The smithsonian air and space Museum Opened 40 years ago. July 1, 1976. Leading up to the anniversary, American History tvs real america is showing a series of nasa films. From 1979, planet mars documents the search to a understand our earthlike planet. The film includes an overview of the flybys of the red planet between 1964, 1971. Also, the viking mission that craft in 1976. O narrator of all the planets in the solar system, earth and mars are the most similar. Despite the similarities, mars essentially like no other planet. Unique world. To astronomers for hundreds of years. Through telescopes, it appeared to be a small, red sphere. It was estimated to be half the size of earth. One of the earliest known representations of the planet was drawn in 1559 indicating markings on the surface. The movement of the dark patches indicated surface that mars rotated on its axis about 24 and one half hours. It was observed to that the tilt of its access exposed to the polar regions ultimately t
Up next from 1979, planet mars documents the search to a understand our earthlike planet. The film includes an overview of the flybys of the red planet between 1964, 1971. Also, the viking mission that landed two craft in 1976. Narrator of all the planets in the solar system, earth and mars are the most similar. Despite the similarities, mars is essentially like no other planet. It is an unique world. It was elusive to astronomers for hundreds of years. Through telescopes, it appeared to be a small, red sphere. It was estimated to be half the size of earth. One of the earliest known representations of the planet drawn in 1659 indicating markings on the surface. The movement of the dark patches across the surface indicated that mars rotated on its axis about 24 and one half hours. It was observed to that the tilt of its access exposed to the polar regions ultimately to the sunlight. Each hemisphere has a summer and winter period. One martian year and each of its seasons is almost twice
Tomorrow afternoon. In boston, temperatures will drop, but not as much as the last couple of nights. That tells you the humidity is coming up. What will happen tomorrow is, we start the day with partly cloudy skies. By lunchtime, here we start to see those lines of showers and thunderstorms. One place you get a heavy downpour, a few miles down the road, you dont get anythou i will have much more on the timeline and what to expect tomorrow coming up. Ben all right, thank you. New at 5 30, the state of New Hampshire asking for federal help tonight to deal with Drought Conditions in the state. The request by governor Maggie Hassan is for grafton, rockingham, and strafford counties. Farmers say the lack of rain has effected their corn crops. The corn is now several inches smaller and the supply is cut in half. Another challenge is the that they cannot irrigate. If the request is approved, help. It will help us preserve the land, pay our taxes, pay for our equipments. And help maintain the
Right now police are investigating a deadly officer involved shooting. It happened during a Citizens Academy at police headquarters. Within the last 30 minutes we are learning the name of the woman killed. She was one of two people picked at random to simulate a shootdontshoot scenario. The chief asking for prayers in what is a tragedy accident. Well update you online on abcactionnews. Com. Good evening everyone and thanks for joining us im wendy ryan. Im jamison uhler. Well continue to monitor this breaking news, but first. That is a little challenge to go through that. A tribute from total strangers. Is in orlando marking what would have been kaylee anthonys 11th birthday. They are hoping that the Birthday Gift will remind other parents to protect their children. Over the years crosses have been stolen. One sarasota couple hopes this one will stay here to be a constant memorial for kaylee on her birthday. No birthday just balloons. Thats all she got for her 11th birthday. Thats not e
6 00 in the morning on this february 21. Yesterday, i went outside. They were as excited as we were. Today is going to be nice, too. Just not quite as stunning. Todays High Temperatures are actually in the 50s. We are hitting those highs from lynnfield and even to milton. We will go down in temperatures as we get into the later part of the day. The Weather Bug Network providing temperatures. Those are in the 30s and 40s. It depends on where you are. Boston was at 50 degrees and now we are at 49. We are going to kind of stay in the 40s and 50s for the rest of the day. Giving us more cloud cover for this afternoon. With another chance for a little bit of a rebound by 3 pm. Overnight tonight, there is a chance for rain. More temperature swings on the way and midweek rain. The latest on that storm system in a bit. We do have breaking news this morning. Seven people are dead following a series of shootings in the kalamazoo, michigan, area. Police say they arrested eight 835yearold suspect o