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669-Seeds(356)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Voyager Leaving Solar System, Credit: NASA
What plant seeds will be left for interstellar travelers to take with them?

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
668-Dry Sands(420)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
Intriguing features which change with the Martian seasons mimic flows of liquid water on the Earth's surface.

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
666-Red Dwarf Planets(417)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Gliese 887C, Credit: Mark Garlick/ University of Göttingen
Earth like planets are being discovered circling the most common type of star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy.

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
665-Odd Ball(416)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Shattering, Credit: NASA
A small asteroid soars into the lonely space high above and below the plane of our solar system.

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
664-Extraterrestrial Whales(410)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Europa, Credit: NASA
Perhaps the reason that we have not detected alien civilizations on distant worlds is because they exist in oceans covered by miles of radiation ab...

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
663-Alien Rock?(409)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Illustration, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A rock from another solar system is likely to have streaked by Earth before heading back into interstellar space.

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
662-Earth's Pet Rock(408)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Eros, Credit: NASA
On it's gravitational leash, Earth's pet space rock, 2016 HO3, accompanies us at a distance of between 38 and 100 times the Moon's distance from Ea...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
661-Roving Venus (400)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: An illustration of a concept for a possible wind-powered Venus rover., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
To survive on Venus where the temperature is 864F and the surface air pressure is 90 times that of Earth, NASA and JPL engineers are exploring the ...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
660-Double Comet (403)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Neat observed At Kitt Peak, Credit: NASA
What at first appeared to be an asteroid turned out to be a double comet.

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
659-Martian Debris(382)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
Martian Trojan asteroids have stable orbits around the Sun, leading and trailing the red planet by 60 degrees, where the Sun's and Mars's gravity a...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
657-Plant Companionship(407)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson happily displays the progress of the Advanced Astroculture experiment aboard the International Space Station in July 2002., Credit: NASA
On Earth, human life is enabled by plants which provide us with calories, vitamins, fuel, medicines, and oxygen to breathe. In addition, recent sci...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
656-Moons of Florence(399)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The largest asteroid to come near the Earth in 100 years has two moons.

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
654-Night Vision (401)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Experience the wonders of the Universe first hand using your night vision.

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
653-Biggest Ear (300)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
China's new big ear will be the most sensitive receiver to search for signals from alien civilizations.

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
649-30 Days of Traffic
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
During a recent 30 day period asteroid hunters spotted 88 small space rocks passing through our neighborhood. Their diameters ranged from the leng...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
648-Smoky Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Smith Telescope McDonald Observatory, Credit: McDonald Observatory
Until recently smoky nights at the observatory were rare. Now they have become more common place as wild fires continue to devastate portions of th...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
647-Vigilance
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A break in the weather provides the opportunity to discover an Earth approaching object.

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
646-Young Martian Volcanoes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Recent explosive volcanic deposit around a fissure of the Cerberus Fossae system. , Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/The Murray Lab
Relatively recent volcanic activity observed on Mars suggests that where subsurface martian magma and frozen water meet is where microbial life cou...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
644-Tracking Meteoroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A team of astronomers find that as many as 14 comets which came to less than 4 times the Moon's distance from us as long as 4,000 years ago are de...

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  • Added: May 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
643-Space Vehicles
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: SpaceX Starship, Credit: SpaceX
New Rocket engines will revolutionize space travel to the Moon and Mars.

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  • Added: May 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
639-Earth Approachers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
During a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters discovered 29 space rocks as they passed closer to us than the Moon. These small asteroids averaged...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
638-Methane
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s conception of early Earth after several large asteroid impacts, moving magma on to the surface. , Credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI
How ET could know there is life on Earth.

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
637-Martian Dust
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Zodiacal Light and Mars , Credit: Joshua Rhoades
After sunset in the spring and before sunrise in the fall, at a natural night sky location like the Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctu...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
635-Exploring Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: This artist's concept depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover on the surface of Mars., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
We are lucky to be alive in an age when anyone with an internet connection can participate in the exploration of Mars. Your unique brain-eye combi...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
634-Meteor Goes Splat
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
On 28 February 2021 at 9:54PM a large slow moving fireball meteor was observed over England, Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. The Wichcombe m...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10