Feb 17 - #GoodnightOppy

February 17 #GoodnightOppy by:

Help EarthSky keep going ... we NEED your help! Hello, friends of the Earth and sky! We're on the 3rd day of our once-yearly crowd-funding campaign. Can you help? Click here to donate and learn more. Space fans speak of the Mars rovers - which are sophisticated robots - almost as if they're human. #GoodnightOppy. Image via NASA. Mars Opportunity rover ends mission This week, NASA announced that the Mars Opportunity rover, built to last 90 days, has ended its mission after 15 years on the red planet. #ThankYouOppy for 15 years of scientific discovery and Mars exploration! Read more. Volcanic activity under Mars's surface? Mars has long been thought to be a geologically dead world. Could there still be volcanic activity beneath its surface? A subsurface lake at Mars' south pole suggests that possibility. Read more. Heads up! 2019's biggest supermoon It's coming up Monday and Tuesday nights. Learn more. Read more.

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Tomorrow morning ... Venus-Saturn conjunction Watch the great sky show before daybreak Monday morning, as the planets Venus and Saturn come to conjunction beneath Jupiter in the east before sunup. Charts and more here.

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter before sunup EarthSky friend JV Noriega caught the planets Saturday morning in the east before sunup over Cape Santiago lighthouse, Batangas, Philippines. Thank you, JV! Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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