... 2011 December 7 . Kepler 22b: An Almost EarthOrbiting an Almost Sun . Illustration Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech . ... planet, Kepler 22b , is over twice the radius of the Earth and orbits slightly closer in, but lies in the habitable zone where ...
... 2009 February 18 . Satellites Collide in Low EarthOrbit . Illustration Credit Copyright: Analytical Graphics, Inc. ... The collision occurred in low Earthorbit only 750 kilometers up, a height shared by many satellites but significantly higher ...
... As the Earthorbits once, Asteroid 3753 follows the yellow line - while also orbiting the Sun. ... Because the plane of 3753's orbit is tilted when compared to the Earth's orbit, the two will never collide . ...
... Explanation: Thousands of satellites orbit the Earth. ... Geostationary orbits are very high up -- over five times the radius of the Earth ... to place a satellite in low Earthorbit, around 500 kilometers, just high enough to ...
... Explanation: For an Earth-orbiting gamma-ray telescope, Earth is actually the ... dominate in this remarkable Earth and sky view from the orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray ... high-energy Universe , this week Fermi celebrated its 2,000th day in low Earthorbit ...
... Explanation: The Earth's orbit is not a perfect, sun-centered circle. ... the most distant point in Earth's orbit , the Sun is 150 million kilometers away and ... picture recorded near perihelion is from the earth-orbiting Yohkoh Solar Observatory ...
... The water shouldn't fall toward the floor because while orbiting the Earth, free falling objects will appear to float. ... Chris Hadfield did just this experiment last week in the microgravity of the Earthorbiting International Space Station ...
... orbit is not exactly coincident with the plane of Earth's orbit , Mercury usually appears to pass over or under the Sun ... The north pole of the Sun, the Earth , Mercury's orbit, although all different, all occur in directions slightly above the left ...
... orbiting the planet during their June 1998 mission, the crew of the Space Shuttle ... The Mir orbited planet Earth once every 90 minutes about 200 miles above the planet ...