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The ultra-high-definition video took less than two minutes to reach Caltech’s Palomar Observatory, sent at the test system’s maximum rate of 267 megabits per second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video was loaded into Psyche’s laser communication experiment before the spacecraft blasted off to a rare metal asteroid in October. The mission team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, decided to feature an employee’s 3-year-old playful kitty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video was streamed to Earth on Dec. 11 and released by NASA this week. Despite the vast distance, the test relayed the video faster than most broadband internet connections here on Earth, said the project’s Ryan Rogalin.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1736900843813605759"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>NASA wants to improve communications from deep space, especially as astronauts gear up to return to the moon with an eye toward Mars. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1984704","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/231016-AMES-RESEARCH-CENTER-NASA-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The laser demo is meant to transmit data at rates up to 100 times greater than the radio systems currently used by spacecraft far from Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More test transmissions are planned as Psyche heads toward the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But Taters won’t be making any more appearances, according to JPL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joby Harris, an art director in JPL’s DesignLab, couldn’t be prouder but doesn’t want his cat’s newfound celebrity to go to his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m celebrating his spotlight with him, but making sure he keeps his paws on the carpet,” Harris said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11970594/nasa-uses-laser-to-beam-this-cute-cat-video-to-earth","authors":["byline_news_11970594"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_355","news_3187","news_1770"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11970595","label":"news_253"},"news_11920390":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11920390","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11920390","score":null,"sort":[1658772989000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"alt-text-helps-the-visually-impaired-experience-the-james-webb-telescope-images","title":"Alt Text Helps the Visually Impaired Experience the James Webb Telescope Images","publishDate":1658772989,"format":"standard","headTitle":"NPR | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":253,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\"A starfield is speckled across the image. They range from small, faint points of light to larger, closer, brighter and more fully resolved stars with eight-point diffraction spikes. The upper-right portion of the image has wispy, translucent, cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's how a team of scientists, writers and educators described in vivid detail just one of the breathtaking \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/07/12/1111002820/webb-telescope-images-nasa\">celestial images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope\u003c/a> so people with visual impairments could appreciate it, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Space is for everyone. It shouldn't matter who you are,\" said Tim Rhue, an education specialist at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.stsci.edu/\">Space Telescope Science Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His team wrote labels for pictures stuffed with distant spinning galaxies, glowing clouds of gas and blazing stars using the alt text feature on social media apps, which is designed to make the internet more accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It allows people who use screen readers to hear a description of an image and helps when images on a website won't load.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's another example of an alt text description from another Webb image: \"A large, translucent, red oval surrounds the central stars. From the red oval, shells extend in a mix of colors. The shells appear to have a filamentous pattern similar to the surface of a cut citrus fruit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" postID=\"science_1979819,forum_2010101889805\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhue said he was astonished by the images the telescope captured, and he and his team wanted that astonishment to be shared by everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is definitely a labor of love,\" Rhue said. \"There are so many things that make life difficult for people, but this is just pure joy, the universe out there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, under development for decades and launched into space in December, is NASA's newest and most powerful. On July 12, the first color images were released. And scientists have been poring over the data that's come coming from the telescope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lotz, director of the International Gemini Observatory, is part of a team looking at one field of thousands of galaxies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know these galaxies pretty well, but seeing these images with James Webb, it's like putting glasses on,\" Lotz \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/21/1112356969/the-new-science-coming-from-the-james-webb-telescope-has-astronomers-giddy\">told NPR\u003c/a>. \"Like, things we couldn't see before now are just crystal clear. And it's been overwhelming. It's been really overwhelming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://astro.uchicago.edu/people/jacob-l-bean.php\">Jacob Bean\u003c/a>, an astronomer with the University of Chicago, described what the telescope has brought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a birthday and Christmas and an anniversary and a graduation and Thanksgiving and Hanukkah all wrapped into one for us and happening just every day,\" Bean told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Rhue's team is helping to spread that joy even farther.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We love seeing people's face light up,\" Rhue said. \"We love seeing people really get the big picture and our place in it all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR's Raquel Maria Dillon contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Alt+text+helps+the+visually+impaired+experience+the+James+Webb+Telescope+images&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Visually impaired people can enjoy the celestial images captured by the James Webb Telescope and shared by NASA. A team provided descriptive labels using the alt text feature on social media apps.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1658773104,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":495},"headData":{"title":"Alt Text Helps the Visually Impaired Experience the James Webb Telescope Images | KQED","description":"Visually impaired people can enjoy the celestial images captured by the James Webb Telescope and shared by NASA. 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They range from small, faint points of light to larger, closer, brighter and more fully resolved stars with eight-point diffraction spikes. The upper-right portion of the image has wispy, translucent, cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's how a team of scientists, writers and educators described in vivid detail just one of the breathtaking \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/07/12/1111002820/webb-telescope-images-nasa\">celestial images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope\u003c/a> so people with visual impairments could appreciate it, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Space is for everyone. 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On July 12, the first color images were released. And scientists have been poring over the data that's come coming from the telescope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lotz, director of the International Gemini Observatory, is part of a team looking at one field of thousands of galaxies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know these galaxies pretty well, but seeing these images with James Webb, it's like putting glasses on,\" Lotz \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/21/1112356969/the-new-science-coming-from-the-james-webb-telescope-has-astronomers-giddy\">told NPR\u003c/a>. \"Like, things we couldn't see before now are just crystal clear. And it's been overwhelming. It's been really overwhelming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://astro.uchicago.edu/people/jacob-l-bean.php\">Jacob Bean\u003c/a>, an astronomer with the University of Chicago, described what the telescope has brought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a birthday and Christmas and an anniversary and a graduation and Thanksgiving and Hanukkah all wrapped into one for us and happening just every day,\" Bean told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Rhue's team is helping to spread that joy even farther.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We love seeing people's face light up,\" Rhue said. \"We love seeing people really get the big picture and our place in it all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR's Raquel Maria Dillon contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Alt+text+helps+the+visually+impaired+experience+the+James+Webb+Telescope+images&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11920390/alt-text-helps-the-visually-impaired-experience-the-james-webb-telescope-images","authors":["byline_news_11920390"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_30397","news_355","news_1770"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11920391","label":"news_253"},"news_11912590":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11912590","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11912590","score":null,"sort":[1651744889000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"no-the-stanford-dish-isnt-listening-for-aliens-but-it-was-designed-to-spy-on-russia","title":"No, the Stanford Dish Isn't Listening for Aliens — but It Was Built to Spy on Russia","publishDate":1651744889,"format":"standard","headTitle":"No, the Stanford Dish Isn’t Listening for Aliens — but It Was Built to Spy on Russia | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>On the western edge of Stanford University’s sprawling, 8,180-acre campus stands a giant satellite dish pointed at the sky. It’s known simply as “\u003ca href=\"https://dish.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Dish\u003c/a>,” and it stands out among Stanford’s rolling hills — green or yellow, depending on the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who built The Dish?” asked former Menlo Park resident Jim Timmins. He also wanted to know, “When was it built? For what purpose? Is it still in service? If it’s not in service, when was it taken out of service?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timmins retired from a career in finance four years ago and moved to a dairy farm outside of Toronto, Canada. But he still listens to Bay Curious, and he still dreams about The Dish — not just the satellite dish, but the sprawling park and walking paths surrounding the massive saucer that thousands of people visit each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912625\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11912625\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"An elevated view of green hills dotted with oak trees and the San Francisco Bay in the distance.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An elevated view, from the mezzanine of the Stanford Dish, of surrounding green hills dotted with oak trees, and the San Francisco Bay in the distance. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just an incredible view,” Timmins explained. “I can remember it like it was yesterday. To the west, is the Pacific Ocean. To the south, I could see past San Jose. To the east, I could see well into the Central Valley. And to the north, I could see all the way past San Francisco and the Golden Gate in to Marin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, this reporter has never seen quite so far as Timmins says he did when he started running around The Dish, as a Stanford student, back in 1979. But I do spot San Jose and San Francisco on clear days, and I love the way I can watch the landscape change over the seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11912633\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A close up of oak acorns still on the tree.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oak trees sprout leaves — and acorns — in the spring. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clutches of deer and turkeys roam the grounds in the spring. Coyotes and tarantulas, too, in the late summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Red-tailed hawks coast on thermals, hunting for chirping ground squirrels in the grass below all year. I’ve spotted egrets, woodpeckers and hummingbirds. I’ve never seen a mountain lion, but signs warn me they’re out there as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though I — and some 600,000 visitors a year — think of The Dish as a public park, it’s actually owned by Stanford. “The Dish is primarily used for academic research purposes, but in addition to that, it’s used for habitat restoration conservation efforts,” said Jovan Solis, who works with \u003ca href=\"https://lbre.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford Land, Buildings & Real Estate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11912632 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A young male turkey shows his tail on a paved hiking path.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young male turkey eyes a KQED reporter warily on the hiking path at the Stanford Dish. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Look closely and you’ll spot all kinds of habitat restoration projects Stanford students and professors are working on. There are efforts to encourage \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2019/01/15/save-native-grasslands-study-invasive-species/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">native grasses\u003c/a> and plants, like the \u003ca href=\"https://jrbp.stanford.edu/research/projects/floral-ecology-mimulus-aurantiacus-and-pedicularis-densiflora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sticky monkey flower\u003c/a> and California \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/~siegelr/flora/poppy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poppies\u003c/a>, as well as critters, like the \u003ca href=\"https://hcp.stanford.edu/salamander.