My Science Space

Recalling a few memories of a popular serial during 90’s, Jungle Book, I remember that we (me and my siblings) used to gather in our living room and watch it silently every Sunday morning at 9.00 without fail. Fascinated with Mowgli’s voice, main lead of the serial, we used to imitate his voice, “Bagheera, run with me”. Imitation or copying comes as a phenomenon where our mind/brain tries to reproduce the same character that we see. Our brain has certain spots that store information. Brain of a child below the age of six months, is still under a developing phase. He can only see but can’t respond because he cannot make out things in this strange world. He only remembers his mother, her touch, her affection and all. As he grows, his mind develops, where he starts perceiving everything and starts recognising everything in real. Their perception power gradually increases with age. Initially, they try to understand each bit of their surroundings, putting random stuffs in their mouth...

With a distance of around 814 million kilometres from Earth, Rosetta is expected to meet comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko or 67P, this August. Assisted by eleven other scientific board instruments, it will orbit the comet till December 2015, so as to gather minute and detailed information about the ‘cometary materials’. Scientists believed that studying the surface materials of the comet in depth would help them in getting an idea about the composition of dust particles that might act as foundation of comet’s activity. Sleeping beauty, Rosetta, woke up after spending more than 30 months in hibernation. The European Space Agency (ESA) at Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal at 7.18 p.m CET (Central European time) on January 20 th 2014 that released the worries of the Scientists about Rosetta's well being  in space. Earlier during the day on January 20 th , several internal commands were kicked off by the ESA’s Rosetta space probe. The scientist at the Main Control Room ap...