Jupiter and Venus Are Inch Closer from Feb. 22 to March 1 to our naked eyesights

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The Solar system will make a new show from February 22 to March. The king of planets, Jupiter will see Venus after sundown. According to NASA, look west an hour after sunset on Wednesday, Feb. 22, and you will see Jupiter and Venus getting closer to the Moon.

For your convenience, wear binoculars if you have them or look at the sky after dusk. You may also see a livestream from Rome, Italy at 11 a.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday through Youtube.

From tomorrow to March 1, you will see the bright night out event, and you don’t have to wait the midnight to see the event as long as there are no clouds in the sky.

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Shows 10 Sample Tubes on Mars for Future Mission

Perseverance’s Portrait of the Sample Depot: An annotated version of the portrait captured by NASA’s Perseverance shows the location of the 10 sample tubes in the depot. The “Amalik” sample closest to the rover was about 10 feet (3 meters) away; the “Mageik” and “Malay” samples farthest away were approximately 197 feet (60 meters) from the rover. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS.

NASA just announced the Perseverance rover began building a sample depot on Mars on December 21, 2022, and its 10 titanic tube samples at specific places were completed. The 10 sample tubes are on the surface of Mars where future missions of its “sample retrieval lander” will be part of the campaign, from another planet to Earth to study, according to NASA. “Perseverance built the depot at “Three Forks,” a location within Jezero Crater. Billions of years ago, a river flowed into the crater, carrying sediment that formed a steep, fan-shaped delta that the rover will drive up in the months ahead.”

The 10-tube samples for Mars are astrobiology that seeks the signs of ancient microbial life and the rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate for human exploration of the Red Planet. The first mission will be collecting and caching Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust). NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) are cooperating on this mission, and they will send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed tube samples from the surface to bring them to deep analysis.

Eight tubes are filled with rock and regolith (broken rock and dust), one is an atmospheric sample, and one is a witness tube. The rover photographed the depot using the Mastcam-Z camera on the top of its mast, or “head,” on Jan.31, 2023. The color has been adjusted to show the Martian surface closely as it would look to the human eyes. The rover collected 18 tube samples for backup originally.

JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover. Arizona State University leads the operations of the Mastcam-Z instrument, working in collaboration with Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, on the design, fabrication, testing, and operation of the cameras, and in collaboration with the Neils Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen on the design, fabrication, and testing of the calibration targets.

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MSL found another Iron-nickel based Meteorite on Mars

Curiosity’s view of Mt. Sharp (From Wikipedia)

Science and technology continue to move humanity beyond the atmosphere. On November 26, 2011, NASA deployed a Mars rover Curiosity and landed it in the Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. Surprising news has since been sent from Curiosity, as it found another Iron-nickel-based Meteorite at the Gale Crater.

Curiosity is seeking answers to many questions from Mars; collecting, studying, and investigating objects on the grounds of Mars. This rover carries a variety of scientific instruments designed by an international team, according to NASA’s 2006, and 2007 papers.

The Iron-nickel based meteorite has a name: Cacao. (Chocolate comes from cacao.) Cacao is about 30 cm across. Curiosity has come across several meteorites at the Gale Crater since August 2012. This metallic meteorite is a rounded shape which allowed it to pass through the atmosphere intact. The grooves and pits are called regmaglypts, and they are likely created by vortices of hot gas that melted the rock when it traveled through the atmosphere. Even though Mars’ atmosphere is much thinner than Earth’s, it still creates enough friction to heat the meteorite’s surface, according to universetoday.com.

On Earth, meteorites like Cacao were humanity’s first source of iron, and it can be dated back billions of years to the beginning of the Solar System. In human history, people collected these meteorites to make knives and other tools for their needs to survive. King Tut was buried with a dagger made of meteoric iron, and Inuit people in the Arctic and in Greenland used meteoric iron.

Cacao is discovered by the MSL Curiosity at Gale Crater, Mt. Sharp which looks like the sulfur-bearing unit. The unit is rich in salty minerals that formed in the presence of water. Curiosity is investigating and studying Mt. Sharp and its surrounding areas.

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A Gigantic Comet approaches the Sun on Jan.31

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A gigantic comet is heading towards the Sun on Jan.31, 2023, according to Livescience.com. This Machholz 1 is more than two-thirds of the height of Mount Everest in size. Its size will protect it from complete evaporation when near the Sun. The 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) wide space iceball called 96p/Machholz 1 is considered to have come from somewhere outside of our solar system. This huge comet is being monitored by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. It heads to the inside of the orbit of Mercury.

In 2008, “an analysis of the material shed by 150 comets found that 96P/Machholz 1 contained less than 1.5% of the expected levels of the chemical cyanogen while also being low in carbon that leads astronomers to conclude that it could be an interloper from another alien solar system. it was discovered on 1986 May 12 by D.E. Machholz observing with 29×130 binoculars from Loma Prieta, California (Machholz, Morris & Hale 1986) and confirmed the following days by S. Morris and A. Hale observing from near Mt Wilson, California.

This icy interloper’s closest approach to the sun will come on Tuesday (Jan. 31, 2023), and it will be three times closer than Mercury in distance. SOHO has observed more than 3,000 comets since its December 1995 launch, and the spacecraft’s primary mission is to observe the sun for violent eruptions or solar flares that lead to geomagnetic storms on Earth. Scientists have alerted that these geomagnetic storms would bring our planet’s magnetic field disruption of satellites’ functionality. It leads to our internet dysfunction as well.

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Auroras can be Hurricanes too!

Last year, scientists announced a spectacular phenomenon: space hurricanes.

With 600 miles in diameter and multiple arms that rotate counterclockwise, with a calm center much like a real hurricane, this one is made from the aurora borealis or the “Northern lights.” Its “rain” is electrons.

Auroras naturally occur near the poles during the winter months (respectively), when particles from the Sun excite the molecules in the upper atmosphere of planet Earth.

However, this new “space hurricane” occurs much higher up the atmosphere, entering at higher latitudes than typical auroras. Of course, much like other auroras, space hurricanes can also disrupt radio waves passing through the upper atmosphere and impact satellite communication and navigation systems. It can also heat up the atmosphere. However, any known special health or safety risks on spacecraft or astronauts do not currently exist.

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Solar Storm will hit on Earth by Tomorrow

captured on the Twitter account of Solar Storm Watch

A solar storm will hit on Earth by Tomorrow. According to the Joint USAF/NOAA, Solar activity is expected to be low with a chance for M-class flares and a slight chance for an X-class flare on days one, two, and three (July 19-21). This solar storm will arrive without any obstacle, but our GPS, radio blackouts, and cell communication are going to be influenced.

This week, many countries are burning with hot temperatures, and a solar storm is expected to be more dangerous to high-flying latitude airplane travelers and crews. Researchers and Scientists all over the world predict this solar storm has a strong flare, and it is striking Earth. NASA stated that the solar flare might have a huge impact on Earth’s geomagnetic field on the evening of July 19.

This solar flare explosion is likely caused due to the Sun’s discharge of protons. The G1-class solar storm on March 22 brought landfall a few days later. Solar radiation storms occur when a large-scale magnetic field eruption when coronal mass ejection (CME) and solar flare are associated. According to NOAA, The most important particles are protons which can get accelerated to large fractions of the speed of light. At these velocities, the protons can traverse the 150 million km from the sun to Earth in just 10 minutes or less. When they reach Earth, the fast-moving protons penetrate the magnetosphere that shield Earth from lower energy charged particles. Once inside the magnetosphere, the particles are guided down the magnetic field lines and penetrate into the atmosphere near the north and south poles.

SWPC currently forecasts the probability of S1 (Minor Radiation Storm scale) occurrence as part of our 3-day forecast and forecast discussion products and issues a warning for an expected S1 or higher event; as well as a warning for when the 100 MeV proton level is expected to reach 1 pfu. Additionally, SWPC issues alert for when each NOAA Space Weather Scale Radiation Storm level is reached (S1-S5) and/or when the 100 MeV protons reach 1 pfu.

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Enjoy the Full “Buck Moon” Tonight or Salmon Moon… It Depends

The second supermoon in 2022 is lighting the world tonight, and it gives us the brightest moment at 2:38 Eastern Time. It will be below the horizon at the time so wait for 4 hours to see the moon in the sky.

