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Riccardo Pozzobon documents the traverse and samples with the Electronic Field Book. Every Pangaea field trip is an opportunity to collect feedback and improve its functionality.
A new session of Pangaea geology field training moved to Lofoten, Norway, to scout for new traverses for the Pangaea analogue complement.
The team, consisting of planetary geologists and training experts, is preparing space farers for lunar exploration.
Lofoten shares many geological features with lunar highlands, such as the Apollo 16 landing site, making it a perfect site to train astronauts on lunar geology.
Pangaea instructors Matteo Massironi , Riccardo Pozzobon, and Fransceco Sauro, as well as petrology professor and local expert KÃ¥re Kullerud are guiding ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer through interesting geological sites in the Nusfjord, an area containing primitive crust rock formations, including anorthosites, which are known to be typical lunar highland rocks.
The Pangaea course is designed to provide European astronauts with introductory and practical knowledge of Earth and planetary geology to prepare them to become effective partners of planetary scientists and engineers in designing the next exploration missions.
The course also aims to give astronauts a solid knowledge in the geology of the Solar System from leading European scientists.
Credits: ESA–S. Sechi
The shadow of Saturn's rings grows wider on the planet as the planet moves away from its August 2009 equinox, when the rings cast a pencil-thin shadow.See PIA11667 for a view of Saturn with only a narrow shadow cast by the rings.Saturn is overexposed here in order to show the dim rings. Pandora (below the rings to the left) has been brightened by a factor of 1.3 relative to the planet and the rings to enhance its visibility. The image was taken using a compression scheme that decreases image file size for storage onboard the spacecraft, and thus the image appears slightly blocky, or "pixelated" following enhancement.This view looks toward the southern, unilluminated side of the rings from about 7 degrees below the ringplane.The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on June 24, 2010. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 2.1 million kilometers (1.3 million miles) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 84 degrees. Image scale is 124 kilometers (77 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. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institutecredit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Image Addition Date:
2010-07-27
A new session of Pangaea geology field training moved to Lofoten, Norway, to scout for new traverses for the Pangaea analogue complement.
The team, consisting of planetary geologists and training experts, is preparing space farers for lunar exploration.
Lofoten shares many geological features with lunar highlands, such as the Apollo 16 landing site, making it a perfect site to train astronauts on lunar geology.
Pangaea instructors Matteo Massironi , Riccardo Pozzobon, and Fransceco Sauro, as well as petrology professor and local expert KÃ¥re Kullerud are guiding ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer through interesting geological sites in the Nusfjord, an area containing primitive crust rock formations, including anorthosites, which are known to be typical lunar highland rocks.
The Pangaea course is designed to provide European astronauts with introductory and practical knowledge of Earth and planetary geology to prepare them to become effective partners of planetary scientists and engineers in designing the next exploration missions.
The course also aims to give astronauts a solid knowledge in the geology of the Solar System from leading European scientists.
Credits: ESA–S. Sechi
Processed using archived data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA/ESA/Kevin M. Gill
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In this image, Saturn's fascinating meteorology manifests itself in a
"string of pearls" formation, spanning over 60,000 kilometers (37,000
miles).
Seen in new images acquired by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping
spectrometer and lit from below by Saturn's internal thermal glow, the
bright "pearls" are actually clearings in Saturn's deep cloud system. More
than two dozen occur at 40 degrees north latitude. Each clearing follows
another at a regular spacing of some 3.5 degrees in longitude.
This is the first time such a regular and extensive train of
cloud-clearings has been observed. The regularity indicates that they may
be a manifestation of a large planetary wave. Scientists plan to take more
observations of this phenomenon over the next few years to try to
understand Saturn's deep circulation systems and meteorology. This image
was taken on April 27, 2006.
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
visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team is based at the University
of Arizona where this image was produced.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov The visual and infrared mapping
spectrometer team homepage is at wwwvims.lpl.arizona.edu.
credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Saturn's moon Janus, its rugged surface shown in shadow and light, passes before the planet's rings.See PIA11575 to see a closer view of this moon. Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across) is closer to Cassini than the rings are. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from about 1 degree above the ringplane.The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 17, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.6 million kilometers (994,000 miles) from Janus and at a Sun-Janus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 91 degrees. 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:
2010-01-26
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Check out my new Facebook page - In late May, 3 planets came together in the west after sunset for a triple conjunction. From left to right is Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury. They were easy to see with the naked eye starting 20 minutes after sunset. Even though they got even closer the following days, this was the only shot I could get due to cloudiness. This was taken from Revis Hill Prairie Nature Preserve. It is a hill 200 feet above the surrounding farmland outside of Mason City, IL.
A new session of Pangaea geology field training moved to Lofoten, Norway, to scout for new traverses for the Pangaea analogue complement.
The team, consisting of planetary geologists and training experts, is preparing space farers for lunar exploration.
