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Странный след, сфотографированный в Австралии A Strange Streak Imaged in Australia
6.12.2004

Meteor experts don't think it's a meteor. Atmospheric scientists don't think it's lightning. The photographer insists that the streak and flash on the above image has not been created digitally. So what is it? Nobody is sure.



Гигантская выбоина на Эросе A Giant Gouge on Asteroid Eros
20.02.2000

Asteroid 433 Eros is posing several riddles. NASA's robot spacecraft NEAR began orbiting the 30-kilometer space rock last week, and new pictures are now being beamed back to Earth regularly. As usual in science, when you arrive at a place you've never been before, you see things you don't immediately understand.



Кратер Ньютона: признаки недавнего присутствия воды на Марсе Newton Crater: Evidence for Recent Water on Mars
26.06.2000

What could have formed these unusual channels? Inside a small crater that lies inside large Newton Crater on Mars, numerous narrow channels run from the top down to the crater floor. The above picture covers a region spanning about 3000 meters across.



На Марсе обнаружен необычный грунт, богатый двуокисью кремния Unusual Silica Rich Soil Discovered on Mars
17.12.2007

You're rolling across Mars when you unexpectedly uncover some unusually light soil. You stop. You turn. You return to inspect the soil and find out it is almost purely silica -- the main ingredient in quartz and glass. Such soil has never been found on Mars before. What created this soil?



Самое холодное место на Земле The Coldest Place on Earth
11.12.2013

How cold can it get on Earth? In the interior of the Antarctica, a record low temperature of -93.2 C (-135.8 F) has been recorded. This is about 25 C (45 F) colder than the coldest lows noted for any place humans live permanently.



Камень на Марсе, похожий на цветок A Flower Shaped Rock on Mars
8.03.2022

It is one of the more unusual rocks yet found on Mars. Smaller than a penny, the rock has several appendages that make it look, to some, like a flower. Although it would...



Молнии спрайт с высоким разрешением APOD: 2023 October 2 Б Sprite Lightning in High Definition
1.10.2023

Sometimes lightning occurs out near space. One such lightning type is red sprite lightning, which has only been photographed and studied on Earth over the past 25 years. The origins of all types of lightning remain topics for research, and scientists are still trying to figure out why red sprite lightning occurs at all.



Возвращение с Бенну Back from Bennu
28.09.2023

Back from asteroid 101955 Bennu, a 110-pound, 31-inch wide sample return capsule rests in a desert on planet Earth in this photo, taken at the Department of Defense Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City last Sunday, September 24.



Трехмерный северный полюс Марса 3-D Mars North Pole
15.12.1998

This dramatic premier three-dimensional visualization of Mars' north pole is based on elevation measurements made by an orbiting laser. During the Spring and Summer of 1998 the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) flashed laser pulses toward the Martian surface from the Global Surveyor spacecraft and recorded the time it took to detect the reflection.



Столкновение с кометой Темпель 1: вид в телескоп Хаббла Deep Impact on Comet Tempel 1 from Hubble
18.07.2005

It was a human-made event visible across the Solar System. At the direction of terrestrial scientists, a refrigerator-sized probe from the Deep Impact mission struck Comet Tempel 1 on July 4 at over 35,000 kilometers per hour.




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