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A huge number of students with the unique results at SSC and HSC examinations from science backgrounds are coming to the capital city with the expectation to become a scientist of the present world. Through interrogation with them, very interesting, exciting and encouraging information come out. A certain percentage of boys and girls alike want to become astronauts. The ambitious students know the sufferings and barriers faced by the woman astronaut Ms. Julie Paette who flew 4 million miles on Space Shuttle Discovery from May 27 to June 6, 1999 as a Crew member of STS-96. In spite of that, they are adamant and eagerly waiting for scopes to become Astronauts of the spacecrafts that will carry flag of Bangladesh to different planets. It becomes difficult to check tears after listening to their ambitious words. How much ambitious they are. New technologies have enabled them to get the concepts that were almost impossible in our age just four decades back. Recently Scientists and Astronauts have claimed a surprising amount of water found to exist in the Moon's soil. Important data received from three space crafts of different continents including one from Asia shows that very fine film of H20 coat the particles that make up the lunar dirt. The Scientists assume the quantity is small but it can be useful for the astronauts who wish to live in the Moon. Squeezing one cubic meter of lunar soil, a scientist can collect one litre of water. Clearly speaking in scientific language, if we take a spherical shaped body with the inner volume of one cubic meter and then fill it with the lunar dirt and compress, it gives one litre water. Among the three spacecrafts, one is from our neighbor country India that launched Chandrayaan-1which is the India's first mission to lunar orbit. Other two spacecrafts to look at the Moon - Nasa's Deep Impact probe and the US-European Cassini satellite - back up Chandrayaan. The very interesting thing is both the spacecrafts collected Moon data long before Chandrayaan did but the significance of water existence has come to knowledge only few days ago. Scientists suspect the water created in the soil in an interaction with the solar wind and the quantity of water is small but they predict that the astronauts based on the Moon could use it as a resource and it is easy enough to split into hydrogen and oxygen. The Indian space agency is going to consider water discovery a major triumph and a vindication of its endeavors. Some scientists on the mission suggested there could be up to 300 million tonnes of water-ice buried in crater soils that never see Sunlight. Chandrayyan made its observations using a US-provided instrument, the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, or M3 that assessed nature of lunar soils by analysing the way that light from the sun reflected off the surface. |
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If we analyze the matter in Bangladesh contexts, the country is far behind from such activities. Bangladesh is obviously poor in that respects. Space and astronaut are the two almost unknown words, though SPARSO have some activities that are unknown to common people of the country. We are depriving our new generations from entering into the world of space. They have the right to explore the space and planets. They want to fly as the proud astronauts of Bangladesh and discover the living beings in the Moon. It might sound abnormal to most people in the country but to introduce ourselves as the citizens of the present world, we will have to take the initiatives of empowering new generations on those disciplines. Due to our ignorance, we should not deprive our kids. Let them get the opportunity to grow up with new vision and ideas and equip them with proper tools and technology.
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