Enceladus . ... Enceladus [en-SELL-ah-dus] is one of the innermost moons of Saturn. ... Parts of Enceladus shows craters no larger than 35 km in diameter. ... This Voyager 2 mosaic of Enceladus was made from images taken through the clear, violet and green filters on August 25, 1981, from a distance of 119,000 kilometers (74,000 miles). ... This image was created by projecting a digital map of Enceladus onto an orthographic view and then replacing the color channels by low resoultion color images. ...

... 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. ...

Ganymede . ... Ganymede Statistics . ... Hubble Finds Ozone on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede . ... Like Callisto , Ganymede is most likely composed of a rocky core with a water/ice mantle and a crust of rock and ice. ... Ganymede's mantle is most likely composed of ice and silicates, and its crust is probably a thick layer of water ice. ... Ganymede's surface is rich in water ice and Voyager and Galileo images show features which are evidence of geological and tectonic disruption of the surface in the past. ...

Giant Jupiter. Jupiter . ... Jupiter has no solid surface that is why speaking about its dimensious point the radius of the upper border line of the clouds, where the presseru is about 10 KPa; radius of Jupiter on the equator is 71400 km. ... The Jupiter satellites. ... Nowadays 16 satellites of the Jupiter are known: Adrastea, Mitis, Amaltea , Phina,then 4 Galilei satellites: Io , Europe , Hanimed , Callisto , Leda, Aimalia, Zicitea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasipe and Sinope. ... Jupiter's ring. ...

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Microsymposium 34, MS058, 2001 ANOMALIES OF THE MOON'S THERMAL EMISSION IN THE IR SPECTRAL RANGE (10.5 - 12.5 micron). ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, 119899, Russia, pugach@sai.msu.ru Summary: New satellite measurements of the lunar-surface radiation temperature were used to construct the spatial angular function of thermal radiation of the Moon in the infrared (10.5-12.5 micron) spectral range. ... These thermal anomalies are observed only in the limited range of phase angles. ...

Nereid ( "NEER ee ed" ) is the outermost of Neptune 's known satellites and the third largest: orbit : 5,513,400 km distance from Neptune diameter : 340 km mass : ? ... Discovered in 1949 by Kuiper . Nereid's orbit is the most highly eccentric of any planet or satellite in the solar system; its distance from Neptune varies from 1,353,600 to 9,623,700 kilometers. Nereid's odd orbit indicates that it may be a captured asteroid or Kuiper Belt object. from LANL . ... Neptune .. ...

... Solar System . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Vision of Vesta: a dark feature with a diameter of approximately 100 kim near the asteroid's equator can be seen in this image from Dawn (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) . Between Mars and Jupiter lies the Asteroid Belt. ... The Dawn space probe is expected to go into orbit around Vesta on 16 July, from there it will return some detailed images and other data, staying at the asteroid for about a year before setting off to visit Ceres. ...

... Kepler's 3rd Law . 21a.Applying 3rd Law . ... Besides the Moon, Earth now has many artificial satellites, put up by us earthlings for a variety of purposes. ... where for a satellite orbiting Earth at distance of one Earth radius R E , the constant k equals k=gR E 2 . ... The velocity for a circular Earth orbit at any other distance r is similarly calculated, but one must take into account that the force of gravity is weaker at greater distances, by a factor (R E / r) 2 . ...

... Credit Copyright: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: Small, icy, inner moon of Saturn , Enceladus is only about 500 kilometers in diameter. ... Since Enceladus orbits within the outer E ring of Saturn , the moon's surface may be kept snow-bright as it is continuously bombarded with icy ring particles. ... Interplanetary ski bums take note: tiny Enceladus has only about 1/100th the surface gravity of planet Earth and a surface temperature of -200 degrees C (-330 degrees F). ...

