iceman
19-08-2015, 05:56 AM
Updates in this Newsletter
Your Winners Announced in the IceInSpace Calendar Competition for 2016!
Mars will NOT be the size of the Full Moon on August 27th!
From a Million Miles Away, NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth
* Your Winners Announced in the IceInSpace Calendar Competition for 2016!
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/scripts/calendar-competition/voting.2016/2016-calendar-cover-winner-300px.jpg
After running the IceInSpace Calendar Competition 2016 during June and July 2015, over 250 images were submitted and after over 1200 votes by the extended IceInSpace Community, the winning images have now been chosen by you!
View the Winning Images (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/93-778-0-0-1-0.html)
Your IceInSpace Astronomy Calendar 2016 will be on sale in the IceInSpace Shop (http://shop.iceinspace.com.au) from late August/early September. So buy plenty of calendars for yourself, your family and friends, work colleagues etc :)
Congrats to all winners and thanks to the IceInSpace Community for your part in making this competition a success.
* Mars will NOT be the size of the Full Moon on August 27th!
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/20150819-marsfullmoon.jpg
Every year this hoax comes up, and I'm sure we all know it's not true by now. This year, I've not even seen the 'layperson' sharing the hoax but I've seen all the science sites warning of the hoax. So maybe the message is finally getting through, and after 10+ years of it maybe next year we all won't need to post the warning about the hoax? :)
"Just for kicks, how close would Mars need to be to appear as large as the full moon in the night sky? About 780,000 kilometers (485,000 miles), which is approximately 118 times closer than it will ever be. Heck, the Moon’s average distance is about 363,100 kilometers (225,600 miles), so we’d all be in pretty big trouble if Mars got that close." - IFLScience (http://www.iflscience.com/space/no-mars-will-not-appear-large-full-moon-night-sky).
* From a Million Miles Away, NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/20150819-earthmoon.jpg
Wow - this is incredible. A view never before seen.
"A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. The series of test images shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth.
The images were captured by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. From its position between the sun and Earth, DSCOVR conducts its primary mission of real-time solar wind monitoring for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)."
View the amazing images and animation on NASA.gov (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth).
Thanks for reading! Keep looking up!
Your Winners Announced in the IceInSpace Calendar Competition for 2016!
Mars will NOT be the size of the Full Moon on August 27th!
From a Million Miles Away, NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth
* Your Winners Announced in the IceInSpace Calendar Competition for 2016!
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/scripts/calendar-competition/voting.2016/2016-calendar-cover-winner-300px.jpg
After running the IceInSpace Calendar Competition 2016 during June and July 2015, over 250 images were submitted and after over 1200 votes by the extended IceInSpace Community, the winning images have now been chosen by you!
View the Winning Images (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/93-778-0-0-1-0.html)
Your IceInSpace Astronomy Calendar 2016 will be on sale in the IceInSpace Shop (http://shop.iceinspace.com.au) from late August/early September. So buy plenty of calendars for yourself, your family and friends, work colleagues etc :)
Congrats to all winners and thanks to the IceInSpace Community for your part in making this competition a success.
* Mars will NOT be the size of the Full Moon on August 27th!
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/20150819-marsfullmoon.jpg
Every year this hoax comes up, and I'm sure we all know it's not true by now. This year, I've not even seen the 'layperson' sharing the hoax but I've seen all the science sites warning of the hoax. So maybe the message is finally getting through, and after 10+ years of it maybe next year we all won't need to post the warning about the hoax? :)
"Just for kicks, how close would Mars need to be to appear as large as the full moon in the night sky? About 780,000 kilometers (485,000 miles), which is approximately 118 times closer than it will ever be. Heck, the Moon’s average distance is about 363,100 kilometers (225,600 miles), so we’d all be in pretty big trouble if Mars got that close." - IFLScience (http://www.iflscience.com/space/no-mars-will-not-appear-large-full-moon-night-sky).
* From a Million Miles Away, NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/20150819-earthmoon.jpg
Wow - this is incredible. A view never before seen.
"A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. The series of test images shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth.
The images were captured by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. From its position between the sun and Earth, DSCOVR conducts its primary mission of real-time solar wind monitoring for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)."
View the amazing images and animation on NASA.gov (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth).
Thanks for reading! Keep looking up!