Sept 10 - Stand on Mars, Look Around

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View larger. | Here's a new selfie of the Curiosity rover on Mars. Notice the umber skies, darkened by a recent global dust storm. See the dust on the rover? Image via NASA. Good morning!   Stand on Mars, look around Mars comes closest to the sun this Sunday, September 16, and, as often happens when Mars is near its perihelion, a global dust storm has been raging for months on the red planet. Now the dust storm has abated, and NASA has released a great new 360-degree panorama on Mars, shown in this interactive video. How to stay safe in a hurricane Hurricane Florence is on track to hit the U.S. East Coast as a major storm later this week. Here are tips, if a hurricane is heading your way. The chart below - from the National Hurricane Center - shows Florence's predicted track, as of 5 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (09:00 UTC) Monday. Read more. Image via National Hurricane Center Tonight … Will you catch the young moon? Africa and South America have the best shot Monday evening. If you miss it tonight, look Tuesday! The moon will move up past bright planets this week. See chart below, and read more. Summer 2018 was 4th hottest on record for U.S. The months of June, July, and August 2018 were the 4th hottest on record for the contiguous United States, according to a NOAA analysis. Read more.

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Tonight … Will you catch the young moon? Look west after sunset Monday evening for the young moon. It'll be very near the sunset point. Whether or not you see it, notice Venus and Jupiter - both very bright - and close in the west after sunset. The moon will sweep past these planets this week. Read more.

Beach mirrors sky over Lincolnshire, U.K. When a thin film of water covered this beach, it looked as if people (and dogs) could walk in the sky. John Bennett captured his son and their dog, Foxy. Read more. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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