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Here is the first ever image of the earth taken from the moon. See http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081118.html
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Thanks for that...I've just spent the last 10 mins totally absorbed on that site.
No pics of the ice glaciers on Mars yet...? |
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I always find this quite inspiring.
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How far do you think we are from deep space travel?
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Venus and Jupiter are looking magnificent as they move closer together in the night sky.
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Venus and Jupiter are looking magnificent as they move closer together in the night sky.
Do that make a tight trio with the moon on Monday? Oh checked it now. See http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance |
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What podcasts do you space buffs subscribe to?
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What podcasts do you space buffs subscribe to?
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Well you should!
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Go to iTunes.
Astronomycast is brilliant. The Jodcast. Slacker Astronomy. Star Stuff. Plus loads from NASA and Discovery. |
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Go to iTunes.
Astronomycast is brilliant. The Jodcast. Slacker Astronomy. Star Stuff. Plus loads from NASA and Discovery. |
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Do you pay for these?
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Thanks for that...I've just spent the last 10 mins totally absorbed on that site.
No pics of the ice glaciers on Mars yet...? |
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More on the supersonic water jets on Enceladus...
New Scientist has also done a piece on the supersonic water jets shooting off into space here at http://www.newscientist.com/article/...turn-moon.html.
The interesting thing is the mechanism that produces such a spectacular display. I suspect that gravitational tidal forces are responsible for these effects similar to the situations of Io and Europa in the Jovian system. The question is now whether Enceladus also has a liquid ocean under that icy crust and it appears that the answer might be a "Yes". |
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New Scientist has also done a piece on the supersonic water jets shooting off into space here at http://www.newscientist.com/article/...turn-moon.html.
The interesting thing is the mechanism that produces such a spectacular display. I suspect that gravitational tidal forces are responsible for these effects similar to the situations of Io and Europa in the Jovian system. The question is now whether Enceladus also has a liquid ocean under that icy crust and it appears that the answer might be a "Yes". |
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Venus and Jupiter are looking magnificent as they move closer together in the night sky.
![]() http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5...gsinskywu9.jpg apologies for my shaky hand, the things are towards the centre/right of the picture . I took it on Thursday at about 5pm.
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And now for some pics of Martian glaciers...
There are some features out there about the Martian glaciers and some of them include pictures to go with the text and some articles can be seen here http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...-glaciers.html, here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencean...d-on-Mars.html
and here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7151190.stm. These vast glaciers hidden glaciers mean that there is a significant reservoir of water ice on Mars. Now that knowledge might be useful, not only to study the evolution of the land forms on Mars but also for any future human explorers or perhaps even colonists. |
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Ohh. Now that you mention this, would this be them here. They have been in the sky at the nights for the past while in the almost exact same part of south west part area of sky. Though one of them has been there longer than the other. Its been bugging me for the past while wondering what they were
![]() http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5...gsinskywu9.jpg apologies for my shaky hand, the things are towards the centre/right of the picture . I took it on Thursday at about 5pm. |
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Watch Jupiter and Venus over the next few nights and Venus will overtake Jupiter. And the moon will hide Venus on Monday.
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Watch Jupiter and Venus over the next few nights and Venus will overtake Jupiter. And the moon will hide Venus on Monday.
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Endeavour is due to land at 18:18 tomorrow.
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Endeavour is due to land at 18:18 tomorrow.
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Reminder that the shuttle lands in just over an hour.
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Ooh, thanks to this thread I've just realized what I'm looking at right now to the south-west. A rare clear night in Blackpool!
They're so bright, I thought they were the ISS and something else, but now I realize I'm probably looking at Venus and Jupiter? |
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. I took it on Thursday at about 5pm.