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we spend a lot of time here talking

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about the various experiments that are

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going on onboard the space station in

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particular the new ones that come up to

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the station but some of them have

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actually been around for quite a long

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time and one of those is the earth cam

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experiment which is also known as the

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sally ride earth cam experiment

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so today we have carrie goulart who is

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has actually been involved in the

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experiment for for not only um her

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career here at nasa but even before she

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arrived at nasa as a college student and

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she's going to tell us a little bit

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about that thanks for joining us carrie

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it's a pleasure to be here all right why

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don't you start out telling us just a

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little bit more about the earth game

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experiment what what is it about

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okay earth game stands for earth

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knowledge applied to middle schools and

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essentially it's it's a very simple

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experiment there's a camera that the

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crew sets up on board the space station

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in one of the windows and it's connected

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to a laptop

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that runs the earthkam software on the

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ground

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elementary and middle school students to

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have access to a website that allows

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them to view the orbit tracks of the

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space station and based on that they

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look at where it's passing over the

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earth and they choose to select pictures

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from that orbit track and those pictures

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get put into a file which is sent up

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to the laptop and the software reads

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that file and tells the camera when to

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take pictures

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then

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once the pictures are back on the ground

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the students are able to

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view

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these pictures actually anybody at this

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point can view the pictures and they use

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these photos to study anything from

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history to ecology

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even

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orbital dynamics and mathematics because

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certain knowledge even though the orbit

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tracks are provided for the students a

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certain knowledge of simplified orbital

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dynamics is required to

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understand

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how the space station orbits around the

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earth so it's

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really meant to encourage

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all students

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to pursue math and science and learn

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more about

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the earth we all live on in general and

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that's got to be a good way to do it

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letting them basically take photos from

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the international space station has got

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got to get them interested in space yes

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and there's definitely the cool factor

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of knowing that you told something on

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board the space station to take this

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picture

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do you ever get to hear from the

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students yourself

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yes we do the schools usually put

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together a packet

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towards the end of the mission

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describing themselves and some of the

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favorite pictures they've put together

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and also thanking the crew and we tried

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to get that up

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usually about a week after the

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completion of the mission

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and that's that's great for them and i

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guess we've got another round of earth

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cam coming up and actually have a a

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record number of participants scheduled

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this time right yes that's correct we

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set up the camera yesterday in node two

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and this time around we have 867 schools

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with 71 000 over 71 000 students

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participating from 51 different

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countries that that's that's pretty big

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yes it is and it seems to grow each time

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which is

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really nice to see why do you think that

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like about it do you i guess teachers

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like about it too probably well i think

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like i said you know there's definitely

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the cool factor of uh working with and

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taking pictures from something that's on

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board the space station so

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it gives them a little bit of ownership

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and then when the pictures come down

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they can point to it because it does

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identify who requested that picture and

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they can point to it and say we took

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this picture

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we selected this

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and then i think the teachers like it

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because they can take that aspect of it

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and incorporate it into their classroom

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subjects and it just really helps make

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learning interesting and fun for the

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students

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okay well how many how many photographs

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would you estimate that they'll take

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this time around

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probably on the order of a couple

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thousand at least

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wow and how long does it last

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usually we go about a week so we set up

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yesterday and the camera will come down

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saturday morning a couple thousand

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photos in just a week

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well the camera can take photos during

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only during the day pass but usually the

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schools since there are so many schools

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the camera clicks pretty much

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the whole time yeah

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well that's great and so now we

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mentioned earlier that you basically got

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started with this project in college

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tell us a little bit about that

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well my whole

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career

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to even how i ended up at nasa

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i'm sorry if i'm going a little bit off

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subject but

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it's really kind of just been

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one giant accident in some respects

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i sort of fell into the project by

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accident when i was

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a freshman in college and

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uh earthkam or kid set as it was called

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at the time was just getting started and

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i joined up

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and then

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from and so i was part of the group and

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students and teachers would use to

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supplement the pictures and kind of

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explain

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how the camera and how the space shuttle

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orbited the earth and

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things like that all right now you get

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to see the the program going on and and

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reaching even more students that is

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correct all right well thank you so much

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for uh coming and talking with us and

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we're looking forward to see some of

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those uh photos um coming up over the

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next week i guess thanks again

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you're very welcome this is carrie