A day when mathematics, physics, and food come together š.
While we're not quite mathematicians or physicists, we do have a couple of home bakers in the team. So, we decided to celebrate Pi Day the only way we knew how...with Pie š.
If you do fancy yourself a bit of a mathematician, NASA is running its annual Pi Day challenge!Ā
You can use Pi to:
Determine where the DSOC (Deep Space Optical Communications)Ā technology demonstrationĀ aboard NASA'sĀ PsycheĀ spacecraft should aim a laser message containing a cat video so that it can reach Earth (andĀ set a NASA recordĀ in the process)
Figure out the change in asteroid Dimorphos' orbit after NASA intentionally crashed itsĀ DARTĀ (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft into its surface
Measure how much data will be captured by the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite each time it orbits our planet, monitoring Earth's land and ice surfaces in unprecedented detail
Calculate the distance a small rover must drive to map a portion of the lunar surface as part of NASA's CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology demonstration that's headed to the moon.
Answers to all four challenge questions will be available on March 15th š¤.
There's also some Pi Day events taking place on March 17th at the MIT Museum that you can check out HERE.
Let us know about anything Pi (or pie) related that you get up to in the comments below!
Time was, West Point Cadets feared the serving of pie (or cake): https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/west-point-mess-hall-pie
Specifically, with it being 3.14 rather than 14.3, itās American Pie day, so congratulations to Don McLean:š
Bye, bye Miss American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin' this'll be the day that I die This'll be the day that I die