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astronomy1 year ago

"2024 Solar Eclipse: Find the Best Viewing Time for Your City with ZIP Code Search"

NASA has created an interactive online tool that allows users to search by ZIP code to determine the exact viewing time for the April 8 solar eclipse, which will sweep across North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The tool provides information on the path of totality, showing the duration of the eclipse for specific locations and estimating the percentage of the sun that will be covered by the moon. The eclipse will be visible along a narrow track from Texas to Maine, with a partial eclipse visible throughout all 48 contiguous states.

science-and-technology2 years ago

Navigating Mars: A Computer's Close Call.

NASA has released an interactive map of Mars made from over 100,000 images taken by the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, offering the highest-resolution global portrait of Mars ever made. The tool, hosted online by Caltech, offers shortcuts to some of the most popular sites on the Red Planet, including its largest mountain, Olympus Mons, and Jezero Crater, the dried-up lakebed where the Perseverance rover mission is underway. Visitors can also bookmark locations, measure distances, and toggle layers like rover paths, a topographical heat map, and impact craters.