Open AccessTeenage team traces terminal tracks
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
astronomy & geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-4004
pISSN - 1366-8781
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2010.51404_11.x
Subject(s) - terminal (telecommunication) , aeronautics , computer science , engineering , telecommunications
Digital cameras – inspired, of course, by astronomical research – are now ubiquitous. It seems that nothing happens anywhere in the world without it being recorded by a teenager and promptly uploaded to the net. This truism now extends to the edge of the atmosphere: a group of high‐school students has recorded a video of the re‐entry and disintegration of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, from a plane over the Australian outback.