... The Face on Mars . ... This image, showing what looks to be a human face sculpted on the martian surface, was produced using data from NASA's Viking 1 orbiter in 1976. ... Although images of Mars taken from space revealed the planet to have a barren and cratered surface, scientists did not give up the search for martian life. ... NASA's robot spaceprobe Voyager 1, took this closeup image of the surface of Jupiter's crater scarred moon Callisto in 1979. ... Comet Impacts on Jupiter . ...

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Amalthea . Jupiter V . Amalthea [am-al-THEE-uh] is one of Jupiter's smaller moons. ... These four images of Jupiter's moon, Amalthea, were taken by Galileo's solid state imaging system at various times between February and June 1997. ... Amalthea, whose longest dimension is approximately 247 kilometers (154 miles) across, is tidally locked so that the same side of the satellite always points towards Jupiter, similar to how the near side of our own Moon always points toward Earth. ...

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Europa ("yoo ROH puh") is the sixth of Jupiter 's known satellites and the fourth largest; it is the second of the Galilean moons. ... Discovered by Galileo and Marius in 1610. ... But Europa's surface is not at all like anything in the inner solar system. ... The images of Europa's surface strongly resemble images of sea ice on Earth. It is possible that beneath Europa's surface ice there is a layer of liquid water , perhaps as much as 50 km deep, kept liquid by tidally generated heat. ...

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• APOD: July 15, 1995 - The Crater Chain
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... B ut Europa's surface is not at all like anything in the inner solar system. ... T he images of Europa's surface strongly resemble images of sea ice on Earth. It is possible that beneath Europa's surface ice there is a layer of liquid water , perhaps as much as 50 km deep, kept liquid by tidally generated heat. ... It is most likely generated by sunlight and charged particles hitting Europa's icy surface producing water vapor which is subsequently split into hydrogen and oxygen. ...

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Giant Jupiter. Jupiter . ... Jupiter has no solid surface that is why speaking about its dimensious point the radius of the upper border line of the clouds, where the presseru is about 10 KPa; radius of Jupiter on the equator is 71400 km. ... The Jupiter satellites. ... Nowadays 16 satellites of the Jupiter are known: Adrastea, Mitis, Amaltea , Phina,then 4 Galilei satellites: Io , Europe , Hanimed , Callisto , Leda, Aimalia, Zicitea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasipe and Sinope. ... Jupiter's ring. ...

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• saturne

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... One of the best-known lunar craters, Tycho is not especially large at some 85 km across. ... Bright and with prominent rays of material radiating from it, Tycho is a young crater; there has been little time for the slow and steady rain of micrometeorites to erode it. ... NASAтАЩs LRO recently took this evocative image of the steep slopes of TychoтАЩs central peak illuminated by the morning Sun. ...

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• A Rolling Stone on the Moon | Astronotes
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• Astronotes | Armagh Planetarium's astronomy news from across the Universe -

... In summer 1994, the biggest news in astronomy was the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. During this school year, Jupiter will charge back into the limelight with the arrival of the Galileo spacecraft (see figure 8 ). On Dec. 7, following a tortuous six-year ramble through the solar system, Galileo will begin its two-year mission studying Jupiter and its gaggle of moons. ... Besides the camera, Galileo will carry instruments capable of identifying minerals on Jupiter's moons. ...

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• ASP: The Surface of the Moon

... Ж.Ф. Родионова, А.А.Карлов, Т.П. Скобелева и др. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Moscow State University, Vorobjovy Gory, 119899, Moscow, Russia. Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Rodionova J1., ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, jeanna@sai.msu.ru . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

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• Zhanna F. Rodionova

... Observing . ... Mars orbiter examines dramatic new crater . ... A dramatic, fresh impact crater dominates this image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on November 19, 2013. ... Mars orbiter images rover and tracks in Gale Crater . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

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• The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovers lunar hydrogen more abundant on

... Solar System . ... Sun . ... Comets . ... Some get thrown out of the solar system forever, whereas others end up on yet smaller orbits, visiting the inner solar system fairly frequently - such as comet Halley. ... When a comet moves into the inner solar system, this is heated by the Sun, and the ices turn into gas which forms the head or coma of the comet, which may be hundreds of thousands of kilometres across and visible from Earth. The most striking part of many active comets is the tail . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bad TV
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... Анк а дня . ... NASA отправит к Юпитеру корабль на ядерной тяге . ... Американское космическое агентство NASA намерено в течение ближайшего десятилетия послать к Юпитеру беспилотный ядерный корабль Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter. ... Все ключевые слова . Картинка дня . ...

