[MIham] Fw: ISS Gets New Solar Wings

[Frank]

Space Weather News for March 21, 2009
http://spaceweather.com

ISS GETS NEW WINGS: The International Space Station's solar arrays are the 
largest deployable space assemblies ever built. Yesterday, astronauts 
unfurled a pair on the starboard side of the outpost, adding more than 8000 
sq. feet of light-collecting surface area to the station's profile. Hours 
after the new wings were deployed, the ISS flew over Europe where amateur 
astronomers photographed the changes.  Their movies and photos are featured 
on today's edition of http://spaceweather.com.

SOLAR CONJUNCTION OF JUPITER'S MOONS:  Another must-see movie comes from 
NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft.  On March 15th and 16th, the solar observatory 
watched Jupiter and its moons converge on the sun just as a coronal mass 
ejection was exploding "overhead."  Visit http://spaceweather.com for 
footage.