Vandaag ‘International Sun Day’

Gepubliceerd op 03-05-2017 om 06:45

3 mei 2017 – Erg bekend is de dag nooit geworden, maar vandaag is het ‘International Sun Day’, ‘Werelddag van de Zon’. Elk jaar wordt op 3 mei zonne-energie ‘in het zonnetje’ gezet.

Het is een Amerikaans initiatief, georganiseerd door NASA. In 1978 werd de International Sun Day door president Carter in het leven geroepen. UNEP, het United Nations Environment Programme, heeft zich ingespannen om er een mondiaal initiatief van te maken, maar dat is niet erg gelukt. Op de kalender van de Verenigde Naties wordt de dag al niet meer genoemd.

Uit een bericht van IDEA
‘(…) Sun Day (May 3, 1978) was designated by Jimmy Carter President of United States of America specifically devoted to advocacy for solar power, following a joint resolution by Congress. It was modelled on the highly successful Earth Day of April 22, 1970.
International Sun day has been celebrated over the past seven years on May 3, 2008. The day is sponsored and celebrated by NASA. Its Sun-Earth connection education forum organizes and coordinates events to highlight NASA Sun-Earth Connection research and discoveries. Sun-Earth Day is during the March equinox.
The celebration on the day is marked by the celestial events, such as total solar eclipses and the Transit of Venus, and Sun-Earth Day during the March Equinox. They participate in space science activities, demonstrations, and various interactive sessions and quiz with space scientists.
One of main goals of the day is to help scientists understand the interactions between the Sun and the Earth’s environment, which will definitely facilitate them to predict the Sun’s activity and motion, and thus, space weather conditions. (…)’

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