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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission lands on Mars next month after a nine-month journey across our Solar System. On arrival the most advanced suite of instruments ever sent to the red planet will get to work. In this edition of the podcast, geologist and MSL scientist Professor Sanjeev Gupta, from Imperial College London, discusses the excitement and science behind the mission with Spaceflight UK's Jerry Stone and Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham. Plus, a report from the recent European space tourism conference where the major players pitched their space trips and a... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

More details of the podcast are posted here, and on the Naked Astronomy website.

The sky on 24 Apr 2024

The sky on 24 April 2024
Sunrise
05:57
Sunset
19:42
Twilight ends
21:26
Twilight begins
04:14

16-day old moon
Waning Gibbous

99%

16 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:18 11:39 18:00
Venus 05:39 12:10 18:41
Moon 19:38 00:56 06:05
Mars 04:32 10:24 16:16
Jupiter 06:52 14:00 21:08
Saturn 04:13 09:50 15:28
All times shown in EDT.

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This information was taken from the Naked Astronomy website.

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41.14°N
73.26°W
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