By MIKAYLA MACE Arizona Sonora News [UPDATED] Everyone in Arizona knows what haboobs are: A towering wall of dust, sometimes a half-mile high and a hundred miles wide, caused by summer monsoons rolling in over Tucson and southeast Arizona, and slamming the dry, loose dirt into the air. This monster sweeps across the desert northward…
By MIKAYLA MACE Arizona Sonora News On July 20, 1969, 600 million people watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon and say, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Little did NASA scientists realize at the time, but their historical feat had just inspired a new generation of scientists. Those…
By MIKAYLA MACE Arizona Sonora News Service The sun sets in Tucson; street lights blink on; storefronts glow. From downtown, you can see a handful of stars, and quite a bit more if you are in other areas. But where is the Milky Way in that night sky? Despite Tucson having long been known as…
