My Experience at the 2016 Stem Festival

My Experience at the 2016 Stem Festival

By Charles Rachel

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a live interactive conference call via satellite with a Scientist from NASA. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Space Flight Center, located in Greenbelt Maryland. The subject of this discussion was Heliophysics, which in short means study of the sun. The conference was held at the Finksburg branch of the Carroll County Public Library. As well as other branches around the State of Maryland and was broadcast via satellite video over the internet. We were able to communicate with the scientist via e-mail and Twitter. There was a librarian standing by to relay our questions back to NASA and one by one they were answered. The scientist whose name I do not recall also talked out the magnetosphere. This helps keep our planet in orbit, and holds our gravity stable. This event took place on Thursday November 10, 2016 from 5 to 6pm, the scientist was asked about weather and rain in space? Answer, there is no rain in space, at least not as we know rain here on Earth. Water does not exist in space. Weather is much different in space than it is on Earth. Question, what happens to the equipment after returning from a mission? Answer, nothing. It burns up upon reentering Earth’s atmosphere. There are no astronauts going into space for at least another year. With acceptation to those onboard the International Space Station already. The scientist is on an MMS mission M. M.S. stands for magnetic microphysics study. This is the study of how the magnetic field around us works. I find myself want