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Mars 35' north of Saturn 42.0° East August 20, 2006 22:40:10 Mercury 31' north of Saturn 11.2° West August 26, 2006 23:09:47 Venus 4' north of Saturn 16.3° West September 15, 2006 20:32:28 Mercury 10' south of Mars 12.1° East October 24, 2006 19:44:11 Venus 43' north of Mars 0.6° West October 25, 2006 21:42:16 Mercury 3°56' south of Jupiter
The Darian Defrost Calendar, however, uses the Rotterdam System [7] to create new names for the Martian months out of patterns relating letter choice and name length to month order and season. The Utopian Calendar, devised by the Mars Time Group in 2001, also has additional suggestions for nomenclature modification. [8]
1959 – Luna 3 sends the first images of another celestial body, the Moon, from space, including its unseen far side. [179] 1962 – Mariner 2 Venus flyby performs the first closeup observations of another planet. [180] 1964 – Mariner 4 spacecraft provides the first detailed images of the surface of Mars. [181]
The conjunction should be visible around 10 p.m. local time on Wednesday, November 20, according to The Weather Channel. For your best chance of seeing the conjunction, head outside to a dark area ...
Triple conjunction Mars-Saturn. [citation needed] 2830 December 15 At 06:52 UTC, Venus will occult Mars. [42] 2833 July 20 At 04:29 UTC, Mercury will occult Jupiter. [42] 2842/2843 Triple conjunction Mars-Jupiter [citation needed] 2846 December 16 Transit of Venus [citation needed] 2854 December 14 Partial transit of Venus [citation needed ...
First spacecraft to impact another planet (Mars). USSR Mars 2: 2 December 1971: First soft landing on Mars. First signals from Martian surface. First photograph from Martian surface. USSR Mars 3: 3 March 1972: First spacecraft on a trajectory out of the solar system. First spacecraft to use all-nuclear electrical power (SNAP-19 RTGs). USA (NASA ...
Look up to the sky Wednesday morning and you'll see what astronomers call a planetary conjunction as Jupiter and Mars appear to be close together.
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