SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “Where is All the Water on Mars?” and “Tour of the Constellation Orion (Part 1)”
Net Control: Tom KE5ICX
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: “The Man Who Fell to Earth” (1976)
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Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT.
Discussion topic of the evening.
Where’s All the Water on Mars? (Space.com this week)
Water Falls on Mars (Newton Crater)
http://www.space.com/images/i/000/011/381/original/newton_crater.jpg
InSight Self-Portrait
Corpus Christi Bay – Hurricane Harvey
Insight Seismometer Photo
“Astronauts” Practice on Earth
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What can you see in the sky over the next couple of weeks?
From EarthSky.org:
http://www.earthsky.org/tonight
East, Evening
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2018/12/2018-dec-22-capella-aldebaran-orion-night-sky.jpg
A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.
Constellation Orion (Part 1)
Constellation Orion Skymap
Photo #1 Orion’s Belt
Photo #2 Alnilam & Reflection Nebula (NGC 1990)
Photo #3 Orion’s Belt & Flame Nebula
Photo #4 The Flame Nebula
Photo #5 Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33)
Recent Astronomical discoveries
Getting a Glimpse Inside the Moon
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181219093919.htm
Planetary Astronomers Identify Cycle of Spectacular Disturbances at Jupiter’s Equator
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181219115530.htm
Space Exploration and Space History
Space Exploration News
19 December 2018
Insight’s Seismometer Placed on Martian Surface
https://mars.nasa.gov/system/news_items/main_images/8402_PIA22977_SEIS_deploy_IDC_calibrated-web.gif
20 December 2018
Soyuz MS-09 Returns from ISS
https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/2018/rescuerspull.jpg
This Week in Space History
1965 December 16
Pioneer 6 Space Weather Observatory is Launched
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Pioneer-6-9.jpg
1981 December 17
Radio Sputniks: RS-3 through RS-8 Launched on a Single Rocket
https://space.skyrocket.de/img_sat/rs-3__1.jpg
17 December 1903
Wright Fly Makes First Controlled Flight
1958 December 18
Project Score Transmits Christmas Message From Orbit
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Atlas-B_with_Score_payload.jpg
21 December 1966
Luna 13 Lands on Moon
https://space.skyrocket.de/img_sat/luna_e6m__13__2.jpg
21 December 1968
Apollo 8 Orbits the Moon
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Apollo_8_Crewmembers_-_GPN-2000-001125.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/The_Lunar_Farside_-_GPN-2000-001127.jpg
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
ISS
Dec. 23
Dec. 24
North Korean Satellite
Dec. 25
Dec. 26
Dec. 29
Dec. 30
Envisat
Dec. 23
Dec. 26
Dec. 28
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