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California tiger salamander\u003c/a>. There also are two massive, solar-powered water storage facilities and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.alertwildfire.org/region/southeastbay/?camera=Axis-StanfordDish&v=81e002f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wildfire alert system\u003c/a>.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The dish about the Dish at the Dish\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Dish is a parabolic antenna radio telescope pointed at the heavens. It’s basically a giant, U-shaped dish, 150 feet from edge to edge, that sends and receives signals from space. And who’s the wizard of this Oz? It’s Stephen Muther, a senior research engineer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sri.com/hoi/dish-radio-antenna/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SRI International\u003c/a>, a nonprofit scientific research institute started by Stanford in 1946.[emailsignup newslettername=\"baycurious\" align=\"right\"]He explained that The Dish was built in the early 1960s as a Cold War response to Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite launched into space. Sputnik, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, was about the size and shape of a beach ball, and it sent the U.S. into a national panic that was eventually channeled into a space program of our own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11912627\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A man standing several flights of stairs up a giant satellite dish smiles at the view.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Muther, a senior research engineer at SRI International, takes in the view from the mezzanine level of his office. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were … listening to signals from [the Soviet Union] as they bounced off of the moon, using the moon as a reflector,” Muther said. The Dish was basically a giant spying device. (You can watch \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/bAvwUjN30kY\">silent footage of its construction here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, scientists and amateur radio enthusiasts like to demonstrate the process, for research purposes and for fun. The Dish concentrates radio waves into a narrow beam of energy, most of which gets absorbed by the moon. The rest bounces back our way, a round trip that takes about 2.5 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve sent Morse code signals to the moon and back,” Muther said. “Testing, one, two, three. Hello. Hello. That kind of thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2493px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11912628\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A 1960s era control panel features knobs and meters.\" width=\"2493\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-scaled.jpeg 2493w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-800x821.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-1020x1047.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-160x164.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-1496x1536.jpeg 1496w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-1995x2048.jpeg 1995w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-1920x1971.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2493px) 100vw, 2493px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1960s-era control panel inside the observation desk of The Dish. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For years, I presumed The Dish was designed to listen for aliens. “No,” said Muther. It turns out that the airwaves above the hills on the Stanford campus are filled with all sorts of extraneous sounds, “from cellphones to broadcast stations, radio-dispatched anything. It’s a very noisy environment,” Muther said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really want to be out in the middle of nowhere [to listen for signs of extraterrestrial life],” he continued. “We mostly talk to spacecraft [i.e., human-made satellites] closer to home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muther also offered me a tour of the observation deck at ground level of The Dish, his day-to-day office. It looks like a science classroom circa 1960, albeit one with a great view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11912822 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A sign is posted next to neat rows of flowers planted where grass has been cleared.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign tells passersby about efforts to more fully establish the sticky monkey flower, a favorite of local hummingbirds, on the grounds of the Stanford Dish. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All these buttons here are the same ones you see on the control consoles in the old \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/s69-40022_orig.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apollo Mission Control\u003c/a>,” he said. “It’s the same hardware, came from the same era, and it’s still in use today. We still have spare parts for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dish sits on a circular rail, rotating upon command from these very controls inside the observation deck. It also can be tilted up or to the side, as desired. “This whole structure rotates — the building and everything,” Muther said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Muther what the red “panic” button in the center of the main console is used for. “Well, sometimes the computer doesn’t do what you think it should be doing, and sends you off in the wrong direction really fast, and you’ve got to put a stop to it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1213px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11912636\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_2177.jpeg\" alt=\"A tarantula stands atop dry grass.\" width=\"1213\" height=\"1213\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_2177.jpeg 1213w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_2177-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_2177-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_2177-160x160.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1213px) 100vw, 1213px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tarantula eyes a KQED reporter along the hiking trail at the Stanford Dish. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A chain-link fence keeps most nosy humans away from the satellite dish, but there is a lot of wildlife in the area. Birds, in particular, like to perch on The Dish and watch the goings-on below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why not see for yourself what draws the crowds? No dogs or bicycles are allowed, but The Dish is open seven days a week, typically sunup to sundown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11912823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman with sunglasses and a striped sunhat smiles in the foreground. A satellite dish sits on the hills behind her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED’s Rachael Myrow has struggled to take a selfie that includes her and The Dish while delivering a proper sense of scale. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Stanford Dish is a popular park as well as the home of a 1960s-era parabolic antenna radio telescope built to keep tabs on the Russian space program at the height of the Cold War. It's still used for research.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700532778,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1265},"headData":{"title":"No, the Stanford Dish Isn't Listening for Aliens — but It Was Built to Spy on Russia | KQED","description":"The Stanford Dish is a popular park as well as the home of a 1960s-era parabolic antenna radio telescope built to keep tabs on the Russian space program at the height of the Cold War. 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It’s known simply as “\u003ca href=\"https://dish.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Dish\u003c/a>,” and it stands out among Stanford’s rolling hills — green or yellow, depending on the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who built The Dish?” asked former Menlo Park resident Jim Timmins. He also wanted to know, “When was it built? For what purpose? Is it still in service? If it’s not in service, when was it taken out of service?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timmins retired from a career in finance four years ago and moved to a dairy farm outside of Toronto, Canada. But he still listens to Bay Curious, and he still dreams about The Dish — not just the satellite dish, but the sprawling park and walking paths surrounding the massive saucer that thousands of people visit each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912625\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11912625\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"An elevated view of green hills dotted with oak trees and the San Francisco Bay in the distance.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5780-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An elevated view, from the mezzanine of the Stanford Dish, of surrounding green hills dotted with oak trees, and the San Francisco Bay in the distance. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just an incredible view,” Timmins explained. “I can remember it like it was yesterday. To the west, is the Pacific Ocean. To the south, I could see past San Jose. To the east, I could see well into the Central Valley. And to the north, I could see all the way past San Francisco and the Golden Gate in to Marin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, this reporter has never seen quite so far as Timmins says he did when he started running around The Dish, as a Stanford student, back in 1979. But I do spot San Jose and San Francisco on clear days, and I love the way I can watch the landscape change over the seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11912633\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A close up of oak acorns still on the tree.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/40E5EEAA-9216-4CA3-9C40-3549EE977935-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oak trees sprout leaves — and acorns — in the spring. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clutches of deer and turkeys roam the grounds in the spring. Coyotes and tarantulas, too, in the late summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Red-tailed hawks coast on thermals, hunting for chirping ground squirrels in the grass below all year. I’ve spotted egrets, woodpeckers and hummingbirds. I’ve never seen a mountain lion, but signs warn me they’re out there as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though I — and some 600,000 visitors a year — think of The Dish as a public park, it’s actually owned by Stanford. “The Dish is primarily used for academic research purposes, but in addition to that, it’s used for habitat restoration conservation efforts,” said Jovan Solis, who works with \u003ca href=\"https://lbre.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford Land, Buildings & Real Estate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11912632 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A young male turkey shows his tail on a paved hiking path.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4483-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young male turkey eyes a KQED reporter warily on the hiking path at the Stanford Dish. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Look closely and you’ll spot all kinds of habitat restoration projects Stanford students and professors are working on. There are efforts to encourage \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2019/01/15/save-native-grasslands-study-invasive-species/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">native grasses\u003c/a> and plants, like the \u003ca href=\"https://jrbp.stanford.edu/research/projects/floral-ecology-mimulus-aurantiacus-and-pedicularis-densiflora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sticky monkey flower\u003c/a> and California \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/~siegelr/flora/poppy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poppies\u003c/a>, as well as critters, like the \u003ca href=\"https://hcp.stanford.edu/salamander.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California tiger salamander\u003c/a>. There also are two massive, solar-powered water storage facilities and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.alertwildfire.org/region/southeastbay/?camera=Axis-StanfordDish&v=81e002f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wildfire alert system\u003c/a>.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The dish about the Dish at the Dish\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Dish is a parabolic antenna radio telescope pointed at the heavens. It’s basically a giant, U-shaped dish, 150 feet from edge to edge, that sends and receives signals from space. And who’s the wizard of this Oz? It’s Stephen Muther, a senior research engineer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sri.com/hoi/dish-radio-antenna/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SRI International\u003c/a>, a nonprofit scientific research institute started by Stanford in 1946.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"emailsignup","attributes":{"named":{"newslettername":"baycurious","align":"right","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He explained that The Dish was built in the early 1960s as a Cold War response to Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite launched into space. Sputnik, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, was about the size and shape of a beach ball, and it sent the U.S. into a national panic that was eventually channeled into a space program of our own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11912627\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A man standing several flights of stairs up a giant satellite dish smiles at the view.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5772-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Muther, a senior research engineer at SRI International, takes in the view from the mezzanine level of his office. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were … listening to signals from [the Soviet Union] as they bounced off of the moon, using the moon as a reflector,” Muther said. The Dish was basically a giant spying device. (You can watch \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/bAvwUjN30kY\">silent footage of its construction here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, scientists and amateur radio enthusiasts like to demonstrate the process, for research purposes and for fun. The Dish concentrates radio waves into a narrow beam of energy, most of which gets absorbed by the moon. The rest bounces back our way, a round trip that takes about 2.5 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve sent Morse code signals to the moon and back,” Muther said. “Testing, one, two, three. Hello. Hello. That kind of thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2493px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11912628\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A 1960s era control panel features knobs and meters.