I just got this amazing little email today:
Mars
Known as the Red Planet, it’s about to appear in spectacular fashion!
So mark your calender to watch throughout the month of August, but especially …
August 27, 2006
The Red Planet
This month and next, Earth will catch up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in [...]
Tags: Everyday Space
On Friday (July 28th) the Southern Delta Aquarid meteor shower peaks. This shower is a bit of a mystery - the source of the meteors is unknown. The best time is between midnight and dawn, so go out early Friday morning and look south. These meteors are pretty faint, so a fairly dark location [...]
Tags: Everyday Space
Kansas is fortunate to have a premier space museum - the Kansas Cosmosphere. It has a great history museum, complete with a Lunar Lander from the Apollo missions (of course, not one that actually went to the moon), a V-1 rocket, and lots of artifacts from both the US and USSR space programs. It also [...]
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The space program has accomplished some amazing things over the years. The most visible of these accomplishments have been seen on TV but there are benefits that are not so well known too. Here’s a brief look at some of the benefits that we’ve derived from the space program. A more complete list [...]
Tags: Everyday Space · Space Science
There’s a lot of water on the Earth. In fact, most of the Earth’s surface is covered with it. But fresh water, which is needed for drinking, irrigation, and industry, accounts for only about 3% of the total water. A great deal of that is in the ice caps, and glaciers, and surface water. The [...]
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