NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

After our short hike at the Patuxent Wildlife Refuge, Smita, Saurabh and I went to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. They have a visitors' center, where you can go see some rockets and exhibits 

The first exhibit we went to see was the Solarium...the sun. It is a small dark room with a large screen showing images of the sun. The three of us, sat on the floor in silence for a while, watching and listening. We watched the movement of the gases in the sun, the eruptions, the shapes. None of us had seen anything like that. That kind of heat, that kind of energy...and as we sat in the dark looking at all those movements, the sound recorded from the center of the sun sounded like a heart beat. The gentle lub-dub-like sound was soothing and relaxing. 

 

"Every twelve seconds, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory images the sun in ten wavelengths of invisible ultraviolet list. Each wavelength is assigned a unique color and every image is eight times the resolution of an HD video. A team of media specialists works about ten hours to create one minute of this footage. The soundtrack comes from solar data tha measures the way waves travel through the center of the sun."

Next, we went to the Globe Theater which feature Science On A Sphere. There is a giant sphere in the center of the room, and short movies continually project on the rotating globe. 

We walked out to see some of the rockets, stopped by the infra red camera to look at our heat signature and then it was 4PM, and the visitor's center was shutting down so we had to leave. 

Smita, Saurabh and me through an Infra Red Camera