... 2012 November 6 . Methone: Smooth Egg Moon of Saturn . ... Explanation: Why is this moon shaped like a smooth egg? The robotic Cassini spacecraft completed the first flyby ever of Saturn's small moon Methone in May and discovered that the moon has no obvious craters. ... The smoothness and egg-like shape of the 3-kilometer diameter moon might be caused by Methone 's surface being able to shift -- something that might occur were the moon coated by a deep pile of sub-visual rubble . ...

... Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: Tethys is one of the larger and closer moons of Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn passed near the frozen moon at the end of October, capturing the most detailed images since the Voyager spacecrafts in the early 1980s. Tethys is composed almost completely of water ice and shows a large impact crater that nearly circles the planet. ... 2003 2004 . ... Publications with keywords: Tethys - Saturn - cassini spacecraft . ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

... December 8, 1996 . Degas Ray Crater on Mercury . ... Explanation : Like the Earth's Moon, Mercury is scarred with craters, testifying to an intense bombardment during the early history of the Solar System. ... In the above mosaic the bright rays emanating from the 27 mile wide Degas crater almost appear to be painted on . The rays consist of light colored material blasted out during the crater's formation. Numerous smaller, younger craters are seen superposed on the Degas crater itself. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...

This is the homepage of Andrew Fruchter, an astronomer on the staff of the Space Telescope Science Institute . ... Here you can look at an HST images of the optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies. ... Therefore, substantial information on the fine scale structure of objects can be obtained by offsetting the pointing of the telescope between exposures and then combining these "dithered" exposures into a single image. ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: 30 November 2006 23:07:50 GMT Subject: Events, News, Shuttle mission Hi all, It's a busy time of year! ... Details are at www.astronomy.ie . ... STS-116 will deliver a third truss segment, a SPACEHAB module and other key components during the Shuttle's 20th mission to the International Space Station (ISS). ... The astronauts will head outside the ISS in their EVA suits and wait for mission control to switch off the ISS power. ... Clear Skies, Terry Moseley . ...

Планета Земля и Луна . ... Космическая защита . Луна . Фотографии . ... Строение Луны . ... Страница: Начало одиссеи , Экспедиции , Море Кризисов , "Аполлон-8" , "Аполлон-9" , "Аполлон-10" , "Аполлон - 11" , E-8 "Луноход" , Испытания Л-1 , Луноход - 1,2 , КА "Луна 1-24" , КА "Луна-9" , Луна от КА СССР ; . Луна - наш космический спутник . ... Снимки Луны от аппаратов серии Луна и Зонд (СССР) . Фотографии космических аппаратов серии "Луна" (также Луноходы) и "Зонд" - СССР . ... Зонд 3 . ...

... Archive for November 2008 . Nov 19th, 2008| 01:34 am | Posted by hlee . ... Category: arXiv , Astro , Cross-Cultural , Frequentist , Methods , News , Quotes , Stat , Uncertainty | Comment . Nov 17th, 2008| 01:39 pm | ... Continue reading ?after ?Thanks to Henrietta Leavitt?? Category: Astro , Bad AstroStat , Data Processing , Methods , Stars , Stat | ... Tags: 2008 , cepheid , CfA , Henrietta Leavitt , Henrietta Swan Leavitt , history , November , period-luminosity , symposium . ...