... Gaspra . ... Comets . ... Galileo image of Ida asteroid 114k gif ; 41k jpg . ... Large false color image of asteroid 951 Gaspra 172k gif ; 33k jpg . Gaspra in true and false color 18k jpg , 140k gif , 596k tiff . Montage of 11 images taken by Galileo spacecraft of 951 Gaspra 75k gif 75k jpg . ... Gaspra, taken from Galileo, and Phobos and Deimos taken from Viking 96k gif ; 81k jpg . True & Enhanced Color images 140k gif ; 18k jpg ; 596k tiff . ... more NEAR images of Mathilde html . ...

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): . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 14.05.2007 . ... Credit: NASA , JPL , Doug Ellison Explanation: When passing Earth on your way to Jupiter, what should you look for? ... During Galileo's first Earth flyby in late 1990, it made a majestically silent home movie of our big blue marble rotating by taking images almost every minute during a 25-hour period. ... Publications with keywords: Earth - Galileo . Publications with words: Earth - Galileo . ... Asteroid 2007 TU24 Passes the Earth . ...

Gaspra . ... On October 29, 1991, Galileo came within 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) of Gaspra. ... These two color views of the asteroid Gaspra were produced by combining three images taken through violet, green, and infrared filters by the Galileo spacecraft on October 29, 1991, from a distance of about 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles). ... The earliest view (upper left) was taken 5 hours, 45 minutes before closest approach when the spacecraft was 164,000 kilometers (102,000 miles) from Gaspra. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Concept Spacecraft . ... Vesta's heavily cratered surface (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) . Orbiting about 2700 km (1700 miles) above Vesta, Dawn slowly rotates around the world beneath it. ... NASA has just released a fascinating new animation showing the whole asteroid as it rotates beneath Dawn. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... The spacecraft of Magion type have been selected as the subsatellites of the Interball project: Magion-4 (C2-X) for the Tail Probe and Magion-5 (C2-A) for the Auroral Probe. ... Magion-4 was produced in the Czech Republic in collaboratrion with Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and has onboard scientific instruments and sensors designed and built in Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovak Republic. ... Plasma flow detector VDP-S (Czech Republic, Russia) . ...

NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Planetary Radar . ... Asteroids . ... Radar imaging of near-Earth asteroids can provide dramatic images with resolutions down to 8 m, comparable to the images obtained by the Galileo and NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft. ... Asteroid 2001 GQ2 was imaged by the Arecibo radar system during April, 2001 by M. Nolan. ... These radar images of main-belt asteroid 216 Kleopatra were obtained in November, 1999, about one hour apart (Ostro et al 2000, Science). ...

What's New in Views of the Solar System . ... Orthographic Image of Miranda . ... A new Hubble Space Telescope image of Asteroid Vesta was added on 9/9/97. ... A press release on " New Images Hint at Wet and Wild History For Europa ", along with seven new Galileo Images of Europa were added on 4/14/97. ... A page of Additional Galileo Images of Europa was added on 1/21/97. ... A page of Galileo Images of Io was added on 11/14/96. ... A galileo temperature map image of Ganymede was added on 9/27/96. ...

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... Data access . ... Updated data on the current orientation of the spacecraft Coronas-Photon in the ecliptic coordinate system. ... Data are updated 4 times a day. download the data for three months . download the data for all time . download the data for three months . ... The TESIS observatory (LPI) . TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . 1953-2016 Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun, LPI RAS, Russia . ... 7(499)132-65-96, Fax: +7(499)132-65-97 . ...

... Although the conversion of telescope offsets from the FOS ( x,y ) reference frame to the telescope (V2,V3) reference frame is provided in the FOS paper products for all acquisition slews, you may occasionally need to calculate this rotation for other purposes. As noted in Chapter 29, the FOS ( x.y ) coordinate system is defined so that the x -axis is parallel to the diode array and the y -axis is perpendicular to the diode array. ... V2 = X sin(A) - Y cos(A) . V3 = X cos(A) + Y sin(A) . ...

... Р?С?С?С?Р?Р?Р?Р?РеС?Р?С?Р?РеР? ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mi