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Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag
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Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe |
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Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag
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Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe |
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Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag
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Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe |
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Moon Over Shiraz
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Moon Over Shiraz |
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Early morning risers around the world [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041108.html] have enjoyed the sight of bright planets [ http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/ 02nov_venusjupiter.htm ] in this week's predawn skies - further enhanced by the celestial spectacle of the waning crescent Moon [ http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase.html ]. From some locations the Moon was seen to pass in front of Jupiter [ http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1385_1.asp ] or Venus, a lunar occultation. Recorded near sunrise on November 10th from Shiraz [ http://www.mssimmons.com/ms/Iran/Iran2002/Shiraz/ Astronomony.com4.html ], Iran, this eastern horizon view finds Jupiter (top) and a brilliant Venus in line with [ http://www.aaa.org/aaawhatsup.htm ] the Moon, a lovely conjunction of the three brightest objects in the night sky. Although the Moon has now [ http://aa.usno.navy.mil/idltemp/current_moon.html ] fallen out of the early morning scene [ http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance/ article_110_1.asp ], Venus and Jupiter (along with a much fainter Mars) still precede the rising Sun above the eastern horizon. |
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Dusty Planetary Disks Around
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Dusty Planetary Disks Around Two Nearby Stars Resemble Our Kuiper Belt |
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What is a News Nugget? News Nuggets are bulletins from the world of astronomy. These two bright debris disks of ice and dust appear to be the equivalent of our own solar system's Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy rocks outside the orbit of Neptune and the source of short-period comets. The disks encircle the types of stars around which there could be habitable zones and planets for life to develop. The disks seem to have a central area cleared of debris, perhaps by planets. |
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Mercury's Caloris Basin
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Mercury's Caloris Basin |
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03.28.1974 |
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Mercury: The desert closest to the sun. Computer Photomosaic of the Caloris Basin The largest basin on Mercury (1300 km or 800 miles across) was named Caloris (Greek for "hot") because it is one of the two areas on the planet that face the Sun at perihelion. The Image Processing Lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this photomosaic using computer software and techniques developed for use in processing planetary data. The Mariner 10 spacecraft imaged the region during its initial flyby of the planet. The Mariner 10 spacecraft was launched in 1974. The spacecraft took images of Venus in February 1974 on the way to three encounters with Mercury in March and September 1974 and March 1975. The spacecraft took more than 7,000 images of Mercury, Venus, the Earth and the Moon during its mission. The Mariner 10 Mission was managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington, D.C. *Image Credit*: NASA |
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Mariner 10
On Nov. 3, 1973, the Mariner
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10/2/09
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On Nov. 3, 1973, the Mariner Venus/Mercury 1973 spacecraft, also known as Mariner 10, was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first spacecraft designed to use gravity assist. Three months after launch it flew by Venus, changed speed and trajectory, then crossed Mercury's orbit in March 1974. This photo identifies the spacecraft's science instruments, which were used to study the atmospheric, surface and physical characteristics of Venus and Mercury. This was the sixth in the series of Mariner spacecraft that explored the inner planets beginning in 1962. Image Credit: NASA/JPL |
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10/2/09 |
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Evidence for Strange Stellar
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Evidence for Strange Stellar Family |
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This artist concept depicts a quadruple-star system called HD 98800. The system is approximately 10 million years old, and is located 150 light-years away in the constellation TW Hydrae. HD 98800 contains four stars, which are paired off into doublets, or binaries. The stars in the binary pairs orbit around each other, and the two pairs also circle each other like choreographed ballerinas. One of the stellar pairs, called HD 98800B, has a disk of dust around it, while the other pair does not. Although the four stars are gravitationally bound, the distance separating the two binary pairs is about 50 astronomical units (AU) -- slightly more than the average distance between our sun and Pluto. Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists finally have a detailed view of HD 98800B's potential planet-forming disk. Astronomers used the telescope's infrared spectrometer to detect the presence of two belts in the disk made of large dust grains. One belt sits approximately 5.9 AU away from the central binary, or about the distance from the sun to Jupiter, and is likely made up of asteroids and comets. The other belt sits at 1.5 to 2 AU, comparable to the area where Mars and the asteroid belt sit, and consists of fine dust grains. |
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Blacker than Black (Widescre
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Blacker than Black (Widescreen Version) |
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This artist's animation illustrates the hottest planet yet observed in the universe. The scorching ball of gas, a "hot Jupiter" called HD 149026b, is a sweltering 3,700 degrees Fahrenheit (2,040 degrees Celsius) -- about three times hotter than the rocky surface of Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system. The planet is so hot that astronomers believe it is absorbing almost all of the heat from its star, and reflecting very little to no light. Objects that reflect no sunlight are black. Consequently, HD 149026b might be the blackest known planet in the universe, in addition to the hottest. The temperature of this dark and balmy planet was taken with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. While the planet reflects no visible light, its heat causes it to radiate a little visible and a lot of infrared light. Spitzer, an infrared observatory, was able to measure this infrared light through a technique called secondary eclipse. HD 149026b is what is known as a transiting planet, which means that it crosses in front of and passes behind its star -- the secondary eclipse -- when viewed from Earth. By determining the drop in total infrared light that occurs when the planet disappears, astronomers can figure out how much infrared light is coming from the planet alone. The Spitzer observations of HD 149026b also suggest a hot spot in the middle of the side of the planet that always faces its star. Even though the planet is black, the spot would glow like a black lump of charcoal. HD 149026b is thought to be tidally locked, just as our moon is to Earth, such that one side of the planet is perpetually baked under the heat of its sun. Astronomers think that HD 149026b is probably blazing hot on its sunlit side, and much cooler on its dark side. A similar phenomenon was observed previously by Spitzer for the planet Upsilon Andromedae b. In the case of both planets, heat is not being evenly distributed across their surfaces. This is the opposite of what happens on Jupiter, where temperature differences are minimal all around. HD 149026b is located 256 light-years away in the constellation Hercules. It is the smallest known transiting planet, with a size similar to Saturn's and a suspected dense core 70 to 90 times the mass of Earth. It speeds around its star every 2.9 days. |
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Blacker than Black
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Blacker than Black |
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This artist's animation illustrates the hottest planet yet observed in the universe. The scorching ball of gas, a "hot Jupiter" called HD 149026b, is a sweltering 3,700 degrees Fahrenheit (2,040 degrees Celsius) -- about three times hotter than the rocky surface of Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system. The planet is so hot that astronomers believe it is absorbing almost all of the heat from its star, and reflecting very little to no light. Objects that reflect no sunlight are black. Consequently, HD 149026b might be the blackest known planet in the universe, in addition to the hottest. The temperature of this dark and balmy planet was taken with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. While the planet reflects no visible light, its heat causes it to radiate a little visible and a lot of infrared light. Spitzer, an infrared observatory, was able to measure this infrared light through a technique called secondary eclipse. HD 149026b is what is known as a transiting planet, which means that it crosses in front of and passes behind its star -- the secondary eclipse -- when viewed from Earth. By determining the drop in total infrared light that occurs when the planet disappears, astronomers can figure out how much infrared light is coming from the planet alone. The Spitzer observations of HD 149026b also suggest a hot spot in the middle of the side of the planet that always faces its star. Even though the planet is black, the spot would glow like a black lump of charcoal. HD 149026b is thought to be tidally locked, just as our moon is to Earth, such that one side of the planet is perpetually baked under the heat of its sun. Astronomers think that HD 149026b is probably blazing hot on its sunlit side, and much cooler on its dark side. A similar phenomenon was observed previously by Spitzer for the planet Upsilon Andromedae b. In the case of both planets, heat is not being evenly distributed across their surfaces. This is the opposite of what happens on Jupiter, where temperature differences are minimal all around. HD 149026b is located 256 light-years away in the constellation Hercules. It is the smallest known transiting planet, with a size similar to Saturn's and a suspected dense core 70 to 90 times the mass of Earth. It speeds around its star every 2.9 days. |
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Blacker than Black
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Blacker than Black |
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This artist's concept illustrates the hottest planet yet observed in the universe. The scorching ball of gas, a "hot Jupiter" called HD 149026b, is a sweltering 3,700 degrees Fahrenheit (2,040 degrees Celsius) -- about 3 times hotter than the rocky surface of Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system. The planet is so hot that astronomers believe it is absorbing almost all of the heat from its star, and reflecting very little to no light. Objects that reflect no sunlight are black. Consequently, HD 149026b might be the blackest known planet in the universe, in addition to the hottest. The temperature of this dark and balmy planet was taken with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. While the planet reflects no visible light, its heat causes it to radiate a little visible and a lot of infrared light. Spitzer, an infrared observatory, was able to measure this infrared light through a technique called secondary eclipse. HD 149026b is what is known as a transiting planet, which means that it crosses in front of and passes behind its star -- the secondary eclipse -- when viewed from Earth. By determining the drop in total infrared light that occurs when the planet disappears, astronomers can figure out how much infrared light is coming from the planet alone. The Spitzer observations of HD 149026b also suggest a hot spot in the middle of the side of the planet that always faces its star. Even though the planet is black, the spot would glow like a black lump of charcoal. HD 149026b is thought to be tidally locked, just as our moon is to Earth, such that one side of the planet is perpetually baked under the heat of its sun. Astronomers think that HD 149026b is probably blazing hot on its sunlit side, and much cooler on its dark side. A similar phenomenon was observed previously by Spitzer for the planet Upsilon Andromedae b. In the case of both planets, heat is not being evenly distributed across their surfaces. This is the opposite of what happens on Jupiter, where temperature differences are minimal all around. HD 149026b is located 256 light-years away in the constellation Hercules. It is the smallest known transiting planet, with a size similar to Saturn's and a suspected dense core 70 to 90 times the mass of Earth. It speeds around its star every 2.9 days. |
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An Inner Neptune for 55 Canc
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An Inner Neptune for 55 Cancri |
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Is our Solar System [ http://www.nineplanets.org/overview.html ] unique? The discovery [ http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408585 ] of a Neptune [ http://www.nineplanets.org/neptune.html ]-mass planet in an sub-Mercury orbit around nearby Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/sun.html ]-like star 55 Cancri [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020614.html ], announced [ http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html ] yesterday along with the discovery of other similar systems, gives a new indication that planetary systems [ http://exoplanets.org/exoplanets_pub.html ] as complex as our own Solar System [ http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/ ] likely exist elsewhere. The planet, discovered [ http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/releases/2004/0831.html ] in data from the Hobby-Eberly telescope [ http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/het/het.html ] in Texas, the Lick Observatory [ http://www.ucolick.org/ ] in California, and the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010806.html ], is one of four planets now known to orbit 55 Cancri [ http://exoplanets.org/esp/55cnc/55cnc.shtml ] -- the others being similar in mass to Jupiter. The finding involved noting subtle changes in the speed [ http://exoplanets.org/doppframe.html ] of the star caused by its orbiting planets. The above drawing [ http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ssu_images.html ] depicts what this planet might look like, assuming a mass similar to Neptune [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/neptune.html ], but a composition similar [ http://www.solstation.com/stars/4planets.htm ] to Earth. The star 55 Cancri [ http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/55cnc.html ], only 40 light-years distant, is visible [ http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/Science/GalleryOfImages/55cancri.html ] with binoculars [ http://www.birdwatching.com/optics/binoculars1.html ] towards the constellation [ http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/extra/constellations.html ] of Cancer [ http://www.astronomical.org/portal/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=12 ]. |
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Ringed Planet Uranus
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Ringed Planet Uranus |
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Yes it does look like Saturn, but Saturn is only one of four [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020616.html ] giant [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020215.html ] ringed [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981020.html ] planets [ http://ringmaster.arc.nasa.gov/neptune/neptune.html ] in our Solar System. And while Saturn has the brightest rings, this system of rings and moons actually belongs to planet Uranus, imaged here [ http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/ phot-31-02.html ] in near-infrared light by the Antu [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000707.html ] telescope at the ESO Paranal Observatory in Chile. Since gas giant Uranus' [ http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/uranus.html ] methane-laced atmosphere absorbs sunlight at near-infrared wavelengths the planet appears substantially darkened, improving the contrast between the otherwise relatively bright planet and the normally faint rings. In fact, the narrow Uranian rings [ http://ringmaster.arc.nasa.gov/uranus/ uranus.html ] are all but impossible to see in visible light with earthbound telescopes and were discovered [ http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/occultations/ uranus25/ ] only in 1977 as careful astronomers noticed the then unknown rings blocking light from background stars. The rings are thought to be younger than 100 million years and may be formed of debris from the collision of a small moon with a passing comet or asteroid-like object. With moons [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000930.html ] named for characters [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990227.html ] in Shakespeare's plays, the distant ringed world Uranus [ http://vraptor.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/vgrur_fs.html ] was last visited in 1986 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. |
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Reflections on the Inner Sol
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Reflections on the Inner Solar System |
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Only Mars [ http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/ 07jul_marshoax.htm ] is missing from this reflective view of the major rocky bodies of the inner solar system [ http://www.nineplanets.org/overview.html ]. Captured on July 8th, the serene, twilight picture looks out over the Flat Tops Wilderness area from near Toponas, Colorado, USA and includes planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Earth's [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050430.html ] large natural satellite, the Moon. The Moon is in a young crescent phase [ http://www.earthsky.com/skywatching/moonphases.php ] about three degrees above bright planet Venus. Forest fires [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050707.html ] contribute to a layer of smoke in Earth's sky that almost hides planet Mercury [ http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/index.html ], still visible very near the horizon. Just a week earlier Venus [ http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/ venus.html ] and Mercury were joined by Saturn, forming a notable grouping in the west also enjoyed by skygazers across planet Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050702.html ]. |
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Io and Ganymede
PIA09239
Sol (our sun)
LORRI
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Io and Ganymede |
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The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) took this 4-millisecond exposure of Jupiter and two of its moons at 01:41:04 UTC on January 17, 2007. The spacecraft was 68.5 million kilometers (42.5 million miles) from Jupiter, closing in on the giant planet at 41,500 miles (66,790 kilometers) per hour. The volcanic moon Io is the closest planet to the right of Jupiter, the icy moon Ganymede is to Io's right. The shadows of each satellite are visible atop Jupiter's clouds, Ganymede's shadow is draped over Jupiter's northwestern limb. Ganymede's average orbit distance from Jupiter is about 1.07 million kilometers (620,000 miles), Io's is 422,000 kilometers (262,000 miles). Both Io and Ganymede are larger than Earth's moon, Ganymede is larger than the planet Mercury. |
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Love and War by Moonlight
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Love and War by Moonlight |
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Venus [ http://www.pantheon.org/articles/v/venus.html ], named for the Roman goddess of love, and Mars [ http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/mars.html ], the war god's namesake, approach each other by moonlight [ http://www.thorstenkaye.com/tk_todayspoem3.htm#BM41 ] in this lovely sky view recorded on May 14th from Dunkirk, Maryland, USA. The four second time exposure made in twilight with a digital camera also records earthshine [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020419.html ] illuminating the otherwise dark surface of the young [ http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/ StarChild.html ] crescent Moon. Venus shines as the third brightest object in Earth's sky, after the Sun and the Moon itself, and has been appearing as the brilliant evening star [ http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/ longfe10.html ] in the pantheon of planets [ http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/ nineplanets.html ] arrayed in the west during April and May. Here, Venus' light is so intense that it produces a noticeable spike in the sensitive camera's image. Much fainter Mars [ http://www-mgcm.arc.nasa.gov/mgcm/fun/ ancient_mars.html ] is lower in the picture, caught between tree limbs swaying in a gentle evening breeze. By early June, Mars will be harder to spot as it wanders toward the horizon, but Venus and father Jupiter [ http://www.pantheon.org/articles/j/jupiter.html ] will draw closer together, presenting a spectacular pair of bright planets in the west [ http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/ article_572_1.asp ]. |
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Dr. Wernher von Braun Presen
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Dr. Wernher von Braun Presents Saturn C-1 Progress for the Senate Committee of Aeronautical and Space Sciences |
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1961-01-01 |
