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Through the website solarbeacon.org, anyone can now schedule Solar Beacon – heliostats mounted on the Golden Gate Bridge by UC Berkeley space scientists – to flash sunlight in their eyes, like the glint of the sun off a car’s mirror.
Tag: Space Sciences Lab
Melvin Calvin’s moon dust rediscovered at Berkeley Lab
May 8, 2013:
Some 44 years ago, the late chemist Melvin Calvin and colleagues at the Space Sciences Laboratory analyzed moon dust brought back by Apollo 11 and 12, published a paper, and then stashed the dust on a shelf. Archivists at Berkeley Lab rediscovered the precious material, vacuum sealed in a jar, and have returned it to NASA.
Berkeley astronomers featured tonight in KQED Quest program’Black Holes’
September 26, 2012:
UC Berkeley astronomer Alex Filippenko joins William Craig and other NuSTAR satellite scientists tonight on the KQED Quest program “Black Holes: Objects of Attraction,” airing locally at 7:30 p.m. Filippenko explains the physics of black holes, while Craig and NuSTAR principal investigator Fiona Harrison of Caltech explain how the x-ray satellite will help solve black hole mysteries.
CINEMA among tiny CubeSats to be launched Aug. 2
July 31, 2012:
CINEMA, a tiny nanosatellite designed and built by students at UC Berkeley, is scheduled for launch on Aug. 2. Once in Earth orbit, it will monitor the movement of charged particles in the atmosphere that can disrupt power grids on the ground.
Mirrors provide candles for Golden Gate Bridge’s 75th birthday
May 25, 2012:
In honor of the Golden Gate Bridge’s “Big 7-5,” UC Berkeley space scientists are topping each of its towers with a glittering solar candle. Through a website, members of the public can schedule times for the Solar Beacon’s mirrors to swivel and tilt, flashing reflected sunlight to their location.
UC Berkeley junior hot on the trail of Sutter’s Mill meteorites
May 17, 2012:
When a fireball exploded over California’s Gold Country on April 22, Cal geology major Jason Utas wrapped up his final exam and headed to Sutter’s Mill with a dozen of his friends to look for fragments. Four of them, including Utas, found small pieces of a rare carbonaceous chondrite, a type of meteorite that may have carried the building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago.
Students building satellite that’s seen as future of space research
October 3, 2011:
An international team of students from Berkeley, South Korea, Puerto Rico and London is building a tiny CubeSat spacecraft, designed to carry out research high above the Earth, in Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab. CubeSats are the wave of the future for space science research and education.
