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Apollo 11 – 50th Anniversary – Saturday July6th 8:00PM
Come celebrate 50 years since the most spectacular adventure. RASC Board Member, David Shuman leads a look back at Apollo 11 via amazing images, the story of its accomplishments and the future of space exploration. Saturday, July 6th, 2019Conservation Centre,...
How an Atomic Clock Will Get Humans to Mars on Time
The Deep Space Atomic Clock, a new technology from NASA's JPL, may change the way spacecraft navigate in space. Launching in late June aboard the Orbital Test Bed satellite, on the SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, descendants of the technology demonstration could be a...
Is the Great Red Spot Unraveling?
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The Summer Night Sky – Free Public Event – Saturday June 8th
The Summer Night Sky in the Northern Hemisphere is simply dazzling…full of stars, double stars, galaxies, nebulae & some of the gas giants of our solar system. RASC Montréal Centre Librarian & McGill Physics Student Youssef Bestavros will describe how to use...
NASA’s MRO Completes 60,000 Trips Around Mars
This still from an animation shows NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter soaring over Mars. The spacecraft has been in Mars orbit for 13 years, and just completed 60,000 trips around the planet.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This image of Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing...
RECENT ARTICLES
Apollo 11 – 50th Anniversary – Saturday July6th 8:00PM
Come celebrate 50 years since the most spectacular adventure. RASC Board Member, David Shuman leads a look back at Apollo 11 via amazing images, the story of its accomplishments and the future of space exploration. Saturday, July 6th, 2019Conservation Centre,...
How an Atomic Clock Will Get Humans to Mars on Time
The Deep Space Atomic Clock, a new technology from NASA's JPL, may change the way spacecraft navigate in space. Launching in late June aboard the Orbital Test Bed satellite, on the SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, descendants of the technology demonstration could be a...
Is the Great Red Spot Unraveling?
May 20, 2019: Around the world, amateur astronomers are monitoring a strange phenomenon on the verge of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS). The giant storm appears to be unraveling. The Gemini North adaptive optics telescope on Maunakea saw a lesser but similar streamer...
The Summer Night Sky – Free Public Event – Saturday June 8th
The Summer Night Sky in the Northern Hemisphere is simply dazzling…full of stars, double stars, galaxies, nebulae & some of the gas giants of our solar system. RASC Montréal Centre Librarian & McGill Physics Student Youssef Bestavros will describe how to use...
NASA’s MRO Completes 60,000 Trips Around Mars
This still from an animation shows NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter soaring over Mars. The spacecraft has been in Mars orbit for 13 years, and just completed 60,000 trips around the planet.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This image of Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing...