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The Beautiful Victoria

Victoria is an impact crater on Mars located at 2.05°S, 5.50°W in the Meridiani Planum extraterrestrial plain, lying situated within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars.

Image of Victoria Crater on Mars
Victoria Crater

 

This crater was first visited by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. It is roughly 730 metres wide, nearly eight times the size of the crater Endurance, visited by Opportunity from sols 951 to 1630.

It is informally named after Victoria – one of the five ships of Ferdinand Magellan and the first ship to circumnavigate the globe – and formally named after Victoria, Seychelles. Along the edges of the crater are many outcrops within recessed alcoves and promontories, named for bays and capes that Magellan discovered.

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cassini was a visitor to saturn

Saturn Kronos 2017

Saturn Saturday April 2017

How Long Is A Day On Saturn?

The Making of the Grand Finale

Only a few months are left for Cassini to explore the rings of Saturn.

 

The Grand Finale – Cassini

 

 

Who Is Cassini?

 

Back in the night sky tele soon

Stargazing Live – from Australia

The BBC astronomy show, Stargazing Live, is back for three nights at the end of March. Happy days – or should that be nights!

Stargazing LIVE is back, and once again the nation will join Professor Brian Cox and Dara O Briain to look at the skies, taking in the wonders of the Universe.

Professor Brian Cox tell’s you when..

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Othering in September

Autumn is Colouring Red

 

Autumn colour theme - this season's in thing.
Autumn colour theme – this season’s in thing.
Ginger Natured Autumn

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These Rings of Wonder

Saturn – The Ringed Planet

 

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Sat turned head.

Although reflection from the rings increases Saturn’s brightness, they are not visible from Earth with unaided vision.

In 1610, the year after Galileo Galilei first turned a telescope to the sky, he became the very first person to observe Saturn’s rings, though he could not see them well enough to discern their true nature.

 

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The Mariner 5 Spacecraft

The Mariner 5 Spacecraft

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Visiting Venus

Mariner 5 was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus‘ atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha (hard ultraviolet) spectrum, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above the planet. Its goals were to measure interplanetary and Venusian magnetic fields, charged particles, plasma,…

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