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Transcript for NASA Connect - Geometry of Exploration - Eyes Over Mars
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Hey
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[inaudible] in the
science guy here.
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When you dream about going places,
what is your mind taking somewhere
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on earth or to the stars?
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If you spend time looking
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at the stars you'll notice
one there is a bit red.
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It's actually not a star off the
planet Mars it's the next place
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humans are going to
explore, of course none
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of these exploration could be done
without science and mathematics.
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On this episode of NASA Connect,
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NASA will show you how the
principles of geometry are used
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to survey and map our planet
earth and the planet Mars.
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So hang tight as Van, Jennifer and
the NASA science guys survey earth
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and Mars on this episode
of NASA Connect.
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[ Music ]
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[Jennifer:] Hey guys
welcome to NASA connect,
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the show that connects
you to the world of math,
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science, technology and NASA.
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I am Jennifer Pulley.
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[Van:] And I am Van Hughes.
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Today we are here at the
Virginia Living Museum
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in New Port East Virginia.
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And right now we are
standing on a sundial
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which is basically
a plate marked with
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[inaudible] is a raised projection
that casts a shadow from the sun.
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Jennifer why don't you come
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[inaudible].
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According to your shadow
it's time to start the show.
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[Jennifer:] Well Van this is
you know, bad way to tell time
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but you I think I
rather use my watch.
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You know through our
history the sun
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and stars governed people's
days, years and even their lives.
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Using sundials and observing
shadow was one way ancient people
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told time.
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Get this, you can even
measure height and distance
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with shadows passed from the sun.
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[Van:] In fact you can even
measure the circumference
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of an entire planet like also
earth and or mars and something
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as simple as a shadow.
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[Jennifer:] And geometry, on today
NASA Connect we will examine how
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NASA researchers use the principles
of geometry to survey the world
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around us and the world beyond us.
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[Van:] We will focus of
telescope to see how geometry
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and satellites are used to measure,
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map and survey other
planets like mars.
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[Jennifer:] Which by the way can be
seen quite well in the planetarium?
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Anyway we will visit some students
from George Washington University
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who are studying and
surveying the martial landscape
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at NASA Langley Research
Centre in Hampton Virginia.
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[Van:] And we will
visit a researcher
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from NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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Who will show us how geometry is
used by NASA's Mars global survey.
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Later on in this show students
from Central Middle School
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and Charlotte Courthouse
Virginia will join us.
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They have got now some
experiment they want to try.
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[Jennifer:] Plus NASA's educational
technology program manager Dr.
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[inaudible] will introduce
that to some students
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from Davis Middle school
in Hampton Virginia.
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These students are
using the internet
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to create their own Mars
surveyor to learn more
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about this web based
activity later in the show.
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[Van:] Hey as we go to the show our
friend Norbert will visit you too.
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Every time he appears with a
Q-card that's your Q to think
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about the answers to the
questions he gives you.
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Got it?
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[Jennifer:] Plus we will go
to NASA Ames Research Centre
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in Mountain View California
there we'll get all the latest
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information on research for life
on Mars and learn all about.
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[Van:]
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[inaudible]
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[Jennifer:] So hand tight
as NASA Connect takes you
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on a global surveyor mission
to our planet earth and -- -
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>> Well it's surveying.
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>> How to survey measures geometry?
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>> Surveying is the measurement
of angles and distances,
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elevation and direction.
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This is especially
useful for locating
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[inaudible] boundaries,
construction layout and map making.
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>> Okay, Terry, can you tell me
how surveyors use this equipment
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and geometry to survey land?
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[Terry]: Yeah, just look at this
transit that contains a telescope,
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a compass and a protractor
and is used
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in major horizontal
and vertical angles.
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You can measure angles in the field
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with this they measure
those same angles
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[inaudible] with a protractor.
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The first one is used to layout
objects like football fields,
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baseball fields, soccer fields.
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Today let's demonstrate
how we use this by laying
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out this football field.
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>>: Alright.
