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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Вечер на Марсе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192275/mars2_pathfinder_big.preview.jpg)
6.07.1997
A Day or "Sol" on Mars is only 40 minutes longer than an Earth day - and Pathfinder's first day on Mars, Sol 1 according to its local calendar, was an eventful one. Still...
![Исследователь на Марсе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192274/mars1_pathfinder_big.preview.jpg)
5.07.1997
Yesterday, July 4th, using its own array of fireworks, a parachute, and a cocoon of airbags, the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft successfully bounced and came to rest on the surface of Mars at 10:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time.
![Посадка на Марс](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192273/success_pathfinder_big.preview.jpg)
4.07.1997
Today, July 4th, at about 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft will land on Mars. Ninety minutes before reaching the surface Pathfinder will begin a flurry of activity.
![Марс: окончание путешествия](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192272/pathland_hst_big.preview.jpg)
3.07.1997
Mars Pathfinder is nearing the end of its 7 month journey. The robot spacecraft is scheduled to use parachutes, rockets, and airbags to "bouncedown" on the red planet tomorrow - July 4th. This Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars was taken a few days ago to check on the weather.
![Гамма-всплеск: взрыв с указателем расстояния](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192271/firstgrb_vela4.preview.gif)
2.07.1997
Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) were discovered by accident. In fact, GRBs always seem to be where scientists least expect them. Thirty years ago today, satellites first recorded a GRB. The burst data plotted in this histogram show that the count rate of the gamma-ray instrument abruptly jumped indicating a sudden flash of gamma-rays.
![Астероид 253 Матильда: большие кратеры](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192270/mathilde3_near_big.preview.jpg)
1.07.1997
You're zipping through the Solar System when you pass ... asteroid 253 Mathilde. This actually happened to NASA's NEAR spacecraft just last Friday. The above picture of the previously unresolved asteroid was released just yesterday.
![Около Матильды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/24/0001191249/mathilde2_near_big.preview.jpg)
30.06.1997
Hey Earth, look what I found! On the way to visiting the asteroid 433 Eros in February 1999, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft flew right by another asteroid: 253 Mathilde last Friday. Shown above is one picture from the encounter.
![Ида и Дактил: астероид и спутник](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/24/0001191248/idadactyl.preview.gif)
29.06.1997
This asteroid has a moon! The robot spacecraft Galileo currently exploring the Jovian system, encountered and photographed two asteroids during its long journey to Jupiter. The second asteroid it photographed, Ida, was discovered to have a moon which appears as a small dot to the right of Ida in this picture.
![Барсум](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/24/0001191247/barsoom.preview.gif)
28.06.1997
"Yes, I have been to Barsoom again ..." begins John Carter in Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1913 science fiction classic "The Gods of Mars". In Burroughs' novels describing Carter's adventures on Mars, "Barsoom" is the local name for the red planet. Mars continues to inspire Earthdwellers' interests and imagination.
![Марс: только факты](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/10/22/0001194319/marsglobe1_viking_big.preview.jpg)
27.06.1997
Mars, the freeze-dried planet, orbits 137 million miles from the Sun or at about 1.5 times the Earth-Sun distance. It has two diminutive moons, towering extinct volcanos, an immense canyon system, a thin atmosphere...
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