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Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Far UV Camera , Apollo 16 , NASA Explanation: Here's a switch: the above picture is of the Earth taken from a lunar observatory! This false color picture shows how the Earth glows in ultraviolet (UV) light. ... The part of the Earth facing the Sun reflects much UV light, but perhaps more interesting is the side facing away from the Sun. ... Publications with keywords: Moon - Earth - ultraviolet . Publications with words: Moon - Earth - ultraviolet . ...

... 2000 July 1 . Ultraviolet Earth from the Moon . ... Far UV Camera , Apollo 16 , NASA . Explanation: Here's a switch: the above picture is of the Earth taken from a lunar observatory! This false color picture shows how the Earth glows in ultraviolet (UV) light. UV light is so blue humans can't see it. ... The part of the Earth facing the Sun reflects much UV light, but perhaps more interesting is the side facing away from the Sun. ... Tomorrow's picture: July GRB . ... About APOD | ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2013 September 19 . Moon, Venus and Planet Earth . ... Explanation: In this engaging scene from planet Earth , the Moon shines through cloudy skies following sunset on the evening of September 8. ... Closest to the Moon is Earth's evening star, planet Venus , emerging from a lunar occultation . ... About APOD | ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . ... ESO Acronyms . ... When the Moon appears as a thin crescent in the twilight skies of Earth it is often possible to see that the rest of the disc is also faintly glowing. ... It is due to sunlight reflecting off the Earth and illuminating the lunar surface. ... By observing earthshine astronomers can study the properties of light reflected from Earth as if it were an exoplanet and search for signs of life...

... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

... In a lunar eclipse, if the width of the shadow of the Earth is twice the width of the Moon, then the width of the Earth itself is (very nearly) three times that of the Moon--not twice, as one might perhaps think. ... This makes the shadow of the Earth not a cylinder, stretching to infinity without narrowing down, but a cone, with an angle of 0.5њ across its apex C ( drawing ). ... We add to the drawing points H and K so that HA = KD = x . ...

Phases of the Moon Phases of the Moon are not caused by the Earth's shadow. They are due to a change in our viewing perspective as the Moon orbits around us as it is lit by the Sun. ... The Earth spins in the light, so that the entire Earth gets to be lit at some point each day. Even though the Moon is always half-lit like the Earth is, sometimes we on the Earth see only a tiny bit lit, other times completely lit, depending on where the Moon is in its orbit around the Earth. ... Look at Day 7. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Posted on February 16, 2012 | 2 Comments Once, in complete silence, a large boulder rolled down a slope on the central peak of the MoonтАЩs Schiller crater. ... Continue Reading.. ... Part of [ ] . ... Posted on August 31, 2011 | No Comments This portrait of the Earth and Moon together in space was taken on 26 August by NASAтАЩs Juno spacecraft which is currently en route for Jupiter. ...

Map projected image of Earth (AVHRR) 123k gif ; 1440k gif . Famous Apollo 11 image of Africa Europe 31k jpg . global composite of satellite images 508k gif . ... Galileo image of South America from 1st flyby 62k jpg . ... Earth by Meteosat 4 satellite (IR filter) 688k jpg . ... Ross ice sheet, Antarctica, taken by Galileo on its first pass of Earth 11k jpg . ... NOAA satellite's view of USA 322k gif . ... images of Earth from Clementine html . Earth images from weather satellites html . ...

... The FOC suffers from various types of background, the most important of which are thermal electrons, Cerenkov radiation from high energy particles, geocoronal emission lines, zodiacal light, and light scattered within HST from the bright Earth or Moon. ... From on-orbit measurements using the f /96 camera, the former background has been found to vary with solar zenith distance (ZD); see Sections 6.4, 6.5, and 7.0 of the FOC Instrument Handbook , version 7.0, for more details. ...

... Конференц?я "Р?внодення 2016". ... Киевский клуб любителей астрономии "Астрополис" > . ... Астрософт (Модератор: tlgleonid ) > . Moon in Google Earth . ... Бердянское общество любителей астрономии "ОРИОН" . ... Астрогоризонт - новости NASA на русском языке . ... NASA . ... предыдущая тема следующая тема . ... Видимо NASA и Google решили к юбилею полета человека на Луну сделать подарок пользователям Google Earth добавив в сервис спутник нашей планеты, со всевозможными фотографиями и 3D моделями . ...

... 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. ...

... On the morning of Thursday, 26 February, amid the Gal pagos Islands, the Sun will fade from view. Not the culmination of ancient prophecy, but none less mystical, Earth's small Moon will be executing a slow slide past the enormous Sun. ... And anyone living in southern North America, Central America, northern South America, or on islands and cruise ships in the Caribbean Sea will, weather permitting, have the opportunity to experience the wonder of a solar eclipse. ...

... Arecibo Observatory took radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon as the space rock sailed safely past earth. ... Both the asteroid and its moon passed 6 million kilometers (3.8 million miles) from earth. ... Radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 (bottom) and its satellite (top) on June 6. ... Radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 (center) and its satellite (bottom left) on June 7. ... Radar image from June 7 showing the satellite moving past the primary. ...

... Observing . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The Very Large Telescope rediscovers life on Earth by looking at the Moon . ... By observing the Moon using the European Southern Observatoryт??s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found evidence of life in the universe т?? on Earth. ... The team studied both the color and the degree of polarization of light from Earth after reflection from the Moon as if the light were coming from an exoplanet. ...

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