\" width=\"2493\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-scaled.jpeg 2493w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-800x821.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-1020x1047.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-160x164.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-1496x1536.jpeg 1496w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-1995x2048.jpeg 1995w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_5801-1920x1971.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2493px) 100vw, 2493px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1960s-era control panel inside the observation desk of The Dish. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For years, I presumed The Dish was designed to listen for aliens. “No,” said Muther. It turns out that the airwaves above the hills on the Stanford campus are filled with all sorts of extraneous sounds, “from cellphones to broadcast stations, radio-dispatched anything. It’s a very noisy environment,” Muther said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really want to be out in the middle of nowhere [to listen for signs of extraterrestrial life],” he continued. “We mostly talk to spacecraft [i.e., human-made satellites] closer to home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muther also offered me a tour of the observation deck at ground level of The Dish, his day-to-day office. It looks like a science classroom circa 1960, albeit one with a great view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11912822 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A sign is posted next to neat rows of flowers planted where grass has been cleared.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4811-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign tells passersby about efforts to more fully establish the sticky monkey flower, a favorite of local hummingbirds, on the grounds of the Stanford Dish. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All these buttons here are the same ones you see on the control consoles in the old \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/s69-40022_orig.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apollo Mission Control\u003c/a>,” he said. “It’s the same hardware, came from the same era, and it’s still in use today. We still have spare parts for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dish sits on a circular rail, rotating upon command from these very controls inside the observation deck. It also can be tilted up or to the side, as desired. “This whole structure rotates — the building and everything,” Muther said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Muther what the red “panic” button in the center of the main console is used for. “Well, sometimes the computer doesn’t do what you think it should be doing, and sends you off in the wrong direction really fast, and you’ve got to put a stop to it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1213px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11912636\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_2177.jpeg\" alt=\"A tarantula stands atop dry grass.\" width=\"1213\" height=\"1213\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_2177.jpeg 1213w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_2177-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_2177-1020x1020.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_2177-160x160.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1213px) 100vw, 1213px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tarantula eyes a KQED reporter along the hiking trail at the Stanford Dish. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A chain-link fence keeps most nosy humans away from the satellite dish, but there is a lot of wildlife in the area. Birds, in particular, like to perch on The Dish and watch the goings-on below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why not see for yourself what draws the crowds? No dogs or bicycles are allowed, but The Dish is open seven days a week, typically sunup to sundown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11912823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman with sunglasses and a striped sunhat smiles in the foreground. A satellite dish sits on the hills behind her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/IMG_4803-scaled-e1651344034172-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED’s Rachael Myrow has struggled to take a selfie that includes her and The Dish while delivering a proper sense of scale. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11912590/no-the-stanford-dish-isnt-listening-for-aliens-but-it-was-designed-to-spy-on-russia","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_28250","news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_17925","news_1259","news_353","news_1770","news_178"],"featImg":"news_11912619","label":"source_news_11912590"},"news_11905732":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11905732","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11905732","score":null,"sort":[1645228053000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"from-total-eclipses-to-meteor-showers-the-2022-dates-stargazers-should-know","title":"From Total Eclipses to Meteor Showers, the 2022 Dates Stargazers Should Know","publishDate":1645228053,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>There’s nothing better than staring up at the clear, dark, dazzling, starry skies with a cup of hot chocolate and good company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the weather beginning to warm up, perhaps you're already thinking about planning future trips around the Bay Area — and opportunities to get outdoors and revel in those night skies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ben-burress\">Ben Burress, staff astronomer at Oakland's Chabot Space and Science Center\u003c/a>, about the astronomical events he’s excited to witness in 2022, and the celestial wonders he recommends marking your calendars for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a clear night, these events all can be seen from the Bay Area and surrounding places. So for all you astronomy buffs, moon chasers and stargazers out there, the following guide is for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#meteorshower\">When to see a meteor shower\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#totaleclipse\">When to see a total eclipse\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#supermoon\">When to see a supermoon\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Where to see the best night skies for the following astronomical events\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unless you live somewhere remote, you'll probably have to leave the comfort of your own home to see the full splendor of the astronomical events on Burress's recommendation list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Getting away from city lights as much as possible, if you can, is the most important thing,\" he said. And since that might mean being in an unfamiliar (and dark) location, remember to stay aware of your surroundings and \"make sure you're in a safe place,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One place to avoid? As beautiful as coastal areas can be during the day, they don't make the best stargazing spots, says Burress, \"because if there's a fog pattern going on, you get fogged out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You also want to consider timing. \"You can only really view a meteor shower after midnight, past two or three in the morning,\" said Burress. \"So you do have to put in some late night hours.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, remember to dress warmly and bring something to separate your body from the cold ground. \"Bring chairs or something to lay down on, or a blanket on the ground,\" he recommended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905851\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11905851\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/pexels-yuting-gao-1567069.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/pexels-yuting-gao-1567069.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/pexels-yuting-gao-1567069-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/pexels-yuting-gao-1567069-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/pexels-yuting-gao-1567069-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/pexels-yuting-gao-1567069-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two stargazers with a telescope, silhouetted against the night sky. \u003ccite>(Yuting Gao/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An astronomer's favorite spots for night skies in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>For general stargazing and viewing meteor showers\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Chabot Space and Science Center in the Oakland hills\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Strawberry Hill in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Twin Peaks, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Point Reyes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Redwood Regional Park, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grizzly Peak, Berkeley\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mount Diablo\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lick Observatory, San Jose\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve (Preserve closes ½ hour after sunset. \u003ca href=\"http://openspace.org/permits\">Free permit\u003c/a> required to remain later)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Muir Beach Overlook, Muir Beach\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>For seeing a supermoon\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/dir//Dumbarton+Bridge,+Newark,+CA/@37.5068751,-122.14852%5B%E2%80%A6%5D5c9fb38dc3:0xe4ea31c0ed0392d9!2m2!1d-122.1204075!2d37.5047568\">Under the Dumbarton Bridge\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Coyote Point Recreation Area\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Silicon Valley Vista Point\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can also consult \u003ca href=\"https://openspacetrust.org/blog/supermoon/\">the Peninsula Open Space Trust's guide to moongazing spots around the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"meteorshower\">\u003c/a>Meteor showers to see in 2022\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April: Lyrid meteor shower\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Lyrids are among the oldest known meteor showers and have existed in our skies for over 2,700 years. They appear to come from a point within the constellation of Lyra — near its brightest star, Vega — but like other meteors, they can appear anywhere in the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyrids originate from dust particles left by Comet Thatcher, discovered in 1861. The Lyrid meteor shower usually produces only 10-15 meteors per hour at its peak, so catching sight of them might take a bit of patience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best time to see the Lyrids is after sunset on April 21, and before moonrise in the early morning. The shower will last from around April 15 through April 29, according to \u003ca href=\"https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/earthskys-meteor-shower-guide/\">EarthSky\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>August: Perseid meteor showers\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nProbably the most popular meteor shower out there, and the most reliably bountiful, the Perseids will be visible from the Bay Area's night skies in mid-August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perseids originate from Comet Swift-Tuttle, discovered in 1862. This comet was said to have a nucleus of about 16 miles across — twice the size of the asteroid that brought about the extinction of dinosaurs. Perseids radiate from a point in the Perseus the Hero constellation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The predicted peak, where the shower is expected to produce the most meteors, is in the wee hours of Aug. 11-13, before dawn on those days. But the shower has a long range — from July 14 to Sept. 1 — and it's \"very reliable,\" Burress said. If you're somewhere with nice dark skies, your chances of seeing even the fainter meteors at a rate of \"50 or 60 meteors per hour\" are rather good, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You might expect to see one every minute or so. So that's pretty exciting,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905834\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11905834\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53778_NHQ202108100009_orig-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53778_NHQ202108100009_orig-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53778_NHQ202108100009_orig-qut-800x605.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53778_NHQ202108100009_orig-qut-1020x771.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53778_NHQ202108100009_orig-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53778_NHQ202108100009_orig-qut-1536x1161.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this 30-second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, in Spruce Knob, West Virginia. \u003ccite>(Bill Ingalls/NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>November: Leonid meteor showers\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Leonids' point of origin is in the constellation of Leo, the lion. They’re associated with Comet Tempel-Tuttle, discovered in 1865, and are also known for their spectacular meteor storms that occur about every 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 1966, viewers saw a dazzling shower of thousands of meteors per minute, lasting for about 15 minutes. The last meteor storm happened in 2002 — so although this year won’t be \u003cem>as\u003c/em> spectacular as 2002, on average you can still hope to see about 15 meteors per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best time to see the Leonids is on November 17 or 18 when they peak. Burress said at that time of year we get \"really nice, dark night skies\" that stay clear if we don't have rain, making the Leonids a particularly good shower to spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>December: Geminid meteor showers\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Geminids are considered one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year, offering a chance to see some 120 meteors per hour at their peak — and you can hope to see them from the Bay Area in December, weather permitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Geminids owe their name to the constellation Gemini, from which they emerge. Unlike many other meteor showers that originate from comets, Geminids are said to originate from an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can expect to see the peak of the showers Dec. 13-14, but the showers will be taking place Dec. 4-Dec. