Mind Infinity

Space learning always fascinates me.

Phoenix has landed successfully on MARS deploying its parachute on the North Pole region (which is same as Northern Canada region on Earth).  US $420 million project spacecraft will try to find  micro life if ever existed on Mars.

Watch the videos here

Phoenix will dig into the ice upto 1 meter to find any life if they have ever lived. It will also study the MARS atmosphere.

Some of the first information is relayed from Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex in Australia, it also played active part in Apollo 11 Mission. I have visited this center and quiet amazed.

Microsoft Research has launched a great product for researchers, novice and space enthusiasts, they call it as Worldwide Telescope, a Similar tool used by NASA to do space exploration on their desktops.

A seamless virtual environment similar to Google Earth or Google Sky but it has much data available and you have your Galileo Telescope in your desktop.

Microsoft Research claims the WorldWide Telescope is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground- and space-based telescopes to enable seamless, guided explorations of the universe.

WorldWide Telescope, created with Microsoft’s high-performance Visual Experience Engine, enables seamless panning and zooming across the night sky blending terabytes of images, data.

It is not real time, but they will be constantly updating the pictures, and they were taken in varying times in the past.

It is released a free resource to astronomy and education communities which is a Microsoft’s brainchild of 16 years research which is an extension of Jim Gray’s work.

It is quiet exciting for novice users like me to explore space.