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• Ключевое слово ?Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter?
• Ключевое слово ?Jupiter Europa Orbiter?

... Astronomy Pictures . ... Jupiter . Jupiter from ANU's 24-inch telescope . ... Title: Jupiter from ANU's 24-inch telescope . Description: Several images of Jupiter from ANU's 24-inch telescope, Siding Spring Observatory. Lower half of picture: Close-up of Jupiter and the moon Ganymede, just before Ganymede "transits" (passes across) the face of Jupiter Upper half of picture: The image in the middle of the bottom row shows the shadow of Ganymede on the face of Jupiter about 30 minutes later. ...

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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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... Contents . ... Sidereal time . ... Ephemeris of the Sun . ... Aberration, parallax, mean longitude of the Sun, obliquity of the ecliptic, nutation in obliquity . ... Mean longitude of the Moon, mean elements of the Moon's orbit and equator . ... Ephemeris for physical observations of the Sun . ... Ephemeris for physical observations of the Moon . ... Conversion of mean time to sidereal time (with accuracy 0.01 s ) . ... Conversion of sidereal time to mean time (with accuracy 0.01 s ) . ...

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• AY (contents)
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MARS-96 . ROBOTIC SPACECRAFT MISSION TO MARS. ... The main scientific objectives of this mission are to investigate the evolution of Mars, that is, of its atmosphere, its surface, and its interior. ... abundance of minor components in the atmosphere (H2O, CO, O3 , etc), their variation and vertical distribution, and searches for regions with higher humidity; . ... Plasma: . ... the 3D distribution function; the ion and energy composition of plasma (near Mars and during interplanetary cruise); . ...

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• Polar Orbiting Satellites
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... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... Thanks to one of their telescopes, we?re finally able to study a planet beyond our Solar System using normal starlight reflected off its surface for the very first time! ... 51 Peg b isn?t a very exciting name, but it?s the name of an exciting planet. ... main-sequence ?) star, like our Sun. ... The ability to collect light from distant worlds is very exciting; it will allow us to work out all sorts of new facts about them...

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• ArtistтАЩs Impression of a Jupiter twin orbiting HIP 11915
• ArtistтАЩs Impression of a Jupiter twin orbiting HIP 11915 | ESO
• Mario van den Ancker

... OOF . ... OOF Index . ... OOF software . ... Fits up to fifth order . ... These are experimental data currently being analysed, not final documentation of research. ... Only fitting for Zernike orders up to and including 3rd to concentrate on finding possible off-axis aberrations. ... The results below show that when fitting for all Zernikes up to and including fifth order, the output maps vary greatly between pixels. As above, but fitting up to fifth order Zernike polynomial. ...

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• Retrieval of surface from data across the MUSTANG field (Part 2)

... 142,800 Mean density (kg/m^3) .. ... 5.203 Rotation period (length of day in Earth hours).. 9.8 Revolution period (length of year) (in Earth years). 11.86 Obliquity (tilt of axis) (degrees).. 3.08 Orbit inclination (degrees).. 1.3 Orbit eccentricity.. 0.048 Mean surface temperature (K)........................ 120 (cloud tops) Visual geometric albedo.. 0.44 Atmospheric components.............................. 90% hydrogen, 10% helium, .07% methane Rings.. ...

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• Low Surface Brightness Galaxy Gallery
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The HST instrument optics geometrically distort the images formed on the detectors: pixels at the corner of each CCD subtend less area on the sky than those near the center. ... Fruchter and Hook (1997) carried out a set of tests to study the ability of drizzle to remove the photometric effects of geometric distortion. ... Aperture photometry was then obtained on the stars in one of the four simulated input images, and on the stars in the output drizzled image. ...

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• http://www.stsci.edu/~mutchler/documents/Ceres_Vesta_Spaceflight2.pdf
• IAU Colloquium 156 : The Collision of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter
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