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• Visible Spectrum

  History Newton’s color circle, from Opticks of 1704, showing the colors correlated with musical notes. The spectral colors from red to violet are divided by the notes of the musical scale, starting at D. The circle completes a full octave, from D to D. Newton’s circle places red, at one end of the spectrum, next [...]

• Life on Mars?: Case for a Cosmic Heritage (Controversy Series)

  A NASA-funded team of scientists has announced that there is evidence of previous life on Mars. This book analyses the results from the meteorite ALH84001, critically interprets the information from the Vikings 1 and 2 space probes to Mars and looks at the evidence of organic material in the Cosmos. The overwhelmingly most likely explanation [...]

• Navratri And Astrology

  The significance of Navratri is much more than just worshipping the nine forms of Maa Parvati, Maa Lakshmi and Maa Saraswati and the symbolism of Victory over Evil. As per astronomy and Vedic Astrology the earth undergoes two major Sun operations in a year and the seasons are dependent on the direction of the Sun’s [...]

• Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight)

  Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, “an aerospace engineer’s dream job of the century.” Kelly’s account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical challenges with an emphasis on safety, reliability, and maintainability. [...]

• Future Space: Robot Explorers

  A childrens’ literature book written at around the 4th grade level. This book shows many colorful illustrations about space related exploration. This is a popular classroom reader for grades 2nd-5th grades.