I am proud to say that all have gone on to be leaders in their chosen professions and careers. The numerous memories of my SCT experiences have given me considerable pride and joy as an international educator. Most significantly, I am proud of all the Greek scholarship recipients, but in particular those who, on six different occasions, have been awarded either the Outstanding Camper medal or the Right Stuff medal at graduation ceremonies at the end of their Space Camp Turkey experiences.
Over the course of the past seventeen years, hundreds of deserving Greek teenagers from the Athens metropolitan area have had the opportunity to participate in the 6 day International Space Camp Turkey programme. Each one of these students has acknowledged that this was a world class learning experience. Some of the teenagers decided to return and participate in the programme more than once.
In fact, one young man took part in four SCT summer experiences and served as a student leader for four consecutive years. He had his own mission. On his fourth and final mission he realized his personal goal and SCT mission!
Many consider the International Summer Camps to be the ideal choice when it comes down to picking an educational and fun event for children. But there is one important detail that people seem to overlook. These camps actually create a window of opportunity for parents to embark on a journey that is full of exploration and adventure while their children are having the time of their lives at a summer camp!
This has actually been the case for several families that have sent their children to Space Camp Turkey which is located in Izmir. There are several reasons why Izmir is considered as one of the best places to visit in Turkey with the family. First of all, let us start with the fact that Space Camp Turkey is located in the beautiful Aegean city of Izmir.
The city, also known as Smyrna, is the third most populous city in Turkey. It has hosted dozens of different civilizations throughout its long history and for this reason it is full of historical sites.
For a list of things to do in Izmir and some brief information, we strongly suggest you check out the website of Municipality of Izmir by clicking here. Secondly, assuming that a potential trip to Izmir would happen during the summer season, for many, it is important to have access to a beach.
These beach resort towns are well connected with Izmir city center, also have some of the most popular blue flag beaches around the province. The scientific and entertaining activities taking place at the Galactic Summer Camp offer a unique opportunity for children to learn while having fun , build new friendships , and make the best out of their summer holidays.
Summer science camp activities are held in six-day periods during June-August. Summer camp programs offered in some weeks are differentiated with special themes such as the Apollo Week or the Asteroid Week. Click on the program name to learn more about our Galactic Summer Camp programs. So, as you can understand from the reasons stated above, for an adult to plan out a holiday for themselves in Izmir while their children have a blast at Space Camp Turkey is a very feasible option.
This way, the parents get to travel with their children on the way to Izmir and back. Also, in cases where the child or children have to leave the camp early, the parents are always in considerably close distance. There is nothing more comforting than that. I just wanted to say thank you once again for all of your efforts and care in keeping my daughter healthy and safe.
She had an amazing time, she is still talking about the experience and her amazing counsellors. Your team there has left a permanent and positive impression on her. I cannot thank you enough for the wonderful experience you have provided to my child and for the constant reassurance you provided to me, we are most grateful! Thank you again and I look forward to my son having an opportunity to come to your space camp in a few years!
Are you a tourism agency looking to organize trips to Turkey? Maybe a teacher in search of an authentic, outside-the-classroom experience for students? Go ahead and check out our Customized Outer Space Adventure Program now and start tailoring your own space adventure! Astronauts must be wearing their spacesuits when they get out of their spacecraft and are exposed to the "space environment," but why? A common definition of space is known as the Karman Line , an imaginary boundary kilometers 62 miles above mean sea level.
Unfortunately, the danger zone after this line is not a suitable environment for humans to live. The most common reason for this is that there is little or no respirable oxygen in that area.
Almost all living organisms utilize oxygen for energy generation. As we breathe in, oxygen enters the lungs and diffuses into the blood.
Our lungs, working as a tiny factory, throw out the carbon dioxide molecule formed by 2 oxygen and 1 carbon atom at the end of the process. Although oxygen deprivation seems to be the only real danger, it is actually only one of the dangers. If you are going to go to space one day, perhaps the most important thing to take with you may be the spacesuit. Spacesuits are like a small spacecraft and protect astronauts from dangers in space.
The Primary Life Support System PLSS , which looks like a backpack, provides the suit with pressurized oxygen and ventilation while removing carbon dioxide, water vapor, and trace contaminants. The spacesuits used on the International Space Station today remain there all the time.
In other words, astronauts do not have their own space suit. The same spacesuit can be worn by several astronauts, according to the assignments from the Mission Control Center. As you can imagine, the physical structure of every astronaut is not the same. Some astronauts may be tall, some are short, some may be a little leaner or overweight than others.
It is precisely for this reason that astronauts have space suits in three different sizes small, medium and large that they use on the International Space Station. Since the connection points of these spacesuit are the same, an astronaut can make a special combination from these three different sizes if needed. First of all, it can eliminate the oxygen deprivation that we mentioned at the beginning for a certain period of time. Each spacesuit has two oxygen tanks that work with a carbon dioxide removal system to allow a 6 to 8.
Afterwards, the astronaut must return to the space station in order to refill the empty oxygen tanks. Another danger is related to the temperature in space. Unfortunately, the temperature in space is either too high or too low for the human body to stand. For example, ,if an astronaut would go on a spacewalk without a spacesuit when the sun is shining brightly, he or she would suddenly encounter a temperature of about degrees Celsius with the effect of radiation.
