Re: Space
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 2/8/2015, 7:14 am
You can never learn too much about the universe. It's always endlessly fascinating. Every year we learn so much more.

It's nice to look at too. Sometimes I like to fly around in Google Earth looking at various places, and learning things, and I like to do the same with Sky mode (View > Explore > Sky) sometimes viewing things randomly.

Speaking of space, tonight at 6:10pm EST (Sunday the 8th) is the next chance to test landing a rocket on the SpaceX drone ship:

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/
http://spaceflightnow.com/
Elon Musk will probably be the one to first announce how the rocket landing went: https://twitter.com/elonmusk

About the payload:

http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/02/07/storied-space-weather-observatory-finally-ready-for-launch/

And speaking of Google Earth, the Pro edition is now free. (You have to register it, but now it is free. Announcement about it.) For most users there is nothing new that they would use other than maybe the US Demographics, US Parcel Data and US Daily Traffic Counts in the Layers panel under Earth Pro (US). I was looking at some of those around my house. Everything else is less of what the average user would ever use. (although apparently you can print higher resolution images which I have yet to try)
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