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Progress in the Saturn program, depicted below, was described by Dr. Wernher von Braun, Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Director, in an appearance before the Senate Committee of Aeronautical and Space Sciences. "The flight configuration of the giant three-stage Saturn C-1 rocket (later called Saturn I Block I) is seen in the Fabrication and Assembly Engineering Division at MSFC. Dwarfed by the 180-foot C-1 are a Juno II rocket (left rear) and a Mercury-Redstone rocket (front foreground). The C-1 (first version of the Saturn rocket) is composed of an S-1 first stage or booster (rear), powered by eight H-1 engines having a thrust of 1,500,000 pounds, followed by a dummy S-IV second stage and a dummy S-V third stage. The "live" S-IV for later flights, under development by Douglas Aircraft Co., will be powered by four Pratt Whitney LR-119 engines having 17,500,000 pounds thrust each. The live S-V, under development by Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp., will use two LR-119 engines. With all three stages live, the C-1 will be capable of placing 19,000 pounds into a 300-mile Earth orbit, sending 5,000 pounds to escape velocity, or lofting 2,500 pounds to Mars or Venus. The second version Saturn C-2 (later called Saturn 1 Block II) would double these capabilities. Early C-1 flights will employ a live S-1 with dummy upper stages. The first such flight is scheduled late this year. |
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Centaur's Bright Surface Spo
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Centaur's Bright Surface Spot Could be Crater of Fresh Ice |
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Photographer : JPL Range : 3
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12/27/85
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Photographer : JPL Range : 36 million km. ( 22 million miles ) P-29426B/W This Voyager 2 photograph of Uranus shows the is the first picture to show clear evidence of latitudinal banding in the planet's atmosphere. This is a computerized summation of five images shot by the narrow angle camera. The concentric pattern emanates like a bulls-eye from the planets pole of rotation, which, in this view, lies left of center. uranus lies almost on its side with respect to the other planets and is rotating in a counter clockwise direction, as seen here. Clouds in the Uranian atmosphere give rise to the pattern, the first clear evidence of banding similiar to that seen previosly on Saturn and Jupiter. The bandind on Uranus, however, shows much less contrast. At the distance at which the images were acquired, Voyager's camera could have detected individual features as small as 660 km. (410 miles) across, but no such cloud or markings were apparent. Scientists cannot yet say what properties, such as cloud height, composition, or particle size, are giving rise to the varying levels of brightness visible here. The images composing this picture were shot through a filter that transmits only violet light. in the original, unprocessed images, the contrast of features producing the banding is low, not more than 10 percent. In order to reduce "noise" and enhance the visiblity of the features, processors combined five images and then compared the resulting composite to a hypothetical featureless planet illuminated by the Sun from the proper direction. Only the ratio between the original data and the hypothetical image is shown. |
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12/27/85 |
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Southwest Mercury
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Southwest Mercury |
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The planet Mercury resembles a moon. Mercury [ http://www.nineplanets.org/mercury.html ]'s old surface is heavily cratered [ http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/Academy/SPACE/SolarSystem/Meteors/Craters.html ] like many moons. Mercury [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030216.html http://www.solarviews.com/eng/mercury.htm ] is larger than most moons but smaller than Jupiter [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990806.html ]'s moon Ganymede [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000620.html ] and Saturn [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021104.html ]'s moon Titan [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990207.html ]. Mercury is much denser and more massive than any moon, though, because it is made mostly of iron. In fact, the Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010204.html ] is the only planet more dense. A visitor to Mercury's surface [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960121.html ] would see some strange sights. Because Mercury [ http://www.oulu.fi/~spaceweb/textbook/mercury.html ] rotates exactly three times every two orbits around the Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/sun.html ], and because Mercury [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-mercury.html ]'s orbit is so elliptical, a visitor to Mercury [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010819.html ] might see the Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/gifcity/interv.html ] rise, stop in the sky, go back toward the rising horizon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000320.html ], stop again, and then set quickly over the other horizon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap011209.html ]. From Earth, Mercury's proximity to the Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981212.html ] causes it to be visible only for a short time just after sunset or just before sunrise. |
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This picture of Venus was ca
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This picture of Venus was captured by the Mariner 10 spacecraft during its approach to the planet in early 1974. Taken with the spacecraft's imaging system using an ultraviolet filter, the picture has been color enhanced to simulate Venus's natural color as the human eye would see it. Although the planet closest to the Earth in size and distance from the Sun, Venus is perpetually blanketed by a thick veil of clouds high in carbon dioxide, its surface temperature approaches 900 degrees Fahrenheit. Launched on November 3, 1973 atop an Atlas Centaur rocket, Mariner 10 flew by Venus on February 5, 1974. It then went on to an encounter with Mercury, thus becoming the first spacecraft ever to fly by more than one planet. Mariner 10 was designed, built and managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications. |
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Intercrater Plains and Heavi
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PIA02947
Sol (our sun)
Imaging Science Subsystem -
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Intercrater Plains and Heavily Cratered Terrain |
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Intercrater plains and heavily cratered terrain typical of much of Mercury outside the area affected by the formation of the Caloris basin are shown in this image (FDS 166738) taken during the spacecraft's second encounter with Mercury. Abundant shallow elongate craters and crater chains are present on the intercrater plains. North is to the top of this image, centered at 56 degrees S, 128 degrees W and 400 kilometers across. The Mariner 10 mission, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science, explored Venus in February 1974 on the way to three encounters with Mercury-in March and September 1974 and in March 1975. The spacecraft took more than 7,000 photos of Mercury, Venus, the Earth and the Moon. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Northwestern University |
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Jupiter Ahoy!
