ATTENTION!!!-“the parade of planets”.5 Planets Will Be Aligned in 2016 From Jan. 20 To Feb. 20,

Last seen in January 2005, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus and Mercury will be visible from Earth in a row along the horizon from January 20 until February 20, 2016,appearing in a diagonal line. The best time to view the planets is just before dawn over the month-long period.Visible planets are those that can be seen with the naked eye, as opposed to Uranus, Neptune and former planet Pluto, which require telescopes to be viewed.

This incredible planetary event is the first time the five bright planets have aligned in such a way in more than 10 years – and they will stay stationed in this position until Feb. 20th.

A unique moment in time, which brings us yet another reason to gaze and appreciate the sky, but also brings an interesting intersection of energies. From a spiritual point of view, seeking a lesson in the soul of each planet – allows us to reflect deeper and gaze inward as well.

Mercury is the ruler of communication – take inventory of how you express your emotions with your words, and be mindful if your tone is in alignment with your intention.Take a Trip.

Venus relates to love –  be sure to give love to where ever you may feel lack, and to give lots of gratitude to where there is already love.Get Artistic.

Mars is considered the action planet, so if there’s been something you’ve been wanting to do, but haven’t yet done – get moving, and take the actions necessary to gain momentum. With the other planets being your guide, also remember to be loving in your actions, and to communicate from a place of pure intention.Sweat It Out.
Jupiter is the philosopher, and this is a great time to find the “gold” in your life’s lessons. Give love to the good, give love to the bad, allow all experience to serve as the fuel that burns your fire for desire – and if there is any area of your life that still feels “heavy”, be your own spiritual alchemist and find appreciation for the lesson, and forgive with all of your heart, because the heart is the philosopher’s stone.Start Saving.

Saturn relates to karma, so it is important to consider the timeless words of Bob Marley,  “every little action // there’s a reaction (satisfy my soul).” Perhaps there may be some actions that have occurred lately that brought about an unpleasant reaction. We always reap what we sow, and whatever good we give to the world – we will get back (same principle applies to the bad as well).Saturn is known as "The Great Teacher," and is basically the planet that brings all the others back to Earth.Clean House.

Ref:
http://consciouslifenews.com
http://www.evolveandascend.com

Friends!!! Are U interested to know more about DWARF Pluto's Geology?

Take a pinch of Mars, a sprinkle of Saturn’s moon Iapetus and a dash of Neptune’s moon Triton—and the recipe will yield something like Pluto.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the .

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

The first published scientific findings from NASA’s New Horizons mission, which flew past Pluto in July, confirm that the dwarf planet does not resemble any other single world in the Solar System. Instead, its wildly varying terrain is a crazy quilt of geological patterns and textures—copied, pasted and tweaked from other planets and moons.


Like Mars, Pluto has volatile compounds that cycle between freezing onto the ground and sublimating back into the atmosphere. Like Iapetus, it has stunningly bright terrain juxtaposed with dark areas. And like Triton, it seems to have streaks made by wind marring its icy surface.

Pluto’s geological activity is driven both by heat leaking from radioactive elements in its interior—a remnant of its birth more than 4 billion years ago—and by the volatile compounds that flit between its surface and its atmosphere. As Pluto moves away from the Sun in its 248-year elliptical orbit, temperatures plummet and these compounds freeze out of the atmosphere and fall onto the surface as frost. When Pluto warms up again, methane, nitrogen, carbon monoxide and other chemicals transform directly from ice on the surface into atmospheric gases.

 “Punching a hole in jello springs to mind,” says Howett. “Everything suggests this ice is exceptionally soft”—making it unique in the Solar System.

Incredible New Photos Of Pluto Show Blue Skies And Water Ice

Pluto's Blue Sky

"A blue sky often results from scattering of sunlight by very small particles," said science team researcher Carly Howett, also of SwRI. "On Earth, those particles are very tiny nitrogen molecules. On Pluto they appear to be larger – but still relatively small – soot-like particles we call tholins."

