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Subtle shading will begin to pass over the face of the Moon around 2am Mountain Standard Time. Totality begins just after 4am, when the moon plunges into the deepest part of the shadow and turns blood red. In this eclipse, totality lasts for fourteen minutes. Skywatchers will be able to see the Earth’s shadow slipping away for about another hour, until the moon sets below the western horizon.
This is the only chance to see a total lunar eclipse in 2021. For those who would like to experience the event through a telescope and hear astronomers speak about the science of eclipses, Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory is hosting a livestream on its YouTube channel starting at 2:30am.
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Talk to me about some of the problems with housing on the Navajo Nation
We did a regional research study, and the regional research study showed that majority of the homes were multigenerational families, so there would be 3 or 4 families that live in a single family home of 520 square feet…. So there’s overcrowded situations, and then there’s other families living in dilapidated homes. For instance, this family that we helped build her home, in her octagon when it would rain, she would have water come through the middle of her octagon, so she would have a little river going through… and on the outside of her drywall, she would have plastic bags for insulation…. The other thing that we’re also coming across is that there’s a lot of homeless families… They find shelter anywhere… From my research we found a Navajo man that was in Chilchinbeto, he dug out a side of a hill and he lived in there…but it wasn’t safe because the roof was starting to cave in, the walls
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The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft operated by the University of Arizona has spent the last two and a half years orbiting around the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft gathered a sample of dust and rubble from the asteroid last October. It now faces a 1.4-billion-mile journey back to Earth. It’ll drop the sample capsule in the Utah desert in September of 2023.
This is expected to be the largest sample collected by a NASA mission since the moon rocks brought back by Apollo astronauts. Scientists at the University of Arizona and elsewhere will study the sample to learn more about the creation of the solar system and the origins of life in the universe. Three-quarters of the asteroid material will be archived for scientists to study in the future with technologies not yet invented.
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The Surface Water Protection Program creates a list of nearly eight hundred rivers, streams and lakes that are protected from harmful pollutants under a new statewide permitting system. It’s the state’s first water-quality bill signed into law since the early nineties. It follows the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2020 decision to remove federal protections for waterways that don’t flow year-round. Supporters of the new program say clean water regulation should fall to the state and not the federal government. But some conservation groups say the bill isn’t strong enough and needs to incorporate more scientific data and public review. The Arizona Department of Water Quality is working on a draft list of protected waters.