Before we solve the puzzle, here's a story of a Juno discovery the team wasn't expecting to make. We now know, thanks to Juno -- the true source of the so-called "Zodiacal Light" seen at dawn and dusk here on Earth.
. . .A team of Juno scientists argues that Mars may be the culprit. They first published their finding online on Nov. 11, 2020, in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, with a final peer-reviewed paper published on March 9, 2021.
An instrument aboard the Juno spacecraft serendipitously detected dust particles slamming into the spacecraft during its journey from Earth to Jupiter. The impacts provided important clues to the origin and orbital evolution of the dust, resolving some mysterious variations of the zodiacal light.
Though their discovery has big implications, the scientists who spent years studying cosmic debris did not set out to do so. “I never thought we’d be looking for interplanetary dust,” said John Leif Jørgensen, a professor at the Technical University of Denmark. . . .
Finally, see if you can solve this, one of the quizzes NASA has put up (click it to embiggify), to help us all appreciate 3.14159.
And. . . here at about noon, on Pi Day 2021 -- is a solid formulaic hint, if you need it -- to solve the above, over your OJ, coffee, cinnamon roll, banana and cherry yogurt.
[Full answers on Monday afternoon. Grinning. . . Go Buffs, and go 101 years young. . . Sister Jean!]
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