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Jupiter Ahoy! |
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09.04.2006 |
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The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took this photo of Jupiter on Sept. 4, 2006, from a distance of 291 million kilometers (nearly 181 million miles) away. Visible in the image are belts, zones and large storms in Jupiter's atmosphere, as well as the Jovian moons Europa (at left) and Io and the shadows they cast on Jupiter. LORRI snapped this image during a test sequence to help prepare for the Jupiter encounter observations. It was taken close to solar opposition, meaning that the Sun was almost directly behind the camera when it spied Jupiter. This makes Jupiter appear about 40 times brighter than Pluto will be for LORRI's primary observations when New Horizons encounters the Pluto system in 2015. To avoid saturation, the camera's exposure time was kept to 6 milliseconds. This image was, in part, a test to see how well LORRI would operate with such a short exposure time. Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute |
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Southwest Mercury
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Southwest Mercury |
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The planet Mercury resembles a moon. Mercury [ http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/mercury.html ]'s old surface is heavily cratered [ http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/Academy/SPACE/SolarSystem/Meteors/Craters.html ] like many moons. Mercury [ http://www.solarviews.com/eng/mercury.htm ] is larger than most moons but smaller than Jupiter [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990806.html ]'s moon Ganymede [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990304.html ] and Saturn [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960717.html ]'s moon Titan [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990207.html ]. Mercury is much denser and more massive than any moon, though, because it is made mostly of iron. In fact, the Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990131.html ] is the only planet more dense. A visitor to Mercury's surface [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960121.html ] would see some strange sights. Because Mercury [ http://www.oulu.fi/~spaceweb/textbook/mercury.html ] rotates exactly three times every two orbits around the Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951004.html ], and because Mercury [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-mercury.html ]'s orbit is so elliptical, a visitor to Mercury [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990102.html ] might see the Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/gifcity/interv.html ] rise, stop in the sky, go back toward the rising horizon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990619.html ], stop again, and then set quickly over the other horizon. From Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980530.html ], Mercury's proximity to the Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981212.html ] cause it to be visible only for a short time just after sunset or just before sunrise. |
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AC81-0615
Composite Art C-141 KAO Airb
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9/23/81
| Description |
Composite Art C-141 KAO Airborne Astronomy Composite shows A/C AC80-0006-2, Venus AC78-9140, Jupiter AC79-0143-1, Uranus AC77-0359, Console AC75-1345 and Telescope AC81-0299-17 |
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9/23/81 |
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Ganymede: The Largest Moon i
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| Title |
Ganymede: The Largest Moon in the Solar System |
| Explanation |
If Ganymede orbited the Sun, it would be considered a planet. The reason is that Jupiter [ http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/jupiter/jupiter.html ]'s moon Ganymede [ http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/ganymede.html ] is not only the largest moon in the Solar System [ http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/datamax.html ], it is larger than planets Mercury [ http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/mercury.html ] and Pluto [ http://dosxx.colorado.edu/plutohome.html ]. The robot spacecraft Galileo [ http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/overview.html ] currently orbiting Jupiter [ http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/jupiter.html ] has been able to zoom by Ganymede [ http://www.solarviews.com/eng/ganymede.htm ] several times and snap many close-up pictures. Ganymede, shown above [ http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/PIAGenCatalogPage.pl?PIA00716 ] in its natural colors, sports a large oval dark region known as Galileo Regio [ http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/ganymede/121896.html ]. In general, the dark regions on Ganymede [ http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/features/planets/jupiter/ganymede.html ] are heavily cratered, implying they are very old, while the light regions are younger and dominated by unusual grooves [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960711.html ]. The origin of the grooves is still under investigation [ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1998Icar..135..317P ]. |
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Mercury's South Pole
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Mercury's South Pole |
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09.21.1974 |
| description |
Mercury's south pole was photographed by one of Mariner 10's TV cameras as the spacecraft made its second close flyby of the planet September 21. The pole is located inside the large crater (180 kilometers, 110 miles) on Mercury's limb (lower center). The crater floor is shadowed and its far rim, illuminated by the sun, appears to de disconnected from the edge of the planet. Just above and to the right of the South Pole is a double ring basin about 100 kilometers (125 miles) in diameter. A bright ray system, splashed out of a 50 kilometer (30 mile) crater is seen at upper right. The stripe across the top is an artifact introduced during computer processing. The picture (FDS 166902) was taken from a distance of 85,800 kilometers (53,200 miles) less than two hours after Mariner 10 reached its closest point to the planet. The Mariner 10 mission, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science, explored Venus in February 1974 on the way to three encounters with Mercury-in March and September 1974 and in March 1975. The spacecraft took more than 7,000 photos of Mercury, Venus, the Earth and the Moon. *Image Credit*: NASA/JPL/Northwestern University |
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Saturn, Mars, and the Beehiv
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Saturn, Mars, and the Beehive Cluster |
| Explanation |
Grab a pair of binoculars and check out Saturn and Mars [ http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/ 30may_starsandplanets.htm ] in the early evening sky tonight! Looking west [ http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/images/ starsandplanets/skymap_north_17jun06.gif ] shortly after sunset, your view could be similar to this one - recorded on June 14. But while this picture shows the two bright planets (Saturn at left) separated by around 1.5 degrees and neatly flanking M44, the Beehive Star Cluster [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060128.html ], tonight should find those planets even closer together. In fact, Saturn and Mars are scheduled to achieve their closest alignment near sunset [ http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance/ article_110_1.asp ], approaching to within about half a degree. The Beehive will still stand out in the distant starry background. Still got those binoculars in hand? You might as well [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/print/science/space/myspace/nightsky/ observingnotes.shtml ] look for [ http://home.mira.net/~reynella/skywatch/ssky.htm ] Mercury and Jupiter too. |
