Category Archives: November 2013

NASA’s MAVEN Mars Orbiter Set to Launch on November 18

Posted on November 7, 2013 by ST Editors

by Dr. Ken Kremer KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL, – MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN Mission), NASA’s next mission to Mars is scheduled to lift off on Nov. 18, 2013 from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an Atlas V 401 rocket. … Continue reading →

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Juno Portrait of Planet Earth

Posted on November 7, 2013 by ST Editors

by Dr. Ken Kremer This false color mosaic assembled from raw images taken by the Junocam imager shows more than half of Earth’s disk over the coast of Argentina, South America and the South Atlantic Ocean as NASA’s Juno probe … Continue reading →

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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Posted on November 7, 2013 by ST Editors

Member Jim Poinsett took these two shots of the moon this October as part of his first attempt at astrophotography from his backyard using his 8-inch LX-200 and Meade Deep Sky Imager. Well done, Jim!

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