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By: Santosh :+: Under: Desi Ishtyle, Science
On: ⋅ March 14, 2007 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment
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UberDesi Tip (free of charge - desi ishtyle): Do not look at the moon during a solar eclipse or you shall incur bad luck. Maybe marrying a tree might fix it.

From the tip link: Ganesha softened his curse such that anyone who looks at the moon during a Surya-grahan (solar eclipse) would incur bad-luck.

It is often tough for journalists to get excited when NASA recaliberates their instruments.

On Feb. 25, 2007, NASA scientists were calibrating some cameras aboard the STEREO-B spacecraft and they pointed the instruments at the sun. Here is what they saw:

Eclipse as seen from the Stereo Spacecraft
(img:via NASA.gov)

And NASA recliberating their instruments making it to UberDesi is even more unlikely unless, of course …………

“What an extraordinary view,” says Lika Guhathakurta, STEREO Program Scientist at NASA headquarters. The fantastically-colored star is our own sun as STEREO sees it in four wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light. The black disk is the Moon. “We caught a lunar transit of the sun,” she explains.

I often receive emails from my friends and relatives, saying Indians are only (insert small number here) percentage of the US population but make (insert large number here) percent of NASA scientists, doctors, engineers, ……….. I usually dismiss these emails as idle jingoism, but there may be some truth to them, however inflated the numbers might be.
Anyway, more on Dr. Guhathakurta …………..

A native of India, Dr. Guhathakurta received her Masters in Astrophysics from University of Delhi and Ph.D. in Physics from University of Denver and University of Colorado at Boulder.

Apparently, on top of being an uber rocket scientist, Dr. Guhathakurta is also quite the multi-tasker.

As a NASA astrophysicist, Dr. Madhulika Guhathakurta (also known as Lika) has had the opportunity to work as a scientist, mission designer, instrument builder, directing and managing science programs and teacher and spokesperson for NASA’s mission and vision in the Heliophysics Division. Occasionally, she performs all of these roles in a single day.

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