It is exciting to know that ISRO released a new set of photos captured by Chandrayaan 2. ISRO, through their official handle, twitted, "Lunar surface imaged by Terrain Mapping Camera-2(TMC-2) of #Chandrayaan2 on August 23 at an altitude of about 4375 km showing craters such as Jackson, Mach, Korolev and Mitra (In the name of Prof. Sisir Kumar Mitra)."
Lunar surface imaged by Terrain Mapping Camera-2(TMC-2) of #Chandrayaan2 on August 23 at an altitude of about 4375 km showing craters such as Jackson, Mach, Korolev and Mitra (In the name of Prof. Sisir Kumar Mitra)
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday tweeted, “First set of beautiful images of the Earth captured by #Chandrayaan2 #VikramLander. Earth as viewed by #Chandrayaan2 LI4 Camera on August 3, 2019 17:28 UT,”. Yes, these are the real ones shared by the official page of ISRO.
Technology never fails to amaze us: it leaves us in awe in every moment pass by. We are now into that stage of the future where the human eye can zoom in by just blinking with the help of a tiny contact lens. Yes, you heard it right. Few Scientists from the University of California San Diego claimed to discover this fantastic technology.
The bio-metric lenses will be driven by signals generated by the movements of the eyeballs. In simple words, the eyeballs' movements (left, right, up, down) have been studied and converted into some meaningful signals, called electrooculographic signals. Those meaning signals charge will be fed to the bio-metric lenses, which will respond to those. The polymer-made lenses will expand or contract depending upon the electric impulses fed to them, and when they become more convex, they resulted in zooming in. It is reported that blinking twice of the eye will make the lenses zoomed in.
The more advancement of this technology can be used in "visual prostheses, adjustable focal length glasses or maybe in remotely operated robotics in the future," as quoted by a researcher of the said University. Lead researcher Shengqiang Cai further added, “Even if your eye cannot see anything, many people can still move their eyeball and generate this electrooculographic signal.”
For the time being, five electrodes are connected to the lens that will act as muscles. Scientists hope this technology shortly can be used to control mobile cameras remotely.
Almost all of us made this paper boat at some point in our life and played with this.
Some of you might have pushed your limit and made this far also.
Now, do you know what this art is called? It is called Origami- the art of folding paper and making some object/structure out of it.
Most of us knew this. Most of us also believe that these all are for fun only.
But will you believe that NASA scientists also apply the origami technique in launching rockets or satellites in the sky?
Allow me to explain.
Scientists try to make rocket hardware as small and concise as possible. They try to pack as much technology as possible into smaller space-bound packages.
Example: An well discussed such hardware is Starshade. Starshade is a giant flower-like design that will help astronauts or scientists to take pictures of different exoplanets. Taking a direct photo of exoplanets is difficult because of the brighter lights of suns and other stars.
Starshade is being designed to cover the bright lights so that the best photos of the celestial objects can be taken in space. You can see below.
Now the challenge was to launch that giant-sized flower through a rocket. So, scientists took the help of origami art to turn impossible into possibilities. And this is illustrated like this:
Now, you understand how your childhood-made-paper-boat-making technique is related to space-related rockets and satellites.
The vision of Jeff Bezos to convert the Lunar
ice into the fuel of Rocket
Future of the Moon to be the base
of the Space Exploration
Organizations and Projects Jeff Bezos directly involved in
Jeff Bezos envisions lunar ice as
the resource of Rocket fueling. The richest man in this world has shared his profound
knowledge and idea of how the ice stored in the moon can be transferred into fuel
that can power up the rockets.
CEO of Amazon and the founder of the great Space
company Blue Origin amazed us with his brilliant plan of setting up a base at the
moon to explore the space further in the coming days. During the JFK Space Summit held
in Boston, Massachusetts on Wednesday, Bezos said, “…one of the things I learned
during Apollo Programme that there are deposits of ice at the bottom of the
craters of the moon… We can harvest that ice and use it to make hydrogen and
oxygen, which is rocket propellants.”
He added, “The reason we chose those
propellants are because we know one day, we’ll be refueling the vehicle on the surface of the Moon from the propellants made on the surface of the Moon from that
water ice.”
Water is present on the moon's surface in the form of ice is well known to everybody by this time. The information
is seconded in August 2018 by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument aboard India’s
Chandrayaan-1 Space Craft currently orbiting the Moon.
In May, Bezos unveiled a
new Moon-lander called 'Blue Moon' along with a smaller rover and spoke about
his plans to get to the Moon by 2024. "We must return to the Moon -
this time to stay," the Blue Origin CEO had said.
With its Latin tagline of “step
by step, ferociously,” Blue Origin has been working on multiple space systems
at the same time. In addition to Blue Moon, the company is building a rocket
for space tourism called New Shepard, as well as a giant rocket called New
Glenn will launch satellites and another spacecraft.
It is reported that Bezos invests
more than $1 billion in the company each year, through sales of his Amazon
shares.
Bezos also shared his vision of
humans living on miles-long, orbiting space stations called 'O'Neill colonies',
named after physicist Gerard O'Neill, who first floated the concept.
However, SpaceX founder Elon Musk mocked Bezos's moon plans, saying, "They make no sense".
We better wait for the time and technology
to answer.
When people work together, they
turn seemingly impossible into possible. What if I tell you that you can
"feel" the touch of your near and dear ones without being present
there physically. Yes, we are talking about the digitisation of sensation. Shortly, the sensation can be modularised and transmitted through wire or wirelessly
to your brain. Well, enough said, now let me break down the statements I have
made. It's quite a while since we have been hearing about robotic and
prosthetic arms. But this one is much sophisticated and highly intelligent.
Recently three big tech giants Shadow. Robot, HaptX, and SynTouch worked together and came up with a touch-transmitting telerobotic hand. The technology
has two parts: a pair of robotic gloves and a pair of robotic arms.
Source: google.com. This is for illustration purposes only.
The operator puts on the robotic
gloves, and when its fingers or the hands are moved, the remotely situated
robotic arms also move in synchronisation. The robotic hands and the gloves are
so connected through sensors that the movements are way too accurate.
The most exciting part of these robotic hands
is not the synchronisation but the transmission of the ‘feeling’. You heard
it right. The remotely situated robotic arms can digitise the touch sensation
of the objects it is holding and transmit it to the operator through the sensor.
With more advancements, this technology
can handle fragile materials in the industry or in medical science to
perform complicated surgery.
The super showcase has to be
demonstrated at Amazon’s re:MARS conference, held in Las Vegas. MARS is a yearly
event conducted by Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. It brings together the
best innovative minds worldwide who are rapidly advancing in different
tech areas, mainly Machine learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space. Research
scholars worldwide, Fortune 100 companies, tech inventors come together and
share their ideas, learning and imagine creating a better world with these four
great technologies.
CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos can be seen wearing the Robotic Gloves at the Conference.
