Science Mondays!

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As we begin our Science Monday series, we bring you a great recap of the Space Station Science Highlights (Week of Feb 26th 2018) that is fun to share with your kids and students. How exciting that crew members aboard the International Space Station have grown mixed greens! How is it even possible, we might ask? Here is a fun photosynthesis fact – only certain colors in the spectrum are important for proper plant growth. That will be red and blue – these are the most energy sources for plants with rays from the red range being the most important. In the absence of natural light, one must provide additional light from artificial sources.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are also very excited about the Sally Ride EarthKAM (Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students) inititative. EarthKam is a NASA educational outreach program that enables students, teachers, and the public to learn about Earth from the unique perspective of space.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]”The Sally Ride Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students (EarthKAM) investigation allowed students to remotely control a digital camera aboard the station to photograph interesting features on Earth. This week, crew shut down and stowed EarthKAM. In all, a total of 273 schools representing 21,417 students and 35 countries signed up to request images, 36,801 image requests were submitted, with 8,716 images downlinked and posted to the website earthkam.org.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

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