The ASI initiatives to promote scientific education and support teaching
The ASI promotes the education and circulation of scientific culture and works to attract young people to a technical-scientific career, to increase the interest towards space activities and make the potential of this sector known.
The Agency carries out and participates in international and national activities to promote aerospace research, teaching and communication, targeted at students and teachers from Italian schools of all levels, by offering useful educative projects and products to support the study and in-depth analysis of the scientific topics related to Space.
Science is a key tool to learn more about the world where we live and understand it, and the space programmes provide an amazing opportunity for scientific education activities, considering their great attractiveness to the collective imagination. Leveraging on this curiosity is useful to encourage a deeper interest in science and technology, to bring boys and girls closer to the technical-scientific studies and to create the pool of scientists, researchers and technicians Italy needs.
For further information, please contact us by sending an e-mail to education@asi.it
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WEDNESDAY 15 JANUARY 2025
The effect if the wildfire in California observed by PRISMA satellite ‣
PRISMA maps the Palisades area
FRIDAY 20 DECEMBER 2024
COSMO-SkyMed carried out radar acquisitions to analyse tanker collision in the Black Sea ‣
On Sunday 15th December, bad weather conditions led to an accident involving two oil tankers, resulting in an oil spill in the Kerch Strait.
Through COSMO-SkyMed satellites by Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and Ministero della Difesa, e-GEOS carried out Radar acquisitions to analyse the area affected by the possible presence of spills from tankers. In the following image, processed via the e-GEOS SEonSE application platform for maritime domain monitoring, the positions and characteristics of the identified oil spills are highlighted.
Photo credit: Black Sea. COSMO-SkyMed Image © ASI. Processed and distributed by e-GEOS
Image details:
COSMO-SkyMed ORDER ID = 3186470
e-GEOS ORDER NUMBER = 24F29157-15
AREA NAME = Feasibility_MN_CSK
Product Number 1
ACQUISITION MODE = STR_HIMAGE
ORBIT PASS = ASCENDING
LOOKING MODE = RIGHT
PROCESSING LEVEL = DGM_B
ACQUISITION START TIME = 2024-12-19 02:57:22.528192
ACQUISITION STOP TIME = 2024-12-19 02:57:29.233727
SATELLITE = SAR1
PRODUCT_FILE_NAME = CSKS1_DGM_B_HI_0A_VV_RA_FF_20241219025723_20241219025729.h5
WEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2024
Memorandum of Understanding signed between ASI and the Commissioner General’s Office for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka ‣
The protocol is intended to promote national excellence in technologies applied to the space and aerospace industries MORE...
TUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2024
Listening to cochlear sounds to estimate intracranial pressure changes on the ISS ‣
New results from the ASI experiment Acoustic Diagnostics MORE...
TUESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2024
JUICE’s RIME Radar Pings the Moon and Listens to Earth ‣
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, launched the 14th April 2023, will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three moons – Ganymede, Callisto and Europa – with a suite of the state-of-the-art instruments MORE...