... Dark Craters and Bright Spots Revealed on Asteroid Ceres . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , JPL-Caltech , UCLA , MPS/DLR/IDA Explanation: What are those bright spots on asteroid Ceres? ... Sharper new images taken last week and released yesterday indicate, as expected, that most of the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is dark and heavily cratered like our Moon and the planet Mercury . ... Dwarf Planet Ceres . ... Bright Spots Resolved in Occator Crater on Ceres . ... Dwarf Planet, Bright Spot . ...

... 2015 December 11 . The Brightest Spot on Ceres . Image Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , UCLA , MPS/DLR/IDA . ... Exploring Ceres from orbit since March, the Dawn spacecraft's camera has revealed about 130 or so mysterious bright spots, mostly associated with impact craters scattered around the small world's otherwise dark surface. ... Since impacts would have exposed the material, Ceres' numerous and widely scattered bright spots may indicate the presence of a subsurface shell of ice-salt mix. ...

... By admin September 24, 2010 Posted in: Planets . ... Although it is hard to imagine technology that could enable people to survive on Venus that has not stopped a few science fiction tales from describing humans visiting or settling on the surface of Venus; the TV series Space Odyssey (2004) and Defying Gravity (2009) had near future astronauts in armoured spacesuits making brief EVAs on the planet. ... I googled ?on venus, what would kill you first?? and this page was the number one result. ...

An excellent opportunity arises over the Christmas period for a rare view of the planet Mercury, just above the south-western horizon at dusk. ... On Christmas Day, Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet, will shine at magnitude -0.7, about as bright as the brightest stars, while both Jupiter and Venus will be brighter still. Mercury will reach greatest eastern elongation, that is, greatest angular distance from the Sun, on January 4th. ... Last Revised: 2009 January 5th . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... A Minor Planet's Night Out . ... Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter are thousands of rocky bodies. ... In 1804 came Juno; in 1807, Vesta. ... Most minor planets, as asteroids are sometimes affectionately called, hum in elliptical orbits between Mars and Jupiter. ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

... December 8, 1996 . Degas Ray Crater on Mercury . ... Explanation : Like the Earth's Moon, Mercury is scarred with craters, testifying to an intense bombardment during the early history of the Solar System. ... In the above mosaic the bright rays emanating from the 27 mile wide Degas crater almost appear to be painted on . The rays consist of light colored material blasted out during the crater's formation. Numerous smaller, younger craters are seen superposed on the Degas crater itself. ...

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... NASA SPACECRAFT FINDS NEW EVIDENCE FOR WATER ICE ON MERCURY . ... The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick," said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings. ... Water ice concentrations are derived from the hydrogen measurements. ...

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The Bringer of Peace V enus is the second planet from the Sun and the sixth largest. ... S ince Venus is an inferior planet, it shows phases when viewed with a telescope from the perspective of Earth. ... T he pressure of Venus' atmosphere at the surface is 90 atmospheres (about the same as the pressure at a depth of 1 km in Earth's oceans). ... Craters on Venus seem to come in bunches indicating that large meteoriods that do reach the surface usually break up in the atmosphere. ... Earth .. ...

Microsymposium 38, MS083, 2003 (A4 format) MERCURY: LOCAL VARIATIONS OF THE PHOTOMETRIC RELIEF. ... Because of trajectory and pointing angle constraints the planet could be observed from Mariner 10 only over a small range of phase angles between about 75o and 110o. Therefore the photometric investigations are restricted to measuring the distribution of brightness on the Mercurian disk. ... Raw versions of real-time processing pictures FDS 0000984 and FDS 0000986 were used (images 196 and 202). ...

... Since planets are expected to form out of the material in disks around young stars, the formation of a planet will thoroughly alter the structure of the circumstellar disk of their host star, forming significant gaps in the radial distribution of matter around the star. Additionally, processing of solids (annealing/crystallization) and changes in the overall gas/dust ratio are thought to happen during the planet formation process and are believed to alter the observational signature of the disk. ...

... 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. ...

Spinning discs in space Mass feeding and feedback in YSOs . ScienceAlert Ever wonder how solar-mass stars form? By Tim Wetherell. Sticking to the stars . The complex processes creating accretion discs . ... Disks, Winds and Jets: From Planets to Quasars . ... Theory and modelling of accretion processes . Protoplanetary discs . ... Star formation . Jets and winds . ... Email: raquel@mso.anu.edu.au . ... Webpage: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~raquel/ . ...

Saturn: The beauty of the rings. Saturn . ... Belongs to the giant planets . It has no definite solid surface. ... The free fall acceleration at the Saturn surface near equator is 9,06 m/s^2 . ... In the centre of the planet the temperature is about 20000K. The satellites . ... The rings of Saturn . ... It is proved that Saturn's rings (as well as the other planet's) are the fragments of the great cloud being near the planet with million kilometres length (see how the rings were formed ). ...

Our publications in 2004 year Kniazev, Alexei Y.; Grebel, Eva K.; Pustilnik, Simon A.; Pramskij, Alexander G.; Kniazeva, Tamara F.; Prada, Francisco; Harbeck, Daniel . ... 704-727 (02/2004) . Kniazev, A. Y.; Grebel, E. K.; Pramskij, A. G.; Pustilnik, S. A. American Astronomical Society Meeting 204, #80.06 (05/2004) . Pustilnik, S.; Kniazev, A.; Pramskij, A.; Izotov, Y.; Foltz, C.; Brosch, N.; Martin, J.-M.; Ugryumov, A. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.419, p.469-484 (05/2004) . ... 419.. ...

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