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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Марс: хребты около южного полюса](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192787/marswaffle_mgs_big.preview.jpg)
20.03.1998
No, it's not breakfast ... but looking down from an orbiting spacecraft, the odd intersecting ridges covering this area of Mars do present a waffle-like appearance. The cause of the ridge pattern is unknown but it suggests that more complex layered deposits lie below.
![Марс: край каньона](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192786/marsval_mgs_big.preview.jpg)
19.03.1998
High resolution Mars Global Surveyor images were combined with Viking Orbiter color data to produce this stunning, detailed view of a Martian canyon's edge. The area pictured is about 6 miles wide and represents a tiny part of the northern edge of the canyon Valles Marineris, whose total length is about 2,500 miles.
![Межзвездная пыль в NGC 891](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192785/ngc891_wiyn_big.preview.gif)
18.03.1998
What is going on in NGC 891? This galaxy appeared previously to be very similar to our own Milky Way Galaxy: a spiral galaxy seen nearly edge-on. However, recent high-resolution images of NGC 891's dust show unusual filamentary patterns extending well away from its Galactic disk.
![Облака над Тарсисом на Марсе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192784/marsclouds_mgs_big.preview.jpg)
17.03.1998
When and where do clouds form on Mars? The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft currently orbiting Mars is finding out. Photographs released last week showed clouds forming above Tharsis, a huge bulge on Mars about 4000 kilometers across and 7 kilometers high containing several large volcanoes.
![Астероиды на расстоянии](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192783/asteroids_hst_big.preview.jpg)
16.03.1998
Rocks from space hit Earth every day. The larger the rock, though, the less often Earth is struck. Many kilograms of space dust pitter to Earth daily. Larger bits appear initially as a bright meteor. Baseball-sized rocks and ice-balls streak through our atmosphere daily, most evaporating quickly to nothing.
![Необычная M82: галактика Сигара](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192782/m82_cfa_big.preview.gif)
15.03.1998
Something strange happened to this galaxy, but what? M82 is a nearby galaxy in the group of galaxies dominated by itself, M81, and NGC 3077. M82 is thought by some to be limping away from a close encounter with M81.
![Галерея спиральных галактик](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192781/spiral_gallery_uit_big.preview.gif)
14.03.1998
A progression of beautiful spiral galaxies is illustrated above with three photographs from NASA's Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT). Flying above the Earth's obscuring layer of atmosphere on the Space Shuttle Columbia during...
![Астероиды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192780/asteroids3_neargal_big.preview.jpg)
13.03.1998
No asteroid or comet is known to be on a collision course with Earth. The asteroid designated 1997 XF11 had been predicted to come uncomfortably close, but new estimates place its passing beyond the orbit of the Moon. This earth-approaching asteroid was discovered by SpaceWatch astronomer Jim Scotti in December of last year.
![Тень Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192779/moonshad_goes_big.preview.gif)
12.03.1998
When the Moon's shadow reached out and touched the Earth last month, the result was a Solar Eclipse. Such an eclipse is total only for observers located along a narrow path corresponding to the ground track of the shadow's dark central portion or "umbra".
![Полное солнечное затмение](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192778/eclipse_js_big.preview.jpg)
11.03.1998
On February 26th, it was dark during the day. This total solar eclipse was the last visible from the Americas for this millennium. A total solar eclipse is exciting partly because it is so short.
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