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Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD)
![Вега](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192284/vega_dm.preview.jpg)
15.07.1997
Vega is a bright blue star 25 light years away. Vega is the brightest star in the Summer Triangle, a group of stars easily visible summer evenings in the northern hemisphere. The name Vega...
![Марс: Твин Пикс в стерео](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192283/mars9_st_path_big.preview.jpg)
14.07.1997
Get out your red/blue glasses and gaze across the surface of Mars in stereo. You are looking south of west across an ancient flood channel, Ares Vallis, landing site of the Mars Pathfinder.
![Остаток вспышки сверхновой Паруса в оптическом диапазоне](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192282/vela_roe.preview.gif)
13.07.1997
About 11,000 years ago a star in the constellation of Vela exploded. This bright supernova may have been visible to the first human farmers. Today the Vela supernova remnant marks the position of a relatively close and recent explosion in our Galaxy. A roughly spherical, expanding shock wave is visible in X-rays.
![Обреченная звезда Эта Киля](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192281/etacarinae_hst2.preview.gif)
12.07.1997
Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when - it may be next year, it may be one million years from now. Eta Carinae's mass - about 100 times greater than our Sun - make it an excellent candidate for a full blown supernova.
![Камень Йоги](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/14/0001192280/mars8_pathfinder_big.preview.jpg)
11.07.1997
This portrait of Yogi Rock, a now famous boulder on Mars, was recorded on Sol 3 by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP). Big and friendly looking like its Earth cartoon namesake Yogi Bear, Yogi Rock is a prominent visible feature at the Pathfinder landing site.
![Станция имени Сагана](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/01/05/0001219192/mars7_sojourner_big.preview.jpg)
10.07.1997
The robot rover Sojourner sees Mars from the perspective of a house cat. During the 7 month cruise to Mars aboard the Pathfinder spacecraft, Sojourner measured only seven inches tall in a stowed position but prowling the martian landscape it has stretched to its full height of 1 foot (30 centimeters).
![Четвертый день: цветная панорама Марса](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/01/05/0001219187/mars6_pathfinder_big.preview.jpg)
9.07.1997
These mosaicked images form a color panorama of the region immediately surrounding the Sagan Memorial Station on Mars. The most recent images were recorded on Sol 4 - the 4th day of operations on the martian surface. The composite view reveals the reddish soil and rock-strewn terrain of an ancient martian flood channel.
![Моряк Билл и вездеход](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/01/05/0001219185/mars5a_pathfinder_big.preview.jpg)
8.07.1997
Deployed on a pop-up mast to its full height, the Sagan Memorial Station's IMP camera now stands about 5 feet above the surface of Ares Vallis - on Mars. This is one of the first images from its new vantage point, showing the rover Sojourner near a rock named Barnacle Bill.
![Вездеход на Марсе](http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/01/05/0001219190/rover_movie.preview.gif)
7.07.1997
The six wheeled robot rover Mars Sojourner rolled onto the martian surface on July 5th (Sol 2) at about 10:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time. This image confirms that its descent down the lander's rear deployment ramp was successful.
![Вечер на Марсе](http://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...
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