NASA Pi Day Challenge: Celebrate the mathematical marvel with stellar math problems
by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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13 March 2023

On 13 March 2023 SciTechDaily reported: Pi Day is the annual tribute to the mathematical constant pi, whose infinite number of decimals is usually rounded to 3.14. So what better day to celebrate than March 14? To find pi, aka the Greek letter p, you simply divide any circle's circumference by its diameter. It's a ratio that's indispensable to NASA missions studying Earth, Mars, and beyond. This Pi Day marks the 10th year that the Education Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has celebrated this wondrously useful number with the agency's Pi Day Challenge. Students can put their math mettle to the test to solve real problems faced by NASA scientists and engineers. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the field of science, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

Using pi to tackle this quartet of problems, students can:

- calculate the volume of a Martian rock core gathered by NASA's Perseverance rover as it collects samples to be studied on Earth;

- understand the cosmos-peering power of the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope by comparing the area of their primary mirrors;

- approximate the density of Psyche -- the metal-rich asteroid that will be visited by a NASA mission by the same name -- and speculate about what it's made of; and

- determine how much of the Sun's disk will be eclipsed by the Moon and whether to expect a total or annular solar eclipse this October.

Answers to all four challenge questions will be available on March 15.

... Pi is a mathematical constant that represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It is a non-repeating and non-terminating number that has been calculated to trillions of digits, but is commonly approximated to 3.14. Pi is used in many fields, including mathematics, physics, engineering, and statistics, and has numerous applications in everyday life such as in the design of buildings, the calculation of distances in navigation, and in the measurement of circles and spheres.

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