... Credit: Gordan Ugarkovic Emily Lakdawalla Explanation: What would the rings of Saturn look like if you passed right through the ring plane? To find out, NASA aimed cameras from the Cassini spacecraft right at Saturn's rings as the robotic explorer passed from the sunlit side of the rings to the shadowed side . ... The extreme thinness of Saturn's rings can be appreciated from frames taken near the crossing time. ... Publications with keywords: Saturn . ... Saturn s Ancient Rings . ...

... So it is that Saturn and Titan will be the destination of the Cassini mission, a project under joint development by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. ... This artist's rendering shows the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descending into the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan after being released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ... This artist's rendering shows the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descending into the atmosphere of Titan with Saturn in the background...

... 2007 January 31 . Movie: Cassini Crosses Saturn's Ring Plane . Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI ; Animation: Gordan Ugarkovic Emily Lakdawalla . ... To find out, NASA aimed cameras from the Cassini spacecraft right at Saturn's rings as the robotic explorer passed from the sunlit side of the rings to the shadowed side . ... The extreme thinness of Saturn's rings can be appreciated from frames taken near the crossing time. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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List of publications . ... Moscow University Press. 160 pp. ... Shevchenko V.V. A Lunar Base. Moscow. ... Shevchenko V.V., Chikmachev V.I. Lunar Base - a Project of XXI Century. ... Shevchenko V.V., Pugacheva S.G., Dehktereva K.I. Brightness Characteristics of the Infrared and Visible Radiation of the Lunar Surface. ... Problems of Complex Research of the Moon. ... Solar System Research. ... Baydal G.M., Sizentzev G.A., Sotnikov B.I., Shevchenko V.V. Lunar Base Infrastructure and Lunar Resources. ...

Umbriel . Uranus II . Umbriel [UM-bree-ul] is the darkest satellite of Uranus. It is about the same size as Ariel and has about the same density. The surface appears to be old with large craters and does not change much from one location to another. Near the top is a puzzling bright ring called the fluorescent cheerio . ... Dark regions are represented as red and bright regions are represented as blue. The two white regions are bright ejecta from two fresh craters. ...

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T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

These high-spatial-resolution polar orthographic projections of the north (left) and south (right) polar regions of Saturn show rings of clouds and hazes circling the poles, as observed in the near-infrared. The left image is the first detailed image of SaturnтАЩs entire north polar region ever obtained. The south pole image (right), acquired just a few hours after the north polar image, also shows a polar cyclone, complete with a central eye clear of clouds. ...

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... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Choosing the Right Microscope . ... On most microscopes the specimen glass remains fixed while the microscope's objective lens and eyepiece move as a unit up or down to focus the image. ... Eyepieces of varying powers work with objective lenses of varying powers to yield a range of microscope magnifications. ... Magnification: The effective magnification of a microscope is determined by multiplying the eyepiece power by the objective lens power . ... about meade |...

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... Courtesy of NASA/ESA Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Right ascension Declination Redshift Distance Type Serpens Caput 15h 17m 14.4s[] +21° 35 08[] 12,740±50 km/s[][1] 600±30 Mly (183±8 Mpc)[1] SA0(r) [citation needed ] [a] Apparent dimensions (V) 0.28 в 0.28[] Apparent magnitude (V) 16.0[] Notable features Ring galaxy Other designations PGC 54559,[] PRC D-51[] See also: Galaxy, List of galaxies Hoag's Object is a non-typical galaxy of the type known as a ring galaxy. ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey plug-plate cartridge plugs into a socket on the back of the 2.5-m telescope. In that position, the images of galaxies and other targets fall upon the ends of optical fibers that are plugged into holes drilled in an aluminum plug-plate. ... A plug-plate is visible. ... The common corrector (blue) is located near the front surface of the primary mirror. ... In the left image, Ed Mannery (right) explains the purpose of the common corrector retaining ring to Don York. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Moon . Planets . ... Space Flight . ... A gorgeous image of the real ?Lord of the Rings? ... Saturn is a big planet, about nine times as wide as the Earth, so the rings are huge. Let me put them into scale, if Saturn and the rings were moved so that one edge of the rings touched the Earth, then the distance across the rings to the opposite edge would extend more than halfway to the Moon. ... Saturn has a lot of moons. ...

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NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... Visitor Center . ... Planetary Radar . ... In fall of 1999 and 2000, the rings of Saturn were imaged using the Arecibo S-band radar system by P. Nicholson, D. Campbell, R. French, G. Black and J.-L. Margot. ... A delay-Doppler image of Saturn's rings at a frequency of 2380 MHz (12.6 cm) is compared to a model image constructed by reprojecting a pair of HST images taken at 439 nm. ...