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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…

9:43 am · 2020 Jan 15th ·

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Venus dazzles at dusk and closes in on Neptune: astronomynow.com/202… pic.twitter.com/NcDZ…

9:41 am · 2020 Jan 15th ·

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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…

9:41 am · 2020 Jan 15th ·

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Spaceflight Now

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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…

9:38 am · 2020 Jan 15th ·

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Space Shuttle Almanac

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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…

9:36 am · 2020 Jan 15th ·

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Next Meeting

AGM and Chairman’s address
- St Francis of Assisi Church Hall
- 19:30 - 22:00
- Wed 26th Feb 2020

Next Observing

Thu 27th Feb 2020
- 20:00 - 23:00
- Observing Evening
- Otford Village Memorial Hall
Fri 20th Mar - Sun 22nd Mar 2020
- Deep Sky Camp
- Cairds Campsite
Thu 26th Mar 2020
- 20:00 - 23:00
- Observing Evening
- Otford Village Memorial Hall

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January 2020 Observing Report
December/January Observing Report
Exoplanets: Weird Worlds

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