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[Terry]: First we take a
starting point inside the transit
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over to the point.
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We call this point
corner number one,
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then we measure three hundred
feet to the next corner
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and call it corner number four.
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We mark this corner
with the colon mark.
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With zero on the scale we
look through the telescope
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and lineup corner number four.
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We noted the angle
between the sides
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of the rectangle is ninety degrees.
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So we turned the telescope
towards corner number two
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until we can read ninety degrees
on the transit circle or scale.
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Now we measured the width of
the football field, one hundred
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and fifty feet and more corner
number two, next we move to transit
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over corner number two with
zero on the scale we look
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through the telescope at
corner number one marker.
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Return the telescope
towards corner number three
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until we can read ninety
degrees on the scale.
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We measure three hundred feet
in north corner number three.
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You now have all of
the corners north,
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applying one of the basic rules
of geometry, we noted the sum
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of the interior angles of the four
sided polygon is three hundred
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and sixty degrees.
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So our last angle must
measure ninety degrees
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for a correct layout.
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The rule for checking the angles
of any object is that the sum
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of the interior angles of
the close polygon is equal
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to the number of side minus two
as one hundred ninety degree.
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You know Jennifer the olden
science of survey had been used
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for over 3400 years
in map and measure
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[inaudible].
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Today, scientist at NASA
of the preventive measure
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and map the planets
of our solar system.
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[Jennifer:] Who knows,
maybe one day,
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one of you will help survey Mars.
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>> Did you know that George
Washington was a surveyor,
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before he became President?
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Did you know
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[inaudible] on the
expression mission?
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>> To understand angles
and circumference,
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let's look at something we
can all relate to pizza.
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Take the slice of pizza, can
you tell, just by looking at it,
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how many slices were
in the original pizza
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and how we around it was?
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Sure you can, all it takes
is a little geometry.
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A pizza usually has eight
identical slices, but not all.
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Oh, so let's measure the
angle with of the slice.
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That's a part you put
in your mouth first.
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Excuse me sir.
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What is this protractor read?
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>> The protractor reads an
angle with forty five degrees.
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>> Right, so what
is the measurement
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of all the other angles
touching the center?
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>> They have to be equal
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or the same measurement
forty five degrees.
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>> Right, now most
pieces are circular
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and circles measures three
hundred and sixty degrees.
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If you divide, three hundred sixty
degrees by forty five degrees,
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the original pizza
had eight slices.
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Now let's review the
circumference of this pizza.
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Most pizzas are measured in
inches, so using the pizza
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with eight slices, if the
links of the crust arc is five
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and a half inches how
round is your pizza?
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[Child:] If there eight slices
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and the crust arc measures five
point five inches long then eight
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and five point five inches
equals to forty four inches?
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The Pizza has circumference
of forty-four inches!
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>> Great! Try this one.
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What if the angle width of your
Pizza slice measures thirty degree
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and the crust arc is
two and a half inches.
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How may slices would there
be in the original pizza
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and what is the circumference?
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[Child:] I've got it, three
hundred and fifty degrees divided
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by thirty degrees
equals twelve slices.
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Twelve slices times
two point five inches
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because of circumference
of thirty inches.
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>> So, Sir, would you rather
read out twelve slice pizza
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or an eight slice pizza?
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>> I'll choose the eight slices
as I couldn't possibly eat twelve.
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>> Did you know that over 2000
years ago a Greek librarian use
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geometry to determine the
circumference of the earth.
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[Child:]
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[inaudible] circumference
of the earth,
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what are the angle relationship
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between parallel lines
and a transversal?
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>> The concept of the earth being
a large sphere was not unknown
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to the ancient Greeks.
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And everyday observations
such as the disappearance
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of ships below the
horizon indicated
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that the earth might
be spherical or round.
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But how large was it?
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The person who figured it
out was a librarian named
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[inaudible] who lived in Alexandria
Egypt about 300 B.C. While looking
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to a scroll one day he read
that at noon on the longest day
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of the year, a vertical
column cast no shadow in
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[inaudible] a city
south of Alexandria.
