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Newly released images showcase the incredible closeness with which NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now in its "Ring-Grazing" orbits phase, is observing Saturn's dazzling rings of icy debris.
The views are some of the closest-ever images of the outer parts of the main rings, giving scientists an eagerly awaited opportunity to observe features with names like "straw" and "propellers." Although Cassini saw these features earlier in the mission, the spacecraft’s current, special orbits are now providing opportunities to see them in greater detail. The new images resolve details as small as 0.3 miles (550 meters), which is on the scale of Earth's tallest buildings.
Cassini is now about halfway through its penultimate mission phase -- 20 orbits that dive past the outer edge of the main ring system. The ring-grazing orbits began last November, and will continue until late April, when Cassini begins its grand finale. During the 22 finale orbits, Cassini will repeatedly plunge through the gap between the rings and Saturn. The first finale plunge is scheduled for April 26.
For now, the veteran spacecraft is shooting past the outer edges of the rings every week, gathering some of its best images of the rings and moons. Already Cassini has sent back the closest-ever views of small moons Daphnis and Pandora.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, click here.
I feel like the entrance fee is rather to pay for getting underneath the Orbit rather than on the top of it
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Like Satellites circling around a planet...Stamens of a withering Japanese Anemone.
Verblühende Anemone
The Falcon 9 Crew Dragon spacecraft "Endurance" is being readied for the launch of Crew-3 now set for 3 November 2021 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
It is the first spaceflight for ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer, who will be the 600th human to fly to space.
On Station, Matthias will become a long-duration crew member, spending around six months living and working in orbit. During this time, he will support more than 35 European experiments and numerous international experiments on board.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
St. Eusebius Church, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
These fabulous lights are called "Macchina della Luce" and are, of course, Italian, by Catellani & Smith.
The artwork visible in the center is called: Electric Dub Station (Orbital Ignition) by Antonio Jose Guzman and Iva Jankovic (2018).
I overdubbed the original image to make it look more orbital using GIMP.
www.sonsbeek20-24.org/en/artist-list/antonio-jose-guzman-...
Poznan, Poland
Sometimes, not often, I feel a bit overwhelmed by all of the color here.....so monochrome it is!
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This is Orbit.
It is wonderful.
It may not look wonderful, but then first impressions can be misleading and it’s what’s inside that counts. Or something. Not that he has much inside.
Anyway, this is a crazy rollercoaster-esque structure built within the Olympic park and offering a view over the surrounding area, including a little bit into the stadium itself. It’s meant to be a legacy build, which means now that the Olympics are over this should remain as a viewing platform/work of art for the foreseeable future. It’ll still cost £15 to get up it, I’m sure.
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Class 378 unit number 213 is caught crossing the River Lea in some evening sunshine passing the Arcelor Mittal Orbit and West Hams Stadium in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. She was working the 1829 Clapham to Stratford which travels across the North London Line which is very much different from the days when I last crossed it from Richmond to Broad Street on an old Class 501.
Da Bearz Orbital Network. It features 3 different classes of satellites:
(1) Communication (top satellite)
(2) Spy (lower right, nicknamed "Eye of Belichick")
(3) Hunter-Killer (lower left, nicknamed "Danimal")
All satellites are equipped with 4 pairs of maneuvering thrusters and some type of weapon system (see the individual satellite photos for more details.
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Fort Dodge, Iowa Irish Bar.
Judging from the compact fluorescent bulbs, electricity must be expensive.
I took a lot of shots of the Orbit when we went to the Paralympics so I've had to resist the urge to upload them in bulk!
This representation of the Solar System is another glass globe etched by laser. Unfortunately the planets are represented by circles of dots.
I think it looks a bit better with clone stamp editing in of the photos of the planets, however they are not to scale, please forgive me.
125 Pictures in 2025, theme # 100 System
Tomorrow’s orbit today? This image shows how a large solar sail-equipped satellite could partly offset Earth’s and the Sun’s gravity with the slight but steady pressure of sunlight to hover above the Arctic or Antarctic, enabling continuous coverage of high-latitude regions for climate observation or regional communication services.
“Standard space missions employ conventional elliptical ‘Keplerian’ orbits,” comments Colin McInnes, Professor of Engineering Science at the UK’s University of Glasgow.
“However, our VisionSpace project has been investigating novel families of orbits and space systems across a broad range of sizes that could make use of additional factors such as solar radiation pressure, air drag or gravitational interactions.
“The space systems range from microscale applications such as satellite swarms and dust clouds, to mesoscale large deployable space webs and solar sails, all the way up to macroscale solutions such as asteroid capture
VisionSpace was a five-year project ending in 2014 to research space system engineering across the extremes of size, funded by the European Research Council.
Prof. McInnes, who oversaw the project while at the University of Strathclyde, was recently invited to ESA’s ESTEC technical centre by the Agency’s Advanced Concepts Team to highlight the project’s findings.
The ACT is tasked with peering beyond the horizon of current space projects. Further information on ESA's activities concerning Earth's polar regions can be found on the ESA Space for Earth website.
Credits: ESA/Hubble/Jeannette Heiligers
Artist's rendering of NASA's Galileo spacecraft flying past Jupiter's moon Io. Galileo made multiple close approaches to the volcanically active moon during its time at Jupiter, including a first pass in December 1995, during its arrival in the Jupiter system.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: PIA18176
Date: January 2, 1996
designed by Tomás Saraceno at K21 Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. Dusseldorf, Germany.
Today the ISS completed its 100,000th orbit of our beautiful planet Earth. An amazing feat of science, engineering and international cooperation - congratulations Space Station!
More info: www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/05/Voyage_around_Earth
Credits: ESA/NASA
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Upon entering orbit, the shuttle appears to be suspended above the earth when in actuality, it is traveling at speeds around 17,500 mph.
En janvier 1997, Bertrand Piccard tente son premier tour du monde en ballon sans escale, à bord du Breitling Orbiter 1, tentative qui se solde par un échec après 6 heures de vol seulement, à la suite de fuites de kérosène dans la cabine.
Bertrand refait une tentative avec le Breitling Orbiter 3. Succès total : il est le premier à avoir fait un tour du monde sans escale en mars 1999, battant un record de durée de vol avec 477 heures et 47 minutes pour 45 755 km.
In January, 1997, Bertrand Piccard tries his first world tour in balloon without stopover, aboard Breitling Orbiter 1, attempt which fails after 6 hours of flight only, following flights leaks of fuel in the cabin.
Bertrand redoes an attempt with Breitling Orbiter 3. Total success: he is the first one to have made a world tour without stopover on March 21st, 1999, beating a time record of flight with 477 hours and 47 minutes for 45 755 km.
'CEG Orbit' has become a regular visitor to the Manchester Ship Canal this autumn, bringing cargoes of cement from Drogheda in Ireland.
On her 7th trip to Weaste in 2021, she is seen here at Barton on a sunny Sunday morning.