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ESA’s ExoMars Orbiter & Lander Bound for the Red Planet
Illustration Credit & Copyright: B. Bethge/European Space Agency (ESA). LAUNCH ALERT: Monday, March 14 at 09:30 UTC (05:30 EDT) The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ExoMars mission will be launching...
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Now is the Time to Observe Mars
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA/JPL/USGS of Mars’s Schiaparelli Crater (front & center) by the Viking 1 Orbiter. Some of you I know have already been enjoying the view every morning as the...
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Now is the Time to Observe Mars (re-post)
Image credit & copyright: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope taken on May 12, 2016. Some of you I know have already been enjoying the view every morning as the Mars, Saturn and Antares trio have been...
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Night Life
Image credit & copyright: Manish Mamtani. As if you needed another reason to visit Utah, here’s an amazing image from Manish Mamtani of a friend, Sanket Kolhe reflecting on the Milky Way galaxy...
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There are no Knuckleballs in Space!
Illustration credit & copyright: NASA. Relax we’re not going to be talking about Red Sox legend, Tim Wakefield or their current knuckleball ace Stephen Wright, but instead this is in regard to...
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The God of War and God of the Sea to Hold Court
Images credit & copyright: NASA. If you have clear skies and a pair of large binoculars on December 31, 2016 you get to end the year with one of the more beautiful occurrences in the night sky; a...
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The West Coast’s First Interplanetary Launch Coming Up!
Images & videos credit & copyright: NASA/JPL/United Launch Alliance (ULA). More links than you will ever need below. LAUNCH ALERT: Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 04:05 PDT (07:05 EDT & 11:05...
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Now is the Time to Observe Mars!
Image credit & copyright: NASA/JPL/USGS of Mars’s Schiaparelli Crater (front & center) by the Viking 1 Orbiter. If you’re a fan of the night sky, you’ve been noticing the trio of Jupiter,...
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What a Sight!
Image credit & copyright: Stephen Mudge. How many of you got to experience last week’s total lunar eclipse and Mars at opposition? Unfortunately, I wasn’t in its path but many where and the images...
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Godspeed Little Giant
Opportunity sees its shadow on July 26, 2004 (sol 180) Images credit: NASA/JPL. “My battery is low and it’s getting dark…” – Opportunity’s final message Launch of Opportunity on July 7, 2003 on a Delta...
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