Third Thursday Planetarium Show – 2021 Feb 18

Posted by admin on February 17, 2021
Posted in: Public Outreach, Third Thursday Planetarium Shows.

–Skymaps.com – Donation-supported maps of the night sky for each month
–Stellarium – Donation-supported, open-source night sky simulator
–Clear Sky Chart – Weather predictions of stargazing conditions

Header Controller Geologic Map of Jezero Crater and the Nili Planum Region, Mars – https://planetarymapping.wr.usgs.gov/interactive/sim3464
https://twitter.com/We_Martians/status/1362080613008744450
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/where-is-the-rover/
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/mars2020
Landing sites of Mars missions – https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuiC-vwXMAEkfK9?format=jpg&name=4096×4096
https://twitter.com/MarsWxReport/status/1362539136280891392/photo/1
From Goudge et al. (2015) – https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2014JE004782
Perseverance’s instruments – https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/instruments/
6 Things to Know About NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter – https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/6-things-to-know-about-nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter
https://www.uahirise.org/releases/msl-descent.php

Third Thursday Planetarium Show – 2021 Jan 21

Posted by admin on January 19, 2021
Posted in: Public Outreach, Third Thursday Planetarium Shows.

Join Boise State Physics on the Third Thursday of each month at 7:30p MT for a virtual planetarium show. This month’s show will take place on Jan 21. If you’d like to join us, please sign up at http://boi.st/thirdthursday.

Resources for this month’s show:
–http://stellarium.org/ – Stellarium is donation-supported, so please contribute if you can.
–Skymaps.com – Donation-supported, monthly maps of the night sky
–Turn Left at Orion – Excellent guidebook for stargazing
-Great Conjunctions wikipedia article
-xkcd’s JWST launch date plot
-Netflix’s “Alien Worlds“
–Jupiter’s hexagon
–Exoplanet spectroscopy
–What’s Up Doc