... Adrastea and Metis lie within Jupiter's main ring and may be the source of material for the ring. ... Galileo Image of Adrastea . ... The longest dimension of Adrastea is approximately 20 kilometers (12 miles) across. ... These images, taken by Galileo's solid state imaging system between November 1996 and June 1997, provide the first ever "family portrait" of the four small, irregularly shaped moons that orbit Jupiter in the zone between the planet's ring and the larger Galilean satellites. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... Originally Discovery had been set to launch on 1 November, but this was delayed when fatigue cracks were found in the structure of its External Tank. ... A little bit of trivia is that Discovery has actually made the only shuttle-era Christmas time flight to date, this was STS-103 ,€а a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999. ...

... Discovery in Twilight . ... Credit Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi ( TWAN ) Explanation: As evening twilight faded on March 7, sky gazers around planet Earth enjoyed a beautiful pairing of young crescent Moon and brilliant planet Jupiter. ... On its final flight , the Space Shuttle Discovery and International Space Station form the second close pairing in the night skyscape. ... Publications with keywords: Moon - Jupiter - international space station - ISS - space shuttle Discovery . ... Moons and Jupiter ...

Armagh Observatory, 24 July 2000: . The Minor Planet Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, has announced the discovery of a new moon of Jupiter, bringing to 17 the number of known satellites orbiting the giant planet. ... At that time, Jupiter was about 370 million miles from Earth, just about as close as it ever gets, and therefore a good time to search for any faint satellites. ... Last Revised: 10th August 2000 . ...

Closest to Jupiter (inward of the Galilean moons) are the four small moons: . ... Adrastea , . ... M etis ( "MEE tis" ) is the innermost of Jupiter's known satellites: orbit : 128,000 km from Jupiter diameter : 40 km mass : 9.56e16 kg . ... Galileo "family portrait" of Jupiter's 4 inner moons . HST image of Metis and Jupiter's ring . A drastea ("a DRAS tee uh") is the second of Jupiter's known satellites: orbit : 129,000 km from Jupiter diameter : 20 km (23 x 20 x 15) mass : 1.91e16 kg . ...

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... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... les plus belles images de l'Univers d†йcrypt†йes pour vous . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Observez le dernier vol de Discovery . ... Pour les prochains jours, le sp†йcialiste belge de l'observation des satellites Alphonse Pouplier a g†йn†йr†й une liste d'horaires pour les principales villes . ...

Next: The Nature letter of Up: The discovery of pulsars Previous: Neutron stars . Three sources of scintillation of radio sources: . ... interplanetary gas . ... Hewish and Bell [ 14 ] observed the recordings . ... Figure 2: Discovery observations of the first pulsar. (a) The first recording of PSR 1919+21; the signal resembled the radio interference also seen on this chart. (b) Fast chart recording showing individual pulses as downward deflections of the trace. ... Jon Bell . ...

... Artist?s conception of the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, as seen from the Galileo spacecraft. At the time of the first impact, the comet fragments will be much farther apart than shown in this illustration. ... One orbit, computer May 18, 1993 by Syuichi Nakano, showed that the comet passed close to Jupiter in July 1992, and would pass within 45,000 kilometers of the center of Jupiter in July, 1994. ... The fragments of Shoemaker-Levy 9 move around Jupiter. ...

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... Spacecraft . ... To space by cannon? Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ...

Outer Natural Satellites Orbits Ephemerides. Outer satellites of Jupiter . ... Choose Satellite J06 - Himalia J07 J08 J09 J10 J11 J12 J13 J17 J18 J19 J20 J21 J22 J23 J24 J25 J26 J27 J28 J29 J30 J31 J32 J33 J34 J35 J36 J37 J38 J39 J40 J41 J42 J43 J44 J45 J46 J47 J48 J49 J50 S/2003 J2 S/2003 J3 S/2003 J4 S/2003 J5 S/2003 J9 S/2003 J10 S/2003 J12 S/2003 J15 S/2003 J16 S/2003 J18 S/2003 J19 S/2003 J23 of Jupiter . ... Enter initial date (years) . ... inclination deg. pericenter deg. node deg. ...

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GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... За 11 часов до начала обратного отсчета на мыс Канаверал прибыл экипаж "шаттла" Discovery: командир Джим Уитерби (Jim Wetherbee), штурман Джим Келли (Jim Kelly), специалисты Энди Томас (Andy Thomas) и Пол Ричардс (Paul Richards), и второй долговременный экипаж МКС из трех человек - Юрий Усачев, Джим Восс (Jim Voss) и Сьюзен Хелмс (Susan Helms). ... Шаттл" доставит на МКС итальянский грузовой модуль Leonardo с оборудованием и лабораторными экспериментами и проведет смену долговременных экипажей на...

... ASTEROID’S MOONS : DISCOVERY BY RADAR . ... Moons of known asteroids have a low position ambiguity, which makes their discovery with powerful ground-based radar much easier than the discovery of new asteroids or other objects of Solar System. ... The other technique is a direct detection of radar echo from an asteroid moon. ... However, the diameter of a ground-based fully-steerable reflector is limited by 120-150 m to make it possible to perform two different functions: focusing and tracking (fig. ...

... OKB1 - TSKBEM - NPO ENERGIA - S.P.KOROLEV RSC ENERGIA . ... Beginning of wide international activities in joint space programs. ... Beginning of full-scale activities on development of the Sea Launch rocket space complex. ... Start of activities on the International Space Station. ... Docking of the Spektr optical module with the Mir station. ... Launch of Zarya functional cargo module (Russia) - the first module of the International Space Station. back . ... INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION | ...

... The effect is strongest in the most evolved, high-latitude supergiant V5112 Sgr=IRAS19500-1709, which has an extended structured envelope (Figs.1 and 2). In the optical spectrum of this object, the BaII ion lines are split into three components (Figs.3 and 4). ... Thus, we discovered for the first time the enrichment of the stellar envelope with heavy metals produced at the AGB stage. ... Detection of heavy-metal lines in the spectrum of the circumstellar envelope of a post-AGB star. ...

... Brazil . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Observations at many sites in South America, including ESOБЂ™s La Silla Observatory, have made the surprise discovery that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow rings. ... The rings of Saturn are one of the most spectacular sights in the sky, and less prominent rings have also been found around the other giant planets. ... ESOcast 64: First Ring System Around Asteroid . ... Artist's impression of ring system around asteroid Chariklo ....