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    In this month: June 2022
    Elizabeth Cocking
    • May 31
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    In this month: June 2022

    HISTORICAL EVENTS 10th June 2003 NASA launches the rover Spirit to explore Mars and search for signs of past life on the planet. One of two rovers sent to Mars, its “twin” Opportunity landed three weeks later. Spirit studied the history of the climate and water at sites on Mars where conditions may once have been favourable to life. Spirit uncovered strong evidence that Mars was once much wetter than it is now and helped scientists better understand the Martian wind. In
    Elizabeth Cocking
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    Did you know? The Light Year...

    This month . . . The Light Year. A unit of distance, not time. A light year is an astronomical measurement of the distance light travels in one year. A staggering 10 trillion kilometres per year. Because the universe is so vast, astronomers use the Light Year to measure distances between objects. It’s much easier to think of the Andromeda Galaxy, one of our nearest galaxies, as being 2.5 million light years away rather than 21,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilometres, or 21 q
    Selected Solar Observations April 2022
    andrew14613
    • May 5
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    Selected Solar Observations April 2022

    By Monty Leventhal OAM The first observation for the month of April was made on the 2nd due to cloud cover on the 1st. Sunspot activity was quite small though the Esi (29) group near the centre of the Sun contained 13 Sunspots 3 of which included Penumbra. Prominences around the limb of the Sun were quite small though 2 Filaments on the face were very large. As mentioned previously Filaments are the same as Prominences as they rotate from the limb to the face of the Sun when
    The Astronomers Bulletin: April-June 2022
    Janette Brenan
    • May 3
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