Crawling around the net with Mike Graham, NE1V

FAR OUT!

Unless you've been on Jupiter these past several months, you know that the Mars Pathfinder mission is underway on the red planet. Some exceptional information and photos are available to you on a daily basis and the library is growing rapidly. To access the mission site, try the following site for starters: http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/

Speaking of Jupiter, Project Gallileo has been sending back incredible images and data on Jupiter and its moons. For example, on July 18th of this year it was announced that Jupiter's moon, Europa, has an atmosphere. How the discovery was made makes fascinating reading. Try the following site to begin your Jovian exploration: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/

I'm sure that most of you know that the science of Radio Astronomy was born in the 1930's when it was discovered that Jupiter emits radio signals at frequencies near the 15-Meter amateur radio band. It has since evolved into a highly sophisticated endeavor, with continuous mapping and exploration projects being conducted. Because of its nature, Radio Astronomy has also become a major "second hobby" for many amateur radio operators, especially those interested in VHF/UHF/SHF/EHF work. If this subject interests you, try this web site as a good jumpoff point: http://dsnra.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

For those of you looking for alien critters, last October two scientists, Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz of the Geneva Observatory, discovered a planet circling the star 51 Pegasi in the constellation Pegasus. Since then there have been a virtual flood of new extra-solar planetary discoveries. For additional information on this subject, try these two fascinating sites: http://zebu.uoregon.edu/51peg.html , and http://www.sciam.com/explorations/052796explorations.html

Next month we'll discuss some interesting sites for all you weather "phreaques".

73…..de NE1V.

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