... The Sea of Tranquillity: 5 Seconds To Impact . ... Credit: NASA Explanation: On February 20th, 1965, the Ranger 8 spacecraft crashed into the Moon . ... Two kilometers across, with 4 meter sized objects visible, the picture is of an area in the Sea of Tranquillity north of the Apollo 11 landing site. ... Publications with keywords: impact - Ranger program - spacecraft - Ranger 8 - Moon . Publications with words: impact - Ranger program - spacecraft - Ranger 8 - Moon . ...

... July 30, 1999 . The Sea of Tranquillity: 5 Seconds To Impact . Credit: NASA . ... Rapidly transmitting a series of pictures to ground controllers, its camera recorded this one at an altitude of about 11 kilometers, 5 seconds before impacting the lunar surface. ... Its very successful mission in lunar orbit complete, the Lunar Prospector is scheduled to crash into a crater near the Moon's south pole in an effort to confirm the presence of water-ice by studying the impact's debris cloud. ...

... Ranger 8 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight. The spacecraft carried six television cameras, an optical earth sensor and high-gain antenna for optimum communications, and solar panels to provide power, as well as additional engineering equipment. ... Sufficient video bandwidth was provided to allow for rapid framing sequences of both narrow- and wide-angle television pictures. ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

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... Universe At Your Fingertips Activities TOC . ... Why do we have stereotypes about what an astronomer looks like? ... A reading list on 20th century astronomers and their work is included in the Resources Bibliographies section of the Universe at Your Fingertips. ... Be sure the students do the activity before the astronomer comes. ... After the visit, give students an opportunity to talk about how the astronomer was similar or different from the mental picture they had before the visit. ...

Full Moon 106k gif . Another full Moon 300k jpg . nice Moon image with features labeled html . ... projection of the whole surface (from Clementine images) 330k jpg ; 1200k tiff . ... GOES satellite image of Earth showing Moon in same frame 92k gif . Moon's north pole from Galileo 132k gif . ... Three-filter color image of the Moon (Galileo) 57k jpg . False-color image of the Moon (Galileo) 123k jpg . ... False-color image of the Moon (Galileo) 53k jpg . ... Galileo images . ...

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... PRIME CREW . ... On February 14, 1995 he was assigned to the second crew (PC-20) under the EuroMir-95 program and from February 20 to August 1995 he passed training as a flight engineer, together with G. Manakov and from April 1– with C.Fuglesang (ESA, Sweden). ... On February 3, 1999 by decision of RSA Board he was removed from the ISS crews and assigned as a flight engineer of the back-up crew (PC-28) and the prime crew (PC-29) for the Mir Orbital Station, together with S. Sharipov. ...

... 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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... By admin February 19, 2011 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . ... Since it was launched in 1999, the Stardust spacecraft has travelled about 5.7 billion km (3.5 billion miles) on its odyssey from Earth to comet Wild 2, back to Earth then on to comet Tempel 1. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Read Mark BosloughУ?т??т??s blog on the Jupiter impact . ... Mineral analysis of lunar crater deposit prompts a second look at the impact cratering process . Researchers have discovered a rock body across the floor of Copernicus Crater that appears to bear the mineralogical signature of rocks that were present before the impact that made the crater. ... Not detectable in the crater image (inset), deposits are visible only in light at certain wavelengths. ...

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Astrophotography Forum Message . ... IMerge Processing Moon Craters Pictures . ... I have just downloaded the iMerge program in witch i made some mosaics .you can see them on http://astrofotografieluna.blogspot.com .I think the pictures made are great but still i have to learn .some advices would be great. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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. Radar Meteor Workshop March 2003 Pictures . Second Day .

... There are many pitfalls in these kind of comparisons, which are described in great detail in the papers I have used to compare my impact on the field. In the first comparison I use the method described by Pijpers (2006, Astronomy Geophysics, 47, 6.17) , where he compares the total normalized citation rate per paper (i.e., the number of citations of a paper divided by the number of authors) to the total number of papers for different authors in the field of space research. ... 1st year paper . ...

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