Water ice on Pluto. NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

As if blue haze wasn’t exciting enough, New Horizons had another surprise for us this week: water ice on Pluto’s surface. While there aren’t large areas of exposed ice, there are many small regions.

Pluto’s Puzzling Patterns and PitsCredits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

It seems that the more we see of Pluto, the more fascinating it gets. With its prominent heart-shaped feature, icy mountains, and “snakeskin” terrain.

Pluto's Tiny Moons Start Coming Into View


Charon is the biggest game in town, but Pluto has four smaller moons that make for a complicated system.

NASA / JHUAPL

Pluto‬ system family portrait!

Kerberos Revealed. This image of Kerberos was created by combining four individual Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) pictures taken on July 14, approximately seven hours before New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto, at a range of 245,600 miles (396,100 km) from Kerberos. The image was deconvolved to recover the highest possible spatial resolution and oversampled by a factor of eight to reduce pixilation effects. Kerberos appears to have a double-lobed shape, approximately 7.4 miles (12 kilometers) across in its long dimension and 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers) in its shortest dimension.

Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

FRIENDS !!! Be CURIOUS!!! OBSERVE!!! ONE DAY U will also DISCOVER something!!!
For more information
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article
http://www.iflscience.com/space/
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/

Watch Fascinating Illusions and Pareidolia--Top 10 Weirdest Mars Illusions and Pareidolia

Pareidolia  is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern where none actually exists.

Pareidolia can cause people to interpret random images, or patterns of light and shadow, as faces. A psychological phenomenon that stimulates a vague perception is known as Pareidolia. The word ‘Pareidolia’ comes from the Greek language and it means ‘wrong image’. It can be anything that triggers the brain to misperceive the most random image in our surroundings, which can be as random as seeing a face in the clouds, a rabbit in the moon or hearing a hidden message when a recorded audio is played in reverse. Such strange coincidences are inevitable and are impossible to resist.

This occurrence was first associated with psychotic people, but today scientists describe it as a natural tendency of human beings to search for meanings in our environment, since they are hardwired in our brains. Our brains have the ability to distinguish a face from any irrelevant objects in just one-fifth of a second. This activity is performed in an area of the brain called the fusiform gyrus, which arouses the need to recognize familiarly acquainted images. Sometimes, these illusions can be so convincing that people are compelled to turn illusions into delusions.

Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, the "man in the moon", the "moon rabbit", and hidden messages within recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds.

Top 10 Weirdest Mars Illusions and Pareidolia

Ever since Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli described his discovery of canals on Mars in 1877 and American astronomer Percival Lowell started to map them, we humans have been fascinated with the Red Planet. Although the canals were nothing more than a case of mistaken identity and our technology has come a long way since Schiaparelli and Lowell's telescopes, Mars continues to serve up its fair share of illusions, hoaxes and misunderstandings.In the case of Mars, pareidolia makes us see bigfoot, parrots, flowers and faces in the otherwise barren orange landscape.

10) A Volcanic Elephant

"The Mars Elephant" -- NASA Mars Reconnassance Orbiter (HiRISE), 2012 NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UNIV. OF ARIZ

9) Rolling Stones Logo

Rolling Stones Logo -- NASA Mars Reconnassance Orbiter (HiRISE), 2011 NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UNIV. OF ARIZ.

8) The "Morchid"

The Mars Flower' -- NASA Mars Science Laboratory, 2012 NASA/JPL-CALTECH

7) The Smiling Crater

The Smiling Crater" -- NASA Mars Global Surveyor, 1999 NASA

6) A Dead Parrot

"The Mars Parrot" -- NASA Mars Global Surveyor, 2002 NASA/JPL-CALTECH

5) Alien Artifacts

Alien artifacts? -- NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, 2008 NASA/JPL-CALTECH

4) Bigfoot! (Littlefoot?)

"Mars Bigfoot" (a.k.a. "Mars Yeti") -- NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, 2008 NASA/JPL-CALTECH

3) The Tree-Lined Hills of Mars

Trees on Mars? -- NASA Mars Reconnassance Orbiter (HiRISE), 2011 NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UNIV. OF ARIZ.

