Tradicions astronàutiques / Astronautical traditions on my blog https://nauinterestelar.blogspot.com/2018/12/tradicions-astronautiques.html

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Another Way to Mars

Be sure to check out Mars in the night sky during the next 2 weeks.

Mars & Earth come close every 26 months. Between July 27-31 Mars will be at its brightest in the night sky and it will be closest to Earth on early July 31. That is the point in Mars' orbit when it comes closest to Earth. Mars will be at a distance of 35.8 million miles (57.6 million kilometers). Mars reaches its highest point around midnight—about 35 degrees above the southern horizon, or one third of the distance between the horizon and overhead. Mars will be visible for much of the night. By mid-August, Mars will become fainter as Mars and Earth travel farther away from each other in their orbits around the Sun.

Credit: lisam1381
Image Date: July 16, 2018

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Mars and The Milky Way

"Mars and the Milky Way create a lovely pair."

Credit: Piotr Potępa
Piotr's website: nightscapes.pl
Location: Torun, Poland
Image Date: July 21, 2018

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Jupiter: High-Altitude Clouds | NASA Juno
This image captures a high-altitude cloud formation surrounded by swirling patterns in the atmosphere of Jupiter's North North Temperate Belt region.

The North North Temperate Belt is one of Jupiter’s many colorful, swirling cloud bands. Scientists have wondered for decades how deep these bands extend. Gravity measurements collected by Juno during its close flybys of the planet have now provided an answer. Juno discovered that these bands of flowing atmosphere actually penetrate deep into the planet, to a depth of about 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers).

NASA’s Juno spacecraft took this color-enhanced image at 10:11 p.m. PDT on July 15, 2018 (1:11 a.m. EDT on July 16), as the spacecraft performed its 14th close flyby of Jupiter. At the time, Juno was about 3,900 miles (6,200 kilometers) from the planet's cloud tops, above a latitude of 36 degrees.

Citizen scientist Jason Major created this image using data from the spacecraft’s JunoCam imager.

More information about Juno is at:
https://www.nasa.gov/juno
http://missionjuno.swri.edu

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Jason Major
Image Date: July 15, 2018
Release Date: July 19, 2018

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Noctilucent Clouds over Finland

Noctilucent, or night-shining, clouds are the highest clouds in Earth’s atmosphere. They form in the middle atmosphere, or mesosphere, roughly 80 kilometers (50 miles) above Earth’s surface. The clouds form when water vapor freezes around specks of dust from incoming meteors.

Credit: Rauno Pakarinen
Location: Pieksämäki, Finland
Image Date: July 26, 2018

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Comet C/2017 S3 PanSTARRS Outburst

The outburst released a significant amount of C2 or diatomic carbon gas, which gives comet comas their characteristic aqua-green hue. The coma is the nebulous envelope around the nucleus of a comet, formed when the comet passes close to the Sun on its highly elliptical orbit; as the comet warms, parts of it sublime. This gives a comet a "fuzzy" appearance when viewed in telescopes and distinguishes it from stars.

Credit: Michael Jaeger
Capture location: Jauerling, Austria
Image Date: July 20, 2018

Technical details:
UT 00.20
RGB
R+G 1x270sec
B 4x270sec
10/4 Asi 1600 2x2

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Mars and Milky Way

"This night Mars surprised me with its brightness."

Credit: Piotr Potępa
Piotr's website: nightscapes.pl
Location: Torun, Poland
Image Date: July 21, 2018

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Planets Mars & Jupiter over Sandstonehenge


Credit: Paul Martini
Location: Bluff, Utah
Image Date: August 7, 2018

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