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Your local circumstances are computed below. You can change the location by either dragging the marker on the map or searching for an address. From the menu on the top right you can specify the year of the transit (1639 to 2125). Clicking the icon at the top right corner of the map, you can switch the area of visibility on and off. Click on the icon on the lower right for more detailed information, including times of sunrise and sunset.
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Practising the timing of the contacts
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Features of the phone app
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Predicted
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Predicted times of contact
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The phone app has a tab which gives you the predicted times of contact for your location, as well as the times of sunset and sunrise.
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Contacts that cannot be viewed from your location (because the sun is below the horizon) are indicated in grey.
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Using the timer, just tap the phone’s screen at the moment of internal contact (when Venus appears within the sun, just touching the sun’s edge).
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As you are looking through the eyepiece and not at the screen, the phone will vibrate when you log your times to let you know the time was successfully recorded
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app will record the exact GPS time and your location, which then will be sent to the global database.
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you are also asked to enter your email address. Although this is optional, you will be able to add more info to your entry later if you send your address along with the data.
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Based on the Galileo probe data acquired during its exploration of the Jovian system from 1995 to 2003
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Europa possesses a deep, global ocean of liquid water beneath a layer of surface ice
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The subsurface ocean plus ice layer could range from 80 to 170 kilometers in average dept
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estimate of 100 kilometers depth
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all the water on Europa were gathered into a ball it would have a radius of 877 kilometers
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a volume 2-3 times the volume of water in Earth's oceans
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The President just called to say congrats. Caller ID was blocked, so at first I thought it was a telemarketer :)
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professor of business administration at the University of Illinois
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moderate level of noise not only enhances creative problem-solving but also leads to a greater adoption of innovative products in certain settings
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explores how a moderate-level of ambient noise (about 70 decibels, equivalent to a passenger car traveling on a highway) enhances performance on creative tasks and increases the likelihood of consumers purchasing innovative products.
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researchers also studied how a high level of noise (85 decibels, equivalent to traffic noise on a major road) hurts creativity by reducing information processing.
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around 70 decibels is the sweet spot
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An increased level of distraction makes you think ‘out-of-the-box’ – what we call abstract thinking or abstract processing, which is a hallmark of increased creativity
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go beyond that moderate level of noise what happens is that distraction becomes so huge that it really starts affecting the thought process
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a moderate level of noise produces just enough distraction to lead to higher creativity, but a very high level of noise induces too much distraction, which actually reduces the amount of processing, thus leading to lower creativity
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