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[inaudible] knew that this
did not happen in Alexandria.
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He talked to himself, how was
it possible to have shadows
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in Alexandria and not in
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[inaudible] at the
same time of day?
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[inaudible] figured out that the
sun must be directly overhead in
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[inaudible] but not in Alexandria.
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Aha! here was proved that the
earth's surface is curved.
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Using a little geometry
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[inaudible] set out to determine
the circumference of the earth
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and find out just how big it is.
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>> Just like our pizza
example if our friend
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[inaudible] could determine
the central angle at the center
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of the earth and the length of the
edge or arc then he could figure
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out the circumference of the earth.
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Now, finding the length of the
edge or arc was fairly simple math.
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[inaudible] asked a friend
to walk from Alexandria to
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[inaudible] to measure the
distance between the two cities.
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His friend estimated
the distance to be
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around eight hundred kilometers
or about five hundred miles.
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Finding the central angle
however will take some geometry.
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First
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[inaudible] assumed correctly
that the sun's rays are parallel.
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Since the sun is so far
away check this out.
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In this diagram, we can see
that there is no shadow at
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[inaudible] while there
is a shadow in Alexandria.
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The line that is formed by
the no mark or vertical column
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at Alexandria and the
centre of the earth cuts
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or intersects the two parallel
lines formed from the sun's rays.
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A line that intersects two parallel
lines is called a transversal.
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The two angles formed
from the transversal line
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and the parallel lines are
called alternate interior angles.
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And according to geometric rule
they are equal, let's prove it.
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Take a piece of paper of any width
and draw a diagonal line on it.
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Label the angles A
and B just like this.
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Now cut the paper
along the diagonals
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so you have two triangles.
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Compare angles A and B by placing
one angle on top of the other.
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Hey, what do you notice?
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[Child:] The angles are equals
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in no matter what side
paper you started with.
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>> Right! When two parallel lines
are intersected by a transversal,
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the alternate interior
angles are equal.
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[inaudible] who is
quite a geometer.
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From his measurements, Aristophanes
calculated the suns rays made an
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angle of seven and a half
degrees at Alexandria.
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Now since this angle was
formed by two parallel lines
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and a transversal the central angle
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of the earth must also be
seven and a half degrees.
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By knowing these two
things the central angle
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and the distance from
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[inaudible] calculated
circumference of the earth.
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Three hundred sixty
degrees divided by seven
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and a half degrees equals forty
eight slices of the earth.
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Are you still with me, okay,
hang tight we are almost there.
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Now if you remember that
the estimated distance
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between Alexandria and Seine
is eight hundred kilometers
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and you multiply that distance by
the number of slices in the earth.
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Forty eight, what is the
circumference of the earth?
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Well, if you estimated
that distance
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to be thirty eight
thousand kilometers,
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you are absolutely right.
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[inaudible] estimate was really
close to the earth's circumference
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which is forty thousand
seventy four kilometers.
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This percentage air was about
five percent and was probably due
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to an error in the distance
between the two cities.
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Five percent, that's
pretty good considering
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[inaudible] used only his
feet, his eyes, his imagination
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and of course his
knowledge of geometry.
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>> There are other ways that
we survey the earth which
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[inaudible] never dreamed of.
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NASA scientists use aero
planes and satellites.
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>> But what if you want to
survey other planets like Mars.
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>> NASA scientists are doing
that right now, but first.
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Let's have the Central
Middle School
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in Charlotte Court house Virginia
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where students are following
in the foot steps of
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[inaudible]
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>> Hi, welcome to
Central Middle school
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in Charlotte, Court House Virginia.
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>> NASA Connect asked us to
show how did the stage activity
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for the show.
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>> In this lesson you
work in small groups
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to take accurate measurements
of shadows using geometry
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to determine the size of an angle.
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Here are the materials you
will need for each group.
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A straight take of approximately
ninety one centimeters long.
