Good info. I hope the tail is still as visible when it comes up at night.

I think it will be getting higher each night for a few nights, but it'll also get dimmer. Good luck!

Got it. Visible right now. At the 5 o'clock from the big dipper. You can see it with the naked eye but a much better view with binocs. Will fire up the telescope from now on.

Nice, glad you caught it!

Any updates on this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_2020

Looks like they put the rover and capsule on the rocket on 7/7.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/07/0...navirus-cases/

Current launch time is 7:50 am EST on 7/30, but the window for launch extends until 8/15.

Thanks!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NASA&#39;s Johnson Space Center public affairs officer Kyle Herring says that SpaceX&#39;s Crew Dragon Endeavour is getting ready to return from the space station on August 2: <a href="https://t.co/rQzuKiEia5">https://t.co/rQzuKiEia5</a></p>&mdash; Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) <a href="https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1284132485924818944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This is as cheesy as you'd expect from NASA, but here's a little about the next Mars rover set to launch soon.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1P-QBtEyDbQ" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

This is awesome!

So, Perseverance is going to have a small helicopter drone inside that will fly out and scout the terrain? That's pretty amazing. It's crazy how far technologically we've come since the first time we landed a rover on Mars. I love it.

Yeah, that was the big news to me. That could be a really useful tool.

Here's a super cool shot. (click for the full version - you can't see the comet in the small version)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Comet NEOWISE over Falcon 9 and ANASIS-II vertical on SLC-40. Today’s launch window opens at 5:00 p.m. EDT and closes at 8:55 p.m. EDT, and weather is looking 70% favorable → <a href="https://t.co/bJFjLCzWdK">https://t.co/bJFjLCzWdK</a> <a href="https://t.co/5ITydgvQVI">pic.twitter.com/5ITydgvQVI</a></p>&mdash; SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1285264295417110528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Launch coming up here in a few hours.

T-2 minutes

Sweeet bump bro. Thanks

Landing video was nice this time.