Space News Update - April 1, 2014 - In the News Story 1: SLS positioning for ARRM and Europa missions Story 2: Soyuz docks with International Space Station Story 3: Opportunity Rover Gets Power Boost from Wind Events on Mars Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities NASA-TV Highlights Space Calendar Food for Thought Space Image of the Week
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Space News Update- April 1, 2014 -
In the News
Story 1: SLS positioning for ARRM and Europa missions
Story 2:Soyuz docks with International Space Station
Story 3:
Opportunity Rover Gets Power Boost from Wind Events on Mars
Departments
The Night SkyISS Sighting Opportunities
NASA-TV HighlightsSpace CalendarFood for Thought
Space Image of the Week
SLS positioning for ARRM and Europa missions
Soyuz docks with International Space Station
Opportunity Rover Gets Power Boost from Wind Events on Mars
The Night SkyTuesday, April 1 •The biggest and brightest asteroids, 1 Ceres and 4 Vesta respectively, are only about 2° apart in eastern Virgo, some 12° northeast of Mars. They've brightened to magnitudes 7.1 and 5.9, respectively. They'll be at opposition in mid-April. Use our finder chart for Ceres and Vesta. Wednesday, April 2 •The crescent Moon shines below the Pleiades, Aldebaran, and the V-shaped Hyades, as shown above. Thursday, April 3 •With binoculars or a telescope, North Americans can watch the waxing crescent Moon crossing the Hyades star cluster. The Moon's dark, earthlit limb will occult three 4th- and 5th-magnitude stars depending on where you are, as told in the April Sky & Telescope, page 50. Friday, April 4 •Spot Mars and Spica in the southeast after dark and look far left from them to find Arcturus, the "Spring Star," shining in the east. Arcturus forms the pointy bottom of the long, narrow kite asterism made by the brightest stars of Bootes. The kite is currently lying on its side to the left of Arcturus, with its head at the far left bent slightly upward. The kite is 23° long, about two fist-widths at arm's length. Saturday, April 5 • The Moon passes below Jupiter in Gemini this weekend, as shown at right
Sky & Telescope
ISS Sighting Opportunities
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information
ISS For Denver:
Date Visible Max Height Appears Disappears
Tue Apr 1, 5:12 AM 5 min 55° 22 above NW 11 above ESE
Wed Apr 2, 4:25 AM 2 min 30° 30 above NE 10 above E
Wed Apr 2, 5:59 AM 5 min 27° 11 above WNW 11 above SSE
Thu Apr 3, 5:12 AM 3 min 50° 49 above WSW 10 above SE
Fri Apr 4, 4:26 AM < 1 min 11° 11 above SE 11 above SE