... Prognoz Launches . ... Images . ... antenna of the low-frequency radiation receiver of the electromagnetic field . ... panel of solar batteries . magnetometer bar Prognoz is the name of the once soviet Earth research artificial satellites (ISZ for Russian) meant to study processes of solar activity, their influence on interplanetary environment and the Earth magnetosphere. ... solar wind and magnetosphere study . ... Full image is 61k . Full image is 52k . Full image is 60k . ...
Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . Launch Date/Time: 1965-07-18 at 14:38:00 UTC . ... Zond 3 was launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik (65-056B) Earth orbiting platform towards the Moon and interplanetary space. ... On July 20, during lunar flyby, 25 pictures of very good quality were taken of the lunar farside from distances of 11,570 to 9,960 kilometers (7,190 to 6,190 miles). The photos covered 19 million square kilometers (7.3 million square miles) of the lunar surface. ...
... Phobos. 3 channels VSK image. The enhanced image after a histogram equalization technique. The distance is 270 km., the resolution is 50/260 m. Phobos . ... The distance is 430 km., the resolution is 80/420 m. Phobos and Mars. ... The distance is 197 km., the resolution is 36 m. Phobos. 3 channels VSK image. The enhanced image after processing with a histogram equalization technique. ... The distance is 188 km., the resolution is 184 m. The closest approach image of Phobos. ...