2) Mars Rat, Possibly a Gopher

The Mars Rat" -- NASA Mars Science Laboratory, 2012 NASA/JPL-CALTECH

1) The Face of Mars

'The Face of Mars' -- NASA Viking 1 Orbiter, 1976 NASA/JPL-CALTECH

                            FRIENDS!!!!! Are they FASCINATING??????

So, the next time you see a face in your soup or a horse in the clouds, be sure it is nothing, but a Pareidolia occurring to you!

For more best Pareidolia images taken from our surroundings, which will definitely bring a smile on your face!!!!!
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http://news.discovery.com/space/history-of-space

RESULTS of NASA Tests Zero-gravity's Effect on Astronauts' Brains

                   NASA Tests Zero-gravity's Effect on Astronauts' Brains

NASA tests human brains in zero gravity

Previous studies have showed that human physical condition and control over extremities change under the influence of zero gravity.Astronauts have complained about recurring problems regarding body balance and perceptual illusions.

There are several tests and tasks an astronaut has to perform before taking a ride to space such as obstacle courses to test their physical fitness and agility, test of spatial memory, which is the ability to visualise a three-dimensional picture. The astronauts undergo these tests thrice - before, mid-way and at the end of a standard six-month spaceflight.

According to Dr Rachael D Seidler, principal investigator and director at the University of Michigan's neuromotor behaviour laboratory, both the behavioural assessment and brain imaging are important for identifying the link between the brain's physical changes and those in behaviour.

Here are five out-of-the-world facts about human body zero gravity:

1. Growing tall is a common phenomenon in space. In zero gravity, the spine expands freely, causing the person grow in height. An average person can grow up to 3 percent of his or her current height in space.

2. Distribution of blood changes in space. Due to Earth's gravity, blood runs more to the lower extremities of human body. But in space, the process changes and astronauts have puffier faces and thinner legs according to blood flow.

3. Astronauts often face difficulty in remembering the fact that Earth has gravity once they come back. Dropping things and breaking them is very common among them.

4. Muscle mass, that gives you the strength to lift your body and move around, reduces in amount in space. This happens as the body starts shedding muscle mass because it does not need much to operate in zero gravity. Same thing happens to bone density. Astronauts have to work out for at least two hours a day to keep their muscle mass and bone density in proper shape.

5. In space, it's hard to sleep. Astronauts have reported seeing bright flashes of light while they were trying to rest. These flashes are actually cosmic rays that travel in space. They make it difficult to get some shut-eye!

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The US space agency is examining changes in both brain structure and function in astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) to determine how long it takes for them to recover after returning from space.

Previous research and first-hand reports suggest that humans have a harder time controlling physical movement and completing mental tasks in microgravity.

 Astronauts have experienced problems with balance and perceptual illusions - feeling as if, for example, they are switching back and forth between right-side-up and upside down.

NASA researchers are using both behavioural assessments and brain imaging.

Astronauts complete timed obstacle courses and tests of their spatial memory, or the ability to mentally picture and manipulate a three-dimensional shape, before and after spaceflight.

The spatial memory test also is performed aboard the ISS, along with sensory motor adaptation tests and computerised exercises requiring them to move and think simultaneously.

Astronauts are tested shortly after arriving aboard the station, mid-way through and near the end of a six-month flight.

"We are looking at the volume of different structures in the brain and whether they change in size or shape during spaceflight,” said principal investigator Rachael D Seidler, director of University of Michigan’s neuromotor behaviour laboratory in a statement.

Functional MRIs involve astronauts completing a task during the imaging which will show researchers which parts of the brain they rely on to do so.

According to Seidler, both the behavioural assessment and brain imaging are important to help identify the relationship between physical changes in the brain and those in behaviour.

"On Earth, vestibular - or balance - system tells how  head moves relative to gravity but in space, the gravity reference is gone,” 

"That causes these perceptual illusions, as well as difficulty coordinating movement of the eyes and head.” 

