Astronomy Picture of the Day . All of Mars . ... Credit: National Geographic Society , MOLA Science Team , MGS , JPL , NASA Explanation: From pole to pole , from east to west, this is all of Mars . ... The image strips Mars of its clouds and dust , and renders the whole surface visible simultaneously in its true daytime color. ... Publications with keywords: map - surface - Mars . ... Victoria Crater on Mars . ... Inside Victoria Crater on Mars . A Path Into Victoria Crater on Mars . ...

... Solar System . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Vision of Vesta: a dark feature with a diameter of approximately 100 kim near the asteroid's equator can be seen in this image from Dawn (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) . Between Mars and Jupiter lies the Asteroid Belt. ... The Dawn space probe is expected to go into orbit around Vesta on 16 July, from there it will return some detailed images and other data, staying at the asteroid for about a year before setting off to visit Ceres. ...

... 2000 March 8 . Nearer To Asteroid Eros . Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA . ... With increased resolution, NEAR's camera then documented Eros' unusual shape , craters large and small, boulders , and mysterious grooves similar to asteroid Gaspra and Martian moon Phobos . If you could stand on Eros , you would still be too small to be visible on this recent image , which shows features as small as 20 meters across. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Orbiter . Payload of the Orbiter . ... the instruments . ... ORBITER . Index . Instrument . Mass (kg) . ARGUS . ... visible and IR mapping spectrometer . ... planetary IR Fourier spectrometer . ... mapping visible and thermal radiometer . ... mapping high-resolut. spectrophotometer . ... multichannel optical s spectrometer . ... quadrupole mass-spectrometer . ... fast omnidir. energy-mass ion analyzer . ... wave complex . ... platform for ARGUS instruments . ... MASS-MEM . ...

... Viking Images . ... Each spacecraft consisted of an orbiter and a lander. ... The first month of orbit was devoted to imaging the surface to find appropriate landing sites for the Viking Landers. On July 20, 1976 Viking Lander 1 separated from the Orbiter and touched down at Chryse Planitia. ... The Viking Landers transmitted images of the surface, took surface samples and analyzed them for composition and signs of life, studied atmospheric composition and meteorology, and deployed seismometers. ...

... Astronomy news . ... Earth Seen By NASA's Moon Mapper On India's Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft . A new image of Earth taken from 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the lunar surface was taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. ... NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., designed and built the Moon Mineralogy Mapper and is home to its project manager, Mary White. ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... On the martian surface, would the moons Deimos and Phobos be visible to the unaided eye? ... Mars moons are easily visible at night from the surface of the Red Planet. ... From the Curiosity rover s point of view, on some evenings Phobos rises out of the slowly fading blue-gray twilight in crescent phase, transits as a quarter moon, and sets as a gibbous moon. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

The Hubble orbiting telescope. The Earth's atmosphere, while transparent to visible light, absorbs most "electromagnetic radiations" which belong to the same family as light: parts of the infra-red (IR) and all of the ultra-violet (UV), X-rays and gamma rays. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

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. ...

ARECIBO, P.R. -- The smog-shrouded atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has been parted by Earth-based radar to reveal the first evidence of liquid hydrocarbon lakes on its surface. The observations are reported by a Cornell University-led astronomy team working with the world's largest radio/radar telescope at the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Arecibo Observatory. ... The piggybacking Huygens probe is scheduled to plunge into the hazy Titan atmosphere and land on the moon's surface. ...

... 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. ...

Microsymposium 38, MS083, 2003 (A4 format) MERCURY: LOCAL VARIATIONS OF THE PHOTOMETRIC RELIEF. ... Because of trajectory and pointing angle constraints the planet could be observed from Mariner 10 only over a small range of phase angles between about 75o and 110o. Therefore the photometric investigations are restricted to measuring the distribution of brightness on the Mercurian disk. ... Raw versions of real-time processing pictures FDS 0000984 and FDS 0000986 were used (images 196 and 202). ...

... Satellite data ] . ... The SCANOR system provides receiving and processing of the Earth-surface pictures made in visible and infra-red bands and transferred by satellites of the NOAA polar orbiter series (in the HRPT mode). ... The SCANOR system includes the desktop receiving device connected to an IBM AT 386 type computer, and the parabolic antenna with the guiding mechanism. The SCANOR system possesses the state-of-art software providing registration and processing of the received data. ...

... Rough topography, a large mountain, impact craters, grooves, and steep scarps characterize this region. ... Dawn Science Team Presents Early Science Results . ... Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission are sharing with other scientists and the public their early information about the southern hemisphere of the giant asteroid Vesta. ... If you enjoyed this excerpt from a feature article and would like to receive our quarterly Mercury magazine, we invite you to join the ASP and receive 4 issues a year. ...

... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...

Журнал ПОВЕРХНОСТЬ публикует оригинальные статьи и обзоры по наиболее актуальным проблемам изучения поверхностных явлений. ... Редакция журнала 'Поверхность. ... Англоязычная версия журнала Journal of Surface Investigation . X-Ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques выходит 6 раз в год . The Journal of Surface Investigation. X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques ( Poverkhnost '. ... X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques is abstracted and/or indexed in (Impact Factor 0.359): . ...

We report for the first time rotationally resolved spectroscopic observations, as well as new photometric and polarimetric measurements, of the large S--type asteroid (6) Hebe, always at near--equatorial aspects. ... We have also confirmed previous results of the existence of small polarization changes, but they are not correlated with the (complex and asymmetric) photometric lightcurve of the asteroid. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... A small spacecraft Aist-2D , developed by the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and the experts of the Rocket and Space Centre Progress will see from outer space what is hidden under the thick top of trees and below the Earth's surface. The radar equipment was installed on Aist-2D , which was delivered to the space launcher complex Vostochniy on January 22. ... Tomography of the Earth's ionosphere will also be carried out. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Images de la com†иte Tempel 1 : le crat†иre de Deep Impact invisible . ... Les images rapproch†йes de la com†иte Tempel 1 prises par la sonde Stardust permettent de reconna†оtre la r†йgion o†µ s'est †йcras†й l'impacteur de Deep Impact en 2005. ... Etat du ciel . ...

Next: Sample instrument files Up: Instrument configuration and Previous: Other detectors: DET= . ... Possible values are 'CLEAN' , if the mirrors have been re-coated or cleaned within two weeks of the observing run, and/or a flashlight beam is barely visible on optical surfaces; 'AVERAGE' , if a flashlight beam is plainly visible on the optical surface, but the dirt is not very bad; and 'DIRTY' , if shining a flashlight beam on the primary produces a sensation of revulsion in a trained observer. ...