These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, show a patch of water ice sitting on the floor of an unnamed crater near the Martian north pole.
The HRSC obtained these images during orbit 1343 with a ground resolution of approximate...
Searching for Planets in Clouds of Dust A UA astronomy research team was awarded a $600,000 grant for technology development under NASA's Explorer mission program. The Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer (EXCEDE) mission would send a space telescope high above Earth's s...
In 1997, Comet Hale-Bopp's intrinsic brightness exceeded any comet since 1811. Since it peaked on the other side of the Earth's orbit, however, the comet appeared only brighter than any comet in two decades. Visible are the two tails shed by Comet Hale-Bopp.
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Title: Evidence of nearby supernovae affecting life on Earth Authors: Henrik Svensmark (National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark) Observations of open star clusters in the solar neighbourhood are used to calculate local supernova (SN) rates for the past 510...
Orbital elements:
2012 TB53 Earth MOID = 0.1640 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 89.86270 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.70770423 Peri. 263.26882 -0.13509886 +0.99082160
a 1.2471007 Node 358.93414 -0.78411396 -0.10973003
e 0.1560149 Incl. 14.21374 -0.60573393 -0.07894228
P 1.39 H 23....
Orbital elements:
2012 TA53
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 0.52206 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.16162557 Peri. 347.03293 +0.98665356 -0.14989491
a 3.3378182 Node 21.89666 +0.16043567 +0.82808784
e 0.5751307 Incl. 9.82079 +0.02784132 +0.54018705
P 6.10 H 21.2 G 0.15 U 8 MPEC 2012 - T38
Recreating White Dwarf Atmospheres in the Lab Physicists at Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico are getting into the white dwarf game, collaborating with their astronomer colleagues to recreate the atmospheres of white dwarf stars in the lab. Their instrument? A powerful x-ray-generatin...
On October 11, 1958, Pioneer 1 became the first spacecraft launched by NASA, the newly formed space agency of the United States. Due to a launch vehicle malfunction, the spacecraft attained only a ballistic trajectory and never reached the Moon. Read more
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan (born October 3, 1951 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American geologist and a former NASA astronaut. A crew member on three Space Shuttle missions, she is the first American woman to walk in space on October 11, 1984. Read more [spoiler][video=http://www.youtube.com/wat...
STS-92 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery. STS-92 marked the 100th mission of the Space Shuttle. It was launched from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, 11 October 2000. Read more
Apollo 7 was the first manned mission in the Apollo program to be launched. It was an eleven-day Earth-orbital mission, the first manned launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, and the first three-man American space mission. Read more
The Mary Rose was a carrack-type warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII. After serving for 33 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany and after being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her last action on 19 July 1545. While leading the attack on the galleys of a Fr...
Asteroid (85) Io is at Opposition at 02:40 GMT, 30th April, 2011. Magnitude=11.2 Distance to Sun=2.701 AU Distance to Earth=1.697 AU Asteroid (85) Io is a large, dark main-belt asteroid of the C spectral class. It is probably a primitive body composed of carbonates. Like 70 Panopaea it orbits wit...
Orbital elements:
2012 TG53 Earth MOID = 0.0051 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 5.35624 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.30667682 Peri. 323.61451 +0.94402123 +0.32959657
a 2.1777871 Node 17.15694 -0.29056597 +0.85056260
e 0.5627787 Incl. 2.67842 -0.15619007 +0.40976745
P 3.21 H 23.2 G 0...
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