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Curiosity Rover Celebrates 10 Years of Mars Exploration

08/12/2022

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Curiosity rover celebrates 10 years of Mars exploration This complex, car-sized rover remains one of our best tools on the martian surface. READ MORE

Steven Miller, Leon Schommer (photographer), and Naomi McKinnon, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Earth's ‘Milky seas’ observed from space and sea For the first time, the luminescent nautical phenomenon has been discovered in satellite data and subsequently corroborated by sailors. READ MORE

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI JWST images the freewheeling Cartwheel Galaxy Webb's infrared eye has now targeted the Cartwheel Galaxy, site of a famous head-on cosmic smashup, to reveal how this galaxy in transition is making new stars. READ MORE

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The dusty days of summer on Mars In the Red Planet’s southern hemisphere, summer began on July 21. For scientists, that means another perplexing dust storm season. READ MORE

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Astronomy: Roen Kelly Ask Astro: How large does the Sun appear from Mercury and Venus? How large would the Sun appear to an observer standing on Mercury or Venus, as compared to how we see it from Earth? READ MORE

OBSERVING

Stephen Rahn (Flickr) The sky this week Your daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you. Updated Friday morning at 9 A.M. Central. READ MORE

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Ken Wilson from Mechanicsville, Virginia

A radio relic

Grote Reber was a Chicago-area engineer and ham radio operator who sought, unsuccessfully, to land a job with Karl Jansky after the pioneering radio astronomer's discovery of radio emission from the Milky Way. In 1937, Reber decided to build his own radio telescope. He used the resulting 9.6-meter dish to confirm Jansky's discovery and published radio-sky surveys in the following years. In the early 1960s, he donated the telescope to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, where it now sits as a historic monument. This shot is a 14-second exposure taken with a Canon DSLR at ISO 3200 and a 14mm lens at f/4.

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