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... Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth . ... 30.08.1999 . ... Credit Copyright: CNES Explanation: Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. ... This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station , as Mir is being decommissioned after more than ten years of productive use. ... August . ... August 1999 . ... Publications with keywords: Earth - Mir - solar eclipse . Publications with words: Earth - Mir - solar eclipse . ...

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... 2007 June 10 . Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth . Credit: Mir 27 Crew ; Copyright: CNES . Explanation: Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse . The shadow of the Moon can be seen darkening part of Earth . ... This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station. ... Mir was deorbited in a controlled re-entry in 2001. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

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In ancient times the solar system was thought to be the whole Universe, so the study of planetary motions was cosmology. ... The planets other than the Moon and Sun generally move West to East through the stars, but occasionally stop and move in the opposite direction ( retrograde motion). In order to explain the retrograde motion of the planets, the geocentric model of the Solar System shown above puts the planets on small circles called epicycles . ...

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... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

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... 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. ...

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