Lofoten shares many geological features with lunar highlands, such as the Apollo 16 landing site, making it a perfect site to train astronauts on lunar geology.
Pangaea instructors Matteo Massironi , Riccardo Pozzobon, and Fransceco Sauro, as well as petrology professor and local expert KÃ¥re Kullerud are guiding ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer through interesting geological sites in the Nusfjord, an area containing primitive crust rock formations, including anorthosites, which are known to be typical lunar highland rocks.
The Pangaea course is designed to provide European astronauts with introductory and practical knowledge of Earth and planetary geology to prepare them to become effective partners of planetary scientists and engineers in designing the next exploration missions.
The course also aims to give astronauts a solid knowledge in the geology of the Solar System from leading European scientists.
Credits: ESA–S. Sechi
Up there we may find our Pangaea target: anorthosite rocks. Other than the moss, this is a very lunar landscape.
A new session of Pangaea geology field training moved to Lofoten, Norway, to scout for new traverses for the Pangaea analogue complement.
The team, consisting of planetary geologists and training experts, is preparing space farers for lunar exploration.
Lofoten shares many geological features with lunar highlands, such as the Apollo 16 landing site, making it a perfect site to train astronauts on lunar geology.
Pangaea instructors Matteo Massironi , Riccardo Pozzobon, and Fransceco Sauro, as well as petrology professor and local expert KÃ¥re Kullerud are guiding ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer through interesting geological sites in the Nusfjord, an area containing primitive crust rock formations, including anorthosites, which are known to be typical lunar highland rocks.
The Pangaea course is designed to provide European astronauts with introductory and practical knowledge of Earth and planetary geology to prepare them to become effective partners of planetary scientists and engineers in designing the next exploration missions.
The course also aims to give astronauts a solid knowledge in the geology of the Solar System from leading European scientists.
Credits: ESA–S. Sechi
Gear used: Celestron Nexstar 6SE, Cannon EOS 600D, 2 x Barlow, APT Live View Record, Stacked in Registax v6, processed in GIMP.
HST Cycle: 17 SNAPSHOT Proposal 11599
Distances of Planetary Nebulae from SNAPshots of Resolved Companions
Richard Wade, The Pennsylvania State University
Datasets
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JB5723030 NGC2022 ACS WFC1-1K F555W;CLEAR2L
PANGAEA trainees, Thomas Reiter, Aidan Cowley and Sergei Kud-Sverchokov enjoy a video demonstrating the power of landslides in shaping landscapes.
The lessons are followed by a trip to the Ries impact crater, that was also visited by Apollo 14 astronauts in 1970.
The third edition of the PANGAEA campaign – named after the ancient supercontinent – helps participants build their understanding of planetary geology, collect and document interesting rock samples, and assess the most likely places to find traces of life on other planets.
Leading European planetary geologists equip astronauts with a geologist’s eye to see, feel and understand the building blocks of our Solar System.
Copyright: ESA – S. Sechi
The Cassini spacecraft's camera looks in near-infrared light at a dramatic
view of Saturn, its ringplane and the shadows of a couple of its moons.
The large shadow south of the equator is that of the moon Tethys (1,062
kilometers, or 660 miles across). The small shadow near the limb of the
planet, north of the equator, is the shadow of the moon Mimas (396
kilometers, or 246 miles across).
Saturn's northern and southern latitudes appear dark in this image because
of the camera filter used. This view uses a spectral filter sensitive to
absorption of certain wavelengths of light by methane in Saturn's
atmosphere. The cloud tops in the northern and southern latitudes are at a
slightly greater depth than in the equatorial region, and are underneath a
layer of methane. This means that light travels along a longer path
compared to the equatorial region as it enters the atmosphere, reflects
off the cloud tops, and returns through the upper atmosphere to enter the
camera. The light at near-infrared wavelengths thus passes through more
light-absorbing methane at the northern and southern latitudes than at the
equator, and so these latitudes are darker.
This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just
above the ringplane.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct.
23, 2009 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared
light centered at 890 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of
approximately 2.6 million kilometers (1.6 million miles) from Saturn and
at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 110 degrees. Image scale is
149 kilometers (93 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:
2009-11-20
A new session of Pangaea geology field training moved to Lofoten, Norway, to scout for new traverses for the Pangaea analogue complement.
The team, consisting of planetary geologists and training experts, is preparing space farers for lunar exploration.
Lofoten shares many geological features with lunar highlands, such as the Apollo 16 landing site, making it a perfect site to train astronauts on lunar geology.
Pangaea instructors Matteo Massironi , Riccardo Pozzobon, and Fransceco Sauro, as well as petrology professor and local expert KÃ¥re Kullerud are guiding ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer through interesting geological sites in the Nusfjord, an area containing primitive crust rock formations, including anorthosites, which are known to be typical lunar highland rocks.
The Pangaea course is designed to provide European astronauts with introductory and practical knowledge of Earth and planetary geology to prepare them to become effective partners of planetary scientists and engineers in designing the next exploration missions.