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Southwest Mercury
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Southwest Mercury |
| Explanation |
The planet Mercury resembles a moon. Mercury [ http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/mercury.html ]'s old surface is heavily cratered [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950924.html ] like many moons. Mercury [ http://bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/mercury.htm ] is larger than most moons but smaller than Jupiter [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951013.html ]'s moon Ganymede [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950904.html ] and Saturn [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960717.html ]'s moon Titan [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950923.html ]. Mercury is much denser and more massive than any moon, though, because it is made mostly of iron. In fact, the Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960819.html ] is the only planet more dense. A visitor to Mercury's surface [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960121.html ] would see some strange sights. Because Mercury [ http://www.oulu.fi/~spaceweb/textbook/mercury.html ]rotates exactly three times every two orbits around the Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951004.html ], and because Mercury [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/PhotoGallery-Mercury.html ]'s orbit is so elliptical, a visitor to Mercury [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960912.html ] might see the Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/gifcity/interv.html ] rise, stop in the sky, go back toward the rising horizon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951114.html ], stop again, and then set quickly over the other horizon. From Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951118.html ], Mercury's proximity to the Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960727.html ] cause it to be visible only for a short time [ http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~lms/research/skyeye.html#planet ] just after sunset or just before sunrise. |
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Solar System Web Cam
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Solar System Web Cam |
| Explanation |
Ranging throughout the solar system [ http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/ ], these pictures all have something in common. They were taken with an 8 inch diameter telescope, a size popular with amateur astronomy buffs, and slightly modified "web cam" of the type widely used to send images out over the internet. The results are clearly remarkable for [ http://www.djcash.demon.co.uk/astro/webcam/webcam.htm ] such inexpensive and readily available equipment. Each sharp image was produced from 20 to 30 frames which were digitally stacked and processed using free software [ http://utopia.ision.nl/users/rjstek/english/software/ index.htm ]. Until recently, digital imaging for amateur astronomers required a specialized camera [ http://www.wvi.com/~rberry/cookbook.htm ], but the advent of low-light video surveillance cameras and web cams now presents other options for relatively bright [ http://www.astrabio.demon.co.uk/QCUIAG/ac/3dmoon.htm ] solar system objects. Want to try some unconventional [ http://www.astrabio.demon.co.uk/QCUIAG/ ] web cam astronomy? Geoff Chester, Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Naval Observatory [ http://www.usno.navy.mil ], offers these images and an account of his own adventures [ http://www.usno.navy.mil/pao/QuickCamAstro.shtml ] from a suburban front lawn near Washington D.C. |
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Band of Rubble
PIA07854
| Title |
Band of Rubble |
| Original Caption Released with Image |
This artist's animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun. Evidence for this possible belt was discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope when it spotted warm dust around the star, presumably from asteroids smashing together. The view starts from outside the belt, where planets like the one shown here might possibly reside, then moves into to the dusty belt itself. A collision between two asteroids is depicted near the end of the movie. Collisions like this replenish the dust in the asteroid belt, making it detectable to Spitzer. The alien belt circles a faint, nearby star called HD 69830 located 41 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Compared to our own solar system's asteroid belt, this one is larger and closer to its star - it is 25 times as massive, and lies just inside an orbit equivalent to that of Venus. Our asteroid belt circles between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Because Jupiter acts as an outer wall to our asteroid belt, shepherding its debris into a series of bands, it is possible that an unseen planet is likewise marshalling this belt's rubble. Previous observations using the radial velocity technique did not locate any large gas giant planets, indicating that any planets present in this system would have to be the size of Saturn or smaller. Asteroids are chunks of rock from "failed" planets, which never managed to coalesce into full-sized planets. Asteroid belts can be thought of as construction sites that accompany the building of rocky planets. |
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Mercury Mission Control Seat
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1-Instructor's console 2-Rec
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10/30/08
| Description |
1-Instructor's console 2-Recovery commander (USN) 3-Operations director 4-Network commander (USAF) 5-Recovery status monitor 6-Range safety observer 7-Flight director 8-Network status monitor 9-Missile telemetry monitor 10-Strip chart recorder 11-Support control coordinator 12-Flight surgeon 13-Spacecraft environment monitor 14-Spacecraft communicator 15-Spacecraft system monitor 16-Retrofire controller 17-Flight dynamics officer 18-TV monitors 19-X-Y recorders 20-Trend charts 21-Operations summary display and alphanumeric indicators 22-Signal distribution panel 23-Teletype printers 24-Data entry console Image Credit: NASA |
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10/30/08 |
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Lobate Scarps within the Hum
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PIA02426
Sol (our sun)
Imaging Science Subsystem -
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Lobate Scarps within the Hummocky Plains East of Caloris Basin |
| Original Caption Released with Image |
Plains material east of the Caloris basin is shown this image (FDS 191) acquired during the spacecraft's first encounter with Mercury. Several west-facing lobate scarps occur in the hummocky plains interpreted as Caloris ejecta and may be short flow fronts of partially melted ejecta which flowed back toward the basin after deposition. The Mariner 10 mission, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science, explored Venus in February 1974 on the way to three encounters with Mercury-in March and September 1974 and in March 1975. The spacecraft took more than 7,000 photos of Mercury, Venus, the Earth and the Moon. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Northwestern University |
