Comets, Asteroids & Meteoroids
... – Plasma tail = solar wind sweeps it outward, so it always points away from sun ...
... – Plasma tail = solar wind sweeps it outward, so it always points away from sun ...
Explained in 60 Seconds: Why Visit a Comet?
... capsules are still occasionally jolted into new orbits that slingshot them closer to the Sun. Many meet a fiery death and others are flung clear of the Solar System, but some become trapped in elliptical orbits that see them returning time and time again. ...
... capsules are still occasionally jolted into new orbits that slingshot them closer to the Sun. Many meet a fiery death and others are flung clear of the Solar System, but some become trapped in elliptical orbits that see them returning time and time again. ...
Day-39
... the solar wind interacting with ions of the nucleus. Dust tail created from solar wind and sunlight. Comet tails point away from the Sun. ...
... the solar wind interacting with ions of the nucleus. Dust tail created from solar wind and sunlight. Comet tails point away from the Sun. ...
Slide 1
... where most asteroids are found. • The asteroid belt extends about 150 million km between the two planets. • Asteroids might exist here because the massive gravity of Jupiter did not allow a planet to form at this position. • Asteroids in the asteroid belt range in size from tiny to 940 km in diamete ...
... where most asteroids are found. • The asteroid belt extends about 150 million km between the two planets. • Asteroids might exist here because the massive gravity of Jupiter did not allow a planet to form at this position. • Asteroids in the asteroid belt range in size from tiny to 940 km in diamete ...
Stony-Iron Meteorites are the Most Exotic of All Space Debris Found
... Trees flattened over an area 30km in diameter by the Tunguska Impact in 1908 ...
... Trees flattened over an area 30km in diameter by the Tunguska Impact in 1908 ...
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... http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html See http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/science/feature001.html on the differences between comets Wild-2 and Temple 1. ...
... http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html See http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/science/feature001.html on the differences between comets Wild-2 and Temple 1. ...
Clearing stage: Oort cloud formation
... http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html See http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/science/feature001.html on the differences between comets Wild-2 and Temple 1. ...
... http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html See http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/science/feature001.html on the differences between comets Wild-2 and Temple 1. ...
August05 - Holt Planetarium
... NASA's latest Mars mission, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was successfully launched on Friday the 12th. At 2,180 kilograms, MRO is twice the mass of other recent Mars missions. The orbiter carries six scientific instruments for examining the surface, atmosphere and subsurface of Mars in unpreced ...
... NASA's latest Mars mission, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was successfully launched on Friday the 12th. At 2,180 kilograms, MRO is twice the mass of other recent Mars missions. The orbiter carries six scientific instruments for examining the surface, atmosphere and subsurface of Mars in unpreced ...
Geology of the Hawaiian Islands
... billion mile journey to a comet and back Its mission – return interstellar dust particles to Earth First interplanetary probe from Earth flew deep into space and brought back bits of a comet First U.S. mission designed to return samples from another Solar System body since the Apollo missions to t ...
... billion mile journey to a comet and back Its mission – return interstellar dust particles to Earth First interplanetary probe from Earth flew deep into space and brought back bits of a comet First U.S. mission designed to return samples from another Solar System body since the Apollo missions to t ...
The Deep Impact flyby spacecraft (upper L)
... The High Resolution Instrument (HRI), designed and built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (Boulder, CO) is the main scientific instrument on the flyby spacecraft. The HRI CCD camera will image the comet impact site with less than 2 m (6 ft) per pixel scale when the flyby spacecraft is 700 km ...
... The High Resolution Instrument (HRI), designed and built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (Boulder, CO) is the main scientific instrument on the flyby spacecraft. The HRI CCD camera will image the comet impact site with less than 2 m (6 ft) per pixel scale when the flyby spacecraft is 700 km ...
Stardust (spacecraft)
Stardust was a 300-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on February 7, 1999. Its primary mission was to collect dust samples from the coma of comet Wild 2, as well as samples of cosmic dust, and return these to Earth for analysis. It was the first sample return mission of its kind. En route to comet Wild 2, the craft also flew by and studied the asteroid 5535 Annefrank. The primary mission was successfully completed on January 15, 2006, when the sample return capsule returned to Earth.A mission extension codenamed NExT culminated in February 2011 with Stardust intercepting comet Tempel 1, a small Solar System body previously visited by Deep Impact in 2005. Stardust ceased operations in March 2011.On August 14, 2014, scientists announced the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the Stardust capsule returned to Earth in 2006.