Astronomy Picture of the Day . Three Planets in Dawn Skies . ... Credit: Tunc Tezel Explanation: Three children of the Sun rise in the east in this peaceful dawn skyview recorded December 7th near Bolu, Turkey. Inner planet Mercury , fresh from its second transit of the 21st century, stands highest in the bright sky at the top right. Gas giant Jupiter lies below the cloud bank near picture center. A newsworthy Mars is also visible, right of Jupiter and just above the dark cloud bank. ...

... 2003 December 24 . Layered Hills on Mars . Credit: MSSS , JPL , NASA . Explanation: Why are some hills on Mars so layered? ... Clearly, dark windblown sand surrounds outcropping of light sedimentary rock across the floor of crater Arabia Terra . ... Blown sand possibly itself eroded once-larger mesas into the layered hills. ... The above image , showing an area about 3 kilometers across, was taken in October by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft currently orbiting Mars . ... About APOD | ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Mercury Magazine . ... White Mars: The Story of the Red Planet Without Water . ... Mars today is a dry planet, with an atmospheric pressure far too low to sustain liquid water on the surface. ... Hoffman describes his White Mars theory, and the reasons why the warm and wet model doesn't hold water. In Hoffman's view, Mars is a planet dominated by carbon dioxide, not water. ...

... Noctis Labyrinthus (Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) . ... Gale Crater (Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) . ... Crater in Isidis region (Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) . ... Meridiani Planum Crater (Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) . ... Northern Meridiani (Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) . ... Cerebus Fossae (Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) . ... Dust dunes (Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) . ...

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... Events . ... The orbit of the Moon is too small to be seen on this scale, but the 2008 December 1st alignment was especially interesting because additionally Venus was occulted by the Moon (this occultation was visible from Europe and NW Africa). Some more photos of the 1 December events received from Jonathan Bingham . ... Venus coming out from behind the Moon; photograph by Jonathan Bingham . ISS; photograph by Jonathan Bingham . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Why do people want to explore Mars? At the present time Mars topography is known sufficiently well to make a Martian map; we cannot distinguish yet the settlements of the inhabitants of this planet, but sooner or later we probably will be able to achieve this as well.. ... US spacecraft "Mariner-4" performed the first successful flyby and transmitted to the Earth twenty one photos of Mars' surface. ... It is supposed that large subsurface ice reservoirs or liquid water exist on Mars. ...

... STScI-PRC99-27 A CLOSER ENCOUNTER WITH MARS Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. ... In these views the north polar cap is tilted toward the Earth and is visible prominently at the top of each picture. ... Dark sand dunes that surround the polar cap merge into a large, dark region called Acidalia. ...

... Research . ... NASA's "follow the water" philosophy has led me to study atmosphere-regolith interactions on Mars in search for locations and times where liquid water is available. ... Transient liquid water and water activity at Gale crater Mars. ... Rivera-Valentin, E. G. , Chevrier, V. F., 2015. ... Icarus , 253, 156-158. Lopez Garcia, E. J., Rivera-Valentin, E. G. , Schenk, P. M., Hammond, N. P., Barr, A. C., 2014. ... Icarus , 237, 419-421. ... Chevrier, V. F., Rivera-Valentin, E. G. , 2012. ...

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My research efforts have focused on three areas which are: . More than 200 extrasolar planets have been discovered around relatively nearby stars, primarily through the Doppler line shifts owing to the reflex motions of their host stars, and more recently through transits of some planets across the face of the host stars. ... Gravitational microlensing provides a novel technique to look for planets around lens stars, and this is the only technique currently capable of detecting Earth-mass planets. ...

... Mars . Mars viewed with ANU's 24-inch (60cm) teтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: Mars viewed with ANU's 24-inch (60cm) telescope . Description: Mars viewed with ANU's 24-inch (60cm) telescope at Siding Spring Observatory . 17 June 2001: This image shows a dark region in the centre of the planet's disc looking much like the continent of Africa is Syrtis Major. ... Mars viewed with ANU's 24-inch (60cm) telescope Mars viewed with ANU's 24-inch (60cm) telescope at Siding Spring Observatory . ...

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... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 38, October 27-29, 2003, Moscow, Russia . ... Michael G. G., European Space Agency, Research and Scientific Support Department, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, greg.michael@esa.int . ... 2Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, greg.michael@esa.int . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 42, October 10-12, 2005, Moscow, Russia . ...

. Mars has become the center of intense interest since the Martian Meteorite results were announced. Currently there is a lively debate whether or not primitive life formed there or not.

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

... Mars is the fourth from the Sun big planet of the Solar system. ... Once a 15 - 17 years occures so-called the great opposition when the planets come nearer about 56 billions km. ... The new level of Mars investigation began in 1965 when the spaceships were used to fly round the Mars and from 1971 landed on the planet. ... The investigations of Mars showes the traces of vulcanization on this planet: the splits and rawins sometimes hundred kilometers long. ... Mars's atmosphere and the water. ...

... Awards were presented to the individuals and teams listed below. ... The recipients were: Susan L. Creasy Manager , ISS Mission Integration and Operations Office Mark S. Geyer Manager , ISS Program Integration Office William C. Panter Manager , ISS Avionics and Software Office Charles J. Precourt Deputy Manager , ISS Program Michael T. Suffredini Manager , ISS Operations Integration John Tip Talone Director, ISS Payload Processing Directorate Bill Readdy, Associate Administrator...