These difficulties could have serious consequences for astronauts, especially when changing between gravitational environments, such as landing on Mars.

In those cases, astronauts will need to be able to perform tasks such as using tools and driving a rover, and they must be capable of escape in a landing emergency.

Identifying the physical mechanisms behind changes in behaviour and how much time it takes to adapt will help researchers determine how best to help space explorers compensate.

The results could also reveal whether astronauts return to “normal” post-flight because the brain changes back, or if the brain instead learns to compensate for the changes that happened in space.




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http://www.newindianexpress.com/world

MOON PHOTOS---- APOLLO ASTRONAUTS SHOT ON THE MOON

Following NASA's groundbreaking announcement Monday that there's evidence of liquid water on Mars, you probably want more space in your life. Good news: NASA delivered, again.

After a lengthy digitization process, the government agency uploaded some 8,400 high-resolution photos of Apollo missions to Flickr. The dump includes every photo that Apollo astronauts with Hasselblad cameras shot on the moon, The Verge reports.

All 8,400 Apollo Moon Mission Photos Just Went Online. Here Are Some

http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/10/every-photo-taken-apollo-moon-missions-are-now-online

Surviving Mars---Journey to Mars 1

Sending humans on a ‪JourneyTo Mars‬ is hard. Getting to Mars may take up to 6 months and making sure the body is in good condition when it arrives is one of the many challenges.
NASA’s still on track, still gunning to send astronauts in Orion to the far side of the moon in 2021. They’ll be riding atop the biggest, baddest rocket ever: the Space Launch System- an evolutionary rocket that’ll grow as the missions delve deeper into space. A manned mission to Mars is in NASA’s sights for the early 2030’s.

Some off-the-chain eye candy from Orion’s first loop around our globe last year. It was one outrageous test drive as the spacecraft screamed back to Earth at 20-thousand miles an hour, heating up to 4000 degrees and creating this plasma effect. It was unmanned, of course, but here’s the astronaut’s point of view of coming back home all the way to splashdown.

Inside KSC this week, see steps taken to prepare the ground support systems needed by the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to enable NASA's journey to Mars. Platforms continue to arrive at Kennedy where they will be installed in the Vehicle Assembly Building for the SLS and Orion. Also, one of the umbilical arms for the rocket was installed on a test stand for evaluations before it is installed on the Mobile Launcher.


NUMBER OF WORLDWIDE NAMES ON NASA'S #JOURNEY TO MARS--137996

Robo Glove--Imagine having a robotic hand. Robo-Glove is one of the technologies helping our ‪#‎JourneyToMars‬ and people on Earth. Robo-Glove is a wearable human grasp assist device to help reduce the grasping force needed to operate tools for an extended time or for repetitive motion tasks. It allows the user to tightly grip tools and other items for longer periods of time without experiencing muscle discomfort or strain.
Robo-Glove Video URL https://www.facebook.com/NASAJSC/videos/979944815360995/

Matt Damon uses science to survive in 'The Martian'

2015-10-01 (pt.3) NASA #JourneyToMars Q&A w/ The #MartianMovie Cast & NASA Scientists--Watch Video--URL-https://youtu.be/a8tXb_jtA4g



Astronauts, engineers, and fans have praised the "The Martian," a bestselling sci-fi novel, for its scientific accuracy.
costume designer for Ridley Scott's movie "The Martian," worked directly with NASA to create spacesuits used in the film.
The movie closely follows the novel and, like the book, is chock full of science — and emphatic, curse-ridden one-liners.


The story follows astronaut Mark Watney, played by Matt Damon, and his struggle to survive on Mars after his crew is forced to leave him behind. How do you survive on an inhospitable planet when you're stranded there alone?

In the opening scene, a Martian dust storm breaks off a communications antenna and part of it gets lodged in Watney's body.

Blinded by the storm, Watney's crew believes he died and escapes without him. Watney wakes up with no choice but to "science the s---" out of Mars to survive.

