Then We Met . . . Our Faces On Their Computer!

Sunday: December 13, 1998 5:00PM

8:00AM Monday: December 14, 1998

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AU

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We were in the computer lab for the Red Rover Mars/Earth first contact. It was Sunday evening here and Monday morning there, in Australia. We used the clock to show the Australian students that, here, it was 5:00PM Sunday evening. For them it was 8:00AM Monday morning! Since the students had been writing email back and forth they were quite eager to “see” us! We learned that it takes 8 seconds to receive a message from Australia.