Some good details in this video, including one I didn't know about Sputnik orbiting twice before being publicly acknowledged:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M-QinwmdKc
"The Budget terminates four Earth science missions (PACE, OCO-3, DSCOVR Earth-viewing instruments, and CLARREO Pathfinder)"
Re: DSCOVR, so they would actually stop using a climate satellite launched in 2015?! That seems ridiculous to me!
Looks like this was posted back in Feb and I found it hard to find the actual map, here's one I finally got:
https://natgeoeducationblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/mars-ordnance-survey-map.jpg
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Dug up the story possibly: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2007/11may_locad3/
Oddly, I couldn't find any further information on what's used these days, I assume something else since this page indicates LOCAD-PTS was only in use 2006-2009...
It was poor viewing where I was for most of it, total cloud coverage :facepalm:
But at the end I managed to snap a few photos, my first astrophotography ever so I can only imagine the lack of quality compared to what others got, but it was exciting none the less! No post processing besides...
Clouds were completely covering until the last maybe 10 minutes of the blood moon, it was great to see it without clouds even if it was only for a short period, watching the full moon come back was nice too - online streams can't do it justice unfortunately (anyone else have problems with NASA's...