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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.
Ring with round ring shank. Hand fabricated, 925 sterling silver with matt surface. Flameworked glass blossom in deep dark brown with contrasting light blue accents. Just landed form outer space for you to wear on your finger.
Now available in my etsy shop.
Old spokes never die, they just fade away. That is the current thinking of
scientists who study these ephemeral features in Saturn's rings.
This "difference image" is actually a composite of two images of the B
ring, taken about 45 seconds apart. The view illustrates how the several
spokes imaged here moved between exposures. The spokes were bright against
the rings in both original images, but the brightness of the earlier image
was reversed so that the spoke movement is easy to discern. The "dark"
image of the spokes was taken first, thus rotation in the scene is toward
the bottom.
The topmost spoke is about 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) long and about
600 kilometers (370 miles) wide. The separation between the top spoke and
the bottom one is about 8,500 kilometers (5,300 miles).
The available evidence seems to indicate that spokes are radial when
generated and then shear out as they orbit the planet, eventually
dispersing and fading out after about three and one-half hours.
All of these spokes are nearly radial on their trailing (top) edges,
except for the thin, bottommost spoke. That spoke and the wedge-shaped one
above it have a shear of about 38 degrees, meaning they have an age of
about two and one-quarter hours, assuming they were first radial and then
sheared their entire lives.
The faint horizontal banding in the image is due to "noise" in the
spacecraft electronics that was picked up by the camera system and
enhanced by the processing technique used here.
This view looks toward the unlit side of the rings from about 32 degrees
above the ringplane.
The two images were taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera
on Nov. 1, 2006 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 162 degrees. Image scale on the sky at the distance of Saturn is
10 kilometers (6 miles) per pixel.
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
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
The International Space Station flew over this morning a little before sunrise. In this 30 sec exposure it passes to the west of Jupiter.
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.
I swear, you get a view of the Space Needle from anywhere in Seattle. This one was taken from the water tower in Volunteer Park.
Space Shuttle Enterprise atop a 747 flying over New York City as seen from Coney Island, Brooklyn on April 27, 2012.
Ele reflete 3 cores, um dourado bem antigo, roxo e verde.. depende mto da iluminação!
é super ralinho e sem o preto por baixo ia ter q passar umas 4 camadas..
O q acharam?
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.
I just signed the contract for my new studio/workshop/office/gallery space. As you can see it's quite worn down but huge.
The National Space Centre is a museum and educational resource covering the fields of space science and astronomy, along with a space research programme in partnership with the University of Leicester. It is located on the north side of the city in Belgrave, Leicester, England, next to the River Soar. Many of the exhibits, including upright rockets, are housed in a tower with minimal steel supports and a semi-transparent cladding of ETFE 'pillows' which has become one of Leicester's most recognisable landmarks. The National Space Centre is a registered charity with a board of trustees