Youtube SpaceLab Entries in Space.. (NEEDS YOUR HELP!)

Sorry to put this out with such short notice. I had wanted to get this done about a month ago but just been too busy.

So youtube, and the ISS are looking for good ideas for outreach projects to do on the ISS. Well I've got a good idea. The idea is that from an orbital platform, there are certain portions of the sky to which you get 24/7 views. If a planet's in that window, then you can record a very long time lapse of it. A stripped down 12 in telescope would provide perfectly adequate resolution for a project like this. After that you can database the data and recompile it into any timescale you want. This would provide the first long term views on the seasonal changing of the Jovian atmosphere (the bands appearing and disappearing), dust storms on Mars, the idling clouds of Venus and so-on. The changes in the timescale will not just give people a far more intimate feel with their celestial back yard, it will bring the solar system into dynamic life in a way that Hubble never did.

Unfortunately I'm too old to enter the contest, so I'm putting the idea out there s 'up for grabs'.

You can find details of the SpaceLab here:
www.youtube.com/user/spacelab

Footage of ISS and Voyager 1 coutesy of NASA and collaborators.

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[sleeplessauk]

the amount of years I've been on this planet is too damn high.

[Brandt761]

@eahazell we're specifically talking about planets within the Solar System, which have been only rudimentarily explored, expecially the planets that aren't Mars. Anything that wasn't recorded during our short viual glimpses remains hidden. This is even more true of the Jupiter and Saturn moons, and their exploration can tell us all kinds of things.

[lightfdar]

WOW you sold me this hock line and sinker only problem is M_M I saw this just a little too late XD

[silverballer1911]

4:39 thunderstorms in the clouds??

[Tengent]

I just realized how much I love your astronomy videos. <3

[Swoost]

thunderf00t I love your vids but your voice drives me insane...just being honest :[

[sofiarune]

@tremedar How is spoon feeding kids ideas any different than dictating how to think? A good mentor acts as a guide. They ask their students more questions than they give answers and they respect the kid's independence. It's about encouraging intellectual growth instead of handing someone a textbook to memorize. Thunderf00t's approach is the same as a parent designing their kid's science project instead of giving them the tools to create their own projects. It's lame.

[tremedar]

@sofiarune a mentor....to do what? Teach them how to think, rather than give them ideas? Any kid who were to have taken TF's idea would need to learn it and understand it in order to present it properly, and that is the only way they'd win over others. How is putting an idea out there 'handing kids the answers'? How is it any different than what you propose? What, do you expect he'd just stand there and watch everything the kid does and nod now and then, or actually help them?

[tremedar]

@edwardtang1977 What was rejected was the idea of having four people around the world monitor Jupiter from EARTH, not the ISS. Try cleaning out your ears idiot, you might hear what people say better.

[Rottensteam]

U just have a calm voice :-D

[bellyzbad]

:D 

[wastnTIMEwastnTIME]

I've been watching Jupiter though my telescope for the last few weeks. Such a Beautiful planet :-D