The new digital system has complete animation and manual control with a
star field generated by Starry Night software.statemuseumpa.m. Admission to the Planetarium is $3. "However, why the storms suddenly emerge and disappear
is a mystery," said Kaiser.
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The project has been in development for over five years -- since
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, of Chadds Ford, features a
digital sky generated by computer graphics and projected on the dome by a
single video projector in the center of the room.
For detailed information on the new Planetarium, visit
http://www. This collapse, and condensation processes in the deep interior ,
generated tremendous heat.43211 GHz, was chosen as it is in
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Kaiser added, "I know of an organization of dedicated amateurs (and some
professionals ) called the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers. I heard back very quickly
from Erick Bondoux and Jean-Luc Dauvergne of Melun, France, two amateurs who
worked together, and then later from two separate U. All groups saw a
new white patch of high clouds where the storm should be. The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency .
A user simply visits www. The user then writes a message up to 1,000 words in
length. Messages are transmitted into
space via the organization's custom-developed transmission system,
designed by RF and broadcast engineers with over 75 years of
experience in terrestrial and satellite communications .

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As Cassini gets closer to Saturn, the team would like to pinpoint the
location of the lightning.TalkToAliens.
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GREENBELT, Md.gov/apod/ap050225. "We know
the storm is there because radio signals from lightning flashes are being
detected by Cassini's Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument, in the
same way that thunderstorms on Earth generate static on AM radio.TalkToAliens.

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This creates visual effects
that were not possible with the previous equipment . to 5 p.S.com, the free "Certificate of
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The State Museum of Pennsylvania is one of 26 historic sites and museums
on the Pennsylvania Trail of History(R) administered by the Pennsylvania
Historical and Museum Commission.S.

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Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. Once we get closer, Saturn will appear
much larger to Cassini, and we can better locate the lightning if the storm is
still ongoing," said Kaiser. Alain Lecacheux, Philippe Zarka, and Baptiste Cecconi from the
Observatory of Paris, France, and Drs. For
images, refer to:

http://www.95, and includes the free message confirmation
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org.)." The
service costs just $19. The Milky Way is the galaxy
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, the storm dwarfs terrestrial thunderstorms. Visual
lightning flashes in the cloud tops will be hard to observe because the actual
location of the lightning is likely much deeper in Saturn's atmosphere, where
it is warm enough for water vapor to exist. On Earth, turbulent motion of
water droplets and ice particles in clouds separates electric charge,
resulting in lightning.html

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CONTACT: Jane Crawford, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
+1-717-783-9882., Amateur astronomers are helping
NASA scientists on the Cassini mission track the most powerful storm yet
observed on Saturn.
According to the RPWS data, the new storm is generating lightning flashes
several times more frequently than the original Dragon storm, and the
lightning is as much as five times stronger. I
contacted their director and asked him to query his troops to see if anyone
saw any new bright clouds in Saturn's atmosphere. This wind shear generates tremendous turbulence in storm
alley, which may be part of the reason why storms emerge so frequently there,
according to the team.

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Apparently, it
is much fiercer as well -- radio signals from its lightning are more than
1,000 times greater than similar radio static from terrestrial storms. Amateurs are playing
an increasingly important role supporting professional astronomy research."
The ultimate source of energy for the storms may be heat from Saturn's
interior. Mike Kaiser and Bill Farrell from
Goddard .

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"This addition to the museum is a great attraction for the many school
children who visit and it can serve to inspire an interest in science in young
people," said museum director, Anita Blackaby.nasa.
The storm appears in Saturn's "storm alley," a band located at about 30 to
35 degrees south latitude. Donald Gurnett and
colleagues Drs.TalkToAliens.

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Part of the museum's 100th anniversary attractions,
Sci Dome Planetarium, created by Spitz Inc. The storm is in a similar location to the "Dragon" storm
reported last year - http://antwrp." Kaiser is
part of a team using RPWS to observe the storm. "Our RPWS instrument can locate a radio signal to
within a one to two degree angle, but we are so far from Saturn now that this
small angle includes the entire planet.nasa.gov /vision/universe/solarsystem/Saturn_storm.

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The RPWS team includes Principal Investigator, Prof. Bill Kurth and Georg Fischer, from the University of Iowa,
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, The State Museum of Pennsylvania
dedicated its new, state-of-the-art digital Planetarium at a ceremony in
Memorial Hall today. and Sunday,
noon to 5 p. The area is between two jets of winds moving at
different speeds. "Storms on Saturn seem to be exquisitely sensitive
to the turbulent atmosphere there, just like a tornado that suddenly appears
beneath the roiling clouds of a thunderstorm, and just as suddenly is gone. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a
division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the
Cassini mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.TalkToAliens.com

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(Some
episodes may have been longer, but were not detectable by Cassini when the
storm is on Saturn's day side.

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2005--www.
According to www.
Where, in space, are the messages being sent? The system's
parabolic dish antenna is pointed into the "Milky Way" -- the area of
space with the highest density of regional stars and, thus, hopefully
towards planets and other civilizations.

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html - so it
may be a reemergence of that storm or a new storm. At approximately the size of the
continental U. "It waxes and wanes in intensity -- strongest during episode
2, weakest during episode 10 so far .)
According to the team, the white spot is the tip of the iceberg for the
storm, like the cumulus clouds on top of thunderstorms on Earth.com, the world's first "Intergalactic
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Each feature is 24 minutes. Shows are on Saturday and Sunday only.

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Michael Kaiser of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md .
"The storm is still ongoing, with 35 consecutive episodes as of February
8," said Kaiser . Each episode lasted about half a Saturn day of 10 hours and 40
minutes when the storm system is on the side of Saturn facing Cassini. Something needs to separate electric charge on Saturn
for lightning to occur there also, and water in deeper layers of the
atmosphere is a likely candidate.
The E -Mail Service complements the organization's already popular
Telephone Service for broadcasting the public's telephone calls --
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" Kaiser noticed signals from the storm on
January 23. Saturn formed from a cloud of gas and dust that collapsed under its
own gravity . The service's transmitter then broadcasts the text into deep
space.
The transmitter's frequency , 2.

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C.com:
"If any intergalactic entity is already 'listening in' on earth
happenings, they should be aware of this portion of the RF spectrum"
-- and provide the best chance of message reception .

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Visitors can see two
different shows: "Oasis in Space," a dramatic journey through our solar system
and beyond in search of water and "Legends of the Night Sky: Orion," which
fascinates younger audiences with a fully-animated cartoon that looks at the
myths associated with the constellation Orion.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission is the official history
agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
"Right now, Cassini is in a 40-day orbit around Saturn, and we are slowly
flying over the night side, so it's difficult to see cloud features," said Dr. amateurs (Jim Phillips
of Charleston, S.
In addition to sending messages into space, the user will also
receive a free "Certificate of Interstellar Broadcast" -- a frameable
certificate that indicates the date and time of the broadcast, as well
as the first 500 characters of the message sent. As the sky appears to turn over
the earth, the antenna sweeps through much of the Milky Way's
estimated 400 billion stars.

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We
don't know why yet. Today, 4.5 billion years after its formation ,
Saturn still radiates about the same amount of heat energy that it receives
from the Sun.

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HARRISBURG, Pa.50 for adults and $3 for
children 12 and under., and Don Parker of Coral Gables, Fla . The
equipment available now is incredible, much better than when I was an
amateur," said Kaiser .com and selects the "E-Mail
to Space" option.