Cassini Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and its Rings in Today's Google Doodle

Cassini–Huygens is an unmanned spacecraft sent to the planet Saturn. It is a Flagship-class NASA–ESA–ASI robotic spacecraft.

Cassini is the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter orbit, and its mission is ongoing as of April 2017.

It has studied the planet and its many natural satellites since arriving there in 2004

Google celebrate Cassini Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and its Rings! with doodle

Cassini is currently planned to be destroyed by diving into the planet's atmosphere on September 15, 2017, when it will beam its last batch of images.

Cassini was developed simultaneously with the Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) spacecraft, but budget cuts and project rescopings forced NASA to terminate CRAF development to save Cassini. 

Cassini Size: 6.7 metres high by 4.0 metres wide and Weight: 5712 kilograms

Powered by: Nuclear thermoelectric generators, packed with 30 kilograms of plutonium

Launched on: 15 October 1997

Distance travelled on journey to Saturn: 3.5 billion kilometres

The Cassini space probe performed two gravitational-assist flybys of Venus on April 26, 1998, and June 24, 1999. 

These flybys provided the space probe with enough momentum to travel all the way out to the asteroid belt. At that point, the Sun's gravity pulled the space probe back into the inner Solar System

Earth Day tips - Google's Doodle for Earth Day 2017 shows some Tips for Earth Day

The Search Engine Google is showing this Slide show Doodle globally for the Earth Day to spread the Earth Day Tips to its users.

Earth Day is an annual event celebrated on April 22. Worldwide, various events are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. 

First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day events in more than 193 countries are now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network. 

At an estimated 4.543 billion years of age, the Earth is still the only known object in the Universe known to harbor life. It’s also the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest of the four terrestrial planets.

Earth Day was founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson on April 22, 1970.

20 million people participated in the first Earth Day.

More than 100 billion pieces of junk mail are delivered in the United States each year.

Every year on April 22, men, women, and children collect garbage, plant trees, clean up coral reefs, show movies, sign petitions, and plan for a better future for our planet.

Earth Day Slogans
It’s our world, take care of it

Keep our Earth Clean and Green

Save water, it will save you later!

Lets go green to get our globe clean.

Read more earthday slogans at http://www.thequotes.net/2013/04/earth-day-slogans/

Earth Day Quotes
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.–Barry Commoner

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.– Thomas Fuller

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.– Ralph Nader

The earth is what we all have in common. – Wendell Berry

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan

Read more earth day quotes at http://www.thequotes.net/2012/04/earth-day-quotes/

Google doodle honors Ghanaian entrepreneur Esther Afua Ocloo

Esther Afua Ocloo (April 18, 1919, Peki Dzake - February 8, 2002) was a Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending. She was born Esther Afua Nkulenu.

She was one of the founders of Women's World Banking in 1976, with Michaela Walsh and Ela Bhatt, and served as its first chair of trustees. She received the 1990 Africa Prize for Leadership.

April 18, 2017 the search engine Google shows a Doodle for 98th Birthday of Esther Afua Ocloo, in few countries. The Google Doodle shows Esther Afua Ocloo empowering the women of Ghana with the tools to improve their lives and communities.

As both an entrepreneur and an advocate for microlending, “Auntie Ocloo” worked tirelessly to help others like her succeed. Esther Afua Ocloo had only six shillings to her name — less than a dollar — when she made and then sold her first jar of marmalade as a teenager in the 1930s.

Esther was determined to expand her livelihood of making marmalade and orange juice, but she needed a loan to increase production, and credit was hard to come by for poor women. It took persistence and a supply contract to secure the money to start her company, Nkulenu Industries.

After traveling to England to learn the latest techniques in food processing, Esther returned home and shared those skills with other Ghanaian women. Perhaps more importantly, she taught them everything she knew about starting and running a business, which put more money in their pockets. She made such an impact that in 1975 she was invited to the first U.N. World Conference on Women.

Esther and other advisors knew that lending money to women could have a ripple effect, improving the prosperity and health of the women as well as their communities. But because they lacked collateral, low-income women were often ignored by banks. So in 1979, Esther helped found and became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Women’s World Banking, which provides millions of low-income women with the small loans needed to reach their financial goals.

Afua Nkulenu was born in the Volta Region to George Nkulenu, a blacksmith, and his wife Georgina, a potter and farmer

She was a founding member of religious groups such as the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Madina (a suburb of Accra) and the Unity Group of Practical Christianity (Ghana). She also assisted in forming a women’s group in the E.P Church known as Bible Class with the aim of studying the bible and home management.

She served on the synod committee of the E.P Church for 12 years.

Mary Pickford Google Doodle

The Search Engine Google is showing this Doodle in Canada and U.S for Mary Pickford’s 125th Birthday.

Gladys Louise Smith, known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-American film actress, writer, director, and producer.

She was a co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Facts about Mary Pickford:
She was known as "America’s sweetheart."She was the first star of American cinema.

Mary Pickford was born on April 8, 1892, in Toronto. She died on May 29, 1979, in Santa Monica, California.

In 1929, Pickford starred in her first talkie Coquette, which explored the dark side of a wealthy family.

She won an Academy Award for her work on the film. Her last film was 1933’s Secrets.

Pickford was also a savvy businesswoman and the first female movie mogul.

She served as a vice president at United Artists from 1935 until 1937

The American Film Institute named her as the 24th greatest female stars of all time.

She started acting very young and traveled across America with her mother and 2 siblings performing in low-budget local productions.

Pickford and Charlie Chaplin were by far cinemas biggest stars during the 1910s

Her handprints and footprints are displayed at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.

Fazlur Rahman Khan Google Doodle

The Search Engine Google is showing this Doodle in few Countries for the Fazlur Rahman Khan’s 88th Birthday

Fazlur Rahman Khan was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers.

Considered the "father of tubular designs" for high-rises, Khan was also a pioneer in computer-aided design (CAD). He was the designer of the Sears Tower (now Willis Tower), the tallest building in the world until 1998 and the 100-story John Hancock Center.

Khan has been called the "Einstein of structural engineering" and the "Greatest Structural Engineer of the 20th Century" for his innovative use of structural systems that remain fundamental to modern skyscraper construction.

Khan Worked for the World-Famous Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Architectural Firm

He Took a Major Role in Fundraising for the Bengali People During the Bangladesh Liberation War

He was married to Liselotte Khan until his death in 1982. They had a daughter, Yasmin. Khan died during a road trip on March 27, 1982 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, aged 52. His body is buried in Chicago, Illinois.

Khan's central innovation in skyscraper design and construction was the idea of the "tube" structural system for tall buildings, including the "framed tube", "trussed tube" and "bundled tube" variations. His "tube concept," using all the exterior wall perimeter structure of a building to simulate a thin-walled tube, revolutionized tall building design.


Khan's initial projects were the 43-story DeWitt-Chestnut (1964) and the 35-story Brunswick Building (1965). His most important projects were the John Hancock Center and the Willis Tower.