Astronomy Picture of the Day . Footprints on Another World . ... Credit Copyright: Apollo 11 , NASA Explanation: On July 20th, 1969 , humans first set foot on the Moon . Taken from a window of their Apollo 11 lunar module, the Eagle, this picture shows the footprints in the powdery lunar soil made by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin . ... July . ... Publications with keywords: Moon - Apollo 11 . Publications with words: Moon - Apollo 11 . ... Apollo 16: Diving on the Moon . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 January 28 . An Apollo 17 Panorama . Credit: Apollo 17 Crew, NASA . Explanation: What would it be like to stand on the surface of another world, to look all around you, and to try to figure out how this world got there? ... In this case, the world was Earth 's own Moon . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Apollo 17?s CSM, named America, seen over the Moon?s cratered surface. ... Image credit: NASA) . ... Harrison Schmitt with our homeworld (Image credit: Eugene Cernan/NASA) . ... In this still from a video recording Schmitt is holding a rake used to collect small pebbles (Image credit: NASA) . ... The Earth was lower in the lunar sky over the Apollo 17 landing site than on other missions so it appears in more images. (image credit: NASA) . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... Thomas K. Mattingly II (Rear Admiral, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He served as a member of the astronaut support crews for the Apollo 8 and 11 missions and was the astronaut representative in development and testing of the Apollo spacesuit and backpack (EMU). ... SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Apollo 16 (April 16-27, 1972) was the fifth manned lunar landing mission. ...

Lidar experiment cover story . ... Delta-2 launching vehicle delivered on a flight trajectory to the Mars the Polar Lander spacecraft. ... The main scientific goals are: Martian surface research, especially its light fractures and atmosphere research. ... The atmospheric sounding instrument aboard Mars Polar Lander is the LIDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, developed by team of Space Research Institute, RAS. The LIDAR system is a laser sounder located on the Mars Polar Lander deck. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... UA SCIENTIST & TEAM DISCOVER SURFACE FEATURES COVER TITAN (Science contacts: Peter H. Smith, (602) 621-2725; Mark Lemmon, (602) 621-1485; UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) . Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ... Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. ...

Mariner 10 . ... Mariner 10 was the seventh successful launch in the Mariner spacecraft series, and the first to use the gravitational pull of one planet ( Venus ) to reach another ( Mercury ). ... It measured 1.39 meters (4.56 feet) diagonally and 0.457 meters (1.5 feet) in depth. ... Views of Mariner 10 . ... Venus/Mercury Mission . ... Launched in November 1973, this mission provided new information about Mercury and Venus in the Mariner program's first dual-planet mission. ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... solar system . ... space flight . ... The Hubble Space Telescope discovers another moon around Pluto . ... Two labeled images of the Pluto system taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 ultraviolet visible instrument with newly discovered fourth moon P4 circled. ... Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. ... The new moon is the smallest discovered around Pluto....

... Engineering experiments aimed at testing and developing engineering solutions for a future interplanetary vehicle were a prominent activity during missions of Salyut and Mir space stations. ... In October 1998, cosmonauts placed on the outside surface of Mir space station some samples of film-type solar array, which constitutes a key element of the Martian vehicle, in order to study how they are affected by actual space environments. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Armagh Observatory, 10th November 2015: The results of a new study of the planet Mercury have been announced this week at the Annual Meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society at National Harbor, Maryland, USA, by astronomers Apostolos Christou (Armagh Observatory), Rosemary Killen (NASA s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA) and Matthew Burger (Morgan State University in Baltimore, USA). ...

... Starting with the first human steps in 1969, six of 11 Apollo missions landed astronauts on the Moon to do a variety of science experiments, which continue today. ... In this episode of Astronomy Behind the Headlines, Dr. Jack Burns, of the University of Colorado's Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research (LUNAR), joins us to talk about lunar exploration and some exciting work his team is planning to do from the surface of the Moon. ... http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/ . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Apollo Program Nation: USA. ... For complete details see Apollo Lunar Surface Journal.. ... Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, Deputy Administrator of NASA, speaking in Denver before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said: "The sheer magnitude of the manned lunar exploration program, amounting as it will to $3 billion or more [in fiscal year 1963], represents a significant application of the Nation's resources. ... 7/11/62 Selection of LOR as Mission Mode - Launch Vehicle: Saturn V . ...

... The school and the conference will be held at the Poncelet Laboratory for all days except from December 7 . ... The nearest metro station is СМОЛЕНСКАЯ (Smolenskaya), line 3 , 5 minutes by walk. ... How to reach Poncelet Laboratory from these metro stations. ... It is located within 15 minutes by feet from АКАДЕМИЧЕСКАЯ (Akademicheskaya) metro station, line 6 . ... There are a lot of exchange offices where you can exchange euro or US dollars to rubles. ...

... The last remote images seen from the plant were the large assembly building filling with molten rock, melting everything inside, and the main magma injection reactor superheating as it surpassed 270% maximum safe output. ... Features in this realistic power plant: Main Courtyard Storage Building Conduit Node Control 1 Energy Conduit Tunnels Assembly Building -Gantry and Gantry Control Rooms Conduit Node Control 2 Energy Control Manifold Room Emergency Overflow Gates (watch your step!) ...

Intricately structured filaments of gas and dust compose the reflection nebula seen around the Pleiades star cluster. These multiwavelength images were presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Antonio, TX on January 16, 1996. Click here for the press release text . ... The Schmidt data were processed further after this photo release; better versions are now available.] Get image: 512x512 (56k) / 1024x1024 (204k) . Pleiades Far-Infrared Heated Dust Emission . ...

Program "Ма riner ":research of Venus . ... It was established also, that the period of rotation of Venus around axis - long, about 243 earth day is, more, than cycle time around of the Sun (224,7 day), therefore on Venus "day" is longer than year and the calendar is completely unusual. ... This vehicle has only once passed about Venus. ... They also have confirmed, that the period of rotation of the upper layer of clouds only 4 day, so a structure of a Venus atmosphere not similar on earth. ...

... The rings of Saturn are one of the most spectacular sights in the sky. Less striking rings have also been found around all the other giant planets in our Solar System ? ... But despite many careful searches, no rings had been found around smaller objects in the Solar System ? ... Observations of an asteroid called 10199 Chariklo have shown that this object is surrounded by two fine rings. ... This is the smallest object ever found to have rings surrounding it. ...

Space vehicle "Apollo-11". ... The main aim is to carry the cosmonauts on the Moon, there are also pilotless flights and the spacemen's flights around the Earth, the "Apollo" modification were used to carry the cosmonauts on the orbit station 'Skylab' and joined with the Soviet spaceship "Sojus-19" on the programme APAS . ... The first was N. Armstrong in "Apollo-11", E. Aldrin (1969) ( см. D. Irvin on the Moon ). The maximum time of the being in the Moon is 75 hours ("Apollo-17", 1972). ...