Saturday in Whitewater will be snowy, with a significant accumulation, and a high of 30. Sunrise is 7:04 and sunset is 4:22 for 9 hours 18 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 64.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1961, Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
How do snowflakes form? Why do they have six sides? Is it true that each snowflake is unique? Here’s some serious snowflake trivia courtesy of physicist Prof Brian Cox. Made by Studio Panda with paper artwork by Sam Pierpoint, in partnership with the @royalsociety. 0:00 What is a snowflake? 0:30 How snowflakes are made – and why no two snowflakes are the same 1:18 Johannes Kepler asks: Why do snowflakes always have six sides? 2:19 Different snowflake shapes 2:44 Snowflake photography and how to take the perfect shot 3:14 Snowflakes and symmetry 3:37 Snowflakes aren’t actually white! 3:50 Snowflakes and the Universe.
