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JPL Visit

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Sammy Keane The ability to visit NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA is a once in a lifetime opportunity as it has very strict security monitoring anyone that comes in and out. While there is so much to look at and immerse yourself in, I was immediately captivated by the “Eyes on the Earth” program. Just at first glance, you see a l arge globe-light figure in the middle of the room that is simultaneously controlled by a touch screen projection that is showing Earth and basically all that inhabits it. Created first by video gamers, this downloadable app gives information on what each Satellite looks like and its movement in real-time from a global perspective in an immersive, 3-D environment. To help “Eyes on the Earth” take off and become the mastermind that it is today, software engineers, 3D artists, information architects, data processors, and many other professions came together to build this spectacular program.  The “Eyes on the Earth” program can be used...
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JPL Visit- Sophie Ungless

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Whenever I think of space, my mind always wanders to think about alien life, whether it be plants, animals, or other beings similar to us. When we watched the short film about our solar system and the places that could potentially support life, either now or in the past, my mind was going absolutely wild. Truth being told, my focus in regards to life off of Earth has been pointed at Mars because of all the missions to our neighboring planet that have been highlighted in the news. I had never thought about the fact that other planets’ moons could host life, until the video highlighted Europa.   According to NASA, a mission called “Galileo orbited Jupiter for almost eight years, and made close passes by all its major moons.” The satellite used its camera and other instruments on board that send back reports that determined that “Europa probably has a subsurface ocean with more water than the total amount found on Earth” (NASA). Since water is one of the three necessities...
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Beauty & Science

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I am of firm belief that without science, there is no beauty. Though beauty can be subjective, it is still a unique ability for humans to perceive beauty in different forms. In thinking about science relating to beauty, I began to wonder about the science of beauty; why do humans perceive beauty, what determines whether something is beautiful or not, and can there be objective beauty?  In an article from website brainpickings.org , author Nancy Etcoff discusses the notion of manufactured beauty, that is, essentially the presentation of repeated characteristics in reality-adjacent elements. Etcoff’s book is quoted saying “Walt Disney created our fondness for creatures with big eyes and little limbs, or Coca-Cola or McDonald’s created our cravings for sweet or fatty foods. Advertisers and businessmen help to define what adornments we wear and find beautiful, but … this belongs to our sense of fashion, which is not the same thing as our sense of beauty.” Humans come to believe t...
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