Artistic Views of the Solar System
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000-0-Mars.jpgMeteor strike on Mars118 visiteMars may have lost much of its atmosphere during asteroid impacts early in its history.
The Beagle 2 lander will look for signatures of life on Mars, whether long-dead or still-living, by measuring the ratio of two different types of carbon in the rocks. Biological processes on Earth favour the lighter isotope of carbon, carbon-12, over the heavier carbon-13. Hence, a high carbon-12 to carbon-13 ratio is taken as evidence of life and has been found in rocks up to 4 billion years old, even where geological processing has occurred. The hope is that the same occurred on Mars.
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030-OPP-SOL209.jpgOver the Walls of Endurance (1)...75 visiteIpotesi di alba Marziana con il Sole capace di esprimere la stessa luminosità che è percepibile dalla Terra.
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032-OPP-SOL209.jpgOver the Walls of Endurance... (2)93 visiteImmagine in cui il Sole, ora, esprime un terzo in meno della luminosità percepibile dalla Terra. Notate una differenza?
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Aeneas Crater on Dione.jpgAeneas Crater on Dione187 visitenessun commento
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Aeroshell - Mars Artwork.jpgThe Aeroshell182 visitenessun commento
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Asbolus.jpg8405 Asbolus135 visiteThis is an artist's impression of object called 8405 Asbolus: a 48-mile-wide (about 80 Km) chunk of ice and dust that lies between Saturn and Uranus. Astronomers using NASA's HST were surprised to find that one side of the object (also called a "Centaur") looks like it has a fresh crater less than 10 MY old, exposing bright underlying ice. Actually, Hubble didn't directly see the Crater - the object is too small and far away - but a measure of its Surface Composition shows a complex chemistry that could be explained by the presence of a huge Impact Crater. The event that caused the Impact Crater on 8405 Asbolus may be the same one that knocked it out of the Kuiper's Belt (which is a "Ring of Comet Nuclei" located just beyond Pluto's orbit).
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Bardarbunga.jpgBardarbunga256 visiteMother Earth when is pissed...
And, please, do not confuse this funny-named Icelandic Volcano with the Italian "Bunga-Bunga" dance (or party)...MareKromium
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Deep_Impact.pngDeep Impact146 visite"...così, anche per mezzo delle Equazioni di Riemann-Hake, alla fine si arrivò ad una dimostrazione matematica della Necessità (Teorica) dell'Area Spaziale di Deformazione Logica precognizzata da Twistermann. Quest'Area divenne nota, in seguito, come "Mondo Distorto", sebbene non fosse né distorto, né un vero e proprio mondo. E, suprema ironia, l'importantissimo Terzo Postulato di Twistermann (secondo il quale l'Area Spaziale di Deformazione Logica doveva essere considerata come quella regione dell'Universo agente come "contrappeso" di caos verso la Struttura Primaria e coerente della Realtà) venne ritenuto superfluo in sede di dimostrazione..."
Dalla voce "Mondo Distorto" - Enciclopedia Galattica del Sapere Universale, 483ma Edizione.MareKromium
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Earth From Mars.jpgMy "Day", your "Night"112 visiteThough Earthlings will be able to get a good look at Mars during close approach, NASA's 2 Rovers on Mars will not be able to see Earth. That's because at the moment, Earth is on the daytime side of Mars. As shown in the top half of this artist's rendering, when it's nighttime on Earth, it's daytime on Mars. After Earth passes Mars, the Rovers will be able to see the sunlit side of Earth again just before dawn. The bottom half of this illustration shows what the Rovers would see if they looked toward Earth.
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Earth___Moon-Galileo.jpgThe Earth-Moon System93 visiteCaption NASA originale:"A double planet? From 6,4 MKM away on December 16, 1992, NASA's Robot Spacecraft Galileo took this picture of the Earth-Moon System. The bright, sunlit half of the Earth contrasts strongly with the darker subdued colors of the Moon.
Our Moon is one of the largest moons in the Solar System. It is even larger than the planet Pluto. In this picture, the Earth-moon system actually appears to be a double planet".
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En route to Titan.jpgHuygens Probe: en route to Titan118 visiteThe Huygens Probe, after deploying from the Cassini Orbiter, en route into the murky atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
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Enceladus - artistic vision.jpgA Frozen and yet active volcano on Enceladus202 visiteUn vulcano (o magari un "geyser"?) ancora attivo sul corpo celeste più brillante dell'intero Sistema Solare: Encelado.
Un'intuizione, una 'licenza artistica' o magari un'imbeccata da parte di chi sa?!?
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