Without the sun, the temperature suddenly drops to about degrees Celsius. This situation happens very, very suddenly because there is no atmosphere in space. Here, the only thing that keeps the astronaut safe in these difficult conditions is again the spacesuit.
Another important item on the spacesuit is the Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment LCVG , which incorporates clear plastic tubing through which chilled liquid water flows for body temperature control, as well as ventilation tubes for waste gas removal. Thus, the astronaut can always work comfortably in the spacesuit. In addition to all these, the astronaut must wear a spacesuit to be protected from pressure, radiation and meteor dust.
Even though we can't feel it, air is constantly pressing down on us with a tremendous force. We cannot see this force with our eyes, but we constantly experience the results of this effect, especially when driving on steep hills or getting off an airplane. This pressure created by the air and the internal pressure created by the beat of our heart is constantly in balance. As we just explained, there is no air in space.
This means that there is no air pressure in space. Therefore, spacesuits are inflated with a certain amount of air, just like a balloon, to apply the necessary external pressure to the astronaut.
The spacecraft gently touched down and then fired a projectile to kick up dust and rocks on the surface. This material was then, hopefully, captured in the container of the sampling system.
As well as sample-collecting tools, Hayabusa2 has numerous cameras and remote sensing instruments on board. It also transported four small hopping rovers to the asteroid. The fourth had technical problems before deployment, and was put into an orbit around the asteroid while gravitational measurements were taken.
Data collected by Hayabusa2 and its rovers have started to be published, including details of the shape it looks like a spinning top , mass, density, colour, surface composition , prevalence of craters and thermal properties. In April , a series of papers revealed that Ryugu is a rubble pile of loose rocks with a m equatorial radius.
Further analysis back on Earth should help confirm this. Not actual size: Jaxa astronaut Takuya Onishi holds 3D-printed model of Hayabusa 2 and its target asteroid. Other analysis planned for the returned sample include looking for organic matter and water, to help unpick how life on Earth begin. Sample collection from Bennu by Osiris-Rex is scheduled for August Once the sampler head touches the surface, high pressure nitrogen gas will be fired downwards to fluidise the gravel and small rocks on the surface and, hopefully, drive it up into the collection chamber.
However, the target amount for the mission is 60g. These particles range from centimetres to tens of centimetres, with each eruption ejecting anywhere from just a few to hundreds of particles. Once the samples are returned to Earth, the Osiris-Rex team will carry out an initial characterisation using non-destructive methods. Its destination is the moon of the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. This mission is a planetary defence test, to explore whether slamming a spacecraft into an asteroid at high speed can change its trajectory.
In recent years, infrastructure to monitor asteroids that stray near Earth have been beefed up, meaning their path can be determined and, if necessary, the impact location evacuated. Ideas being considered, aside from bumping an asteroid off course with a spaceship, include firing a nuclear weapon at it and using a gravity tractor.
Here, a spacecraft could be put into a highly elliptical orbit around the asteroid, repeatedly coming close to it before moving away again. It is expected that space and ground-based telescopes will be able to determine any changes in velocity and direction of Didymoon, explains Ian Carnelli, the Hera mission manager. After they arrive in December , the instruments on board Hera and the CubeSats will collect detailed information about the shape of the crater caused by Dart.
Whereas if you have a monolithic rock, the shockwave would travel throughout the asteroid. Unlike Dart, the Hera mission is also collecting scientific information unrelated to the planetary defence test. Questions the mission hopes to answer include why Didymos has a moon. It is possible that centrifugal forces upon asteroids that are rubble piles may cause them to throw out some of the more loosely held material within the pile, explains Fitzsimmons, the science advisor for the Hera mission.
The ejected matter can then form a moon around the asteroid. Hera will also collect scientific data to improve models that determine the age of asteroids based on crater counts and to help answer some fundamental questions about asteroid spins. In October , just three months after the launch of Dart, another Nasa asteroid mission is scheduled for takeoff: Lucy. This means all the information we have about them is from telescopes. What is known is that their colours are very different from each other.
This colour difference is surprising because they occupy a relatively small region of space, he adds. As well as helping Levison and his team unpick why the Trojans are such different colours from each other, this information will also help with understanding of how this region of the solar system formed.
Scheduled to launch in , the spacecraft will spend nearly two years orbiting its namesake asteroid, a metallic asteroid in the main belt. A metallic asteroid has never been photographed before, let alone visited, explains Lindy Elkins-Tanton, professor at Arizona State University and principal investigator of the Psyche mission. Ground-based radio telescopes were key to revealing that Psyche is metallic.
It is thought that Psyche is the exposed nickel—iron core of an early planet, which got broken up and stranded in the asteroid belt. The acid rain runs into the oceans and kills marine organisms, especially along the continental shelves. The impact and subsequent fires also release a tremendous amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. After the initial impact winter is all over, there is so much carbon dioxide in the air that a centuries-long greenhouse effect may result.
Either way, the consequences were so dire that it is a wonder that any species survived at all. But some did. After the dust settled, they emerged to spread over the newly shaped world and multiplied and found new niches in which to fulfill their destinies. Newsletter Get smart. Sign up for our email newsletter. Already a subscriber? Sign in. Thanks for reading Scientific American.
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