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) . ... E