PULL · 16 OCT 1998

This was
your sky.

Io Aurora

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COSMIC MESSAGE

The robot Galileo spacecraft caught this image of Io's aurora while the moon was in Jupiter's shadow. Energetic particles collide with Io's atmospheric gases, causing a glow much like Earth's aurora. The red and green colors come from oxygen atoms, while the rare blue light is caused by excited sulfur dioxide. Jupiter, the gas giant, is off to the right of the frame, about 1.3 million kilometers away.

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Io Aurora
1998-10-16 · ♎
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Move your cursor across the card to tilt it. Holographic foil ripples through the edges and surface as you go.

ZODIAC CONTEXT
LIBRA

In tropical astrology, 16 OCT 1998 falls under Libra (♎). The sign's window runs from 09-23 through 10-22. Libra is the only zodiac constellation named for an inanimate object, the scales of judgment. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 16 OCT 1998.

THE ALMANAC FOR 16 OCT 1998
DAY
Friday
MOON
Waning crescent, 20% lit
POSITION
Day 289 of 365
METEOR SHOWER
Orionid shower, peaks in 5 days