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"totaleclipse\">\u003c/a>Total eclipses to see in 2022\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A total lunar eclipse is often called a blood moon, because of the reddish color the full moon takes on. This red cast is caused by the same mechanism (called \u003ca href=\"https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/blue-sky/en/\">Rayleigh scattering\u003c/a>) that causes the colorful sunrises, sunsets and blue skies that we love so much. And from the Bay Area, you can view two total lunar eclipses this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905832\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11905832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53777_MAF_20211119_LunarEclipse01_orig-qut.jpg\" alt='A large, full \"Beaver Moon\" in the night sky, tinged a dark rust red.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53777_MAF_20211119_LunarEclipse01_orig-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53777_MAF_20211119_LunarEclipse01_orig-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53777_MAF_20211119_LunarEclipse01_orig-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53777_MAF_20211119_LunarEclipse01_orig-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53777_MAF_20211119_LunarEclipse01_orig-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nearly total eclipse of November’s full 'beaver moon' occurs over the city of New Orleans in the early morning hours of Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. The 97% eclipse clocked in at 3 hours, 28 minutes and 24 seconds, making it the longest partial moon eclipse in 580 years. \u003ccite>(Michael DeMocker/NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May: Blood moon No. 1\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe first one will be on May 15, beginning around 8 p.m. Earth's shadow will cover the moon at around 9 p.m. and the eclipse will last until about midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the moon rises at around 8 p.m., \"the eclipse will already be happening at that point,\" said Burress. \"It will be dark or kind of dark red in color, and will be really amazing if you can get a good view of the eastern sky where it's rising,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>November: Blood moon No. 2\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou can also enjoy another view of a total lunar eclipse on Nov. 8. This one, Burress said, will last longer and give you a better opportunity for viewing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this November event, \"you will actually be able to see the entire eclipse from beginning to end,\" Burress said. \"It'll last quite a number of hours, so it'll begin just after midnight. And it gets best around two and three in the morning, roughly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As sunrise draws closer, the eclipse will, of course, draw to its end — \"but the whole eclipse will happen while it's dark at night, so that that's actually a good one, [with] plenty of time,\" Burress said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"supermoon\">\u003c/a>Supermoons to see in 2022\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When a full moon is closest to the Earth — what's known as its perigee — that’s what's called a supermoon. But what’s so special about a supermoon?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A supermoon will be 30% brighter — maybe 15% brighter — than your average full moon,\" said Burress. \"And when the supermoon occurs at the same time as a lunar eclipse, or even solar eclipse, those eclipses are even more amazing. The lunar eclipse will last longer and then will get darker during totality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, among the many full moons we’ll be able to witness, there will be two supermoons we can look forward to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>June and July: Two supermoons\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou can see the super strawberry moon starting June 14, and the super buck moon starting on July 13. Supermoons look to the human eye to be larger than your average full moon because of the \"\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1191/the-moon-illusion-why-does-the-moon-look-so-big-sometimes/#:~:text=So%2C%20remember%20when%20you%20see,it's%20a%20zoomed%2Din%20view.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moon illusion\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our perception of the size of the moon in the sky changes so much. This is what they call 'the moon illusion,'\" Burress said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the moon is near the horizon, your brain compares it to the trees or the buildings, or the landscape you see, and you get sort of a mental perception that's different from when you see the moon high in the sky by itself with nothing to compare it to,\" explains Burress. \"It's just our brains perceive it as bigger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Spacecraft launches in 2022\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In addition to meteor showers, total lunar eclipses and supermoons, Burress said he's also looking forward to the August launch (exact date TBD) of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977331/nasa-to-explore-what-could-be-the-iron-core-of-a-former-planet\">NASA’s spacecraft Psyche, which will explore an asteroid that \u003cem>might \u003c/em>be a former planet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905833\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11905833\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53776_PIA21499_-_Artists_Concept_of_Psyche_Spacecraft-NASA-JPL-Caltech-Arizona-State-Univ-Space-Systems-Loral-Peter-Rubin-copy-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53776_PIA21499_-_Artists_Concept_of_Psyche_Spacecraft-NASA-JPL-Caltech-Arizona-State-Univ-Space-Systems-Loral-Peter-Rubin-copy-1-qut.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53776_PIA21499_-_Artists_Concept_of_Psyche_Spacecraft-NASA-JPL-Caltech-Arizona-State-Univ-Space-Systems-Loral-Peter-Rubin-copy-1-qut-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist concept of NASA's Psyche spacecraft orbiting its destination asteroid. \u003ccite>(Peter Rubin/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University/Space Systems Loral)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"What's special about this asteroid is that it appears to be mostly made of iron,\" Burress said, \"and they think maybe it was the core of a planet that got kind of blasted apart in the past. So they're really interested in it as possibly being a piece of a planet that was or was forming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burress said he'll also be keeping an eye out for the launch of JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) by the European Space Agency in May. JUICE will travel to Jupiter, to focus on the planet's moons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, scientists are interested in Jupiter's moon Europa, on which \"they've discovered a really big ocean of water underneath this icy crust,\" said Burress. \"So I'm very excited about that — and the possibilities of finding possible life there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t forget to tag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kqedscience\">@KQEDScience on Twitter\u003c/a> to share some of your memorable astronomical experiences!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: Ben Burress is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ben-burress\">regular contributor to KQED\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Love stargazing? Planning future trips around the Bay Area? Mark your calendars for these spectacular celestial events to know in 2022. 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So for all you astronomy buffs, moon chasers and stargazers out there, the following guide is for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#meteorshower\">When to see a meteor shower\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#totaleclipse\">When to see a total eclipse\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#supermoon\">When to see a supermoon\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Where to see the best night skies for the following astronomical events\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unless you live somewhere remote, you'll probably have to leave the comfort of your own home to see the full splendor of the astronomical events on Burress's recommendation list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Getting away from city lights as much as possible, if you can, is the most important thing,\" he said. And since that might mean being in an unfamiliar (and dark) location, remember to stay aware of your surroundings and \"make sure you're in a safe place,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One place to avoid? As beautiful as coastal areas can be during the day, they don't make the best stargazing spots, says Burress, \"because if there's a fog pattern going on, you get fogged out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You also want to consider timing. \"You can only really view a meteor shower after midnight, past two or three in the morning,\" said Burress. \"So you do have to put in some late night hours.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, remember to dress warmly and bring something to separate your body from the cold ground. \"Bring chairs or something to lay down on, or a blanket on the ground,\" he recommended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905851\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11905851\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/pexels-yuting-gao-1567069.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/pexels-yuting-gao-1567069.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/pexels-yuting-gao-1567069-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/pexels-yuting-gao-1567069-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/pexels-yuting-gao-1567069-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/pexels-yuting-gao-1567069-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two stargazers with a telescope, silhouetted against the night sky. \u003ccite>(Yuting Gao/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An astronomer's favorite spots for night skies in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>For general stargazing and viewing meteor showers\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Chabot Space and Science Center in the Oakland hills\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Strawberry Hill in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Twin Peaks, San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Point Reyes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Redwood Regional Park, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grizzly Peak, Berkeley\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mount Diablo\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lick Observatory, San Jose\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve (Preserve closes ½ hour after sunset. \u003ca href=\"http://openspace.org/permits\">Free permit\u003c/a> required to remain later)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Muir Beach Overlook, Muir Beach\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>For seeing a supermoon\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/dir//Dumbarton+Bridge,+Newark,+CA/@37.5068751,-122.14852%5B%E2%80%A6%5D5c9fb38dc3:0xe4ea31c0ed0392d9!2m2!1d-122.1204075!2d37.5047568\">Under the Dumbarton Bridge\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Coyote Point Recreation Area\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Silicon Valley Vista Point\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can also consult \u003ca href=\"https://openspacetrust.org/blog/supermoon/\">the Peninsula Open Space Trust's guide to moongazing spots around the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"meteorshower\">\u003c/a>Meteor showers to see in 2022\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April: Lyrid meteor shower\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Lyrids are among the oldest known meteor showers and have existed in our skies for over 2,700 years. They appear to come from a point within the constellation of Lyra — near its brightest star, Vega — but like other meteors, they can appear anywhere in the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyrids originate from dust particles left by Comet Thatcher, discovered in 1861. The Lyrid meteor shower usually produces only 10-15 meteors per hour at its peak, so catching sight of them might take a bit of patience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best time to see the Lyrids is after sunset on April 21, and before moonrise in the early morning. The shower will last from around April 15 through April 29, according to \u003ca href=\"https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/earthskys-meteor-shower-guide/\">EarthSky\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>August: Perseid meteor showers\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nProbably the most popular meteor shower out there, and the most reliably bountiful, the Perseids will be visible from the Bay Area's night skies in mid-August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perseids originate from Comet Swift-Tuttle, discovered in 1862. This comet was said to have a nucleus of about 16 miles across — twice the size of the asteroid that brought about the extinction of dinosaurs. Perseids radiate from a point in the Perseus the Hero constellation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The predicted peak, where the shower is expected to produce the most meteors, is in the wee hours of Aug. 11-13, before dawn on those days. But the shower has a long range — from July 14 to Sept. 1 — and it's \"very reliable,\" Burress said. If you're somewhere with nice dark skies, your chances of seeing even the fainter meteors at a rate of \"50 or 60 meteors per hour\" are rather good, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You might expect to see one every minute or so. So that's pretty exciting,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905834\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11905834\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53778_NHQ202108100009_orig-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53778_NHQ202108100009_orig-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53778_NHQ202108100009_orig-qut-800x605.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53778_NHQ202108100009_orig-qut-1020x771.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53778_NHQ202108100009_orig-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53778_NHQ202108100009_orig-qut-1536x1161.