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    Venus, Mars and Uranus are gathering for a remarkable alignment.

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    Venus, Mars and Uranus are gathering for a remarkable alignment. Empty Venus, Mars and Uranus are gathering for a remarkable alignment.

    Post  Carol Tue Mar 26, 2013 8:38 pm

    Venus, Mars and Uranus are gathering for a remarkable alignment. Planets_anim
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    Venus, Mars and Uranus are gathering for a remarkable alignment
    DAYLIGHT ALIGNMENT OF PLANETS: Venus, Mars and Uranus are gathering for a remarkable alignment. But don't bother looking for the conjunction; it is happening in the daylight sky within a few degrees of the glaring sun. Using an opaque disk to block the glare, coronagraphs onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) are able to track the planets: Venus and Uranus will cross paths within 1.5 degrees of the sun on March 27-28. Mars and Venus have their own very close encounter on April 6-7. Mars will be so close to the sun throughout the month of April that it will limit NASA's contact with the Mars rovers and orbiters.

    According to a NASA press release, "Mars will be passing almost directly behind the sun [as seen from Earth]. The sun can easily disrupt radio transmissions between the two planets during the near-alignment. To prevent an impaired command from reaching an orbiter or rover, mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are preparing to suspend sending any commands to spacecraft at Mars for weeks in April. Transmissions from Mars to Earth will also be reduced." Mars will be at its closest to the sun, a slim 0.4 degrees on April 17th.

    The ongoing dance of the sun and planets is invisible to the human eye, but coronagraphs can see the show.


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