... Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , JPL , NASA Explanation: Pictured above , the path of the robot rover Spirit on Mars can be traced far into the distance. ... Landing inside vast Gusev crater near the beginning of this year, Spirit, along with its sister robot Opportunity across the planet, has uncovered key evidence for ancient Martian water . ... Publications with keywords: Mars - water . Publications with words: Mars - water . ... Mars in View . ... A Path Into Victoria Crater on Mars . ...

... 2004 December 15 . Looking Back Over Mars . Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , JPL , NASA . Explanation: Pictured above , the path of the robot rover Spirit on Mars can be traced far into the distance. Spirit has now crossed kilometers of plains covered with rocks and sand, approached the lip of a crater 200-meters across , and climbed a series of hills. Spirit's path has been not only one of adventure but discovery. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... The Round Earth . 8a. The Horizon . ... 9a. Earth orbits Sun? . ... What is the distance D to the horizon? ... Your line of sight to the horizon is a tangent to the Earth--a line which touches the sphere of the Earth at just one point, marked B in the drawing here. ... From the top of Mauna Kea on Hawaii, an extinct volcano about 4 km high (also the site of important astronomical observatories), the horizon should be about twice as distant, 226 km. ... One more: Distance to the horizon on Mars . ...

... What is the distance D to the horizon? ... Your line of sight to the horizon is a tangent to the Earth--a line which touches the sphere of the Earth at just one point, marked B in the drawing here. ... D = SQRT(2Rh) . ... SQRT(2Rh) = (SQRT(2R))(SQRT(h)) . ... Using R = 6371 km, SQRT(2R) = 112.88, giving . ... From the top of Mauna Kea on Hawaii, an extinct volcano about 4 km high (also the site of important astronomical observatories), the horizon should be about twice as distant, 226 km. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon appears larger on the horizon than overhead because you are comparing it to foreground objects. Good astronomy : The Moon does appear larger on the horizon, but it is because of the way we perceive the sky. ... The most common misconception is that it is because you are unconsciously comparing the Moon to foreground objects like trees and houses, or even the horizon itself, and that makes the Moon look bigger than when it is all alone in the sky. ...

As the Universe expands, gravity pulls on the Universe, and slows the expansion down over time. As we look to great distances, we are looking back in time. If we can measure how fast the Universe is expanding in the past, and compare it to how fast it is expanding now, we can see the total gravitational effect of all matter in the Universe. Here we plot the distance between two galaxies as a function of time. ... Universes with lots of material . ...

Kepler's Laws Kepler was an assistant to Tycho Brahe. Brahe had made extensive observations of the known planets and had accurately mapped the motion of these planets as they passed across the sky for a number of years. ... The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the sun at one of the foci. ... Look at the distance between the discs. ... Kepler's Laws All bodies sweep out equal areas in equal times If we look at the planets we have already seen that the planets change speed in their orbit. ...

... August 30, 1999 . Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth . ... Explanation: Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. ... Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse - others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon . This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station , as Mir is being decommissioned after more than ten years of productive use. ...

Asimbonanga =========== by J. Clegg, sung by Joan Baez on her CD Recently Chorus : A si m'bonanga A si m'bonanga u Mandela thina Lapha ekhona Lapha ehleli khona Oh the sea is cold and the sky is grey Look across the island into the bay We are all islands till comes the day We cross the buning water Chorus A seagull wings across the ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on October 10, 2011 | ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on September 30, 2011 | ... 2 Comments The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an intergovernmental research organisation for astronomy which is supported by fifteen countries. ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Oral traditions have since time immemorial satisfied generations of children and adults with stories of wonder, fantasy, truth, and mystery. ... The story of astronomy and astronomy's evolution as a science includes countless tales originally crafted to explain the visible celestial bodies, their motions (regular and irregular), the mysteries behind their existence, and the powers they exert over us on Earth. ... Impediments to Elementary Astronomy Programs . ... Storytelling Activities - Moon Story...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... Have you ever walked down the street late a night and seen a point of light in the distance? ... This is because things look fainter when they're farther away. ... That s what astronomers did in 1995 when the Hubble Space Telescope was pointed at a region of the night sky about the size a tennis ball would look if it were a 100-metres away. ... One camera, called MUSE, was used to take a fresh look at the patch of sky. ...

... News . ... Imaging Basics . ... Image Galleries . ... Year of Pluto . ... Pluto's complex terrain on display . ... NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI . The images that make up this mosaic were sent back from NASA s New Horizons spacecraft from September 5 to 7, 2015. ... In the center of this 300-mile-wide (470 kilometers) image of Pluto from NASA s New Horizons spacecraft is a large region of jumbled, broken terrain on the northwestern edge of the vast icy plain informally called Sputnik Planum, to the right. ...

VIEW OUT OF THE WINDOW FROM ARIZONE, USA . ... Our whole class was excited to share with you what we see when we look out our window here, in Chandler, Arizona. Our classroom has no windows, so we decided to go outside on February 2, 1998, and describe to you what we see. You look out across the desert and you see endless roads and it sees almost as if you are in a dream. It's cold; about 65 degrees F (cold for Chandler, anyway) and there has been a touch of fog this morning. ...

... The Stellar IMF at Low Masses: A Critical Look at Variations and Environmental Dependencies . ... Turn left on Calvert Street and proceed north approximately 3 1/2 miles to University Parkway. Turn left on University Parkway and proceed approximately 1/3 mile (past JHU stadium and down hill) to San Martin Drive. Turn left at the signal and proceed approximately 1/4 mile to STScI. ... Proceed on I-695 west to Exit 23 (I-83 South/Jones Fall Expressway). ...

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Mal Ruderman (KIPAC, Stanford) . What do we see when we look at the surface of a neutron star from a great distance? ... The new point that is made is a consequence of near-relativistic electron-positron flows expected in the near-magnetosphere's of "young" (not older than about a million years) neutron stars. Because of cyclotron resonance scattering by these pair-flows on surface X-ray and UV emission, we do not see unprocessed suface emission. ...

Lecture 15 Plan for Lecture Will complete derivation of Angular Diameter Distance and then go through a specific example-- Einstein de Sitter universe Then look at what it becomes in a ` flat ' universe (currently favoured) Then discuss velocities and the Hubble Law (actually derive this) And then specific examples of what the data on Luminosity distance seems to be saying about the dynamics of the universe Finally, a new topic -- horizons, in ... Also, k = 0 (for EdS) S () . ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...