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Selected Articles from the
April 2001 Odyssey

Editor: Terry Hancock

Taking Part in the Search, Craig Ward
The Rarity of Sol-Type Systems, Terry Hancock
A Matter of Attitude, Part 3, Robert Gounley
The Surf Report, Diane Rhodes

The Surf Report

Diane Rhodes

This month we have a potpourri of sites for you to feast your eyes on:

Relatively Cool NASA Site

It lists all (or as close to all as mere civilian mortals can get) spacecraft in LEO and geosynchronous orbit. Clicking on one of the myriad of satellite dots, gives an ID trace, which can be zoomed in and out for more information. However, their new home page is slightly out of date: There is a graphic of X33 zooming to orbit! It lists the site as for "teenagers and above" but the tracking data makes it worthwhile.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day

This is another NASA site, which gleans the best astronomy phenomena pictures and posts them to the net. The next few items below are exact URLs of some thought provoking images from Astromomy Picture of the Day.

Below is the URL of a particularyly striking photo of an aurora seen from Arizona.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010402.html

Composite View of Earth

In these days of energy use and conservation, deregulation, etc., the following picture is particularly sobering: it is a view (made of a composite of hundreds of earth-observation photos, of the earth at night. We in California complain about our woes, but a look at this image tells a truer tale: A lot of this planet spends the night in the dark.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html

Spy in the Sky

Here's something amazing: Space.com has a photo up of our spy plane on the ground at Hainan Island, China. the thing which is remarkable about this widely-seen shot, is that it's from a commercial satellite. Here it is: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagepump/

Hope this has been an intriguing ride on the electronic waves.

See you next month!

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