THE MOON, MARS & EVERYTHING!

“strutter helmet..wish I lived in HI so I could wear it to work rather than on the water.
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“OOPS!   Better?”

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      _{How about now?}

                  NAH!

     "The Big Font" sounds lots more whoopass than "Needs Reading Glasses"     LMAO

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“The Bad Lieutenant is pretty whoopass, but it's really a snowboarding helmet.   I don't think the built-in headphones would enjoy being submerged.”

“Who's playing with the font?”

“The big shootdown is some time after 9:30 pm est tonight. Wish I could watch!”

“GNM - what is the signal with the flowers over the left ear?”

“on Sweet helmets I think it just means thats where they put the sticker. LOL

course it does work out well since the shootdown is in/around/over the Maui area :)”

“Beautiful deep red moon, loved it last night. We were getting snow for most of the day so I was worried I was going to miss it (yet again), but the clouds cleared in time. Yay.”

“Fantastic view in NYC last night. What a beautiful eclipse!”

“Weather Underground predicted increasing clouds throughout the evening... 21% @ 4pm, 32% @ 7pm, 41% @ 10pm & 48% @ 1am.

But it was cloud-free (with very light haze) from sunset 'til about 10:10.   Right in the middle of totality we got about 10 minutes of light clouds.   Then they blew away again.

Man, I had more than a few choice words during those 10 minutes ---- !”

“NASA Takes Aim at Moon with Double Sledgehammer

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Scientists are priming two spacecraft to slam into the moon's South Pole to see if the lunar double whammy reveals hidden water ice.

The Earth-on-moon violence may raise eyebrows, but NASA's history shows that such missions can yield extremely useful scientific observations.

"I think that people are apprehensive about it because it seems violent or crude, but it's very economical," said Tony Colaprete, the principal investigator for the mission at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.

NASA's previous Lunar Prospector mission detected large amounts of hydrogen at the moon's poles before crashing itself into a crater at the lunar South Pole. Now the much larger Lunar Crater and Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, set for a February 2009 moon crash, will take aim and discover whether some of that hydrogen is locked away in the form of frozen water. ...


http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080227/sc_space/nasatakesaimatmoonwithdoublesledgehammer”

“Nice. I think I see my street.”

“They say that you can just make out the west coast of South America, so I guess the west coast of the US was still in shadow.... So it was maybe around 9 am EDT, October 3, 2007.

Wednesday morning.”

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Another Double Flyby

Space Weather News for March 21, 2008
http://spaceweather.com

JULES VERNE AND THE ISS: The European Space Agency's new robotic cargo carrier, the Jules Verne, has parked itself in orbit 2000 kilometers ahead of the International Space Station. This sets the stage for some beautiful double flybys in the nights ahead--the Jules Verne appears first, as bright as a 1st magnitude star, followed four and a half minutes later by the even brighter International Space Station. This is a must-see for sky watchers in cities and countryside alike. Visit http://spaceweather.com for flyby photos and timetables.


Timetables and starcharts here:

http://heavens-above.com/

You have to register, but it's well worth it for the charts.   I used them last month to see the ISS and the shuttle and it was Easy As Pi.

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“Thanks Tilt. You can also get localized info here (just type in your Zip Code and it gives you the next 10 days:

http://spaceweather.com/flybys/”

“YAz.   When I saw the Space Station last month it looked more like a plane flying over without making any noise.”

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The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water.

Secrets the moon has been holding, for perhaps billions of years, are now being revealed to the delight of scientists and space enthusiasts alike.

NASA today opened a new chapter in our understanding of the moon. Preliminary data from the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates that the mission successfully uncovered water during the Oct. 9, 2009 impacts into the permanently shadowed region of Cabeus cater near the moon’s south pole.

The impact created by the LCROSS Centaur upper stage rocket created a two-part plume of material from the bottom of the crater. The first part was a high angle plume of vapor and fine dust and the second a lower angle ejecta curtain of heavier material. This material has not seen sunlight in billions of years.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_results.html”

“I saw an extremely bright meteor this morning, around 5:45 am. It was yellow and violet, very wide, and heading wsw.”

“That was Marvins spaceship.”

“So if there is water on the moon do you think New Jersey will try to dump their trash in it? :P”