... Space debris comprise the ever-increasing amount of inactive space hardware in orbit around the Earth as well as fragments of spacecraft that have broken up, exploded or otherwise become abandoned. ...
... You will learn of the discoveries of Galileo Galilei observing the sky through his telescope and find out how mankind is using massive ground based and space based telescopes and spacecraft to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos. ...
... The spacecraft will be placed into a polar orbit for just over two years to try to determine what factors are responsible for the formation of the enigmatic NLCs. ...
... There will be a major exhibition related to the Sun and ancient astronomy; interactive displays; real movies of the Sun from spacecraft; images in wavelengths of light invisible to the eye; hands-on experiments; safe viewing of the Sun with special solar ...
... With an orbit in the same plane as that of the Earth and having the same mean distance from the Sun the asteroid is particularly accessible by spacecraft, and it may one day become the target of a crewed mission to a near-Earth object. ...
... 2000 individual meteors, while its record on the theoretical front has been equally successful, having predicted the recent Leonid meteor storms with unprecedented accuracy, and now forecasting similar events at Mars and Venus observable by spacecraft ...