Annular Solar Eclipse over Saitama, Japan; 9:32 Local Time
ATREX EXPERIMENT LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT SKY
From SpaceWeather.com:
“Before sunrise on March 27th, sky watchers up and down the eastern seaboard of the United States witnessed a strange apparition. A quintet of milky-white plumes appeared in the night sky, twisting in the winds at the edge of space. “It was pretty unreal and very exciting to see,” says eye-witness Jack Fusco, who sends this picture from Seaside Park in New Jersey.”
“The plumes were chemical tracers (trimethyl aluminum) deposited in the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere by five rockets launched rapid-fire from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The goal of the experiment, named ATREX(Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment), is to study 3D turbulence in the thermosphere.”
This is Chad. He has been my chemistry teacher for the past week and a half. He has gotten great reviews over at the Student Doctor Network for being a top resource for chemistry review. I’ve been trusting his lectures to give me quality and refreshing overviews of my general and organic chemistries. The lecture set for both chemistries cost $60 and each has an accompanying outline and online end-of-lecture quiz which have been great.
I am in my second serious and full week of studying for the DAT, which I plan to take the second week of March, and I can totally say that I am in a deep world of science for the next couple of months. The balancing of DAT studying (Gen Chem, Organic Chem, Biology, Perceptual Ability, Quantitative Reasoning, and Reading Comp) with my classes for this semester (Neurobio, Microbio, Medical Entomology, Abnormal Psyc) has proven to be a great way to take up not only all the day-lit hours of the day, but most of the moon-lit hours as well.
This is quite the adventure, but I am learning to enjoy and embrace it all, one day at a time.
I would love to see this one day.
From where you’re sitting, move your face closer to the above image. Notice a change in brightness? Now move your head back. The illusion is called the dynamic luminance-gradient effect - or, more fun, the “here comes then sun” effect.