The course also aims to give astronauts a solid knowledge in the geology of the Solar System from leading European scientists.
Credits: ESA–S. Sechi
A moon's shadow strikes Saturn's rings near bright spokes on the B ring
near the center of this Cassini image taken about one month after the
planet's August 2009 equinox.
Mimas, the moon casting the shadow, is not shown. To learn more about the
ghostly radial markings called spokes, see PIA11144 and PIA08288.
Spokes appear bright when they are viewed at phase, or Sun-Saturn
spacecraft, angles higher than about 45 degrees. The phase angle in this
image is 106 degrees.
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 also the shadows of
newly revealed vertical structures in the rings themselves (see PIA11665).
This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from about 8
degrees above the ringplane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on Sept. 9, 2009. The view was obtained at a distance
of approximately 2.9 million kilometers (1.8 million miles) from Saturn
and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 106 degrees. Image
scale is 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 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:
2009-11-30
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Friday 13th May 2011. Graduated photoshop filter used to bring out the stars/planets. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars seen here rising above the CBD of Brisbane, Australia. AND IT WAS FREEZING COLD!
The sunlit face of Saturn's rings shows magnificent detail in this image
taken in near infrared light. Most notable is the transition in brightness
toward the outer edges of the image, due to differences in composition and
ring particle density. The image was obtained from Cassini's vantage point
beneath the ring plane.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on
Dec. 12, 2004, at a distance of 1.8 million kilometers (1.1 million miles)
from Saturn, through a broadband filter sensitive to wavelengths of
infrared light centered at 862 nanometers. The image scale is about 11
kilometers (7 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/ and the Cassini imaging team home page,
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
is a complete Circlist painting. This piece reaches deep into the formation of the planets, stars and consciousness. These planetary bodies come together in relation to our understanding of the universe by committee or council. Order brings about chaos and visa-versa.
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Planetary nebula in Scorpius.
Source: Hubble Legacy Archive
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The shadows of Saturn's rings appear as a narrow band on the planet in
this image taken as Saturn approaches its August 2009 equinox.
The novel illumination geometry that accompanies equinox lowers the sun's
angle to the ringplane and causes moons and out-of-plane structures to
cast long 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. To learn more about this special time and to see
movies of moons' shadows moving across the rings, see PIA11651 and PIA11660.
The rings have been brightened relative to the planet to enhance
visibility.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 21
degrees above the ringplane. The image was taken with the Cassini
spacecraft wide-angle camera on June 25, 2009 using a spectral filter
sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 918
nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 620,000
kilometers (385,000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or
phase, angle of 26 degrees. Image scale is 33 kilometers (21 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:
2009-08-21
Gray Mimas appears to hover above the colorful rings.
The large crater seen on the right side of the moon is named for William
Herschel, who discovered Mimas in 1789.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to
create this full color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini
spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 9, 2007 at a distance of
approximately 3.151 million kilometers (1.958 million miles) from Mimas
and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 34 degrees. Image scale
is 19 kilometers (12 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
A recent Hubble Space Telescope view reveals Uranus surrounded by its
four major rings and by 10 of its 17 known satellites. This false-color
image was generated by Erich Karkoschka using data taken on August 8,
1998, with Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer.
Hubble recently found about 20 clouds - nearly as many clouds on Uranus
as the previous total in the history of modern observations. The
orange-colored clouds near the prominent bright band circle the planet
at more than 300 mph (500 km/h), according to team member Heidi Hammel
(MIT). One of the clouds on the right-hand side is brighter than any
other cloud ever seen on Uranus.
The colors in the image indicate altitude. Team member Mark Marley (New
Mexico State University) reports that green and blue regions show where
the atmosphere is clear and sunlight can penetrate deep into Uranus.
In yellow and grey regions the sunlight reflects from a higher haze or
cloud layer. Orange and red colors indicate very high clouds, such as
cirrus clouds on Earth.
The Hubble image is one of the first images revealing the precession of
the brightest ring with respect to a previous image [LINK to PRC97-36a].
Precession makes the fainter part of the ring (currently on the upper
right-hand side) slide around Uranus once every nine months. The
fading is caused by ring particles crowding and hiding each other on
one side of their eight-hour orbit around Uranus.
The blue, green and red components of this false-color image correspond
to exposures taken at near-infrared wavelengths of 0.9, 1.1, and 1.7
micrometers. Thus, regions on Uranus appearing blue, for example,
reflect more sunlight at 0.9 micrometer than at the longer wavelengths.
Apparent colors on Uranus are caused by absorption of methane gas in
its atmosphere, an effect comparable to absorption in our atmosphere
which can make distant clouds appear red.
credit: Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona) and NASA
Today in my Lazzzor class, Michael Gruen created this planetary gear set. It's really great and took a large amount of mind bending and inkscape tweeking to get set!