Posted by Chris Radcliff in Calendar on January 24, 2010
Sat, Jan 30, 2010
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Location:
Montgomery Field Airport conference room (map)
3750 John J. Montgomery Drive, San Diego, CA
The board of directors of the San Diego Space Society meets monthly to discuss chapter business and plan future activities. This will be the first meeting of 2010, welcoming the newly-elected officers and directors and establishing an ambitious plan for the year.
SD Space members and the public are welcome to attend. Please RSVP to events@sdspace.org if you’d like to participate.
Posted by Gerry Williams in Calendar on January 24, 2010
Mon, Jan 25, 2010
10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Tue, Jan 26, 2010
10:30 am to 12:00 pm
San Diego Mars Rover
San Diego Space Society and the Mars Society-San Diego will be taking our Mars Rovers out for a visit to Mr. Knox’s classroom from 10:30am to noon at the Chula Vista Nature Center. There will be a multimedia presentation about Mars, then the children will get an opportunity to teleoperate a Mars Rover replica.
Posted by Gerry Williams in Calendar on January 13, 2010
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
9:00 am to 11:00 am
San Diego Mars Exploration Rover Replica
Gerry Williams and Jesse Clark traveled to Horizon Christian School in Clairemont for a two hour presentation of “A Closer Look At Mars” by the San Diego Space Society and the Mars Society-San Diego.
100 students composed of 8th and 9th graders from Ms. Ruiz’s classes attended the presentation from 9-11am. The Mars Society display was set up and with three of our rovers on hand.
Throughout the presentation, the students were treated to interactive displays such as the Earth/Mars/Moon Gravity Bricks, Mars globes, Martian Soil Simulant, and we ended with a short Sojourner run and some video from the static MER model.
After the presentation, four students who answered their questions correctly got a chance to teleoperate our new ROV.R3 around the back of the classroom while viewing the video from the screen at the front of the room.
Everyone seemed to enjoy the presentation and we had many thanks (and questions) as the students exited.
Posted by Gerry Williams in Calendar, Chapter Updates on January 13, 2010
Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Mars opposition on Earth, Earth in inferior conjunction on Mars. Opposition is where the Earth is directly between Mars and the Sun.
Apparent brightness of Mars reaches -1.27 mag in constellation Cancer.
Distance from Earth: 0.6640 AU / 99,423,000 kilometers / 61,778,000 miles
Mars rises at 5:02pm PST
Unfortunately for viewing, Mars will be very close to the full moon this evening.
Posted by Gerry Williams in Calendar on January 13, 2010
Wed, Jan 27, 2010
Closest approach of Mars and Earth (0.664 AU = 99.33 million km) until 2012.
Apparent diameter of Mars is 14.105″. Apparent magnitude -1.27
Distance from Earth: 0.6640 AU / 99,333,000 kilometers / 61,723,000 miles
Mars rises at 5:13pm PST
