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April 2020

Posted on 2020 Apr 22nd by OAS

Wednesday April 22nd, 2020

Time: 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Place: St Francis of Assisi Church Hall

Category: Monthly Society Meetings


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At @NASAglenn, engineers tested a model of our new Moon rover: a mobile robot that will roam the lunar South Pole. Our Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) will sample water ice at the same spot #Artemis astronauts are set to land: go.nasa.gov/2t5BjLl pic.twitter.com/o8rx…

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#HubbleClassic #OTD in 1994, Hubble released this image of the massive star system Eta Carinae and the billowing clouds of gas & dust around it. The picture was taken by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, installed just a month earlier. pic.twitter.com/oqGp…

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Fifteen years after ESA’s Huygens spacecraft accomplished the first-ever landing on Saturn’s moon Titan — and revealed jaw-dropping views of alien river channels — lessons learned from the mission are aiding the design of future planetary entry probes. spaceflightnow.com/2… pic.twitter.com/AZ2x…

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@esa @astro_luca @Space_Station Looks better right side up. This image shows a rare view of the join between Unity and Destiny, which is rarely seen so clearly. View orientation is station forward to the right and along the central truss toward the port side. The JEM on the right with Leonardo in the middle. pic.twitter.com/73u4…

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