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The Cassini spacecraft monitors the myriad cloud forms that drift in
Saturn's atmosphere, helping scientists gain a better understanding of how
energy is transported around, and from within, the planet.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 23
degrees above the ringplane. Saturn's shadow hides the rings at top.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Feb.
25, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared
light centered at 752 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of
approximately 1.6 million kilometers (1 million miles) from Saturn. Image
scale is 94 kilometers (58 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
The long shadow of a small moon cuts across Saturn's A ring and thin F
ring in this image taken as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox.
The moon Epimetheus (113 kilometers, or 70 miles across) is not pictured
here, but the moon's shadow stretches past the Encke Gap of the A ring in
the upper right of the image. See PIA11651 for an earlier view which showed a
shorter shadow from Epimetheus.
The shadow does not appear uniformly dark on all parts of the ring because
this view is of the unlit side of the rings and the particle density of
the rings varies. See PIA11660 to learn more.
The novel illumination geometry that accompanies equinox lowers the sun's
angle to the ringplane, significantly darkens the rings, and causes
out-of-plane structures to look anomalously bright and cast shadows across
the rings. These scenes are possible only during the few months before and
after Saturn's equinox, which occurs only once in about 15 Earth years.
Before and after equinox, Cassini's cameras have spotted not only the
predictable shadows of some of Saturn's moons (see PIA11657), but
also the shadows of newly revealed vertical structures in the rings
themselves (see PIA11665).
This view looks toward the northern, unilluminated side of the rings from
about 28 degrees above the ringplane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on July 30, 2009. The view was obtained at a distance
of approximately 1.7 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is 10 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
Image Addition Date:
2009-10-01
This image uses the element of art: space. This is because the subject is the dog, however, there is a lot of space around the dog that isn't being used. I think that the most visually striking aspect of this photograph is the dog. If I could take this picture again I would bring the dog to another place where there's less leaves. Also, I would keep the person's leg out of the frame.
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.
Dione floats past, with Saturn's rings beyond.
This view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles
across). North is up. The darker terrain on the moon's trailing side is partly visible here,
along with one of the bright linea -- the bright fractures that crisscross Dione's trailing
side.
The view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from less than a degree below the
ringplane.
The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle
camera on Oct. 26, 2007. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 883,000
kilometers (549,000 miles) from Dione. Image scale is 5 kilometers (3 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
The Cassini imaging team homepage is at ciclops.org .
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
The idea of cool, calm, quiet, empty space is hard to envisage in a place as crowded as La Alhambra, but it is still possible to find it.
Keith, Ryan, and I visited the Space Center while we were in Houston. I thought it a bit...undersized, but I still got lots of reference pictures of rocket engines and such. And it's always fun to learn a little more about spacecraft.
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.
The fascinating world of space exploration were brought directly into schools with the travelling exhibition "Step into Space". It is aimed at pupils at secondary levels I and II. Step into Space is easy to set up and consists of three modules. Under the title SpaceEU, a part of this exhibition was on display in ten different countries from December 2019 to October 2020 and inspired numerous visitors. Step into Space is accompanied by training for teachers.
Foto: Ars Electronica / Thomas Schwarz
3-exposure HDR created in Photomatix. Topaz B&W processing. Shot with a Nikon D600 and 19-35mm Vivitar lens.