Space Weather News for May 28, 2008
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THE DESCENT OF PHOENIX: When NASA's Phoenix
probe parachuted to Mars
last Sunday, a pair of other spacecraft
were orbiting high overhead,
watching and listening. While NASA's
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped
some jaw-dropping photos of Phoenix's
plunge to the surface, Europe's
Mars Express orbiter recorded Phoenix's
radio transmissions. The
eerie-sounding tones have just been
beamed back to Earth and you can listen
to
them by following the links at today's
edition of
http://spaceweather.com.
CARTWHEEL CME: Imagine a billion-ton
cloud of gas launching itself off
the surface of the sun and then ...
doing a cartwheel. That's exactly
what happened on April 9, 2008, when
a coronal mass ejection pirouetted
over the sun's limb in full view of
an international fleet of
spacecraft. The cartwheel set off a
chain of events that amazed even veteran
solar physicists. The full story,
and a spectacular movie of a second
cartwheel recorded just last week,
may be found at
http://spaceweather.com .
Terri, Events Coordinator
Email: Events@PASAz.org
Phoenix Astronomical Society
