Solar System

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24,.5 hours after the last photo from my back yard


Jupiter

Moon rose 1hr 2 minutes later today and is about 1,322 km further away

Moons reflection high tide was 32 minutes later today at 18.42

then 30 mins later

For reference this is the view at dawn

 

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New!


Sun

Mercury's horizon

Mars

Jupiter

Pluto and Charon as seen by New Horizons

Bushfires in Australia

A waxing gibbous Moon with an American Airlines flyby on Feb. 2, 2015

 

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200 Billion Earth like Worlds



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...two-habitable-planets-orbit-study-claims.html

 

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Thanks for these links, CAPSLOCKSTUCK

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...iew-Earth-space-collection-worth-500-000.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...two-habitable-planets-orbit-study-claims.html

New pics


Hayn crater, Humboldtianum Basin, Mare Undarum (Moon)

Jupiter with moons

 

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Mare Ingenii (Moon)

Mars

closer look at Ceres

 

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Lunar goodness

Unnamed crater

A crescent Earth and Moon: an unfamiliar view of familiar worlds

Earth and the lunar farside.

Evolving view of the lunar farside over 60 years

The lunar nearside

 

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That is a fabulous video, i love the Moon.

Place names on visible side of the Moon are predominantly from the Classical age

Place names on the far side of the moon are predominantly from the Soviet space era as they saw them first.

http://www.universetoday.com/105326/oct-7-1959-our-first-look-at-the-far-side-of-the-moon/

 

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The Lunar Reconnaisance Orbitor launched with Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, mission.

It was a mission to basically launch a projectile at the moon.
I heard locally at the time that the projectile was tested about 3 miles from my house on a sled track,

from what i can work out, this was the track they used. They have other tracks that go out under the sea, but as they smashed the missile into a huge block of ice i think they used this overground one.

It used to be Ministry of Defence property, now it is privately owned.

 

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Mercury

Yardangs in Arsinoes Chaos (Mars)

Jupiter

Firsov crater (Moon)

 

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Watch a satellite being fired into space from a FIGHTER JET....................in theory


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...d-plan-low-cost-launches.html#v-4036271260001

 

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The bag that Neil Armstrong was supposed to leave on the moon
( but took home and put in a cupboard instead)

A good read and ace pics.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sed-remain-space-discovered-widow-closet.html

 

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Mercury

Mount chain in Antarctica (Earth)

Moon

Mars

Lovejoy

Rings of Saturn

 

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new images

Sun (filament and hole)

Mars (South pole and landscapes)

Lovejoy

 

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Mercury

Mars

Mississippi River

 

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nice pics

 

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Mars

Comet 67P

Titan

Pluto & Charon

 

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Sun

Mercury

Mars

Moon

Titan

Volcanoes in Africa

Atlantic Ocean

 

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Sun

Best image of Lovejoy *saves*

Bigbee and Holden craters on Mars

Best image of Kraken Mare Shores (Titan)

 

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@Drone what do you think will have caused the "turbulence" in Lovejoys plume, is it caused by the comet tumbling ?

 

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@Drone what do you think will have caused the "turbulence" in Lovejoys plume, is it caused by the comet tumbling ?

Hmmm interesting question, shows how little we know, I don't know lol. I hate to guess but maybe it was solar wind or because of Lovejoy's accelerated motion.

 

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Odd though isnt it, i wonder if its because the angle of view has changed you know in the same way that orbiting objects dont travel in straight lines relative to each other. (perspective?)


Unless a chunk flew/blew apart.

Proves i study these pics you post. I love 'em.

 

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orbiting objects dont travel in straight lines relative to each other

Objects in space orbit not only around barycenter but they also spin on their axis which creates torque. Maybe that makes comet's tail look like a spiral.

 

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Great link. ta

 

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So many cool stuff for today:

Colored sharp image of Mercury, yay!

Mysterious Plumes on Mars

A Viking picture of the Tharsis volcanic region of Mars. At left is Olympus Mons. The chain of volcanoes at lower right, from bottom to top, is Arsia, Pavonis, and Ascraeus Mons.

The Search For Volcanic Eruptions On Mars Reaches The Next Level

Craters and mysterious bright spots pop out in the latest images of Ceres. Dawn spacecraft will arrive at Ceres March 6! Can't waaaaaait!!!!!!

These two views of Ceres were acquired from a distance of about 83000 km as the dwarf planet rotated

Janus

A Long View of the Arctic

Great images here and here

 

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NASA's Dawn spacecraft will have plenty of mysteries to investigate when it begins orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres next month, as the probe's latest photos attest.

Dawn's most recent images of Ceres, taken Feb. 12 at a distance of 52,000 miles (83,000 kilometers) away, show an abundance of craters on the dwarf planet, as well as numerous bright spots that have scientists baffled.

"As we slowly approach the stage, our eyes transfixed on Ceres and her planetary dance, we find she has beguiled us but left us none the wiser," Dawn principal investigator Chris Russell of UCLA said in a statement. "We expected to be surprised; we did not expect to be this puzzled."





The new photos, which have a resolution of 4.9 miles (7.8 km) per pixel, are the sharpest ever taken of Ceres, NASA officials said.

A large, flickering white spot was also visible in photos Dawn took of Ceres last month.

"We can confirm that it is something on Ceres that reflects more sunlight, but what that is remains a mystery," Dawn mission director and chief engineer Marc Rayman, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California