... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. С космодрома Плесецк в начале октября будет запущен спутник CryoSAT, предназначенный для высокоточных измерений толщины и протяженности ледового покрова Антарктиды, Гренландии, Исландии, приполярных океанических зон и горных ледниковых районов. ... CryoSAT станет первым космическим аппаратом, запущенным в рамках программы Living Planet Европейского космического агентства, учрежденной в 1998 году. ... В октябре будет запушен спутник по программе Living Planet . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Celestial Mechanics in Internet --- Russian web­site V. S. Ural'skaya, N. V. Emelianov Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia Our main goal is to create a professional site in Internet, containing ephemeris service, database of observations, bibliographic references and information on natural satellites of planets. ... Up to now, the drawing up and the presentation in Internet of the information on natural satellites of planets in Russian are completed. ...

... Planet Earth From TIROS 1: First TV Image . ... Credit: TIROS Program , NASA Explanation: The Television InfraRed Observational Satellite (TIROS) 1 was the first weather satellite. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Публикации с ключевыми словами: Earth - spacecraft - planet - weather - satellite - image - tiros - метеорологический спутник . Публикации со словами: Earth - spacecraft - planet - weather - satellite - image - tiros - метеорологический спутник . ... Земля в сумерках . ...

. Dedicated to 40th anniversary of the . first artificial Earth satellite launch . Russian (Win) .

... The study of extra solar planets will be one of the most important areas of research in astronomy in this century. ... The first planets outside the solar system were found in 1992 around the millisecond pulsar PSR B1257+12 by Alex Wolszczan at the Arecibo Observatory . ... Three space missions based on this principle (MOST, COROT and Kepler ) have already been launched or approved, and have the last one at least has the potential to find Earth-sized planets. ... SIM ( NASA ) is one of such missions...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on March 26, 2013 | 4 Comments Many of us may recall captivating images of an enormous glass and steel superstructure making the headlines in the 90тАЩs, along with the tale of eight human test subjects who [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on May 1, 2012 | ... Posted on February 24, 2012 | ... 10 Comments Where does space begin? ... Posted on January 17, 2012 | ... Part of [ ] . ...

home education > activities . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Astronomy . ... This classic activity by Dennis Schatz asks students to invent a more-or-less plausible life form that could survive on one of the moons and planets in our solar system. [a] . ... Good as far as it goes, but fails to point out a crucial difference with the real world: on the planets, the impacting bodies explode making craters much bigger and rounder than the ones the students will obtain. [m,h] . ...

Discover the cosmos! ... 2009 September 23 . CoRoT Satellite Discovers Rocky Planet . ... Explanation: How similar is exoplanet CoRoT-7b to Earth? ... Also, the home star to CoRoT-7b , although 500 light years distant, is very similar to our Sun. Unfortunately, the similarities likely end there, as CoRoT-7b orbits its home star well inside the orbit of Mercury , making its year last only 20 hours, and making its peak temperature much hotter than humans might find comfortable. ... About APOD | ...