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[inaudible] a piece of strain
approximately ninety one
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centimeters and
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[inaudible].
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A scientific calculator index hard.
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Compass, copies of the
student data chart
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[inaudible] Lets begin, divide
the class in research groups
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of three to five members.
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Set your measurement
station by first placing the
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[inaudible].
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For your measurement to be accurate
and it's critical vertical.
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To check the vertical
position tie the rock or
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[inaudible] to the string and
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[inaudible].
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Next, measured the height of
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[inaudible] place an index
card under the station to mark
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where the shadow is,
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take measurements every
two minutes beginning
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at least ten minutes
before local noon.
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When this is a time that
we sanitized in the sky.
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This we most likely not in you,
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as indicated on your
time measuring device.
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Students should know that
when the sun is highest
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in the sky the shadow
length is the shortest.
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Since the edge of the shadow is
fussy and the shadow is moving
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from east to west in Northern
Hemisphere, be careful in deciding
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where to question mark.
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Record your data on data chart one.
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Now back in your classroom
locate the latitude and longitude
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of your school location and
reported on dated chart number one.
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Identify your best shadow link.
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This is the best shadow
link at local noon time.
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Next calculate the
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[inaudible] by dividing the length
of the shadow by the height of the
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[inaudible].
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Locate this number
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[inaudible] round the
number on the tent of table.
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The measure at the
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[inaudible] can also be found by
the dividing the length of a shadow
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by the height of an object
on the scientific calculator.
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Record T&J or student data chart.
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Make a scale drawing of
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[inaudible] and shadow,
complete the triangle
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and measure the tangent
with the protector
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to verify the calculations.
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What's next Jennifer?
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[Jennifer:] Let's analyze the
data by reviewing the results
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of this activity and by responding
to the following questions?
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Did the weather conditions effect
the results of this activity?
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If so how?
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As the shadow lengthens overtime,
how would be angle be affected?
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If each group uses a
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[inaudible] with a
different length,
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how would that affect the
results of this activity?
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For more activities like
this, check out our website
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at edu.larc.nasa.gov/connect.
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>> NASA connect would like to
the special thanks to the mentors
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from the AIAA Chapter at Howard
University in Washington DC.
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We appreciate all your help
to the student activity.
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>> Okay, let's review.
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We have seen how the
sun's position satellites
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and geometry help
us survey the earth,
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but what if we wanted
to survey Mars?
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>> Well we don't live on
Mars so how do scientist
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and NASA survey the red planet.
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>> I thought you've never asked.
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Let's visit NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory
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in Pasadena California
and find out.
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>> What is the Mar global
surveyor and where is it?
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>> How does the Mars global
surveyor use geometry
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to survey the Mars landscape?
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>> Mars global surveyor is a space
craft that is in orbit around Mars.
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Its purpose is to take pictures
of Mars, measure the temperature
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of the surface and
the atmosphere of Mars
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and to pass laser signals
off the surface of Mars
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to precisely determine
the shape of Mars.
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You might think of Mars as
simply being a sphere by looking
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at pictures of it,
but the scientist
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that it has lots of
bumps and bridges.
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For example, the poles
of Mars are so cold
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that the atmosphere actually
condenses out to form dry ice
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at the pole and as much
as twenty five percent
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of the atmosphere condenses out
in to the drier aside the pole.
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So there is quite a lot of
change in the atmosphere.
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Also Mars is known for having a
large poles on the side of it,
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the largest volcano in the solar
system known as a Olympus Mars.
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And so one of the functions of
the Mars global surveyor was
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to measure the shape of Mars
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to carefully determine
how big is this bulge.
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It has a huge effect on the
orbits of space craft it's just
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such a large bulge on the side.
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The way that we use geometry
to convert the laser pulses
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into the shape of Mars what we
have to do is carefully time,
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I want to tick for the
pulses to reach mars
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and bounce back to the space craft.
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And then we combine that
with the shape of the orbit
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which we determine by looking
at how the radio signal changes
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as the space craft
goes around Mars.
