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NASA Releases Images of Earth by Distant Spacecraft

PASADENA, Calif. — Color and black-and-white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured the color images of Earth and the moon from its perch in the Saturn system nearly 900 million miles (1.5 billion kilometers) away. MESSENGER, the first probe to orbit Mercury, took a black-and-white image from a distance of 61 million miles (98 million kilometers) as part of a campaign to search for natural satellites of the planet. (more…)

Helping Women Faculty Navigate ‘Career Pressure Points’

By Guest PostMarch 23, 2012Scienceastronomy, coming of age, dark matter, ethical integrity, form of matter, gender matters, hellen hom diamond, India, local government, mary miller, massachusetts institute of technology, mathematics, MIT, model, monster black holes, parity as practice, physics, pipeline parity, president levin, priyamvada natarajan, probability, provost salovey, saybrook college, systemic barrier, trinity college, universe, woman in science, yale

As a professor of astronomy and physics, Priyamvada Natarajan doesn’t balk at taking risks. She has modeled the upper limits of “monster” black holes and analyzed the consistency of dark matter. As a theorist, she notes, intellectual risk is par for the course.

But as a woman in science, risk-taking has another meaning, she says. Studying in a predominantly male field, Natarajan considers herself fortunate to have been surrounded by exceptional mentors throughout her career. She recognizes that her experience was an unusual one. Many of her female classmates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) did not receive the same level of encouragement to continue their studies and research, she notes. (more…)

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NASA Releases Images of Earth by Distant Spacecraft

Helping Women Faculty Navigate ‘Career Pressure Points’