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Large Mercurian Crater
PIA02424
Sol (our sun)
Imaging Science Subsystem -
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Large Mercurian Crater |
| Original Caption Released with Image |
This image (FDS 166), acquired during the spacecraft's first encounter with Mercury, features a 140 kilometer diameter crater and it's surrounding zone of secondary craters. The narrow width of the rim facies, the prominent subradial secondary crater chains, and grooves are representative of the larger mercurian craters. The Mariner 10 mission, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science, explored Venus in February 1974 on the way to three encounters with Mercury-in March and September 1974 and in March 1975. The spacecraft took more than 7,000 photos of Mercury, Venus, the Earth and the Moon. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Northwestern University |
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Antoniadi Ridge
PIA02430
Sol (our sun)
Imaging Science Subsystem -
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Antoniadi Ridge |
| Original Caption Released with Image |
Antoniadi Ridge, over 450 kilometers long, runs along the right side of this image. The ridge transects a large crater (80-km in diameter) and in turn appears to be interrupted by an irregular rimless depression on the floor of the crater. This ridge also crosses smooth plains to the north and intercrater plains to the south of the large crater. This image (FDS 27325) was acquired during the spacecraft's first encounter with Mercury. The Mariner 10 mission, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science, explored Venus in February 1974 on the way to three encounters with Mercury-in March and September 1974 and in March 1975. The spacecraft took more than 7,000 photos of Mercury, Venus, the Earth and the Moon. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Northwestern University |
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A 'Moving' Jupiter Global Ma
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PIA09242
Sol (our sun)
LORRI
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A 'Moving' Jupiter Global Map (Animation) |
| Original Caption Released with Image |
The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons has acquired six global maps of Jupiter as the spacecraft approaches the giant planet for a close encounter at the end of February. The high-resolution camera acquired each of six observation "sets" as a series of individual pictures taken one hour apart, covering a full 10-hour rotation of Jupiter. The LORRI team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) reduced the sets to form six individual maps in a simple rectangular projection. These six maps were then combined to make the movie. The table below shows the dates and the ranges from Jupiter at which these six sets of observations were acquired. Even for the latest set of images taken January 21-22, from 60.5 million kilometers (37.6 million miles), New Horizons was still farther from Jupiter than the average distance of Mercury from the Sun. At that distance from Jupiter, a single LORRI picture resolution element amounts to 300 kilometers (186 miles) on Jupiter. Many features seen in Jupiter's atmosphere are giant storm clouds. The Little Red Spot, which LORRI will image close-up on February 27, is the target-like feature located near 30 degrees South and 230 degrees West, this storm is larger than the Earth. The even larger Great Red Spot is seen near 20 degrees South and 320 degrees West. The counterclockwise rotation of the clouds within the Great Red Spot can be seen. The westward drift of the Great Red Spot is easily seen in the movie, as is the slower drift, in the opposite direction, of the Little Red Spot. The storms of Jupiter are not fixed in location relative to each other or relative to any solid surface below, because Jupiter is a fluid planet without a solid surface. Also, dramatic changes are seen in the series of bright plume-like clouds encircling the planet between 0 and 10 degrees North. Scientists believe these result from an enormous atmospheric wave with rising air, rich in ammonia that condenses to form the plume tails, and with falling air in the dark areas just to the east of each plume. The maps of Jupiter shown here do not include the polar regions, because those regions are not well seen by LORRI from its vantage point high above Jupiter's equatorial region. Shadows of Jupiter's moons (first of Io, then of Ganymede) appear in two of the maps. |
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APOLLO 09 16MM ONBOARD FILM
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Film taken includes cloesup
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1969
| Description |
Film taken includes cloesup of Lunar module (LM) docking target, the flight day 5 Lunar-Module-active-rendezvous, and the Saturn S-4B stage after separation. |
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1969 |
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NASA Deputy Administrator Ro
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Dr. Wernher von Braun explai
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8/1/08
| Description |
Dr. Wernher von Braun explains the Saturn Launch System to President John F. Kennedy. NASA Deputy Administrator Robert Seamans is to the left of von Braun. |
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8/1/08 |
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Moons around Jupiter
PIA09238
Sol (our sun)
LORRI
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Moons around Jupiter |
| Original Caption Released with Image |
The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) took this photo of Jupiter at 20:42:01 UTC on January 9, 2007, when the spacecraft was 80 million kilometers (49.6 million miles) from the giant planet. The volcanic moon Io is to the left of the planet, the shadow of the icy moon Ganymede moves across Jupiter's northern hemisphere. Ganymede's average orbit distance from Jupiter is about 1 million kilometers (620,000 miles), Io's is 422,000 kilometers (262,000 miles). Both Io and Ganymede are larger than Earth's moon, Ganymede is larger than the planet Mercury. |
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Discovery Lights the Sky
Looking like a sun riding a
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3/15/09
| Description |
Looking like a sun riding a column of smoke, space shuttle Discovery hurtles into the evening sky on the STS-119 mission. Liftoff was on time at 7:43 p.m. EDT. Photo credit: NASA/Fletch Hildreth March 15, 2009 |
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3/15/09 |
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Standing Tall
In the Vehicle Assembly Buil
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8/17/09
| Description |
In the Vehicle Assembly Building's High Bay 3, Super Stack 5 is secured to the Ares I-X segments already in place on the mobile launcher platform, completing assembly of the Ares I-X rocket. The 327-foot-tall rocket is one of the largest processed in the bay, rivaling the height of the Apollo Program's 364-foot-tall Saturn V. Five super stacks make up the rocket's upper stage that is integrated with the four-segment solid rocket booster first stage. Ares I-X is the test vehicle for the Ares I, which is part of the Constellation Program to return men to the moon and beyond. The Ares I-X flight test is targeted for Oct. 31, pending formal NASA Headquarters approval. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis Aug. 13, 2009 |