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this 30-second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, in Spruce Knob, West Virginia. \u003ccite>(Bill Ingalls/NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>November: Leonid meteor showers\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Leonids' point of origin is in the constellation of Leo, the lion. They’re associated with Comet Tempel-Tuttle, discovered in 1865, and are also known for their spectacular meteor storms that occur about every 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 1966, viewers saw a dazzling shower of thousands of meteors per minute, lasting for about 15 minutes. The last meteor storm happened in 2002 — so although this year won’t be \u003cem>as\u003c/em> spectacular as 2002, on average you can still hope to see about 15 meteors per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best time to see the Leonids is on November 17 or 18 when they peak. Burress said at that time of year we get \"really nice, dark night skies\" that stay clear if we don't have rain, making the Leonids a particularly good shower to spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>December: Geminid meteor showers\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Geminids are considered one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year, offering a chance to see some 120 meteors per hour at their peak — and you can hope to see them from the Bay Area in December, weather permitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Geminids owe their name to the constellation Gemini, from which they emerge. Unlike many other meteor showers that originate from comets, Geminids are said to originate from an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can expect to see the peak of the showers Dec. 13-14, but the showers will be taking place Dec. 4-Dec. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"totaleclipse\">\u003c/a>Total eclipses to see in 2022\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A total lunar eclipse is often called a blood moon, because of the reddish color the full moon takes on. This red cast is caused by the same mechanism (called \u003ca href=\"https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/blue-sky/en/\">Rayleigh scattering\u003c/a>) that causes the colorful sunrises, sunsets and blue skies that we love so much. And from the Bay Area, you can view two total lunar eclipses this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905832\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11905832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53777_MAF_20211119_LunarEclipse01_orig-qut.jpg\" alt='A large, full \"Beaver Moon\" in the night sky, tinged a dark rust red.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53777_MAF_20211119_LunarEclipse01_orig-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53777_MAF_20211119_LunarEclipse01_orig-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53777_MAF_20211119_LunarEclipse01_orig-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53777_MAF_20211119_LunarEclipse01_orig-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53777_MAF_20211119_LunarEclipse01_orig-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nearly total eclipse of November’s full 'beaver moon' occurs over the city of New Orleans in the early morning hours of Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. The 97% eclipse clocked in at 3 hours, 28 minutes and 24 seconds, making it the longest partial moon eclipse in 580 years. \u003ccite>(Michael DeMocker/NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May: Blood moon No. 1\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe first one will be on May 15, beginning around 8 p.m. Earth's shadow will cover the moon at around 9 p.m. and the eclipse will last until about midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the moon rises at around 8 p.m., \"the eclipse will already be happening at that point,\" said Burress. \"It will be dark or kind of dark red in color, and will be really amazing if you can get a good view of the eastern sky where it's rising,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>November: Blood moon No. 2\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou can also enjoy another view of a total lunar eclipse on Nov. 8. This one, Burress said, will last longer and give you a better opportunity for viewing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this November event, \"you will actually be able to see the entire eclipse from beginning to end,\" Burress said. \"It'll last quite a number of hours, so it'll begin just after midnight. And it gets best around two and three in the morning, roughly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As sunrise draws closer, the eclipse will, of course, draw to its end — \"but the whole eclipse will happen while it's dark at night, so that that's actually a good one, [with] plenty of time,\" Burress said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"supermoon\">\u003c/a>Supermoons to see in 2022\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When a full moon is closest to the Earth — what's known as its perigee — that’s what's called a supermoon. But what’s so special about a supermoon?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A supermoon will be 30% brighter — maybe 15% brighter — than your average full moon,\" said Burress. \"And when the supermoon occurs at the same time as a lunar eclipse, or even solar eclipse, those eclipses are even more amazing. The lunar eclipse will last longer and then will get darker during totality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, among the many full moons we’ll be able to witness, there will be two supermoons we can look forward to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>June and July: Two supermoons\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou can see the super strawberry moon starting June 14, and the super buck moon starting on July 13. Supermoons look to the human eye to be larger than your average full moon because of the \"\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1191/the-moon-illusion-why-does-the-moon-look-so-big-sometimes/#:~:text=So%2C%20remember%20when%20you%20see,it's%20a%20zoomed%2Din%20view.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moon illusion\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our perception of the size of the moon in the sky changes so much. This is what they call 'the moon illusion,'\" Burress said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the moon is near the horizon, your brain compares it to the trees or the buildings, or the landscape you see, and you get sort of a mental perception that's different from when you see the moon high in the sky by itself with nothing to compare it to,\" explains Burress. \"It's just our brains perceive it as bigger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Spacecraft launches in 2022\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In addition to meteor showers, total lunar eclipses and supermoons, Burress said he's also looking forward to the August launch (exact date TBD) of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977331/nasa-to-explore-what-could-be-the-iron-core-of-a-former-planet\">NASA’s spacecraft Psyche, which will explore an asteroid that \u003cem>might \u003c/em>be a former planet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905833\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11905833\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53776_PIA21499_-_Artists_Concept_of_Psyche_Spacecraft-NASA-JPL-Caltech-Arizona-State-Univ-Space-Systems-Loral-Peter-Rubin-copy-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53776_PIA21499_-_Artists_Concept_of_Psyche_Spacecraft-NASA-JPL-Caltech-Arizona-State-Univ-Space-Systems-Loral-Peter-Rubin-copy-1-qut.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53776_PIA21499_-_Artists_Concept_of_Psyche_Spacecraft-NASA-JPL-Caltech-Arizona-State-Univ-Space-Systems-Loral-Peter-Rubin-copy-1-qut-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist concept of NASA's Psyche spacecraft orbiting its destination asteroid. \u003ccite>(Peter Rubin/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University/Space Systems Loral)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"What's special about this asteroid is that it appears to be mostly made of iron,\" Burress said, \"and they think maybe it was the core of a planet that got kind of blasted apart in the past. So they're really interested in it as possibly being a piece of a planet that was or was forming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burress said he'll also be keeping an eye out for the launch of JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) by the European Space Agency in May. JUICE will travel to Jupiter, to focus on the planet's moons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, scientists are interested in Jupiter's moon Europa, on which \"they've discovered a really big ocean of water underneath this icy crust,\" said Burress. \"So I'm very excited about that — and the possibilities of finding possible life there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t forget to tag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kqedscience\">@KQEDScience on Twitter\u003c/a> to share some of your memorable astronomical experiences!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: Ben Burress is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ben-burress\">regular contributor to KQED\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv 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Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I think of the vastness of space (and any potential Martians), I think of the ridiculousness of the human species that has caused – and suffered – so much pain rooted in the pigmentation of our epidermal layer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, back on Earth, we \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/20/989086291/1st-full-day-of-jury-deliberations-underway-in-chauvin-murder-trial\">await the verdict\u003c/a> in the Derek Chauvin trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While we were busy wrestling with our earthly problems, NASA's helicopter, Ingenuity, took off from the surface of Mars and flew 10 feet high for about 40 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Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I think of the vastness of space (and any potential Martians), I think of the ridiculousness of the human species that has caused – and suffered – so much pain rooted in the pigmentation of our epidermal layer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, back on Earth, we \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/20/989086291/1st-full-day-of-jury-deliberations-underway-in-chauvin-murder-trial\">await the verdict\u003c/a> in the Derek Chauvin trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv 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Kennedy told his country, “We choose to go to the moon!” It took another seven years before the first two men of the Apollo program set foot there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]As glass ceilings go, this one is 240,000 miles high, and with any luck, it will be broken forever.[/pullquote]But now, have you heard? NASA plans to return human beings to the moon, and in only four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wait, it gets better! The next “manned” mission to the moon’s surface will put the next man on the moon, yes, but also the first \u003cem>woman\u003c/em> ever to voyage farther into space than the International Space Station. As glass ceilings go, this one is 240,000 miles high, and with any luck, it will be broken forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/\">Artemis\u003c/a> program plans to deliver its coed crew to the moon by 2024, and establish a regular program of lunar exploration with commercial partners by 2028. Its ultimate goal is to channel the knowledge and experience gained toward launching a human mission to Mars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artemis, by the way, is the moon goddess in Greek mythology, twin sister of the sun god Apollo. What better name for humanity’s second visit to the moon, one in which the first woman will stand on lunar soil?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1956927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1956927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/Orion_Spacecraft_ArtemisI_DEC2019_PBS-NASA_Radislav-Sinyak-800x1058.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1058\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/Orion_Spacecraft_ArtemisI_DEC2019_PBS-NASA_Radislav-Sinyak-800x1058.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/Orion_Spacecraft_ArtemisI_DEC2019_PBS-NASA_Radislav-Sinyak-160x212.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/Orion_Spacecraft_ArtemisI_DEC2019_PBS-NASA_Radislav-Sinyak-768x1016.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/Orion_Spacecraft_ArtemisI_DEC2019_PBS-NASA_Radislav-Sinyak.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which will carry the next astronauts bound for the moon from Earth to lunar orbit. \u003ccite>(NASA/Radislav Sinyak)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ambitious project includes designing and building a new generation of launch vehicles, human-crewed spacecraft and landers, along with the Lunar Gateway, a moon-orbiting station that will serve as a depot for spacecraft arriving from Earth and landers traveling to and from the moon’s surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do You Have the Right Stuff?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you interested in joining the ranks of NASA astronauts as part of a new generation of space explorers heading for the moon, some asteroids, possibly, and maybe even Mars?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To meet the demand of its expanding human space exploration endeavors, NASA’s astronaut candidate program is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/explorers-wanted-nasa-to-hire-more-artemis-generation-astronauts\">accepting applications\u003c/a> from March 2 to the end of the month. Now is a good time to polish up that resume if a space-bound career appeals to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember, women, the Artemis moon-shot isn’t a guys-only club. \u003cem>Anyone\u003c/em> with the right stuff is eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Designing Spacecraft With Wind Tunnels and Supercomputers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Artemis astronauts will ever set boot on lunar soil, the space agency will have to do a lot of preliminary work. That’ll include deploying an array of scientific instruments on the moon’s surface to lay the groundwork for that historic return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1956928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1956928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/800px-NASA_Selects_First_Commercial_Moon_Landing_Services_for_Artemis_Program_47974872533-nasagsfc-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/800px-NASA_Selects_First_Commercial_Moon_Landing_Services_for_Artemis_Program_47974872533-nasagsfc.