The Space Shuttle launched major satellites that helped revolutionize our study of the Earth. Its on-board experiments provided discoveries and new climatologies never before available…It provided for multiple flight opportunities for highly calibrated instruments to help verify results from satellites..
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Every Flight is a Mission to Planet Earth
Posted by Athena on July 13, 2011
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NASA’s travel advisory for spacecraft: Watch out for Comet Hartley 2, it is experiencing a significant winter snowstorm.
Comet Snowstorm Engulfs Hartley 2. Credit: Science@NASA
Deep Impact photographed the unexpected tempest when it flew past the nucleus comet Hartley 2, on November 4th at a distance of only 700 km (435 miles). This contrast-enhanced image reveals a cloud of icy particles surrounding the comet’s active nucleus.
Posted by Athena on November 20, 2010
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The spectacular colours of Star Birth
This is Sharpless 2-106 (Sh2-106), the hourglass-shaped (bipolar) nebula, a stellar nursery made up of glowing gas and light-scattering dust. The material shrouds a natal high-mass star thought to be mostly responsible for the hourglass shape of the nebula due to high-speed winds which eject material from the forming star deep within.
Posted by Athena on February 15, 2010
http://athenadr.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/the-spectacular-colours-of-star-birth/
Amazing images from STS-129
Amazing images from STS-129 mission at the International Space Station
Posted by Athena on November 25, 2009
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An amazing image: Possible cyclic bedding in Arabia Terra, Mars
Image: Possible Cyclic Bedding in Arabia Terra. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter blasted off from Cape Canaveral in 2005, to study the history of water on Mars. The HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is the most powerful one of its kind ever flown on a planetary mission
Posted by Athena on November 24, 2009
http://athenadr.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/an-amazing-image-possible-cyclic-bedding-in-arabia-terra-mars/
SOFIA: The world’s biggest, most advanced airborne observatory for the infrared spectrum.
Short for Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA will change the way we view the universe. The 17-ton and 9-foot wide telescope is situated into a Boeing 747 which is going to glide through the stratosphere at 45,000 feet, when the operations begin next year.
Posted by Athena on November 23, 2009
http://athenadr.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/sofia-the-worlds-biggest-most-advanced-airborne-observatory-for-the-infrared-spectrum/
A self-portrait: Walking – and working- in Space!
Astronaut Robert Satcher uses a digital still camera to expose take a self-portrait during the STS-129 mission’s first spacewalk. During the six-hour, 37-minute spacewalk, Satcher and astronaut Mike Foreman installed a spare S-band antenna structural assembly to the Z1 segment of the station’s truss, or backbone.
Posted by Athena on November 22, 2009
http://athenadr.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/walking-and-working-in-space/
Spirit – A first step towards freedom
Spirit has finally moved. Not much, but it is making progress. Trying to set free from a sand trap on Mars, Spirit successfully completed the first step of its planned two-step motion on Sol 2090 (Nov. 19).
Posted by Athena on November 20, 2009
http://athenadr.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/spirit-%e2%80%93-a-first-step-towards-freedom/
An Illuminated Crescent Earth as seen by Comet chaser
A spectacular image of the Earth acquired with the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on ESA’s Rosetta comet chaser. OSIRIS obtains high-resolution images of the comet’s nucleus and the asteroids that Rosetta passes on its voyage to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This image is taken from a distance of 633 000 km on 12 November 2009 at 12:28 GMT.
Posted by Athena on November 13, 2009
http://athenadr.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/an-illuminated-crescent-earth-as-seen-by-comet-chaser/
Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel
Nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel, M83 is located in the Southern Hemisphere, and is undergoing more rapid star formation than our own Milky Way galaxy, especially in its nucleus. The sharp “eye” of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has captured hundreds of young star clusters, ancient swarms of globular star clusters, and hundreds of thousands of individual stars, mostly blue supergiants and red supergiants
Posted by Athena on November 6, 2009
http://athenadr.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/hubble-image-showcases-star-birth-in-m83-the-southern-pinwheel/
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