Dec 28 - Ice Crater on Mars

December 28 Ice Crater on Mars by:

A stunning perspective view of Mars' ice-filled Korolev Crater, as seen by the Mars Express spacecraft. Image via ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Spacecraft spies ice-filled Mars crater The Mars Express orbiter has acquired some stunning images of Korolev Crater, an ice-filled crater near the Martian north pole. It looks from a distance like a snowy winter landscape on Earth. See the images. Animal world is awesome: 3 essential reads The elusive fossa, deepsea corals, and a tropical frog which has developed resistance to a deadly fungus. Here are 3 stories from 2018 that remind us how awesome the animal world is. Read more. Fossa at the Houston Zoo. Image via Josh Henderson. Last quarter moon is December 29 The next last quarter moon falls on December 29, 2018, at 09:34 UTC. A last quarter moon rises around midnight and sets around noon the following day. Read more.

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Before sunup tomorrow … Moon and Spica Let the waning moon introduce you to Spica, the brightest star in the constellation Virgo the Maiden. Read more.

Red sunset from Italy's Mount Etna Europe’s most active volcano - Mount Etna on the east coast of Sicily, Italy - began its newest eruption on Christmas Eve. Giuseppe Pappa wrote yesterday: "The dust and the gas from Mount Etna gave us today this fantastic view during sunset time. The sun became very red due to volcanic ash in the sky." Thank you, Giuseppe! Click in for a shot of the volcano itself. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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