FEAT OF SCIENCE #1: Watney has to pull out the antenna piece lodged in his torso. He uses a pair of medical pliers, and then staples the wound closed like a professional surgeon.
After staving off immediate death, he turns his attention to longer-term planning — like growing four years' worth of food on a planet where nothing grows.

FEAT #2: He quickly calculates how many calories he'll need each day and how much food he needs to grow from a bin of potatoes NASA sent with the mission.

FEAT #3: He cuts up potatoes, with each chunk containing an “eye” — the growth point that a new potato plant can emerge from — and covers them with Martian soil.

FEAT #4: There's no liquid water on Mars, but he needs water to grow up those potato chunks. So he uses chemistry to make water from rocket fuel.

It takes him a couple tries to get the dangerous chemical reaction right, though.

FEAT #5. Watney also needs fertilizer for the potatoes, so he mixes his and the crew's fecal waste into the soil. Yum.

And voila, a potato farm, all thanks to clever botany.

After buying himself some time, Watney works on science-ing a way communicate with NASA to tell them he's still alive.

FEAT #6: So he soups up a rover with extra solar panels to make the vehicle's battery last longer...

FEAT #7: ...Digs up a radioactive plutonium battery to help power the rover and keep himself warm on Mars' bitterly cold surface...

FEAT #8: ...And then figures out how to drive across Mars to pick up NASA's Pathfinder spacecraft — a relic from the 1990s.

FEAT #9: He gets Pathfinder operating again, then beams a message back to Earth using the spacecraft's rotating camera.

But Pathfinder has no direct communication receiver. It could take ages for NASA to send Watney messages by pointing its camera at signs staked into the ground.

FEAT #10: So Watney comes up with a special code (based on the hexadecimal system) to speed up communication with NASA.

But that's only the beginning of Watney's problems — and his feats of perseverance and ingenuity to solve them.

FEAT #11: Later, he has to mend his space habitat when an airlock explodes and blows a hole in his only shelter.

FEAT #12: He also has to figure out how to dismantle most of a giant spacecraft, wrap some tarp around it, and ride it into space.

Mars is frustrating, and it puts up a good fight.

The Martian. Some realistic-looking scenes of the Red Planet. #MartianMovie

COSTUMES/SPACESUITS

Two different types of spacesuits in "The Martian." First are these bulky white suits that the actors wear for space travel scenes:
"Mr. Dough Boy suits,"

The real thing — NASA's external mobility unit spacesuit — for comparison. The costume suits look very similar.

The main difference is that the movie suits are slimmed down and less puffy than a real NASA spacesuit, below. Apart from that, they're virtually identical.

Martian surface suit. This is the one lead actor Matt Damon donned for most of the film.

Mars is more of a reddish-orange, "but Ridley loved the orange" color for the suit, Yates said. (An earlier gray-white suit design didn't look as good.) So the final product has a lot of flame-orange in it.

Designing the helmets was the most challenging part. Helmets for each suit type had to be much larger than real space helmets, so cameras could get clear shots of the actors' faces.

The actors wore skull caps under the fake helmets that had a microphone-and-speaker system to help the film crew communicate with the actors. Huge lights on either side of the helmet kept their faces visible during dark scenes.Yates put big fans in the back of the helmets to help the actors breathe.

Designed the boots for comfort. "The actors have to be able to use a hammer or whatever they need to do on the surface of Mars, and stand for 12 hours without feeling overwhelmed with the weight,"

THE MARTIAN Movie----Official Trailer: video URL-https://youtu.be/ej3ioOneTy8
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Millions of miles away, NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bring “the Martian” home, while his crewmates concurrently plot a daring, if not impossible rescue mission. As these stories of incredible bravery unfold, the world comes together to root for Watney’s safe return. Based on a best-selling novel, and helmed by master director Ridley Scott, THE MARTIAN features a star studded cast that includes Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Michael Peña, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Donald Glover.

NASA Video of Orion Screaming Back to Earth
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http://www.techinsider.io/science-the-shit-out-of-mars-the-martian-2015