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Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Telescope
Saturn Chocolate Swirls
The shapes form in an area of turbulent flow between the two different rotating fluid bodies with dissimilar speeds.
A number of stable vortices of similar size form on the slower (south) side of the fluid boundary and these interact with each other to space themselves out evenly around the perimeter.
The presence of the vortices influences the boundary to move northward where each is present and this gives rise to the polygon effect.
These are obviously just my little art astronomy efforts here. Even the great Cassini could not take images like this…or could it?
Another one that replaced the rings with chocolate swirls.
If you want to go back to cassini reality.
Orbital ATK’s robotic Cygnus cargo spacecraft is scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) Tuesday atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 11:11 a.m. EDT (1511 GMT) from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV, or directly at the space agency’s YouTube channel.
Cygnus has flown a number of such resupply runs in the past, but this liftoff will be special, from a viewer’s perspective at least: You’ll be able to get a pad’s-eye view, in 360 degrees.
“To view in 360, use a mouse or move a personal device to look up and down, back and forth, for a 360-degree view around Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida,” NASA officials wrote in a statement. “Those who own virtual reality headsets will be able to look around and experience the view as if they were actually standing on the launch pad.”
The Cygnus is packed with more than 7,600 lbs. (3,450 kilograms) of scientific gear, hardware and supplies for the ISS crew — so much cargo that the mission will employ an Atlas V rather than Orbital’s own Antares booster, which is not quite as powerful. (An Antares is slated to loft the next Cygnus mission, which will lift off this summer.)
Go to the space com website here to watch.
Saturn Saturday April 2017
How Long Is A Day On Saturn?
Just how long is a day on Saturn? Finding the answer turned out to be trickier than anyone thought: https://t.co/vyY6lcpiPw #SaturnSaturday pic.twitter.com/9ONig3r1kL
— CassiniSaturn (@CassiniSaturn) November 5, 2016
The Making of the Grand Finale
Only a few months are left for Cassini to explore the rings of Saturn.
The Grand Finale – Cassini
Did you know there’s a current to #Saturn’s rings, formed by ions trapped in the magnetic field? https://t.co/65UBSOlXp4 pic.twitter.com/oOwPo0v1xz
— CassiniSaturn (@CassiniSaturn) April 12, 2017
#NASACassini
‘We conquered Jupiter’ – July 2016
The Juno spacecraft launched aboard an Atlas V-551 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Aug. 5, 2011, and will reach Jupiter in July 2016. The spacecraft will orbit Jupiter 32 times, skimming to within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) above the planet’s cloud tops, for approximately one year.
Juno uses a spinning solar-powered spacecraft in a highly elliptical polar orbit that avoids most of Jupiter’s high radiation regions. The designs of the individual instruments are straightforward and the mission does not require the development of any new technologies.
The Juno Mission Team
Jupiter on the BBC! An episode of the BBC’s Sky At Night is devoted to Juno on July 10th.
Jupiter the Gas Giant
News about Jupiter from past post’s.
Time to put on some weight! What an incredible journey it has been– thank you for following & see you back on Earth! pic.twitter.com/ffAhPvsAFv
— Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) June 17, 2016
Continue reading “Tim Peake is hitting the ground and running”
Tim Peake
Just one month after boarding the International Space Station, Peake has completed his first Spacewalk with fellow astronaut Tim Kopra. It’s fair to say the UK was firmly gripped by “Spacewalk fever” on January 15 2015.
Tim Peake takes a moment on the Spacewalk for a selfie.
UK astronaut Tim Peake described his first walk in space as “exhilarating”, as he posted photos – including a…
Tim Peake
Just one month after boarding the International Space Station, Peake has completed his first Spacewalk with fellow astronaut Tim Kopra. It’s fair to say the UK was firmly gripped by “Spacewalk fever” on January 15 2015.
Tim Peake takes a moment on the Spacewalk for a selfie.
UK astronaut Tim Peake described his first walk in space as “exhilarating”, as he posted photos – including a…
Just one month after boarding the International Space Station, Peake has completed his first Spacewalk with fellow astronaut Tim Kopra. It’s fair to say the UK was firmly gripped by “Spacewalk fever” on January 15 2015.
UK astronaut Tim Peake described his first walk in space as “exhilarating”, as he posted photos – including a selfie – of the feat on Twitter.It will “be etched in my memory forever – quite an incredible feeling,” said Peake, the first astronaut representing the UK to carry out a spacewalk.He and US colleague Tim Kopra were outside the International Space Station (ISS) for four hours and 43 minutes.But their spacewalk was cut short after water leaked into Col Kopra’s helmet.The pair had already replaced a failed electrical box, which was their main objective.
UK newspaper The Guardian had this to say…
The moment was hardly lost on him. As Tim Peake clambered out of the International Space Station he nodded to the union flag emblazoned on his shoulder. To wear the patch was, he said, “a huge privilege, and a proud moment”.
Britain’s first European Space Agency astronaut began his maiden spacewalk shortly before 1pm on Friday as the orbiting station soared 250 miles above Australia. By the time he returned inside, he had circled the planet at least three times and witnessed six stunning sunsets or sunrises.
Emerging from the Quest airlock into the darkness of Earth’s shadow, Peake joined Nasa’s Tim Kopra for more than four hours of challenging work. Under the direction of ground staff in Houston, the astronauts overcame snagged tethers, a brief carbon dioxide scare, and a torn glove before the day was done.
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