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A panorama of Seattle's Space Needle composed of three photographs.
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The tree-filled space between two buildings near my work. I like looking at them on foggy days because you can't see the parking lot behind them filled with cars. =)
Hubble Telescope as seen from the Space Shuttle Atlantis, approx 150 feet below the telescope. Simply an amazing shot.
The immense size of Saturn is emphasized in this Cassini spacecraft portrait that features the moon Mimas shown in front of the planet.Mimas (396 kilometers, or 246 miles across) appears as only a small dot above the rings near the center of the image. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from about one degree above the ringplane.The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 17, 2009 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 752 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.7 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 87 degrees. Image scale is 99 kilometers (62 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 ciclops.org.credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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2010-08-18
@ the National Space Centre, Leicester, England.
Think it's a Titan, or something big sounding like that next to a Thor which used to be the UK's main nucular (as George W Bush migh say) missile through the 50's and 60's.
A French street artist called Space Invaders made these tile murals as a permanent exhibit for this street art space, opening tonight.
I'm not sure exactly when it happened but this used to be my bed. Now, whenever I go to bed, His Majesty lets me know that I'm invading his space. In addition, he seems to have a recurring dream about chasing a raccoon thru the forest or something and he acts it out in his sleep, which means I get kicked and scratched a lot.
Taken for Mission 24: Invade
The Pathfinder Shuttle Stack at the U.S Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL, is the only full shuttle stack in the world.
Pathfinder served as a non-flight test vehicle and is currently undergoing restoration.
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development.
The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Operational missions launched numerous satellites, interplanetary probes, and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), conducted science experiments in orbit, participated in the Shuttle-Mir program with Russia, and participated in construction and servicing of the International Space Station (ISS).
The Cassini spacecraft captured this dramatic view of the unilluminated
side of Saturn's rings seen at a high phase angle.
Phase angle refers to the angle formed by the Sun, the object being viewed
(the rings) and the spacecraft. At an angle of zero degrees the Sun is
directly behind Cassini; at 180 degrees the Sun is directly in front of
the spacecraft.
Many otherwise faint ring features brighten substantially when viewed at
high phase. In this image, normally faint regions within the D and inner C
rings can be seen extending from lower right toward center.
The many small specks in the image were created by cosmic rays striking
the camera's detector.
This view looks toward the rings from about 2 degrees above the ringplane.
The planet's shadow darkens the scene at lower right.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
wide-angle camera on Feb. 20, 2008. The view was obtained at a distance of
approximately 211,000 kilometers (131,000 miles) from Saturn and at a
phase angle of 166 degrees. Image scale on the sky at the distance of
Saturn is 9 kilometers (6 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 ciclops.org.
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Washington, D.C.
airandspace.si.edu/udvar-hazy-center
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After much anticipation, Cassini has finally spotted the elusive spokes in
Saturn's rings.
Spokes are the ghostly radial markings discovered in the rings by NASA's
Voyager spacecraft 25 years ago. Since that time, spokes had been seen in
images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope but had not, until now, been
seen by Cassini.
These three images, taken over a span of 27 minutes, show a few faint,
narrow spokes in the outer B ring. The spokes are about 3,500 kilometers
(2,200 miles) long and about 100 kilometers-wide (60 miles). The motion
of the spokes here is from left to right. They are seen just prior to
disappearing into the planet's shadow on the rings.
At the bottom left corner of the left and center images, the bright inner
edge of the A ring is visible. Continuing radially inward (or toward
Saturn) are several bands that lie within the Cassini Division, bounded
by the bright outer edge of the B ring. The rounded shadow of Saturn cuts
across the rings in the image at right.
Cassini's first sighting of spokes occurs on the unilluminated side of
the rings, in the same region in which they were seen during the Voyager
flybys. Although the most familiar Voyager images of spokes showed them on
the sunlit side of the rings, spokes also were seen on the unilluminated
side.
In Voyager images, when spokes were seen at low phase angles, they
appeared dark; when seen at high phase angles, they appeared bright. The
spokes seen here are viewed by Cassini at a very high phase angle, which
is about 145 degrees at the center of each image.
Imaging team members will be studying the new spoke images and will
maintain their vigil for additional spoke sightings.
These images were taken using the clear filters on Cassini's wide-angle
camera on Sept. 5, 2005, at a mean distance of 318,000 kilometers (198,000
miles) from Saturn. The radial scale on the rings (the image scale at the
center of each image) is about 17 kilometers (11 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 team is based at the Space Science
Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
For additional images visit the Cassini imaging team homepage ciclops.org.
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Final preflight checks get underway for a Progeny Mk6 Block I rocket looking to lift off at the next sunrise
Lil kitty in space. Nebulous. Ethereal. Hella Cute.
A house being torn down to make way for condos. After it's built, there will be one whole block that will no longer be able to see the Space Needle.
The three stars of Orion's belt (Alnitak, Alnilam & Mintaka) form part of an ancient open cluster which contain some 80+ stars.
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