Essays on Millimeters

The Mars Climate Orbiter: A Multimillion Dollar Mistake

The Story Grossman (1999) addresses the incident of NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter in her article named “Metric Math Mistake Muffed Mars Meteorology Mission”. She explains how a simple unit conversion mistake caused the Orbiter to burn up in the Martian atmosphere. The vessel costed NASA a whopping $125 million when it vanished into the Martian atmosphere. The problem, later identified by a NASA review board, owed to a software glitch. The software was used to calculate the thrust in “pounds of force” while the other software took the input in “newtons”. This happened due to the fact that ...

Abstract

Global warming is a process of increase of the temperature of Earth's atmosphere and global ocean. Scientists have identified: uncontrolled emissions and other irresponsible human behavior has caused the steady climate change that could alter the planet completely. Governments and peoples of the developed countries of the world have recognized the danger of a global catastrophe. The aim of this work is the disclosure of the problems of global warming, the explanation of the causes of global warming, its characteristic features in particular regions and the effects which may be dangerous for humanity in a not far future, a ...

GEOL 1202 Plant Earth

My Pet Rock The rock was picked up on Crystal beach, Halifax, nova scotia, Canada. Crystal beach is situated in Muskoka District municipality. The weather is mostly shinny with temperature ranging from 17 to 21 (degrees Celsius ) and windy ranging from 10 to 15 (Km/h w). The main entranced is characterized by fine sand particles which stretches to the far right hand side of the beach which contain several rocks (see image 1 below).

Image 1

Observation An angular fragment rock with a smooth surface and beautiful outlook. The rock was a float with neighboring rocks looking similar although there were ...