Perseids and other Space News
by adminOK, so we’ve been away for a week or so. Now it is time to play a bit of catch up.
First of all, the Perseid meteor shower is happening right now! Of course, you will need to wait until it is dark to see anything. You will probably need to get a little bit away from heavy city lights to see anything. The best viewing time would be around 12-2AM. Don’t bother with a telescope or binoculars - your own eyes are the best tools for viewing. At its peak you can about a dozen or so ’shooting stars’ every minute. Your milage may vary.
The other ‘news’, and this is about a week old at this point, is that NASA has confirmed that one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, has a liquid ‘lake’ on its surface. This makes Titan the only other body besides the Earth with liquid on its surface. Of course, the liquid is ethane and not water.
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