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8/17/09 |
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APOLLO 07 and 08 16MM ONBOAR
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Film taken includes Earth vi
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Film taken includes Earth views and nice views of the Saturn 1B launch vehicle S-4B stage after separation from the Command and Service Module (CSM) and during station keeping. Also includes Walter Cunningham donning his pressure suit, an Earth limb sunset view, and Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Cunningham in the Command and Service Module (CSM). From Apollo 08, includes various full Earth views, views of lunar surface taken during lunar orbit, and Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders inside Command Module (CM). |
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Mercury: Photomosaic of the
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PIA02236
Sol (our sun)
Imaging Science Subsystem -
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Mercury: Photomosaic of the Kuiper Quadrangle H-6 |
| Original Caption Released with Image |
The Kuiper Quadrangle was named in memory of Dr. Gerard Kuiper, a Mariner 10 Venus/Mercury imaging team member and well-known astronomer, who passed away several months before the spacecraft's arrival at Mercury. The Kuiper crater, located left of center, is the brightest and perhaps youngest crater is 60 km in diameter located at -11 degrees latitude and 31 degrees longitude. The Image Processing Lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this photomosaic using computer software and techniques developed for use in processing planetary data. The images used to construct the Kuiper Quadrangle were taken during Mariner's first and third flybys of Mercury. The Mariner 10 spacecraft was launched in 1974. The spacecraft took images of Venus in February 1974 on the way to three encounters with Mercury in March and September 1974 and March 1975. The spacecraft took more than 7,000 images of Mercury, Venus, the Earth and the Moon during its mission. The Mariner 10 Mission was managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington, D.C. |
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Postcards From The Field
Lead Space Ops Controllers,
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8/18/08
| Description |
Lead Space Ops Controllers, Jorge Garcia, Geoff Hewitt, Scott Heck, Steve Smith, and Harry Martin in front of the 70M Mars Antenna at the NASA Deep Space Complex in CA. |
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8/18/08 |
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Viking 1
Viking 1 launched aboard a T
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8/1/08
| Description |
Viking 1 launched aboard a Tital IIIE rocket August 20, 1975 and arrived at Mars on June 19, 1976. The first month was spent in orbit around the martian planet and on July 20, 1976 Viking Lander 1 separated from the Orbiter and touched down at Chryse Planitia. |
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8/1/08 |
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Getting Ready
The Ares I-X rocket stands t
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10/2/09
| Description |
The Ares I-X rocket stands tall inside the massive Vehicle Assembly Building's High Bay 3 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Part of the Constellation Program, the Ares I-X is the test vehicle for the Ares I, which is the essential core of a space transportation system that eventually will carry crewed missions back to the moon, on to Mars and out into the solar system. Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Sept. 25, 2009 |
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10/2/09 |
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APOLLO 16MM ONBOARD SELECT V
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This program contains select
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4/14/04
| Description |
This program contains selected views taken from the Apollo 16mm onboards edited together and set to inspirational music. Footage from all Apollo missions, Apollo-Saturn 202 through Apollo 17, is used. Includes: stage separation, spacecraft rendezvous, various in-cabin crew scenes from spacecraft operations to leisure activities, Extravehicular Activity (EVA) views, full Earth and Moon views with close up views of the Moon, Earth rise over Moon horizon, Lunar Module (LM) descent, scenes from various EVAs on the Lunar surface, scenes taken during Command Module (CM) reentry including views of the main parachutes as CM makes final descent, views of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) and Lunar Module (LM), and a nice view of the planting of the American flag. |
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4/14/04 |
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APOLLO 16MM ONBOARD SELECT V
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This program contains select
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2/6/06
| Description |
This program contains selected views taken from the Apollo 16mm onboards edited together and set to inspirational music. Footage from all Apollo missions, Apollo-Saturn 202 through Apollo 17, is used. Includes: Launch, stage separation, spacecraft rendezvous, various in-cabin crew scenes from spacecraft operations to leisure activities, Extravehicular Activity (EVA) views, full Earth and Moon views with close up views of the Moon, Earth rise over Moon horizon, Lunar Module (LM) descent, scenes from various EVAs on the Lunar surface, scenes taken during Command Module (CM) reentry including views of the main parachutes as CM makes final descent, views of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) and Lunar Module (LM), and a nice view of the planting of the American flag. |
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2/6/06 |
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APOLLO 16MM ONBOARD SELECT V
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This program contains select
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5/11/04
| Description |
This program contains selected views taken from the Apollo 16mm onboards edited together and set to inspirational music. Footage from all Apollo missions, Apollo-Saturn 202 through Apollo 17, is used. Includes: stage separation, spacecraft rendezvous, various in-cabin crew scenes from spacecraft operations to leisure activities, Extravehicular Activity (EVA) views, transposition views, Earth rise over Moon horizon, lunar landscape, Lunar Module (LM) descent, scenes from various EVAs on the Lunar surface including planting the American flag, views of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), and scenes taken during Command Module (CM) reentry including views of the main parachutes as CM makes final descent. |
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5/11/04 |
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Afternoon Shadows
The afternoon sun casts shad
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6/25/09
| Description |
The afternoon sun casts shadows on space shuttle Endeavour's external fuel tank as workers remove the seal from the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate, or GUCP, on the tank. A hydrogen leak at the location during tanking for the STS-127 mission caused the launch attempts to be scrubbed on June 13 and June 17. The plate will be examined to determine the cause of the hydrogen leak. Then it will be repaired. June 24, 2009 Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller |
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6/25/09 |
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