... By admin June 5, 2015 Posted in: Robot Exploration . Launch of New Horizons atop the mighty Atlas V rocket. ... New Horizons was launched on 19 January 2006 (back when Pluto was still a planet) and, thanks to its relatively small mass of about 1 tonne being boosted by a mighty Atlas V launch vehicle, is still the fastest moving spacecraft to leave Earth to date. ... Instead New Horizons spent its first year in space taking a longer and indirect route arcing across the Solar System towards Jupiter. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 September 26 . Approaching Jupiter . Credit: Voyager 1 Spacecraft Team , JPL , NASA . Explanation: In 1979 the Voyager 1 spacecraft compiled this view as it approached the gas giant Jupiter . ... Since Jupiter takes about 10 hours to rotate, this short sequence actually covers several days. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 11.10.2000 . ... Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , Cassini Project , NASA Explanation: A new spacecraft has entered the outer Solar System: Cassini . Launched in 1997 and bound for Saturn in 2004, Cassini sent back the above image last week while approaching the giant planet Jupiter . ... October 2000 . ... 1997 1998 . ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter - spacecraft - cassini spacecraft . Publications with words: Jupiter - spacecraft - cassini spacecraft . ...

Jupiter's volcano-pocked moon Io has been found by NASA's Galileo spacecraft to have a giant iron core that takes up half its diameter, scientists report in today's issue of Science magazine. The spacecraft also has detected a large "hole" in Jupiter's magnetic field near Io, leading to speculation about whether Io possesses its own magnetic field. ... Galileo scientists also are trying to determine the cause of the hole they found in Jupiter's magnetic field when the spacecraft was closest to Io. ...

Galileo Crosses Boundary Into Jupiter's Environment . NASA's Galileo spacecraft radioed confirmation late this week that it has entered Jupiter's environment, crossing over the boundary from interplanetary space into the giant magnetic cocoon around Jupiter called the magnetosphere. ... On Thursday, December 7, Galileo's previously deployed atmospheric probe will plunge into Jupiter's cloud tops at 5:56 p.m. EST and descend into the giant planet on a parachute. ... Space History Galileo . ...

... Mars . ... News . ... NASA's newest Mars mission spacecraft enters orbit around the Red Planet . ... On September 21, 2014, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft entered orbit around Mars, completing an interplanetary journey of 10 months and 442 million miles (711 million kilometers). ... NASA s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered Mars orbit at 10:24 p.m. EDT Sunday, Septempter 21, where it now will prepare to study the Red Planet s upper atmosphere as never done before...

... Armagh Observatory astronomer Dr David Asher made highlights around the world with a new study he presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam, Germany, on Monday 14 September. ... Monday, 14 September 2009 23:15 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Harvest Moon . ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. Depending on the year, the Harvest Moon can fall anywhere from two weeks before to two weeks after the equinox, which arrives annually on or near September 23. ... It was once common knowledge that at the vicinity of Full Moon, the Moon rises around sunset, shines all night long and sets around sunrise. ... Re-published on Astronomy Net with permission of the author. ...

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NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Space Science . ... This is on-line version of Russian magazine Novosti Kosmonavtiki. This electronic version covers Russian and International space news. Those who wish to obtain the full, translated copy of an article will be charged an additional price, which varies with the size of the article. ... 2002 CosmoWorld.ru. ...

... Instructions for saving » Search for another transcript » NPR home page Profile: NASA to launch probe to Pluto January 17, 2006 from Morning Edition RENEE MONTAGNE, host: If all goes well, NASA will launch the first spacecraft to Pluto today. The New Horizons probe will be launched on the fastest interplanetary rocket ever. ... NPR's Richard Harris explains. ... Max Mutchler from the Space Telescope Science Institute says the astronomer who asked for the pictures was then too busy to look at them. ...

... Spacecraft . ... To space by cannon? Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ...

Browse the articles below for new ideas for your classroom. Mercury September/October 2005: Astronomy Education and Public Outreach: Steps and Missteps Toward an Emerging Profession (pdf) . Focus on Education articles as they appeared in Mercury: . ... March/April 2000: . ... Education Newswire articles as they appeared in Mercury, by issue. ... January/February 2000 . November/December 1999 . ... March/April 1999 . ... November/December 1998 . ... November/December 1997 . ...

September 17, S.P.Korolev RSC Energia - MCC-M, . ... Russian logistics spacecraft Progress M-65, launched from the Baikonur launch site, after seven days in free flight, docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft docking, originally scheduled for September 13, was postponed at the US request because operations in the primary ISS Mission Control Center in Houston were suspended due to hurricane Ike. ... The spacecraft delivered to the station about 2.5 tons of cargo. ...

... Tikhonov N.A., Lebedev V.S., Galazutdinova O.A., . ... Tikhonov N.A., Galazutdinova O.A., Lebedev V.S., . Stellar Content of the Metal-Poor Galaxy DDO 68, . Astronomy Letters, Vol. ... Stellar Content of the Interacting Galaxies IC 1727 and NGC 672, . ... Tikhonov N.A., Galazutdinova O.A., . ... Tikhonov N.A., Galazutdinova O.A., Tikhonov E.N., . ... Karataeva G.M., Tikhonov N.A., Galazutdinova O.A., Hagen-Thorn V.A., . ... Tikhonov N.A., Galazutdinova O.A., Drozdovsky I.O., . ...

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... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astro Imaging Workshop: Deep Sky Astro Imaging with a DSLR ? September 14, 2014 . ... Astro Answers . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama €аFor the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

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... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

... The 50 so-called exo-planets were discovered using a telescope that is found in South America. ... By looking at a star s wobble, astronomers can work out how many exo-planets are in orbit around it and how heavy they are. After studying all of the planets discovered with this telescope so far, astronomers have found that nearly half of stars that are similar to the Sun have at least one planet that is lighter than Saturn. ... But there are many, many more waiting to be found! ...