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"Earthshine blog"

A blog about a telescopic system at the Mauna Loa Observatory on Hawaii to determine terrestrial albedo by earthshine observations. Feasible thanks to sheer determination.

ISS experiment

Uncategorised Posted on Aug 22, 2023 17:29

Starting August 2023 the ISS will have onboard the danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen who will perform several experiments for danish scientists specifically.

We suggested that the impact of scattered light from the lunar bright side onto the dark side could be investigated in an experiment based on comparing images of the Moon taken from space with simultaneous images taken from the ground.

https://ufm.dk/forskning-og-innovation/rumomradet/aktuelt/nyheder/2023/tag-et-billede-af-nymanen-for-dmi2019s-huginn-forsog-earthshine

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Illuminating_Earth_s_shine



Entangled States blog, about the ISS earthshine experiment

Uncategorised Posted on Aug 22, 2023 16:51

Old friend, and Bishop, Nick Knisely talks about the ISS earthshine experiment on his blog: https://entangledstates.org/2023/08/22/calling-all-citizen-scientists-lunar-photos-needed-for-climate-research/

Thanks Nick!