rosetta - The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
... Kamal Lodaya, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Does that sound like a science fiction story? If all goes well it will happen in November this year. First the story. The comet On September 11, 1969, just a couple of months after Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed on the Moon, astro ...
... Kamal Lodaya, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Does that sound like a science fiction story? If all goes well it will happen in November this year. First the story. The comet On September 11, 1969, just a couple of months after Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed on the Moon, astro ...
Stellar-Aided Inertial Navigation Systems for Lunar and Mars
... in support of the Robotic Lunar Exploration Program. ...
... in support of the Robotic Lunar Exploration Program. ...
1 Marsbugs: The Electronic Astrobiology Newsletter, Volume 12
... these discoveries could help pinpoint the prospects for life on Mars. There are a number of exoplanets which have been detected around other stars, and they are all giant planets like Jupiter. The question is, "Are there any habitable worlds similar to ours?" To answer this, it's crucial to see if t ...
... these discoveries could help pinpoint the prospects for life on Mars. There are a number of exoplanets which have been detected around other stars, and they are all giant planets like Jupiter. The question is, "Are there any habitable worlds similar to ours?" To answer this, it's crucial to see if t ...
Friends Newsletter August 2008
... complex ballet in the constellation of Virgo. The early evening sky will be marked by the close grouping of 3 planets for much of the month. Venus, Mercury and Mars are within a 10-degree circle up to September 25. The three are less than 5 degrees apart from the 4th until the 19th and are therefore ...
... complex ballet in the constellation of Virgo. The early evening sky will be marked by the close grouping of 3 planets for much of the month. Venus, Mercury and Mars are within a 10-degree circle up to September 25. The three are less than 5 degrees apart from the 4th until the 19th and are therefore ...
NEXT MEETING THURSDAY, 18 th October 2012
... excellent images. Magellan was launched on May 4, 1989, aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was deployed from the Orbibter and launched on May 5, 1989 sending the spacecraft into an orbit where it would circle the Sun 1.5 times, before reaching Venus 15 months later on August 10, 1990. It sent a wealt ...
... excellent images. Magellan was launched on May 4, 1989, aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was deployed from the Orbibter and launched on May 5, 1989 sending the spacecraft into an orbit where it would circle the Sun 1.5 times, before reaching Venus 15 months later on August 10, 1990. It sent a wealt ...
april 2008 - Holt Planetarium
... Mars and Saturn currently grace our evening skies. Both are easy to find, as they lie close to bright stars in their respective Zodiac constellations. Mars is getting lower each night but can still be spotted just above Castor and Pollux, the heads of the twins of Gemini. In mythology, Pollux and hi ...
... Mars and Saturn currently grace our evening skies. Both are easy to find, as they lie close to bright stars in their respective Zodiac constellations. Mars is getting lower each night but can still be spotted just above Castor and Pollux, the heads of the twins of Gemini. In mythology, Pollux and hi ...
young astronomers newsletter - Forsyth Astronomical Society
... robotic arm to dig at least a foot into the terrain, and it used its chemical analysis equipment to identify compounds and minerals. Phoenix scraped off some top soil and found an icy-sandy deposit at a depth of about 15 centimeters. It identified calcium carbonate as well as other aqueous –dwelling ...
... robotic arm to dig at least a foot into the terrain, and it used its chemical analysis equipment to identify compounds and minerals. Phoenix scraped off some top soil and found an icy-sandy deposit at a depth of about 15 centimeters. It identified calcium carbonate as well as other aqueous –dwelling ...
Viking program
The Viking program consisted of a pair of American space probes sent to Mars, Viking 1 and Viking 2. Each spacecraft was composed of two main parts: an orbiter designed to photograph the surface of Mars from orbit, and a lander designed to study the planet from the surface. The orbiters also served as communication relays for the landers once they touched down.It was the most expensive and ambitious mission ever sent to Mars, with a total cost of roughly US$1 billion (roughly US$3.8 billion in FY14 dollars). It was highly successful and formed most of the body of knowledge about Mars through the late 1990s and early 2000s.The Viking program grew from NASA's earlier, even more ambitious, Voyager Mars program, which was not related to the successful Voyager deep space probes of the late 1970s. Viking 1 was launched on August 20, 1975, and the second craft, Viking 2, was launched on September 9, 1975, both riding atop Titan III-E rockets with Centaur upper stages. Viking 1 entered Mars orbit on June 19, 1976, with Viking 2 following suit on August 7.After orbiting Mars for more than a month and returning images used for landing site selection, the orbiters and landers detached; the landers then entered the Martian atmosphere and soft-landed at the sites that had been chosen. The Viking 1 lander touched down on the surface of Mars on July 20, 1976, and was joined by the Viking 2 lander on September 3. The orbiters continued imaging and performing other scientific operations from orbit while the landers deployed instruments on the surface.