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>> What is aero breaking?
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How does geometry
influence aero breaking?
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>> Aero breaking is when we
use drag from the atmosphere
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to gradually shrink the orbit down.
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So what we have to do is use
the drag from the atmosphere
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to gradually slow the orbit
down so that it would shrink
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from this highly electrical
forty five hour orbit
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down to a very circular
two hour orbit around Mars.
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This is geometry inaction.
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[Jennifer:] How when you
like to try your hand
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at design your own
Mars global surveyor.
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Before introducing you to
our featured ad tech activity
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in Middle school, I want to give
you a quick tour of Norbert's lab.
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You already know Norbert.
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In fact when you care to the
providers with the Q-cards
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and other going activities in
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[inaudible] to help us
understand with the math, science
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and technology concepts
presented in each
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of the NASA Connect programs.
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His lab is your interactive
length to activities and resources
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on the web, so you will get
the most out of NASA Connect.
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Just click on the rooms to
enter areas like courier corner
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where you need some of our guest
and numbers of our television team.
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There is a study room, with terms
and definitions related to the show
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and a page with links to
other cool sites and this is
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where you will get to the online
activity especially created
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in partnership with NASA's
running technologies team.
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To introduce us to the web activity
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for this show let's
pop in on a teacher
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[inaudible] Davis Middle
school in Hampton Virginia.
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[Viviane:] Thanks
Jelly, my name Viviane
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[inaudible].
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I am a math and science teacher
here at Davis Middle School.
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My students love coming
to the computer lab.
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They used up a reinforcement
and enrichment of many skill
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at most of the content areas.
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Now I would like to
introduced to the
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[inaudible].
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Ruby, Tell us how do
you use technology?
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[Ruby:] Technology is a tool
that we use in several ways
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for communication with others to
e-mail, for conducting research,
[00:21:47.759]
using the internet, proving papers,
[00:21:50.509]
and preparing electronic
presentations of our work
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and for participating and
problem solving on the projects
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such as NASA Connect to the
re-emplace where we are going to
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[inaudible] and the all our
component for this show,
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we are learning well goals into
the design, our space graph use,
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for planetary observation.
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To do this we may our
different instruments used
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for observing planetary
services on space.
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One of these is
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[inaudible].
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We get to pick out what we think
are the ripe berries to use as well
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as the sort of panels required
to run the space craft.
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We will also have to consider
the cost and way of the vehicle
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as we tried to put together
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that that is possible planetary
observer, we can well --
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all the vehicles giving
to us in the activities.
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[Viviane:] Well Jennifer this team
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through Davis Middle School
leave you and our views
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with the challenge to assemble
and test their very own
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of Mars surveyor in
a cost effective way
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that produces the best results.
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Viewers can find that
challenge in Norbert's lab
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on the NASA Connect website.
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See on the web.
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>> Let's have the NASA
Langley research center
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in Hampton Virginia, and meet
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up with some Gorge Washington
University graduate students,
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they are using pictures from
the Mars global surveyor
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and geometry to survey Mars.
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>> How shadows measure a Mars?
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>> How is geometry used
to determine the height
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of land formation on Mars?
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>> Hey guys I wanted to meet
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[inaudible].
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They are graduate students at
Gorge Washington University.
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Thus what you have
studying over there?
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>> Well with simple geometry on
shadows, we are able to determine
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that elevation on Mars surface,
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such as a mountain Olympus
that's three times the size
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of mount Everest or valley of
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[inaudible], which is the
size of the United States.
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>> Wow! This is some
pretty large information.
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So let me give this try, what you
are telling is the geometry is used
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to determine the elevation
of land formations on Mars?
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>> Yes, we have certain example
here for you to demonstrate this.
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If this is amount on the surface
of Mars, this is the protractor
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to measure the angel of the
sun this is a magic ruler
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to measure the length
of the shadow.
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If this flash light represents
the sun, we know that like here
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on earth, sun is directly overhead
at ninety degrees at high noon
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and as day goes on it goes
under zero degrees at sunset.
