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Good evening, Rallypoint, and welcome to the May 3rd Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD): "Mercury's Sodium Tail." Shown here in this April 2022 picture from La Palma, Spain, we see the Pleiades (top) and the Planet Mecury (below). The 'tail' is ionized sodium from Mercury's thin atmosphere streamed by the solar wind. The tail was predicted in the 1980s, and confirmed in 2001. A neat piece of astrophotographic work IMHO.
APOD: 2022 May 3 - Mercurys Sodium Tail
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Maj William W. 'Bill' Price good morning my friend, and good to see you on the RP net May 4, 2022 . I have said it many times before, yet I will say it again, "nobody does it better from above". Thank you for sharing Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD):"Mercury's Sodium Tail."
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Lt Col Charlie Brown SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. SGT Charlie Lee PO2 Marco Monsalve SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth ] SSG William Jones Sgt (Join to see) 1SG Dan Capri SGT Steve McFarland SrA John Monette SFC Bernard Walko GySgt Jack Wallace SPC Michael Terrell SMSgt Anil Heendeniya CPL Douglas Chrysler
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