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Archive: April 2013 (5 Posts)

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The Great Sheet Cake Mystery

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

This week I am celebrating a birthday, and although I am more of a pie or tart kinda gal, a birthday calls for cake- and that cake must be the one that- in my opinion- rules over them all. Drum roll please, the thin, chewy, chocolate and nutty Texas Sheet Cake. I wish to thank …

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How to Fly a Satellite at 17,000 MPH; The Historic Flight of Landsat 5

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

In 1984, the U.S. launched an Earth remote sensing mission to extend the observational record of our planet’s land masses begun 12-years earlier by the first Earth Resource Technology Satellite, later renamed Landsat 1.  By the time Landsat 5 was launched, on March 1, 1984, expectations were for a 3-year design life and the hope …

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Live Tweeting of April 16th Mars Curiosity Rover Lecture. Can’t attend? Tweet your questions!

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

I do not need to convince you that the interest in the Mars Curiosity Rover is sky-high!  On Tuesday April 16, 2013 we are hosting a lecture at the Library with NASA’s Dr. Pamela Conrad who will discuss habitability on Mars based on findings from the Curiosity Rover. For those of you who cannot attend, …

Science and Business Reading Room mural with quotation from Thomas Jefferson about the living generation. Mural by Ezra Winter. John Adams Building, Library of Congress.

A Lesson from a Founding Father

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

The Earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons and consequently may govern them as they please. When researchers walk into the Science and Business Reading Room, not only are they inspired …