon dogs, caused by light refracting through thin, flat, six-sided ice platelets as they flittered toward the ground. Visible at the top and bottom of the 22-degree halo are upper and lower tangent arcs, created by moonlight refracting through nearly horizontal hexagonal ice cylinders. A few minutes later, from a field just off the road to work, the halo and arcs had disappeared, the sky had returned to normal -- with the exception of a single faint moon dog. #NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2HUDSn0

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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Tuesday on February 25, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Tuesday on February 25, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
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Monday 24 February 2020

NASA Administrator Statement on Passing of Katherine Johnson

NASA Administrator Statement on Passing of Katherine Johnson February 24, 2020: The following is a statement from Administrator Jim Bridenstine on the passing of NASA legend Katherine Johnson, who worked for the agency from 1953 to 1986. #NASA #Trending #News https://go.nasa.gov/3a16pTW

The following is a statement from Administrator Jim Bridenstine on the passing of NASA legend Katherine Johnson, who worked for the agency from 1953 to 1986.

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