What’s the Most Difficult Place to Get to In the World?

Posted on 2017/03/13 by Carl Robitaille

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This Video is not in Reverse

Posted on 2017/03/13 by Carl Robitaille

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Generating π from 1,000 random numbers

Posted on 2017/03/13 by Carl Robitaille

Les mathématiciens trouveront le tout long et futile, mais c’est parfait pour intéresser des jeunes et moins jeunes 😉

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Saturn’s Moon Pan from Cassini

Posted on 2017/03/13 by Carl Robitaille

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Saturn’s Moon Pan from Cassini
Image Credit: +NASA, +NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Caltech, Space Science Institute
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170313.html

Why does Saturn’s moon Pan look so odd? Images taken last week from the robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn have resolved the moon in unprecedented detail. The surprising images reveal a moon that looks something like a walnut with a slab through its middle. Other visible features on Pan include rolling terrain, long ridges, and a few craters. Spanning 30-kilometer across, Pan orbits inside the 300-kilometer wide Encke Gap of Saturn’s expansive A-ring, a gap known since the late 1800s. Next month, Cassini will be directed to pass near Saturn’s massive moon Titan so it can be pulled into a final series of orbits that will take it, on occasion, completely inside Saturn’s rings and prepare it to dive into Saturn’s atmosphere.