... s closest approach, at 11:27 a.m. PDT (2:27 p.m. EDT), and the peak dust-risk period ... From about 10:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT (1:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. EDT), MAVEN kept in a ...
... And, thanks to Titan s thicker atmosphere and lower gravity, they would fall much more slowly, roughly 5.2 feet per second (1.6 m/s), the speed at which snowflakes fall on Earth (compared to rates of terrestrial rainfall at up to 30 ft/s [9 m/s]). ...
... Cosmic Adventures . Astronomy 101 . Dave's Universe . Seasonal Observing . ... successfully achieved orbit around Mercury at approximately 9:00 p.m. EDT March 17 ... At 9:10 p.m. EDT, engineers from Operations Center received the anticipated ...
... Cosmic Adventures . Astronomy 101 . Dave's Universe . Seasonal Observing . ... west of the lander at 11:49 a.m. local Mars time on the 104th martian day, Sept ... NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University . September 12, 2008 . ...
... JosУ? J. ChambУГ . Saturday, January 2 . Last Quarter Moon occurs at 12:30 a.m. EST (9:30 p.m. PST on January 1). ... at 11:37 p.m. EST with a transit that lasts until 2:21 a.m. Less than an hour later, at 3:04 a.m., Callisto begins to cross ...
... Cosmic Adventures . Astronomy 101 . Dave's Universe . Seasonal Observing . ... of the asteroid began at 12:30 p.m. EST November 4, with an additional four hours of ... was taken November 7 at 2:45 p.m. EST, when the asteroid was approximately 860,000 ...
... Cosmic Adventures . Astronomy 101 . Dave's Universe . Seasonal Observing . ... and long gamma-ray bursts, said Philipp M sta from the University of California at ... Astrophysicists like M sta are trying to improve their models of what stars do when ...
... Cosmic Adventures . Astronomy 101 . Dave's Universe . Seasonal Observing . ... at Austin ($3.6 million), Texas A&M University ($3.9 million), and Penn State ... said R. Bowen Loftin from Texas A&M. "With this grant, we are able to pull ...