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Thank you Commander Mark E. Kelly and team STS-134 of Endeavor mission for taking a 'virtual me' with u and flown around the earth.   Commemorative Certificate

I went to meet Mannil Mohan sir a month before I joined SPL to seek suggestion and clarification regarding my joining in SPL.  Dr.M.Mohan, cleared most of my anxiety and prejudice in less than 5 min. It gave me courage to take up the new assignment with ISRO Fellowship leaving behind the CSIR Fellowship. I thank him specially for the lucid advise. After joining SPL, Mohan sir was pivotal in allotting me to work with my guide and mentor Dr.K.Rajeev.  During scientific talks, lectures and seminars the programme often becomes dynamic with his discussions, thought provoking queries and imaginations.  It was him who made me think that atmosphere is like a complex 'Rubik's cube' which has many components and is difficult to arrange the components and solve them in the first sight.  In the past 3.5 yrs associateship with him in SPL, I found him to be a simple, humble, soft, loving and caring person with high spirit of Scientific pursuit  and ra...

As the Sun rises in the 'medam' constellation and smiles overhead, we celebrate Kerala's Astronomical New Year. 'Vishu' Greetings

Science is for Sharing Sharing some interesting Scientific news which I came across ....... My new blog dedicated for Sharing some interesting Scientific information I get through net.... was inaugurated last week by Dr.Manoranjan Rao. http://akmnscience.blogspot. com/ It's now open to the world.           Many of them has brief introduction + link to detailed original website source. Few of them have photo / video. I hope it would be interesting to many science lovers and admirers ....... you can browse through it, subscribe and follow using gmail ID. There is a provision (at the end of the page) for you to share it using Facebook/ Twitter. Ur Feedbacks are welcome. As  Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru commented. "The future belongs to Science and to those  who make friends with Science".     Let's Share  Science news  for the benefit of Science lovers and admirers...!! Happy Science Blogging....!!!! AKMNair

Virtually, Discovery in its final mission, took me to an altitude 354km in the Int'l Space Station and orbited around the Earth couple of times. Commemorative Flight Certificate Thank you Commander Steven W Lindsey & Team STS-133 of the legendary Discovery Mission. AKMNair

Pramod use to comment ....     " Bijoy  is not a just a person.... .... he is a phenomenon" Yes, this young man from Ernakulam has left impressions where ever he has been ... Be it for Masters in CUSAT or MTech in BITS or PhD in SPL.... .... and now he has taken a forward trajectory to LMD, France for a PDF assignment. He has a handful of feathers in his scientific cap. Bijoy V Thampi a/s BVT a/s Thampi., B.V more popularly known as Brittoli has carried out substantial research work on Aerosols and their vertical distributions, Cirrus clouds and stratosphere troposphere exchange.....  He has authored a couple of papers in reputed Int'l journals. His Thesis is a pretty big stuff. It has enough material to be made into 2 Thesis. His presynopsis took a full day....!!! My association with BVT grew after I joined in SPL with Dr.Rajeev. We were team members in CW-Lidar and Micopulse Lidar observations. I remember how carefully and systematically he demonstrated...

We all have started another orbit around the Sun.... "Greetings on the onward journey....." Let the journey be filled with happiness, good health & prosperity. AKMNair