Happy Pi Day 2024!
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to solve problems? NASA To help explore other planets in the solar system?
In celebration of Pi day 2024-You can do that and take the annual NASA Bay Challenge Day. This is a fun way to put on your scientist's and engineers' thinking cap and try your best to answer a series of questions all surrounding the mathematical constant, pi.
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What is pi? If you remember your elementary school math lessons, it's approximately 3.14159 and can be used to find the circumference of a circle and the volume of a square.
While there are many uses for it in different STEM jobs and fields, it is also very important Engineers and scientists at NASA To help study not only our own planet, but also other planets across the solar system and even other galaxies.
This challenge is a tradition that has continued over the past decade NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Education Office It includes many mathematical problems that you have to solve using pi.
Some of the questions you can answer this year relate to missions including deep-space optical communications technology aboard NASA's Psyche spacecraft, Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Spacecraft, Earth-orbiting satellites, lunar rovers, and even… Hubble Space Telescope And James Webb Space Telescope.
So, let's get a solution! You can find Both problems With the accompanying worksheet, you can do all your work online and the answers will be posted by NASA so you can check your work!
There are nearly four dozen different questions to discover, so try a few or do them all to “prepare” a unique way to get into space and celebrate Pi Day 2024!
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