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>> So,
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[inaudible] what you are telling
me is this model creates a
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right triangle?
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>> The bottom leg can be
represented by the length
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of the shadow which been
get and taking your picture
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with the Mars Globus are there.
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Now the sun makes an
angle between the
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[inaudible] and the bottom leg.
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So let's pretend its
mid-afternoon on Mars.
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The sun would be at about an
angle of forty-five degrees which
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[inaudible] our shadow?
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>> It gives us about
seventeen centimeters.
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>> Yeah, you get triangle there.
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>> Yes, so using our formula,
remembering the tangent
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of forty-five degrees is equal
to one which you can find
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by scientific calculator
or tangent tables.
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We can find the height
of a mountain
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to be seventeen centimeters.
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So to double check your
answer, we can see that the
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[inaudible] is seventeen
centimeters.
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>> That's the about
what you calculated,
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that's pretty cool Corey.
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>> Well I look in Mars through the
telescope and it is definitely red,
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but could green slam have once
existed on the red planet.
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That's one of the many reasons
NASA Ames Research Centre
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in Mountain View California
is studying Mars.
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So now let's join research at Chris
McCay with the latest on the Rain
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[inaudible].
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>> I am interested in Mars
and particular life on Mars.
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You know that early Mars
history had water, lots of water.
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We can see the rivers and
lakes that were formed by
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[inaudible].
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The question is when it had
water, did it have life?
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To understand how life might have
survived on cold planet like Mars,
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we have to look for --
we go to places on earth
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where life is survived in
very cold dry condition,
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Mars like conditions.
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This is a rock from the Antarctic
dry valleys of Antarctica,
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most Mars like place on earth.
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In this rock there is life,
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but it's hidden inside the rock
just below the surface there is
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layer green and these are
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[inaudible] lightning and they
are growing inside the rock,
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because the rock provides
them the first of moisture
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about the same time allowing
enough light to come through.
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By studying life forms
in these environments,
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we learn about the strategies that
life can use in a cold dry place.
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We might apply those strategies
to the search for life on Mars
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and maybe we will find the
evidence that there is life there,
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when Mars was not too much colder
than the dry valleys of Antarctica.
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>> Well, looks like
the sun has shifted,
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that's about all we
have time for today.
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>> But before we go, Jennifer
and I would love to hear from you
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with your comments and ideas.
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So why don't you drop us
a line at NASA Connect.
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NASA LRC MS, 400 Hampton
Virginia, 23681 or if you are
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on the web e-mail us at
[email protected]
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>> We would like to thank
everyone who helped us today.
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The Virginia Living Museum,
George Washington University,
[00:26:56.169]
our NASA Researchers from
NASA Langley Research Center,
[00:26:59.179]
NASA Ames Research Center and
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Dr.
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[inaudible] and specially
the student
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and teachers from Middle School.
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Thanks guys.
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If you would like a video tape
copy of this NASA Connect show
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and the educators
guide lesson plans,
[00:27:15.239]
contact for The NASA
Central Operation
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of Resources for Educators.
[00:27:20.719]
All this information
and more is located
[00:27:23.389]
on the NASA connect website.
[00:27:24.919]
For the NASA connect series
I am Jennifer Pulley.
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>> And I am Van Hughes.
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>> See you next time.
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>> Its slice of Pizza.
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[laughter].
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>> What is survey
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[laughter].
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>> One of the functions of
the Mars level surveyor was
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to watch it follow up.
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>> How
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[inaudible] used to measure?
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>> Today we are uses the
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[laugh]
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>> What's are the angles --
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>> To sun to be -- would be at
about an angle forty-five degrees
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[laugh].
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>> How shadows --
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>> Okay,
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[inaudible]
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>> Welcome to NASA Connect.
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>> [inaudible]
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>> Welcome to NASA Connect.
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>> Sorry.
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>> And I am van Hughes, today we
are here at the, oh -- Alright.
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>> I think I see, wow!
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