... Unusual Layers on Saturns Moon Phoebe . ... Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: What caused the unusual light and dark layers on Saturn 's moon Phoebe ? The layers were discovered just Friday during the Cassini spacecraft flyby of the small moon. ... Publications with keywords: Phoebe - Saturn - cassini spacecraft . Publications with words: Phoebe - Saturn - cassini spacecraft . ... Crescent Saturn . ... APOD: 2007 August 1- Unusual Cratering on Saturns Dione . ...

... 2004 June 14 . Unusual Layers on Saturn's Moon Phoebe . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA . Explanation: What caused the unusual light and dark layers on Saturn 's moon Phoebe ? The layers were discovered just Friday during the Cassini spacecraft flyby of the small moon. ... Cassini scientists speculate that such layering might result from an impact where a dark surface layer becomes intertwined with a lighter subsurface ice layer. ... About APOD | ...

We report on recent observations of molecular clouds in the tidal Magellanic Bridge; specifically, the Ы?kpc-long, tidally extended "tail" of the Small Magellanic Cloud. In particular, we identify an unusually high 12CO(3-2)/12CO(1-0) ratio of 2-3 to 1, toward one of the clouds, suggesting a warm and dense molecular material associated with imminent or current formation of stars. ...

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... Spacecraft . 29a. Satellite looking up . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . Space Index . ... Many "down-looking" satellites also carry out local observations, among them Polar, Viking, Freja and satellites of the GOES and DMSP series. ... Other explorers of the distant magnetosphere have included the three ISEE spacecraft (International Sun-Earth Explorers), Polar in an elliptical polar orbit with cameras observing the polar aurora, and Image observing energetic neutral atoms. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... Taken from the NASA/JPL information summary "Our Solar System at a Glance". The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) automated spacecraft for solar system exploration come in many shapes and sizes. ... Electrical power is required to operate the spacecraft instruments and systems. ... Between 1959 and 1971, NASA spacecraft were dispatched to study the Moon and the solar environment; they also scanned the inner planets other than Earth -- Mercury , Venus and Mars . ...

... Perhaps the most interesting satellites in this group are the ones sent into distant orbits, some of them extending well past the Moon--e.g. the WIND spacecraft pictured here. Among them is a long series of IMP s (Interplanetary Monitoring Platforms) which sampled the Earth's distant magnetic environment, the magnetosphere, and the surrounding interplanetary region; IMP-8 is still returning good data, more than 20 years after its launch. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... ESOтАЩs New Technology Telescope (NTT) has been used to find the