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Two weeks after orbit insertion, Cassini glanced back at Saturn, taking
in the entire planet and its expansive rings. Currently it is summer in
Saturn's southern hemisphere. Notable here is the bright spot located
near the planet's southern hemisphere, where the line from the day and
night side of the planet meets. The angle of illumination hints at
Saturn's tilt relative to the Sun.
The image was taken in visible red light with the Cassini spacecraft wide
angle camera on July 13, 2004, from a distance of about 5 million
kilometers (3.1 million miles) from Saturn. The Sun-Saturn-spacecraft,
or phase angle of this image is 95 degrees. The image scale is 299
kilometers (186 miles) per pixel. Contrast has been enhanced slightly
to aid visibility.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the
European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space
Science, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras,
were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based
at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit,
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/ and the Cassini imaging team home page,
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most accomplished orbiter, the champion of the shuttle fleet. Discovery flew on 39 Earth-orbital missions, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled almost 240 million kilometers (150 million miles)--more than the other orbiters. It shuttled 184 men and women into space and back, many of whom flew more than once, for a record-setting total crew count of 251.
Because Discovery flew every kind of mission the Space Shuttle was meant to fly, it embodies well the 30-year history of U.S. human spaceflight from 1981 to 2011. Named for renowned sailing ships of exploration, Discovery is preserved as intact as possible as it last flew in 2011 on the 133rd Space Shuttle mission.
NASA transferred Discovery to the Smithsonian in April 2012 after a delivery flight over the nation's capital.
coin toss
Spaced is a British television sitcom written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright. It is noted for its rapid-fire editing, frequent pop culture references and jokes, eclectic music, and displays of surrealism and non-sequitur humour. Two series of seven episodes each were broadcast in 1999 and 2001 on Channel 4, and were re-aired early in 2011 on both More4 and Dave.
noted still stored in this condition, 2010.
Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson AZ - USA, February 18 2007.
Just two cows in the field.
I like this picture very much, and I dont no why! They just where there while I was fishing.
Panel "Public and Private Soundscapes"
With Susanna Niedermayr (moderation), Frauke Behrendt (navigating hybrid spaces via sound), Udo Noll (radio aporee ::: maps), Dr. Michael Bull (sound moves: media technologies and urban spaces), Jens Gerrit Papenburg (Muzak. Zum Hören des Nicht-Hörens), Dr. Jürgen Altmann (acoustic weapons), Cláudia Martinho (counter tactics).
Memorial area for those that lost their lives during space missions. Especially poignant with it being the 25th Anniversary of the Challenger disaster just a few days before my visit. January 30, 2011 visit to the NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
3-exposure HDR created in Photomatix. Topaz B&W processing. Shot with a Nikon D600 and 19-35mm Vivitar lens.
The CATT (Configurable All-Terrain Truck) is a modular space vehicle designed for easily changing attachments and features for different capabilities. This is a longer 4-seat variant of my original from last year:
Space aplenty for a large beef herd in this mountain pasture and feed lot complex located beside US58W, a few miles east of independence, Virginia, Grayson county.
The cows seem to be Angus (the black ones) and Charlais white). The bull, the lowest right corner, is a large Angus, and likey pretty happy.
In Your Space theatre group, Occipital perfomance in Milan nightclub Letterkenny.
A lesser version on the series taken from which Martin and Abi 2 came.
Like a rope of brilliant neon, Saturn's rings outshine everything else in
this night side view, while the sunlit southern face of the rings reflects
a dim glow onto the atmosphere below. When viewed nearly edge-on, the
rings often appear very bright.
Epimetheus (116 kilometers, or 72 miles across) and Janus (181 kilometers,
or 113 miles across) are mere specks to the left of the ring edge,
Epimetheus being the outermost of the pair.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
wide-angle camera on Dec. 17, 2005, at a distance of approximately 2.7
million kilometers (1.7 million miles) from Saturn and at a
Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 75 degrees. The image scale is
164 kilometers (102 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Broad, dark spokes in the B ring are clearly seen in this image of
Saturn's rings.
The spokes are finally becoming quite common, as they were during the
Voyager flybys. These observations and others like it seem to support the
idea that the spokes become most prominent near equinox.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
wide-angle camera on Oct. 19, 2008 at a distance of approximately 1.011
million kilometers (628,000 miles) from Saturn and at a
Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 29 degrees. Image scale is 57
kilometers (35 miles) per pixel.
Also visible in this image is the moon Janus off beyond the rings.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at ciclops.org.
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute