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February 23, 2014

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (02.23.14)

Aero Linx: The Plymouth Aero Club The Plymouth Aero Club was formed nearly 50 years ago by a group of local pilots to help promote aviation safety and education. The Aero Club has been instrumental over the years in organizing air shows and raising money for local charities. The Aero Club meets a number of times a year to enjoy good food, share flying stories and plan aviation and charity events. If you would like to join or renew your existing membership with the Aero Club please download our membership form listed below, or to get more information about this wonderful organization, please email plymouthaeroclub@gmail.com.

Albedo The ratio of the amount of radiation reflected from an object's surface compared to the amount that strikes it. This varies according to the texture, color, and expanse of the object's surface and is reported in percentage. Surfaces with high albedo include sand and snow, while low albedo rates include forests and freshly turned earth.

"Not only are they gigantic. But as Venus doesn’t have a magnetic field to protect itself, the hot flow anomalies happen right on top of the planet. They could swallow the planet whole." Source: Glyn Collinson, a space scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, making comments associated with the recent discovery that a common space weather phenomenon on the outskirts of Earth’s magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere, has much larger repercussions for Venus. The giant explosions, called hot flow anomalies, can be so large at Venus that they’re bigger than the entire planet and they can happen multiple times a day.