Upcoming Events :: Screening of New Movie - Kaluoka'Hina

Catch Kaluoka'Hina, The Enchanted Reef; this coming October 2012 at the Melaka Planetarium Adventure Science Centre!

A short synopsis on this movie -

The vastness of our planet's oceans guards unimaginable secrets. One of its most precious is Kaluoka'hina, the enchanted reef whose magic protects it against humans finding it. Kaluoka'hina's colorful inhabitants live in peace until the volcano erupts, and the spell is broken. Now it’s up to Jake, the young sawfish, and his paranoid pal, Shorty, to restore the magic of Kaluoka'hina. Their only lead: the ancient legend that tells of touching the Moon..

Did You Know :: Eternal Clock Could Keep Time After Universe Dies

Scientists have proposed a way to build a clock that will keep perfect time forever.



The idea for an eternal clock that would continue to keep time even after the universe ceased to exist has intrigued physicists. However, no one has figured out how one might be built, until now.

Did You Know :: Marine Invasive Species

 

 

Aquatic invasive species are plants and animals that evolved in one location and are introduced through a variety of means into another location.

Species have always used the oceans to move about the planet. By swimming or hitching a ride on a log, leaf, or coconut, organisms have found new worlds in which to thrive. But until recently, this process has been moderate, limited by the currents and the winds.

Did You Know :: Overfishing

 

Ocean overfishing is simply the taking of wildlife from the sea at rates too high for fished species to replace themselves. The earliest overfishing occurred in the early 1800s when humans, seeking blubber for lamp oil, decimated the whale population. Some fish that we eat, including Atlantic cod and herring and California's sardines, were also harvested to the brink of extinction by the mid-1900s.

Highly disruptive to the food chain, these isolated, regional depletions became global and catastrophic by the late 20th century.

UPDATES :: Our New Flyers !!

 

Here comes our new flyers..

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MPASC Upcoming Events :: UPDATE !! .. Melaka Space Fair 2012

Hi guys.. This is is a part of our plan for the  GRAND event of the year :: 

Melaka Space Fair 2012

There are still more activities to come, so just keep update with Us !!

Mars Robotics

Learn how NASA uses robots to explore places that humans can still not go to with NASA JPL’s Robotics Engineer, Paulo Younse. 

Year of the Solar system

Learn how our understanding of planets and solar system has revolutionized during the last five decades with Randii Wessin, NASA JPL’s Planetary Scientist.

Earth Science in a GLOBE 

How far have we understood our Planet Earth and our Ocean? Want to know more than you already know? Come and meet NASA JPL’s GLOBE Instructor, Peter Falcon and Ocean Circulation Scientist, Margaret Sreenivasan.

Could life exist in extreme environment?

What makes a planet habitable? What makes an environment extreme? How has ‘life’ adapted to this type of environment? Who are the Extremophilles? How do they survive in extreme pressure, gravity, radiation, low/high temperature, acidity/alkalinity, salinity and dry environment? Get the answer at the Melaka Space Fair 2012!

NASA Spin Offs
How have NASA-derived technologies improved and saved lives? Find all about it with Jaya Bajpayee, from the Astrophysics Operating Missions & Physics of the Cosmos Program, NASA Headquarters.
















 

NASA Educator’s workshop (teachers only)

Learn all about the importance of incorporating interactive activities that explains science in a fun way and get students engaged with Deborah Scherrer of the Stanford Solar Centre and Phillip H. Scherrer, Proffesor of Physics at Center for Space Science& Astrophysics, Stanford University



Classroom Comet (students/public)

What do comets look like up close? If you want to know you can either take a spacecraft to space or you can prepare one yourself…here at MPASC this coming November! It’s messy but fun!!

Dry Ice Ice Cream (students/ public)

Can science be this picture-delicious? Try mixing your own ice cream with flavors of your choice. It’s a messy affair, but tasty!





Egg Drop Challenge (students / public)

Will a raw egg survive a 3 meter plunge over our MPASC overpass?

Crazy foam
Mix two solutions together and get an amazing eruption of oxygen-filled foam that appears like a giant stream of toothpaste!

Super Soap Bubbles

Bubbles could be blown with any mixture of soap and water, but do you know how to mix a superior bubble mixture to make super strong, long lasting bubbles?

Rainbow Milk Kids Colour Zone (Pre-school/under 12 years of age)

Learn all about colours and make your own cool rainbow on a plate of milk!

Other exciting activities are still being planned for, stay updated with us.

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Management Team

Melaka Planetarium Adventure Science Centre

Did You Know :: KEPLER'S SUPERNOVA REMNANT:

This composite image of Kepler's supernova remnant shows different colors ranging from lower to higher energies: red, yellow, green, blue and purple. An optical image from the Digitized Sky Survey (pale yellow and blue) shows stars in the field. The Kepler supernova was a Type Ia event, the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf. New analysis suggests that the supernova explosion was not only more powerful, but might have also occurred at a greater distance, than previously thought.

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Management Team

Melaka Planetarium Adventure Science Centre