Authors: V.A. Marsakov , Yu.G. Shevelev , . Journal: 1988, Astron Zh. ... Absolute magnitudes, metallicities, effective temperatures, surface gravities, distances, and tangential velocities are calculated for 5498 F stars with homogeneous data on uvby photometry and proper motion, and placed within 80 pc from the Sun. Components of space velocities, eccentricities of galactic orbits, perigalactic and apogalactic distances, and maximal remotness from galactic plane are presented for 1787 stars. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

This group of four pages describes how the Arecibo 430 MHz radar makes simple measurements in the ionosphere. ... Radar Reflections From the Ionosphere . ... Or How are radio and TV stations like radars?) ... Consider two radio stations located on a mountain transmitting to a nearby city. ... A radar is like a radio station, but it has a receiver that picks up radio waves reflected from objects (targets). ... Although a radio station transmits continously, a radar can transmit short bursts of waves. ...

Outer Natural Satellites Orbits Ephemerides. ... Choose type of the ephemeride: . ... Values of the orbital elements [ output e sin( ), e cos( ), sin(i) sin( ), sin(i) cos( ) ] . Distances between the osculating orbits . ... Choose Second Satellite (for the distances) N9 Halimede N10 Psamathe N11 Sao N12 Laomedeia N13 Neso . ... Enter initial date (years) . Enter final date (years) . ... inclination deg. pericenter deg. node deg. Enter upper limit of frequency deg/year . ...

Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system, larger even than the planets Pluto and Mercury. ... Ganymede's surface consists of two main types of terrain: old, dark polygonal units, and young, bright valleys and ridges (see figure 11 ). ... In a similar way, hitting a large block of ice with a hammer makes white marks. ... Ganymede as seen by Voyager 2. ... Because Voyager couldn't spot any large impact craters, scientists have concluded that the moon's surface is young. ... Moon . ... Europa . ...

... Authors: Megan Donahue 1 , G. Mark Voit 1 , Isabella Gioia 2,5,6 , Gerry Luppino 2,6 , John P. Hughes 3 , John T. Stocke 4 We have observed the most distant (= 0.829) cluster of galaxies in the Einstein Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS), with the ASCA and ROSAT satellites. ... Finding such a hot, massive cluster in the EMSS is extremely improbable if clusters grew from Gaussian perturbations in an 0 = 1 universe. ... 2 )Institute for Astronomy 2680 Woodlawn Drive Honolulu, HI 96822 . ...

A Prototype Luneburg Lens Antenna Peter Hall*, Sergei Kutuzov** and Rustam Dagkesamanskii** *CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility **Pushchino Radio Astronomy Obser vator y E-mail: Peter.Hall@atnf.csiro.au Enter Konkur Konkur Ltd is a Moscow-based company producing, among other products, a line of Luneburg Lenses suitable for satellite TV and other communications applications. ... This Multisat 1M lens is shown in Figure 3 and has the specifications listed in Table 1. ... Figure 3. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Two micro-spacecraft constellation with solar sails partially compensating the solar gravity allow their placement in the points along the Sun-Earth line behind the standard L1 point, i.e. further out from the Earth and closer to the Sun. The distances of the placement from the Earth and the base distances between such satellites depend on the ratios of their mass to the sail area. ...

If an object emits a total power (energy per unit time) L (L for luminosity), this radiation will spread outward into space, becoming more spread-out and diffuse as it goes. ... If an object receives more heat than it dissipates, then its temperature will rise. ... Any object at a temperature above absolute zero will radiate energy. ... A is the surface area of the black body, T is its temperature, and s = 5.67 « 10 -8 Wm -2 K -4 (the Stefan-Boltzmann constant). ...

IRREGULAR SATELLITES . ... Planetary satellites in the solar system are divided into two types: Regular satellites orbit in circular, equatorial orbits close to the planet. ... Irregular satellites orbit the planet much further out. ... Examples of irregular satellite orbits . ... Unlike the regular satellites which formed with the planet, irregulars originally formed in heliocentric space (eg the asteroid belt) and were later captured in a closed orbit around the planet. ... Nature, 2004). ...