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/800px-NASA_Selects_First_Commercial_Moon_Landing_Services_for_Artemis_Program_47974872533-nasagsfc-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/800px-NASA_Selects_First_Commercial_Moon_Landing_Services_for_Artemis_Program_47974872533-nasagsfc-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three of the 16 scientific robotic landers, provided by commercial partners of NASA, that will be sent to the moon in 2021, paving the way for the next astronauts to land there in 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>NASA just finalized 16 experiments to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/feature/first-commercial-moon-delivery-assignments-to-advance-artemis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sent to the moon in 2021,\u003c/a> provided by two commercial partners — Astrobiotic and Initiative Machines — in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another large playing piece to set on the game board of moon exploration is the launch vehicle that will get the astronauts there. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html\">Space Launch System\u003c/a> is NASA’s next heavy lifter. It will be the most powerful rocket ever built, capable of delivering human-crewed spacecraft to the moon and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might think that after successful launches of the Saturn 5 rocket in the 1960s, which propelled the Apollo spacecraft and astronauts to the moon more than half a dozen times, NASA engineers already know how to do this. But they can’t design a new rocket that will carry a new spacecraft by copying notes from previous missions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New aerospace materials, propulsion technologies, and fuel and combustion systems all give shape to a new vehicle the space agency must test for safety, efficiency and capability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1956929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1956929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/acd16-0195-013NASA-Ames-Dominic-Hart-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/acd16-0195-013NASA-Ames-Dominic-Hart-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/acd16-0195-013NASA-Ames-Dominic-Hart-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/acd16-0195-013NASA-Ames-Dominic-Hart-768x505.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/acd16-0195-013NASA-Ames-Dominic-Hart-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/acd16-0195-013NASA-Ames-Dominic-Hart.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The aerodynamic test model of NASA’s SLS rocket being tested in a high-speed wind tunnel at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. The pink coating is a press-sensitive layer that changes color with air pressure, offering continuous real-time imagery that is processed in Ames’ Pleiades super-computing facility. \u003ccite>(NASA/Ames Research Center/Dominic Hart)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[pullquote] NASA can’t copy notes from previous missions to design a new rocket that will carry a new spacecraft. This one will require new materials and design tools. [/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA engineers are testing their SLS design by \u003ca href=\"https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2020/02/12/ames-wind-tunnels-put-nasas-new-moonshot-to-the-test\">subjecting an engineering model of the rocket to high-speed wind \u003c/a>in one of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/orgs/aeronautics/windtunnels/index.html\">wind tunnel facilities\u003c/a> at Ames Research Center, in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing exactly how the dynamic pressures of the high-velocity passage out of Earth’s atmosphere will affect the launch vehicle and its nose-borne payload are critical to their aerodynamic design. So, putting a physical model to the test in actual high-speed wind pushes the design’s limits in a way that computer simulations can only approximate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The enormous amounts of test data the wind tunnel tests generate are processed by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/pleiades.html\">Pleiades supercomputer\u003c/a> housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at Ames, a warehouse-sized building filled with rack upon rack of linked computers comprising tens of thousands of core processors. As an ensemble, the supercomputer is capable of performing up to 7 quadrillion calculations per second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1956932\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1956932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/pleiades_top_view_large-nasa-arc-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/pleiades_top_view_large-nasa-arc.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/pleiades_top_view_large-nasa-arc-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/pleiades_top_view_large-nasa-arc-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA’s Pleiades super-computing facility at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. \u003ccite>(NASA/Ames Research Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one can say NASA doesn’t do its homework.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"NASA's Artemis mission will send the next man and first woman to the moon — and only four years from now.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704847756,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":941},"headData":{"title":"NASA Plans to Send a Woman to the Moon ... and Really Soon | KQED","description":"NASA's Artemis mission will send the next man and first woman to the moon — and only four years from now.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"NASA Plans to Send a Woman to the Moon ... and Really Soon","datePublished":"2020-02-20T23:17:03.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T00:49:16.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Space Exploration","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1956918/nasa-aiming-to-send-woman-to-moon-and-really-soon","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 1962, President John F. Kennedy told his country, “We choose to go to the moon!” It took another seven years before the first two men of the Apollo program set foot there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"As glass ceilings go, this one is 240,000 miles high, and with any luck, it will be broken forever.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But now, have you heard? NASA plans to return human beings to the moon, and in only four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wait, it gets better! The next “manned” mission to the moon’s surface will put the next man on the moon, yes, but also the first \u003cem>woman\u003c/em> ever to voyage farther into space than the International Space Station. As glass ceilings go, this one is 240,000 miles high, and with any luck, it will be broken forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/\">Artemis\u003c/a> program plans to deliver its coed crew to the moon by 2024, and establish a regular program of lunar exploration with commercial partners by 2028. Its ultimate goal is to channel the knowledge and experience gained toward launching a human mission to Mars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artemis, by the way, is the moon goddess in Greek mythology, twin sister of the sun god Apollo. What better name for humanity’s second visit to the moon, one in which the first woman will stand on lunar soil?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1956927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1956927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/Orion_Spacecraft_ArtemisI_DEC2019_PBS-NASA_Radislav-Sinyak-800x1058.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1058\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/Orion_Spacecraft_ArtemisI_DEC2019_PBS-NASA_Radislav-Sinyak-800x1058.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/Orion_Spacecraft_ArtemisI_DEC2019_PBS-NASA_Radislav-Sinyak-160x212.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/Orion_Spacecraft_ArtemisI_DEC2019_PBS-NASA_Radislav-Sinyak-768x1016.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/Orion_Spacecraft_ArtemisI_DEC2019_PBS-NASA_Radislav-Sinyak.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which will carry the next astronauts bound for the moon from Earth to lunar orbit. \u003ccite>(NASA/Radislav Sinyak)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ambitious project includes designing and building a new generation of launch vehicles, human-crewed spacecraft and landers, along with the Lunar Gateway, a moon-orbiting station that will serve as a depot for spacecraft arriving from Earth and landers traveling to and from the moon’s surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do You Have the Right Stuff?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you interested in joining the ranks of NASA astronauts as part of a new generation of space explorers heading for the moon, some asteroids, possibly, and maybe even Mars?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To meet the demand of its expanding human space exploration endeavors, NASA’s astronaut candidate program is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/explorers-wanted-nasa-to-hire-more-artemis-generation-astronauts\">accepting applications\u003c/a> from March 2 to the end of the month. Now is a good time to polish up that resume if a space-bound career appeals to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember, women, the Artemis moon-shot isn’t a guys-only club. \u003cem>Anyone\u003c/em> with the right stuff is eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Designing Spacecraft With Wind Tunnels and Supercomputers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Artemis astronauts will ever set boot on lunar soil, the space agency will have to do a lot of preliminary work. That’ll include deploying an array of scientific instruments on the moon’s surface to lay the groundwork for that historic return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1956928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1956928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/800px-NASA_Selects_First_Commercial_Moon_Landing_Services_for_Artemis_Program_47974872533-nasagsfc-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/800px-NASA_Selects_First_Commercial_Moon_Landing_Services_for_Artemis_Program_47974872533-nasagsfc.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/800px-NASA_Selects_First_Commercial_Moon_Landing_Services_for_Artemis_Program_47974872533-nasagsfc-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/800px-NASA_Selects_First_Commercial_Moon_Landing_Services_for_Artemis_Program_47974872533-nasagsfc-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three of the 16 scientific robotic landers, provided by commercial partners of NASA, that will be sent to the moon in 2021, paving the way for the next astronauts to land there in 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>NASA just finalized 16 experiments to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/feature/first-commercial-moon-delivery-assignments-to-advance-artemis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sent to the moon in 2021,\u003c/a> provided by two commercial partners — Astrobiotic and Initiative Machines — in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another large playing piece to set on the game board of moon exploration is the launch vehicle that will get the astronauts there. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html\">Space Launch System\u003c/a> is NASA’s next heavy lifter. It will be the most powerful rocket ever built, capable of delivering human-crewed spacecraft to the moon and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might think that after successful launches of the Saturn 5 rocket in the 1960s, which propelled the Apollo spacecraft and astronauts to the moon more than half a dozen times, NASA engineers already know how to do this. But they can’t design a new rocket that will carry a new spacecraft by copying notes from previous missions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New aerospace materials, propulsion technologies, and fuel and combustion systems all give shape to a new vehicle the space agency must test for safety, efficiency and capability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1956929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1956929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/acd16-0195-013NASA-Ames-Dominic-Hart-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/acd16-0195-013NASA-Ames-Dominic-Hart-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/acd16-0195-013NASA-Ames-Dominic-Hart-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/acd16-0195-013NASA-Ames-Dominic-Hart-768x505.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/acd16-0195-013NASA-Ames-Dominic-Hart-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/acd16-0195-013NASA-Ames-Dominic-Hart.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The aerodynamic test model of NASA’s SLS rocket being tested in a high-speed wind tunnel at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. The pink coating is a press-sensitive layer that changes color with air pressure, offering continuous real-time imagery that is processed in Ames’ Pleiades super-computing facility. \u003ccite>(NASA/Ames Research Center/Dominic Hart)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":" NASA can’t copy notes from previous missions to design a new rocket that will carry a new spacecraft. This one will require new materials and design tools. ","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA engineers are testing their SLS design by \u003ca href=\"https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2020/02/12/ames-wind-tunnels-put-nasas-new-moonshot-to-the-test\">subjecting an engineering model of the rocket to high-speed wind \u003c/a>in one of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/orgs/aeronautics/windtunnels/index.html\">wind tunnel facilities\u003c/a> at Ames Research Center, in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing exactly how the dynamic pressures of the high-velocity passage out of Earth’s atmosphere will affect the launch vehicle and its nose-borne payload are critical to their aerodynamic design. So, putting a physical model to the test in actual high-speed wind pushes the design’s limits in a way that computer simulations can only approximate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The enormous amounts of test data the wind tunnel tests generate are processed by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/pleiades.html\">Pleiades supercomputer\u003c/a> housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at Ames, a warehouse-sized building filled with rack upon rack of linked computers comprising tens of thousands of core processors. As an ensemble, the supercomputer is capable of performing up to 7 quadrillion calculations per second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1956932\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1956932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/pleiades_top_view_large-nasa-arc-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/pleiades_top_view_large-nasa-arc.