July 13th’s Full Buck Moon orbit is the closest, biggest, and brightest due to its proximity to earth and lowest in the sky. The Buck Moon will be 222,089.3 miles (357,418 km) from Earth. According to Almanac.com, “the full moon in July is called the Buck Moon because the antlers of male deer (bucks) are in full growth mode at this time. Bucks shed and regrow their antlers each year, producing a larger and more impressive set as the years go by.”

There are many other alternative names for these supermoon reference animals, such as Feather Moulting Moon (Cree) and Salmon Moon, a Tlingit (a member or a language of a North American people of the coasts and islands of southeastern Alaska and adjacent British Columbia.) term indicating when fish returned to the area and were ready to be harvested.

Plants and other variants refer to this supermoon, Berry Moon (Anishinaabe), Moon When the Chokecherries are Ripe (Dakota), Month of the Ripe Corn Moon (Cherokee), and Raspberry Moon (Algonquin, Ojibwe). All these names refer to the riping season of sweet berries in the hot summer.

Western Abenaki, a Native American tribe speaking Algonquian call this moon Thunder Moon; they lived in parts of Canada and the Northeast United States until being pushed west during American expansion, and Halfway Summer Moon (Anishinaabe) are alternative variants that refer to the weather and season.

The name of the Super Moon refers to the life of the Native Americans and how they lived. Those Full moons on their calendar reminded them to remember to harvest and give ceremonies to their gods.

The location of where you are matters when it comes to seeing the different shapes of the Buck Moon. However, the 13th of July is the best night to experience the full moon. Tomorrow, you will see 98.7 of the waning gibbous moon instead.

The next Super Moon, Sturgeon Moon, will be in our sight on August 11 expected.

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Rare opportunity to see the Eclipse

A rare opportunity to see the sky is available if you live in the southern part of South America or the southeastern Pacific Ocean. According to NASA, on the mornings of this Saturday, April 30, and Sunday, May 1, 2022, the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter will show up only half a degree apart. These two brightest planets will be visible about 7 degrees above the eastern horizon as morning twilight begins along with Mars and Saturn, which will appear farther to the upper right of Venus and Jupiter. The close pairing of the two brightest planets is very unusual to see.

Saturday afternoon, April 30, 2022, at 4:28 p.m. EDT, will be the new moon, and when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, there will be a partial solar eclipse in the sky. If you live around the southeastern Pacific Ocean or the southern part of South America, you will see the tail of the Moon that blocks part of the Sun.

This eclipse will be first visible at 2:45 p.m. EDT (18:45 GMT) in the areas of visibility. it will end at 6:37 p.m. EDT (22:37 GMT); the event will take about 4 hours, according to TimeandDate.com.

In eastern culture, especially in Korea, around 1,500 years ago, some people used eclipses as evidence of witchcraft and manipulated the masses into complying. Hopefully, it won’t happen this time around.

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Solar Storm will Cause Radio Blackout on April 27

A solar storm will impact Earth as a geomagnetic storm by Tuesday April 26. The Sun has last emitted highly energized particles. It is likely to disrupt Earth’s radio and satellite signals again.

The geomagnetic storm will affect up to 65 degrees in latitude.

The US space weather also made a follow-up update on Sunday stating that solar events may also bring radiation storms and radio blackouts until Wednesday April 27.

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Satellite Launched to Observe Earth’s Weather and Climate

Today, the GOES-T satellite blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

The rocket was an investment of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, costing the agency $11.7 billion. It will be orbiting the Earth at around 22,3000 miles above. The goal of this satellite is to help scientists with looking at weather systems and natural hazards across a broad stretch of the western hemisphere.

GOES-T will be renamed GOES-18 once in orbit. It will then be located at 89.5 degrees west in longitude to monitor the happenings of the central United States until May, at which point, the satellite will be over east Pacific Ocean. Both areas are experiencing severe weather patterns.

GOES-18 has capabilities for checking for smoke, which is becoming ever so important with the increased wildfires in the country, along with many other advanced features.

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