A tribute to the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility, which in one form or another has been producing awesome science for the last 50 years. HRIBF shuts its doors for good on April 15th, 2012, due to budget cuts. More info available at www.supporthribf.org. Please note for legal purposes that this video is in no way sanctioned, condoned, sponsored or funded by DOE, ORNL or HRIBF, either explicitly or implicitly… I did it because it means something to me. Credits: NASA, ESA, and Sutherland Productions (public domain); Oak Ridge National Laboratory, nucastrodata.org (used with permission); “Fool Me Twice” by Shawn Lawrence Otto (fair use). Music: adapted from “Beautiful Day” by Peter McIsaac Music, used with permission from PremiumBeat.com (www.premiumbeat.com
Chief Engineer Marc Rayman discusses the Dawn mission and explains why NASA is interested in asteroids Vesta and Ceres and how ion propulsion is being used to get there. Dawn will fit more pieces into the grand puzzle of how our solar system formed and evolved — and perhaps how others do as well. NASA Now Minutes are excerpts from a weekly current events program available for classroom use at the NASA Explorer Schools Virtual Campus located at: explorerschools.nasa.gov.
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