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/pleiades_top_view_large-nasa-arc-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/pleiades_top_view_large-nasa-arc-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA’s Pleiades super-computing facility at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. \u003ccite>(NASA/Ames Research Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one can say NASA doesn’t do its homework.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1956918/nasa-aiming-to-send-woman-to-moon-and-really-soon","authors":["6180"],"categories":["science_28","science_40"],"tags":["science_628","science_3370","science_351","science_5175"],"featImg":"science_1956926","label":"source_science_1956918"},"science_1956964":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1956964","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1956964","score":null,"sort":[1581693831000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-valentine-from-space-plutos-heart-beats-to-the-tune-of-the-winds","title":"Pluto's Got a Heart! Sure, It's an Icy Plain of Nitrogen, But Still ...","publishDate":1581693831,"format":"image","headTitle":"Pluto’s Got a Heart! Sure, It’s an Icy Plain of Nitrogen, But Still … | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003ch4>One of the most stunning discoveries of the 2015 New Horizons flyby mission to Pluto was a big, heart-shaped region full of canyons, plains and mountain chains.\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s you may remember, Pluto lost its status as a planet a few years ago. Now, astronomers call it a “dwarf” planet. Despite that rejection, this planet has heart — a big heart-shaped region known as Tombaugh Regio. One of the most stunning discoveries of the 2015 New Horizons flyby mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to imagine that everybody expected a flat ball covered with ice,” said Tanguy Bertrand, a postdoctoral research fellow at NASA Ames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1956972\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1956972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/us7V64YEL5L34P64EetPx-1024-80-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/us7V64YEL5L34P64EetPx-1024-80-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/us7V64YEL5L34P64EetPx-1024-80-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/us7V64YEL5L34P64EetPx-1024-80-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/us7V64YEL5L34P64EetPx-1024-80-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/us7V64YEL5L34P64EetPx-1024-80.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The left “lobe” of Pluto’s heart-shaped region is an icy plain of nitrogen known as Sputnik Planitia. \u003ccite>(NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead, astronomers saw a beautiful, diverse landscape that includes canyons, plains and mountain chains. Tombaugh Regio in particular got a lot of attention because it was so visually striking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertrand is lead author on a \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JE006120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new paper\u003c/a> that examines how the west lobe of the heart, an area known as Sputnik Planitia, controls the dwarf planet’s winds. While the eastern half of the lobe is scraggly mountains and the western half is a frozen plane of nitrogen. And not just any nitrogen. This pulses with a kind of beat that makes the winds flow westward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the day, with the heat of the sun, the nitrogen ice warms and turns into vapor, creating a pressure that flows toward a darker, cooler region, where it condenses and re-forms as ice. This creates a flow from north to south and back. The planet is also spinning eastward. This rotation (because of the Coriolis effect) deflects the winds and they flow in a westward direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar process generates winds on Earth, but it’s slightly more complicated. Air rises in the equatorial zones, flows toward cooler polar regions, drops down and returns toward the equator in what scientists call “Hadley cells.” This circulation creates the trade winds, tropical rain-belts and hurricanes, subtropical deserts and the jet streams. On our planet, though, winds don’t flow in any one given direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interesting fact: NASA researchers found this effect on Pluto by applying weather forecast models made for Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[This] gives us some perspective and gives us a natural laboratory to improve our knowledge,” Bertrand said. “It gives us a chance to test theories, learn more about fluid dynamics, and climate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately what they learn can improve how those weather models work for Earth and, possibly, for habitable exo-planets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"One of the most stunning discoveries of the 2015 New Horizons flyby mission to Pluto was a big, heart-shaped region full of canyons, plains and mountain chains.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704847774,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":445},"headData":{"title":"Pluto's Got a Heart! 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Now, astronomers call it a “dwarf” planet. Despite that rejection, this planet has heart — a big heart-shaped region known as Tombaugh Regio. One of the most stunning discoveries of the 2015 New Horizons flyby mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to imagine that everybody expected a flat ball covered with ice,” said Tanguy Bertrand, a postdoctoral research fellow at NASA Ames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1956972\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1956972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/us7V64YEL5L34P64EetPx-1024-80-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/us7V64YEL5L34P64EetPx-1024-80-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/us7V64YEL5L34P64EetPx-1024-80-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/us7V64YEL5L34P64EetPx-1024-80-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/us7V64YEL5L34P64EetPx-1024-80-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/02/us7V64YEL5L34P64EetPx-1024-80.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The left “lobe” of Pluto’s heart-shaped region is an icy plain of nitrogen known as Sputnik Planitia. \u003ccite>(NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead, astronomers saw a beautiful, diverse landscape that includes canyons, plains and mountain chains. Tombaugh Regio in particular got a lot of attention because it was so visually striking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertrand is lead author on a \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JE006120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new paper\u003c/a> that examines how the west lobe of the heart, an area known as Sputnik Planitia, controls the dwarf planet’s winds. While the eastern half of the lobe is scraggly mountains and the western half is a frozen plane of nitrogen. And not just any nitrogen. This pulses with a kind of beat that makes the winds flow westward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the day, with the heat of the sun, the nitrogen ice warms and turns into vapor, creating a pressure that flows toward a darker, cooler region, where it condenses and re-forms as ice. This creates a flow from north to south and back. The planet is also spinning eastward. This rotation (because of the Coriolis effect) deflects the winds and they flow in a westward direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar process generates winds on Earth, but it’s slightly more complicated. Air rises in the equatorial zones, flows toward cooler polar regions, drops down and returns toward the equator in what scientists call “Hadley cells.” This circulation creates the trade winds, tropical rain-belts and hurricanes, subtropical deserts and the jet streams. On our planet, though, winds don’t flow in any one given direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interesting fact: NASA researchers found this effect on Pluto by applying weather forecast models made for Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[This] gives us some perspective and gives us a natural laboratory to improve our knowledge,” Bertrand said. “It gives us a chance to test theories, learn more about fluid dynamics, and climate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately what they learn can improve how those weather models work for Earth and, possibly, for habitable exo-planets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1956964/a-valentine-from-space-plutos-heart-beats-to-the-tune-of-the-winds","authors":["11088"],"categories":["science_28","science_40","science_3423"],"tags":["science_3370","science_5191"],"featImg":"science_1956966","label":"source_science_1956964"},"news_11710948":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11710948","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11710948","score":null,"sort":[1544227782000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-nasa-lander-captures-first-sounds-of-martian-wind","title":"New NASA Lander Captures First Sounds of Martian Wind","publishDate":1544227782,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>NASA's new Mars lander has captured the first sounds of the \"really unworldly\" Martian wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov\">Jet Propulsion Laboratory\u003c/a> released audio clips of the alien wind Friday. The low-frequency rumblings were collected by the InSight lander during its first week of operations at Mars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wind is estimated to be blowing 10 mph to 15 mph. These are the first sounds from Mars that are detectible by human ears, according to the researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/IkpZXYrOCyg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Reminds me of sitting outside on a windy summer afternoon...In some sense, this is what it would sound like if you were sitting on the InSight lander on Mars,\" Cornell University's Don Banfield told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists involved in the project agree the sound has an otherworldly quality to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934922/insight-affirmation-people-still-go-gaga-for-mars\">InSight Affirmation: People Still Go Gaga for Mars\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934922/insight-affirmation-people-still-go-gaga-for-mars\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/insight-reentry-nasajplcaltech-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Thomas Pike of Imperial College London said the rumbling is \"rather different to anything that we've experienced on Earth, and I think it just gives us another way of thinking about how far away we are getting these signals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The noise is of the wind blowing against InSight's solar panels and the resulting vibration of the entire spacecraft. The sounds were recorded by an air pressure \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3cxuIsEFRM\">sensor\u003c/a> inside the lander that's part of a weather station, as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3cxuIsEFRM\">seismometer\u003c/a> on the deck of the spacecraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low frequencies are a result of Mars' thin air density and even more so the seismometer itself — it's meant to detect underground seismic waves, well below the threshold of human hearing. The seismometer will be moved to the Martian surface in the coming weeks; until then, the team plans to record more wind noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1976 Viking landers on Mars picked up spacecraft shaking caused by wind, but it would be a stretch to consider it sound, said InSight's lead scientist, Bruce Banerdt, of JPL in Pasadena, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710935\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-954986424-e1544223149282.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11710935\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-954986424-e1544223149282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The NASA InSight spacecraft launches onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket on May 5, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \"really unworldly\" sounds from InSight, meanwhile, have Banerdt imagining he's \"on a planet that's in some ways like the Earth, but in some ways really alien.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934826/watch-live-coverage-of-mars-insight-landing\">InSight landed on Mars\u003c/a> on Nov. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're all still on a high from the landing last week...and here we are less than two weeks after landing, and we've already got some amazing new science,\" said NASA's Lori Glaze, acting director of planetary science. \"It's cool, it's fun.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"NASA's new Mars lander has captured the first sounds of the 'really unworldly' Martian wind.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1544227782,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":425},"headData":{"title":"New NASA Lander Captures First Sounds of Martian Wind | KQED","description":"NASA's new Mars lander has captured the first sounds of the 'really unworldly' Martian wind.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"New NASA Lander Captures First Sounds of Martian Wind","datePublished":"2018-12-08T00:09:42.000Z","dateModified":"2018-12-08T00:09:42.