Wow! An Original Post!! Chemistry Is Great Btw

🙃 I had so much I wanted to get done over winter break and so far all I’ve done is replay life is strange and watch unsolved.

honestly i know its cool to stay up late, but sleep is so incredibly important to learning and understanding concepts. when we are awake, our brain creates toxins which make it harder to think throughout the day. when we sleep, the brain can rest and remove these toxins, literately making us smarter.  get some sleep guys.

has this been done yet

26.05.18 | tuesday | 6/100 days of productivity here’s my Mess ™ feat. DNA notes. sometimes i stress out over how little i achieve but then i remember that everyone’s speed is different and that’s okay! today i studied DNA and RNA and did some trigonometry practice. also i did some bio tests in the format of my state exam an the result was surprisingly good - i scored 40-something points when i actually don’t know anything - my goal is to make it at least 80 points in one year and a half.

IF YOU ARE A STUDYBLR

Please reblog this post so I can check your blog! I just got out of a hiatus and my dash is quite slow ♡

Going for GOLD

On Jan. 25, we’re going for GOLD!

We’re launching an instrument called Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, GOLD for short. It’s a new mission that will study a complicated — and not yet fully understood — region of near-Earth space, called the ionosphere.

Space is not completely empty: It’s teeming with fast-moving energized particles and electric and magnetic fields that guide their motion. At the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space, these particles and fields — the ionosphere — co-exist with the upper reaches of the neutral atmosphere.

That makes this a complicated place. Big events in the lower atmosphere, like hurricanes or tsunamis, can create waves that travel all the way up to that interface to space, changing the wind patterns and causing disruptions.

It’s also affected by space weather. The Sun is a dynamic star, and it releases spurts of energized particles and blasts of solar material carrying electric and magnetic fields that travel out through the solar system. Depending on their direction, these bursts have the potential to disrupt space near Earth.

This combination of factors makes it hard to predict changes in the ionosphere — and that can have a big impact. Communications signals, like radio waves and signals that make our GPS systems work, travel through this region, and sudden changes can distort them or even cut them off completely.

Low-Earth orbiting satellites — including the International Space Station — also fly through the ionosphere, so understanding how it fluctuates is important for protecting these satellites and astronauts.  

GOLD is a spectrograph, an instrument that breaks light down into its component wavelengths, measuring their intensities. Breaking light up like this helps scientists see the behavior of individual chemical elements — for instance, separating the amount of oxygen versus nitrogen. GOLD sees in far ultraviolet light, a type of light that’s invisible to our eyes.

GOLD is a hosted payload. The instrument is hitching a ride aboard SES-14, a commercial communications satellite built by Airbus for SES Government Solutions, which owns and operates the satellite.

Also launching this year is the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, which will also study the ionosphere and neutral upper atmosphere. But while GOLD will fly in geostationary orbit some 22,000 miles above the Western Hemisphere, ICON will fly just 350 miles above Earth, able to gather close up images of this region.

Together, these missions give us an unprecedented look at the ionosphere and upper atmosphere, helping us understand the very nature of how our planet interacts with space.

To learn more about this region of space and the GOLD mission, visit: nasa.gov/gold.

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January 9 2018: 2/100 My mom surprised me with a note and a gift card when I got home because I got straight A's last semester. I've always been unable to really focus on school because of my dysphoria and anxiety and this year my mental health had improved so much since I started transitioning :) Although I'm proud of my achievement, remember that your grades don't define your intelligence or work ethic. Strive to do your best and always take care of yourself ❤❤❤

3 january, 2018 re-reading hamlet for literature

featuring my messy nail polish

but don’t stop dreaming.

you like about yourself, publicly, then send this on to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is super cool!) (and i love your blog, it's so pretty!!) ~ balie

(Okay so the ask got cut off, but I think it was 5 things I like about myself. Also, thank you so much!!! That’s so sweet!!!)

I really like my eyes. I know that’s really basic, but it’s one of the few things I like about my appearance.

I work really hard. Even if what I produce isn’t always the best, people can always count on me to show effort and people care and thought into my work.

I can be really energetic. I think this is pretty cool because I have classes at seven in the morning and people joke about how awake I am. 

I care about people a lot. I really try my best to make sure people know I care about them. I just really hope that people know that they have someone who cares about them.

I love to improve as a person. No one is perfect and lately, I have been trying to tell myself that while also telling myself that I can be an alright person. For example, a few months ago I probably wouldn’t have been able to come up with five things I like about myself. Now I am not afraid to show myself some appreciation

Anyway, thank you so much for sending this to me. I know it took me a while to respond, but I promise I didn’t forget!!! I have just been taking a few days off of social media, but I am back!!!