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It's Welcoming Week! KRCL’s Tamrika Khvtisiashvili talks with Women of the World on the plight of Ukrainian women and children. Plus, Bring Home Happiness Pet Adoption, Great Salt Lake Community Anthology, SL County Parks & Rec...

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Utah Skies: Super Moon And Solar Eclipse

On Tuesday, we will have the opportunity to see the third supermoon of this year. In combination with this full moon is the first and only total lunar

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Utah Skies: March's Full Moon

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March’s Full Moon is known as the Worm Moon in the Traditional Farmer’s Almanac. It was believed that this is the time of year that the earthworms appear as the soil starts to warm up.
Some ancient astronomers believed the dark areas of the moon were bodies of water and therefore named them seas and even oceans. We now know that these areas are lava fields. There was volcanic activity over a billion years ago in these areas. The volcanic material has a higher iron concentration than the material in the highlands. This material is less reflective and looks darker. We also know that the volcanic activity resulted more recently than the creation of the Moon, because there are fewer craters in these areas. It is believed that the volcanic material covered over the older craters.

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Utah Skies: Mars Passes The Pleiades

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The most famous of all star clusters is the Pleiades Cluster, better known as the Seven Sisters. This beautiful group of stars lies in the constellation Taurus the Bull.
To the casual observer, the Pleiades appear as a tight formation of 6 or 7 stars in the shape of a little dipper. However, under dark sky conditions, observers have reported as many as 11. In fact, the cluster contains hundreds of stars. The cluster lies at a distance of 425 light-years. Compared to our Sun the stars that form the Pleiades are only 100 million years old.
The stars are surrounded by a faint nebulosity that appears blue in long photographic exposures. The nebulosity is seen by reflected starlight from the cluster members. Alcyone is the central star of the group and the brightest member. It’s 10 times the size of the Sun.

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Utah Skies: Milky Way Galaxy Wintertime Vs. Summertime View

Credit Dell Vance
The Milky Way Galaxy is a spiral galaxy with several arms. Our solar system is located in one of the smaller arms, the Orion Arm. In the wintertime evening sky, the Milky Way runs from Cassiopeia to a position just east of Orion. The Milky Way can be easily found by locating Sirius, the Dog Star, and Procyon. The Orion Arm of the Milky Way lies between these two stars.
The wintertime view of the Milky Way is quite different than the summertime view.
In the summertime evening sky, you will find the Milky Way is running from Cassiopeia through Cygnus, the Swan, and ending between Sagittarius and Scorpio. It is very bright and has dark regions of dust. The area between Sagittarius and Scorpio is in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way. The Sagittarius Arm has a high concentration of stars. Directionally you are looking toward the center of the Milky Way.

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Utah Skies: Clyde Tombaugh and Pluto

Clyde Tombaugh, as a young man, built his own Telescopes and made sketches of Mars and Jupiter. In 1929 he sent his sketches to the Lowell Observatory in

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Utah Skies: Perseverance Lands On Mars

Credit NASA
About every two years Earth and Mars are aligned in their orbits so that a space mission can be sent to Mars at the most opportune time. That alignment took place during July 2020 when NASA launched the large robotic rover called Perseverance to Mars. After a 300 million mile journey, Perseverance landed on Mars on Feb. 18. Another Mars adventure begins on the Red Planet.
Landing a rover on Mars is not easy. Although NASA has successfully landed a number of unmanned landers and rovers on Mars since 1976 only 40% of the missions to Mars have successfully landed. The challenge is the last stage of entry into the Martian atmosphere, the descent, and landing on the Red Planet's surface. The rover will be entering the Martian atmosphere at 12,000 miles an hour. Small thrusters keep the rover on a proper trajectory with its heat shield to help slow it down. Seven miles above the Red Planet's surface a parachute deploys and Perseverance separates from its heat shield.

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Snowmen in Salt Lake City Make a Case About Climate Change

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Snowmen were all-around the state capitol in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Feb. 21. 2021 with many holding signs asking for a price on carbon to rescue their "Endangered species."
Though there wasn't much snow in the Utah Skies on Sunday, hundreds of snowmen made it to the grounds at the state Capitol at Salt Lake City as the snow was all part of a plea to rescue the "endangered species."
(Photo : Balazs Benjamin)
The Lawmakers
The expression intends to encourage lawmakers, Democrats, and Republicans, state and local, to call for a price on carbon. According to Nick Huey, a 28-year-old father from Taylorsville, who arranged the event on Sunday said more than 50 volunteers turned out to create at least 500 snowmen and snowwomen, making use of snow that was already on the property.

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Utah Skies: Three Mars Missions In February

Mars has been the center for the search for life in our solar system since the first US Viking lander in 1976. Since that time dozens of unmanned missions

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Utah Skies: Proxima Centauri Radio Waves?

Credit NASA Hubble Space Telescope
Over the last twenty years or so, astronomers have detected over 4,000 planets orbiting other star systems. Our Milky Way galaxy may have billions of planets orbiting other stars. It’s a goal to find earth-sized planets orbiting their stars in what is called the habitable zone, or that distance from their parent star where any water on the planet is liquid.
SETI is a project that searches for radio waves coming from these types of planets. The discovery of such radio emitting planets would be strong evidence of intelligent life on that planet.
The Parkes observatory has detected a possible radio wave from a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun. Proxima Centauri is only 4.2 light years away and has two confirmed planets, one orbits its parent star in the star's habitable zone.

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