Nov 21 - Mars Landing Ahead!

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Artist's concept of InSight lander firing retrorockets to slow its descent toward Mars' surface. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech. How to watch Mars Insight landing November 26 Watch the first Mars landing in 6 years this Monday, November 26. That's when NASA’s InSight lander will make its daring descent to Mars' surface. The spacecraft is scheduled to touch down Monday at approximately 20:00 UTC (3 p.m. EST; translate UTC to your time), with live landing commentary starting about an hour before. Click in to learn how to watch. Here’s where InSight will touch down NASA has chosen an area in the Elysium Planitia – high plains near the Martian equator – as the site for the landing of the InSight spacecraft. Read more. For arid Mars-like desert, rain brings death When rain fell on the arid Atacama Desert, it was reasonable to expect floral blooms to follow. But a team of astrobiologists found that the water brought death instead. Read more. A rare rainbow in the Atacama Desert. Image via Carlos González-Silva/Cornell Chronicle.

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Tonight … Come to know the Pleiades or 7 Sisters Look for the sky’s most celebrated star cluster – the Pleiades – a tiny, misty dipper-shaped star cluster adorning the sky all night long on these November nights. Photo: Tom Wildoner.

Aurora and Milky Way over Norway On November 6, Stephen Hanley captured this piece of an aurora beside the Milky Way in the sky over Skulsfjord, Norway. Thanks, Steve!  Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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