[Boatanchors] Sounds Like Your RX Ain't Never Heard Before!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

This might not qualify as vintage, but it definitely makes the grade as 
"classic"! Take a listen guys and grin while that warm vacuum tube glow 
makes that faint far off sound grow! Remember, NASA uses how many watts to 
transmit from Mars to the Earth? Like QRP, right?

Space Weather News for May 28, 2008

http://spaceweather.com

THE DESCENT OF PHOENIX: When NASA's Phoenix probe parachuted to Mars last

Sunday, a pair of other spacecraft were orbiting high overhead, watching and

listening. While NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped some

jaw-dropping photos of Phoenix's plunge to the surface, Europe's Mars

Express orbiter recorded Phoenix's radio transmissions. The eerie-sounding

tones have just been beamed back to Earth and you can listen to them by

following the links at today's edition of http://spaceweather.com.

CARTWHEEL CME: Imagine a billion-ton cloud of gas launching itself off the

surface of the sun and then ... doing a cartwheel. That's exactly what

happened on April 9, 2008, when a coronal mass ejection pirouetted over the

sun's limb in full view of an international fleet of spacecraft. The

cartwheel set off a chain of events that amazed even veteran solar

physicists. The full story, and a spectacular movie of a second cartwheel

recorded just last week, may be found at http://spaceweather.com .



Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
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