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11710948 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11710948","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/12/07/new-nasa-lander-captures-first-sounds-of-martian-wind/","disqusTitle":"New NASA Lander Captures First Sounds of Martian Wind","source":"Associated Press","nprByline":"Marcia Dunn\u003cbr>Associated Press","path":"/news/11710948/new-nasa-lander-captures-first-sounds-of-martian-wind","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>NASA's new Mars lander has captured the first sounds of the \"really unworldly\" Martian wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov\">Jet Propulsion Laboratory\u003c/a> released audio clips of the alien wind Friday. The low-frequency rumblings were collected by the InSight lander during its first week of operations at Mars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wind is estimated to be blowing 10 mph to 15 mph. These are the first sounds from Mars that are detectible by human ears, according to the researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/IkpZXYrOCyg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Reminds me of sitting outside on a windy summer afternoon...In some sense, this is what it would sound like if you were sitting on the InSight lander on Mars,\" Cornell University's Don Banfield told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists involved in the project agree the sound has an otherworldly quality to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934922/insight-affirmation-people-still-go-gaga-for-mars\">InSight Affirmation: People Still Go Gaga for Mars\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934922/insight-affirmation-people-still-go-gaga-for-mars\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/11/insight-reentry-nasajplcaltech-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Thomas Pike of Imperial College London said the rumbling is \"rather different to anything that we've experienced on Earth, and I think it just gives us another way of thinking about how far away we are getting these signals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The noise is of the wind blowing against InSight's solar panels and the resulting vibration of the entire spacecraft. The sounds were recorded by an air pressure \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3cxuIsEFRM\">sensor\u003c/a> inside the lander that's part of a weather station, as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3cxuIsEFRM\">seismometer\u003c/a> on the deck of the spacecraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low frequencies are a result of Mars' thin air density and even more so the seismometer itself — it's meant to detect underground seismic waves, well below the threshold of human hearing. The seismometer will be moved to the Martian surface in the coming weeks; until then, the team plans to record more wind noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1976 Viking landers on Mars picked up spacecraft shaking caused by wind, but it would be a stretch to consider it sound, said InSight's lead scientist, Bruce Banerdt, of JPL in Pasadena, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710935\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-954986424-e1544223149282.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11710935\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-954986424-e1544223149282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The NASA InSight spacecraft launches onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket on May 5, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \"really unworldly\" sounds from InSight, meanwhile, have Banerdt imagining he's \"on a planet that's in some ways like the Earth, but in some ways really alien.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1934826/watch-live-coverage-of-mars-insight-landing\">InSight landed on Mars\u003c/a> on Nov. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're all still on a high from the landing last week...and here we are less than two weeks after landing, and we've already got some amazing new science,\" said NASA's Lori Glaze, acting director of planetary science. \"It's cool, it's fun.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11710948/new-nasa-lander-captures-first-sounds-of-martian-wind","authors":["byline_news_11710948"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_442","news_23164","news_2762","news_355","news_1770"],"label":"source_news_11710948"},"news_11697426":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11697426","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11697426","score":null,"sort":[1539036669000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"definitely-not-aliens-spacex-launch-brings-dazzling-show-to-california-skies","title":"'Definitely Not Aliens': SpaceX Launch Brings Dazzling Show to California Skies","publishDate":1539036669,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>On Sunday, Oct. 7 at 7:21 p.m., people through much of California — at least those who happened to look up at the right time — were startled to find a strange light streaking across the night sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What some believed to be aliens or a rogue, unidentified, flying \u003cem>something\u003c/em>, was actually a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spacex.com/falcon9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket\u003c/a> delivering a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spacex.com/news/2018/10/07/saocom-1a-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAOCOM 1A satellite into orbit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lexiconstable/status/1049128639579615232\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spectacle was captured by a host of folks throughout the state, from Northern to Southern California. Posts on social media showed images ranging from ghostly halos ringed with rainbow-ed smoke, to sharp arcs of almost blinding light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Bhushan_NYC/status/1049328212075933699\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti tried to head off the confusion and screaming mob with a series of informative tweets:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MayorOfLA/status/1049130577658404864\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MayorOfLA/status/1049142663658627072\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The above photographs illustrate what's known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.afspc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/251865/twilight-phenomenon-lights-up-sky/\">Twilight Phenomenon\u003c/a>, caused by unspent fuel freezing at high altitude. The frozen particles reflect sunlight below the horizon and display different colors against a dark background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rocket was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, located on the coast about 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The satellite, which is operated by Argentina’s Space Agency, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.argentina.gob.ar/ciencia/conae\">National Commission on Space Activities\u003c/a> (CONAE), was deployed 12 minutes after liftoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr_C6LQ7mHc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage returned to land at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg, marking SpaceX's first landing on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.vandenberg.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1652283/central-california-residents-may-experience-sonic-boom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Air Force had warned Central California residents\u003c/a> that they may experience a sonic boom. But the curious display \u003ca href=\"https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&geo=US-CA&q=ufo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent many Californians scurrying to Google\u003c/a> to see if they were under attack — searches for \"UFO\" peaked right after the 7:21 p.m. launch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11697433\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11697433\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-800x1603.jpg\" alt=\"The Falcon 9's first stage rocket lands successfully at Vandenberg Air Force Base after carrying SAOCOM 1A in to orbit on Oct. 7, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1603\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-800x1603.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-160x321.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-1020x2044.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-599x1200.jpg 599w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-960x1924.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-240x481.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-375x751.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-520x1042.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Falcon 9's first stage rocket lands successfully at Vandenberg Air Force Base after carrying SAOCOM 1A in to orbit on Oct. 7, 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy SpaceX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SpaceX says that Falcon 9 is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.spacex.com/news/2013/03/31/reusability-key-making-human-life-multi-planetary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first orbital class rocket capable of reflight, \u003c/a>designed for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and other spacecraft into orbit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas previous rockets burned up upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere, the reusability of SpaceX's rockets is the \"fundamental breakthrough needed to revolutionize access to space,\" according to SpaceX founder Elon Musk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SAOCOM 1A satellite launched this week is the first of two for Argentina’s space agency; they will work in conjunction with a constellation of Italian space agency satellites already in orbit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAOCOM 1A carries a high-resolution instrument called a \"synthetic aperture radar\" that will be used to gather soil moisture information for help in land monitoring and emergency management during disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base delivered an Argentinian satellite into orbit — and fascinated evening sky-watchers through much of the state.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1539041369,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":478},"headData":{"title":"'Definitely Not Aliens': SpaceX Launch Brings Dazzling Show to California Skies | KQED","description":"A Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base delivered an Argentinian satellite into orbit — and fascinated evening sky-watchers through much of the state.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Definitely Not Aliens': SpaceX Launch Brings Dazzling Show to California Skies","datePublished":"2018-10-08T22:11:09.000Z","dateModified":"2018-10-08T23:29:29.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11697426 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11697426","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/10/08/definitely-not-aliens-spacex-launch-brings-dazzling-show-to-california-skies/","disqusTitle":"'Definitely Not Aliens': SpaceX Launch Brings Dazzling Show to California Skies","path":"/news/11697426/definitely-not-aliens-spacex-launch-brings-dazzling-show-to-california-skies","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Sunday, Oct. 7 at 7:21 p.m., people through much of California — at least those who happened to look up at the right time — were startled to find a strange light streaking across the night sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What some believed to be aliens or a rogue, unidentified, flying \u003cem>something\u003c/em>, was actually a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spacex.com/falcon9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket\u003c/a> delivering a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spacex.com/news/2018/10/07/saocom-1a-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAOCOM 1A satellite into orbit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1049128639579615232"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The spectacle was captured by a host of folks throughout the state, from Northern to Southern California. 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The satellite, which is operated by Argentina’s Space Agency, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.argentina.gob.ar/ciencia/conae\">National Commission on Space Activities\u003c/a> (CONAE), was deployed 12 minutes after liftoff.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vr_C6LQ7mHc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vr_C6LQ7mHc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage returned to land at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg, marking SpaceX's first landing on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.vandenberg.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1652283/central-california-residents-may-experience-sonic-boom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Air Force had warned Central California residents\u003c/a> that they may experience a sonic boom. But the curious display \u003ca href=\"https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&geo=US-CA&q=ufo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent many Californians scurrying to Google\u003c/a> to see if they were under attack — searches for \"UFO\" peaked right after the 7:21 p.m. launch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11697433\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11697433\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-800x1603.jpg\" alt=\"The Falcon 9's first stage rocket lands successfully at Vandenberg Air Force Base after carrying SAOCOM 1A in to orbit on Oct. 7, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1603\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-800x1603.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-160x321.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-1020x2044.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-599x1200.jpg 599w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-960x1924.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-240x481.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-375x751.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3-520x1042.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/falcon3.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Falcon 9's first stage rocket lands successfully at Vandenberg Air Force Base after carrying SAOCOM 1A in to orbit on Oct. 7, 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy SpaceX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SpaceX says that Falcon 9 is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.spacex.com/news/2013/03/31/reusability-key-making-human-life-multi-planetary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first orbital class rocket capable of reflight, \u003c/a>designed for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and other spacecraft into orbit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas previous rockets burned up upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere, the reusability of SpaceX's rockets is the \"fundamental breakthrough needed to revolutionize access to space,\" according to SpaceX founder Elon Musk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SAOCOM 1A satellite launched this week is the first of two for Argentina’s space agency; they will work in conjunction with a constellation of Italian space agency satellites already in orbit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAOCOM 1A carries a high-resolution instrument called a \"synthetic aperture radar\" that will be used to gather soil moisture information for help in land monitoring and emergency management during disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11697426/definitely-not-aliens-spacex-launch-brings-dazzling-show-to-california-skies","authors":["11545"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_1770","news_4786","news_6022","news_23163"],"featImg":"news_11697435","label":"news_72"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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