Artistic Views of the Solar System
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Landing on Titan.jpgLanding on Titan114 visiteBecause it's in a deep freeze state, Titan's atmosphere is thought to contain chemicals similar to those found on Earth's early days. Data from the Huygens probe combined with Cassini's measurements may offer clues about how life began on Earth.
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MARS1.jpgSunshine on Mars149 visitenessun commento
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MARS8.jpgSunset on Mars131 visitenessun commento
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MARS9.jpgAn overview of Mars174 visitenessun commento
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Mars Express-PIA04802_modest.jpgMars Express105 visitenessun commento
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Mars Odyssey.jpgMars Odyssey91 visiteDa "NASA - Picture of the Day" del 25.10.2001:"After an interplanetary journey lasting 200 days, the Mars Odyssey spacecraft has entered orbit around the Red Planet on October, 25, 2001. This success is welcome as in the past Mars has often seemed a difficult planet to visit. Beginning with the first Soviet attempts in 1960, around 30 missions have tried while only 10 or so have gone without serious mishap (...) Cautiously dipping into the Martian atmosphere, the spacecraft will gradually adjust its present wide and elliptical 20-hour orbit to a circular 2-hour orbit only 400 Km above the planet's surface. Then, its instruments and cameras will focus on exploring the climate and geologic history of Mars, including the search for water and evidence of life-sustaining environments. In the artist's conception above, the spacecraft with wing-like solar panels is imagined firing its rocket engine for Mars orbit insertion over terrain seen in natural and false-color".
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Mars-1.jpgSummer afternoon...On Mars!90 visitenessun commento
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Mars-A.jpgMars, a LONG time ago...95 visitenessun commento
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Mars-B.jpgMars, SOME time ago...100 visitenessun commento
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Mars-C.jpgMars, NOW...87 visitenessun commento
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Mars.jpgEarth and Mars, soon closer than ever!103 visiteThe Red Planet is about to be spectacular again. In October and November 2005, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in a new close approach between the 2 planets.
The next time Mars may come this close is in AD 2287. Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the last 5000 years, but it may be as long as 60.000 years before it happens again. The encounter will culminate on October 30th.
By late October, Mars will be a bright star-like object in the sky and therefore very easy to spot.
Nota: le informazioni pubblicate in precedenza erano riferite al "contatto ravvicinato" Terra/Marte dell'AD 2003.
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MarsAtmosphere.jpgHow Mars lost its atmosphere...109 visitenessun commento
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