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A reader from the Yahoo club Paragenesis Awakenings sent in the following announcements from Nasa. Interested readers might want to track the URLs listed below to keep up with the new information that will be appearing on the web from the Cassini space probe...I have posted the links to to JPL and other nifty space imaging sites on one of my links pages and you can can see a few beautiful pictures taken by Cassini as it approached Jupiter and links to imaging sites and the older (still working) Galileo probe, and on a slightly related topic, links to interesting interesting images from the Mars Global Surveyer focusing on water flows, modern and ancient, sedimentation and the possiblity of fossils existing on the planet, with further links.
The same reader also sent a short piece on navigating space craft (the lecture will be held in southern California at JPL in the near future, for those living around there ... to bad they don't stream such things on the net). This piece inspired me to write a short essay posted on my reflections page on the subject 'Are UFOs ridiculous' where I discuss briefly the assertions (most notably made by Carl Sagan) that belief in something like a UFO was ridiculous because it violated the laws of physics (he also asserted that most people who reported UFOs were 'untrained observers, and often nutty as well).
MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
Contact: Guy Webster, JPL, (818) 354-6278
Lori Stiles, University of Arizona, (520) 626-4402
IMAGE ADVISORY
October 9, 2000
CASSINI SENDS COLOR IMAGE OF JUPITER
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is beginning to return color images of Jupiter as it nears the giant planet for a gravitational assist toward its ultimate destination, Saturn. The first color image of Jupiter from Cassini was taken from a distance of about 81 million kilometers (50 million miles) by Cassini's camera. It shows the colored latitudinal bands encircling the planet in the upper atmosphere. Europa, one of Jupiter's large moons, is seen at right, casting a shadow onto the planet.
The image is available from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., at
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pictures/jupiter , and from the web site of the Cassini Imaging Science team at the University of Arizona, Tucson, at http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/ .
Cassini will pass most closely to Jupiter, at about 10 million kilometers (6 million miles) away, on December 30. Images taken as it approaches and flies past will be used for studies of atmospheric dynamics, dark rings and other features of Jupiter. Some of the studies will be in conjunction with observations by NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which has been orbiting and studying Jupiter since late 1995.
Additional information about Cassini is available at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini .
Cassini is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL manages the Cassini and Galileo missions for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology.
MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
Contact: Mary Beth Murrill (818) 354-6478
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 11, 2000
ART & SCIENCE OF SPACE NAVIGATION IS TOPIC OF FREE JPL LECTURE
Navigating spacecraft across the solar system has been likened to celestial billiards, where an artful "bumper shot" may be needed to get from one planet to another. A Jet Propulsion Laboratory spacecraft navigation expert will explain the art and science of this arcane field in a public lecture called "Navigation: Cruisin' Through Space," to be held Thursday, Oct. 19 at JPL and Friday, Oct. 20 at Pasadena City College. Both lectures are at 7 p.m. Parking and admission are free and on a first-come, first-served basis. Dr. Donald Gray, veteran of numerous space missions, will explain how JPL became the world leader in space navigation by delivering spacecraft to planets, comets, and asteroids throughout the solar system with unprecedented accuracy. Gray will also describe experiences that highlight the exuberance, nail biting, and triumph of innovation inherent in the field. Gray, who has been with JPL for more than 25 years, has worked on the navigation teams of the Viking missions to Mars, the Voyager missions to the outer planets, and the Cassini mission to Saturn. He is currently working on Genesis, scheduled to launch next year on a mission to gather a sample of particles that stream outward from the Sun and return them to Earth for study. Gray received a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland in 1955, and a master's degree and doctorate in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963 and 1967. Gray is the recipient of two NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal.
I just found another nifty spirtuality site on the web. According to Alexa 'what's related' this site is quite popular, being in the top 20000 or so sites on the web. I posted a few notes on the message boards in the hopes of generating some discussion as well as some traffic. As I mentioned, certain churches are getting tied in knots because of my 'linking to Satan'. With tongue in cheek, I will mention that this is another one of those 'everything but the kitchen sink' spirituality websites, so you might want to watch out for Satanists. The Buddhists are there, the Hindus as there, the Muslims, yes, that's right, everybody is there so you might want to watch out that you don't get pulled down into the pits of hell while you are surfing that site.
http://www.beliefnet.com
But to be serious for a moment, I should mention that when you read certain Buddhist writings you will notice astonishing parallels with the writings of Paul in the Church Testament, and when you are reading certain Hindu writings you will notice parallels with schools of thought in Judaism. Now, certain strict fundamentalists will explain all this by insisting that Satan the Devil, who is an an expert on theology, went over to those places and taught those people to write those things down so as to counterfeit the truth. Ignoring that foolish explanation, I will suggest that rather 'great minds think alike.' When you hear 'Paul' being preached by a Buddhist writer of the past then this should cause you to understand that Paul was interpreting common human experience and this should cause you to realize that Paul's letters were not expositiions of dogma. This should cause you to reflect more deeply on the common experiences and common interpretations that underly such writings and get more in touch with the universal truths that are expressed in religious writings. If anyone out there is a Buddhist or Hindu and can recommend some fine examples of these sorts of things that I can post on my site I would appreciate it (I cannot remember the examples I read in the past, and this would save me extra research and searching through old notes, and so on. Thanks...) So to sum up, you will not get pulled down to hell with Satan the Devil if you read the reflections and scriptures of Buddhists or Hindus, etc., you might actually learn to reflect on the meaning of scripture. As I mentioned in my theological discussion the other day these scriptures were the product of common human experiences and thus you will often find similarities in thought (and that includes myself as well).