Astronomy Picture of the Day . Ganymede: A Really Groovy Moon . ... Credit: Galileo Mission Team , Galileo Spacecraft , NASA Explanation: Ganymede's surface is a wrinkled mess. As large ice-sheets shift on the moon's surface , parts of the surface buckle causing high ridges, deep furrows, and parallel grooves. ... The Galileo spacecraft has also just discovered that Ganymede has a region of orbiting charged particles called a magnetosphere - a first for any moon. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... August 13, 1996 . Europa's Surface . ... This tantalizing prospect of oceans of liquid water beneath its frozen surface has helped make the smallest of the Galilean moon's of Jupiter a planned focus of the Galileo spacecraft's ongoing mission to explore the Jovian system. New Europa images and results from the Galileo mission were released today revealing details which further suggest that Europa's icy surface was once - and may still be - supported on slush or liquid water. ... About APOD | ...

... Viking Images . ... Each spacecraft consisted of an orbiter and a lander. ... The first month of orbit was devoted to imaging the surface to find appropriate landing sites for the Viking Landers. On July 20, 1976 Viking Lander 1 separated from the Orbiter and touched down at Chryse Planitia. ... The Viking Landers transmitted images of the surface, took surface samples and analyzed them for composition and signs of life, studied atmospheric composition and meteorology, and deployed seismometers. ...

P hobos ("FOH bus") is the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons. Phobos is closer to its primary than any other moon in the solar system, less than 6000 km above the surface of Mars. ... P hobos orbits Mars below the synchronous orbit radius . ... P hobos and Deimos may be composed of carbon-rich rock like C-type asteroids. ... New images from Mars Global Surveyor indicate the Phobos is covered with a layer of fine dust about a meter thick, similar to the regolith on the Earth's Moon. ...

Tail Probe is one of the satellites of the INTERBALL program. ... Collection of the orbital elements | ... Flight situation analysis during operations scheduling . ... Two stages of the orbital situation analysis are presented: . ... The satellites motion calculation during the flight situation analysis is based on the orbital elements, determined by the Ballistic center at KIAM RAN. The modified (by backward integration) orbital elements are usedduring the aposteriory situation analysis. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... August . ... Posted on August 25, 2012 | 4 Comments Neil Armstrong was born in 1930 in Ohio and died in 2012 in Ohio. ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment I had my doubts, but NASA didn?t let us down when the Agency?s Curiosity rover was successfully landed in Gale Crater, Mars at 5.14 UTC on 6 August 2012. ... Posted on July 31, 2012 | ... Posted on May 10, 2012 | ... Posted on April 12, 2012 | ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... 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 . ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Spacecraft . ... Military Space . Space Science . ... Heroes Of Space Remember . Kosmos-2392 Began Its Watch . After two maneuvers, Kosmos-2392/Araks spacecraft entered operational orbit with 12-orbit repeating track. ... Russian Orbital Constellation . As of August 31, 91 Russian spacecraft were in operation, of them 42 military ones, 41 civilians and 14 double-purpose birds. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... The Sych-2 satellite is being developed as a part of the space optical-range Earth observation system by the State Design Office of Yuzhnoye and built by the Industrial Association Yuzhny Machine Building Plant in cooperation w ith other space industry entities upon the state order of the National Space Agency of Ukraine . ...

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): . ...

... When the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by the planet Uranus in January 1986, astronomers were treated to their first close-up glimpse of the satellites that orbit the seventh planet. ... But by far the most intriguing of those 15 satellites was a jigsaw-puzzle world called Miranda . ... How dark was it at Miranda? One of the Voyager scientists put it this way: Taking pictures in the Uranus system is like trying to do photography in a ballpark at night when the only light comes from a single candle. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 orbit August 15, 2005 Abstract Create a FITS timeseries \HK-like" le from the ODF Spacecraft Reconstructed Orbit File. ... Both sets of values will be written into a standard OGIP-compliant FITS binary extension table with a TIME column value, derived from a start, stop and sampling interval time, each speci ed by the user. ... StartANDEndNotInODFRange (error) Start AND End times selected not congruent with input ODF obs times. ... 7 Output Files 1. ...

Surface features from high-precision photometry Klaus G. Strassmeier , Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in collaboration with Igor Savanov, Thomas Granzer and John Rice 1. ... IAU GA2012, Special Session 13, August, 2012 Photometry from Antarctica (Dome C): July 2007 25cm telescope 243 hours continuous @ 98% K. G. Strassmeier, Surface features from high-precision photometry., ... IAU GA2012, Special Session 13, August, 2012 1. ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . August : 2009 . ... No sunspots and sunspot groups can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . No H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . Last updated: August 10, 2009 00:00 UT . ... 1953-2016 Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun, LPI RAS, Russia . ... 7(499)132-65-96, Fax: +7(499)132-65-97 . ...

The turret floor sits on a set of rollers bolted to the feed tower. The rolling surface sits between the bottom of the floor and the rollers. ... The plot shows the roll of the turret floor during a turret spin (.ps) ( .pdf) from 26 to 340 degrees and back (roll is in the direction of rotation). ... If there were 6 sections of rolling surface you might expect this spacing to be 60 degrees (or some beat of the 60 degree spacing and the spacing of the fixed rollers). ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Rocket Space Complexes . Sea Launch . ... Brief History of Rocket Space Technology Development . ... Launch of an unmanned Vostok-type spacecraft. ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... RSC Energia: Progress MS-02 docked with the ISS.' ...

... 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. ...

NIFS was assembled and readied for its first cooldown on Friday August 24 2001. The cryostat contained the cold work surface plate and the radiation shields, but not the spectrograph or the On-Instrument Wavefront Sensor. ... The center of the cold work surface plate reached a minimum temperature of ~ 46.1 K. The getter reached ~ 9.2 K. Both are well below the required final operating temperature. ... Peter Conroy lowering the cold work surface plate into the cryostat. ... Pumping the cryostat. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory, 11th August 2015: Astronomers at the 29th International Astronomical Union General Assembly in Honolulu, Hawaii, have announced the discovery of the tenth transiting тАЬcircumbinaryтАЭ planet, a result that brings the number of such known planets into double digits. A circumbinary planet orbits two stars, and like the fictional planet тАЬTatooineтАЭ from Star Wars, the planet has two suns in its sky. ...