Template:Are You Sure/March 29

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• ... that physicist and priest Francesco Zantedeschi was among the first to recognize the marked absorption by the atmosphere of red, yellow, and green light?

• ... that mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann discovered the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation?

• ... that in 1974, the Mariner 10 flew by Mercury, the first space probe to do so?

• ... that mathematician and academic Tullio Levi-Civita contributed to absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity?