I'm in the wrong area, but we did get a full-arc rainbow after a brief shower this evening. And you can look directly at rainbows.
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I'm in the wrong area, but we did get a full-arc rainbow after a brief shower this evening. And you can look directly at rainbows.
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Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
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The view corridor fizzled out somewhere around Lubbock in west Texas, so no luck here on the eastern side.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
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NASA’s latest and greatest Mars rover, known as Curiosity, will attempt to land on Mars early Monday morning (or late Sunday night, depending on where you are on Earth). The landing is scheduled for 05:31 (UTC), which is Monday morning at 1:31am Eastern in the US, or 10:31pm Pacific time Sunday night. Because Mars is quite far from us, there will be a 14-minute delay before transmissions related to the landing will reach us — which will make the viewing party that much more of a nail-biter.
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Thanks for the reminder.
This mission almost got by me due to work deadlines.
Another reminder-August is Perseid Meteor shower month.
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essent...r-shower-guide
August 11, 12 and 13th are the peak nights.
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August 11, 12 and 13. The moon will be a waning crescent then, and the meteors should be flying at a rate closer to their peak of 50 or 60 meteors per hour. As an added treat – on August 11, 12 and 13 – the moon will be sweeping past the brightest planets Venus and Jupiter in the eastern predawn sky. You can’t ask for more!
Now about 40 minutes away from entry. After that, there'll be a delay, due to the need to bounce the info off a NASA satellite orbiting Mars (called [strike]Observer[/strike] Odyssey), and then the data travels for 7 minutes through space to Earth. Various unknown factors could make the whole thing a mystery for as long as a few days, but with luck they'll know tonight, before 2AM EST, I guess...Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
you can "watch" live here:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/
Everything went great, and they even got a little photo of the horizon and sun with a rover wheel in the corner before the relay satellite's orbit went over the horizon and lost contact.
http://twitter.com/NASA/status/23235.../photo/1/large
it's a VERY small thumbnail, but it isn't bad if you expand it.
:banana: Hahaa, they did it! According to reddit there was only a 30% chance of success. More photos + article here. Now let's see if the rock ever supported life, and conceivably could again. :p
It was a pretty intense few minutes, and then a wonderful space-nerd-hugfest!
The only downside to this whole thing is that there will probably be a lot of poor, HG Wells did it better without the technology, sci-fi. Hopefully some good ones, but I see a lot of bad ones coming.