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| Year in Space 2006 |
Oct 18, 2005 - It's time to start planning to get a planner. And once again, I'd like to turn your gaze towards the new Year In Space 2006 calendar - a long time partner with Universe Today. This 144-page spiral-bound desk calendar has 53 full-colour space photographs, so you can gaze into infinity as you plan your week. It's filled with space trivia, sky events, daily Moon phases, and additional calendars. Universe Today readers can save at least 27% off the suggested retail price and pay only $10.95 USD by ordering online. There's free shipping in the U.S., and deeper discounts for multiple copies. Oh, and check out the back cover, there's an ad for Universe Today. ;-)
Click here to order a copy online
Fraser Cain
Publisher
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| Astrophoto: Atlantis Docked to the Station |
Oct 18, 2005 - This just blew my mind. Tom Gwilym from Renton, WA took this series of pictures of the space shuttle Atlantis (STS-112) docked to the International Space Station. The blurry pictures are the actual photos of the linkup, and the clear pictures are computer recreations to show their positions.
Do you have photos you'd like to share? Post them to the Universe Today astrophotography forum or email them to me directly, and I might feature one in Universe Today. (Full Story) |
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| Book Review: Mammoth Book of Space Exploration Disasters |
| Oct 18, 2005 - Maybe it is just a statement of our times that one person's life can span the complete maturation of a technology. As John Glenn said, 'it was hard to imagine that virtually the entire history of space travel had occurred between my first flight and my second'. With so many stunning achievements and horrific failures, the history of humanity's space program, though short, was eventful. The collection of narrations prepared by Richard Russell Lawrence and presented in the book entitled Space Exploration and Disasters gives an emotional, often first hand account of many dramatic moments of our space program. (Full Story) |
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| Future Space Missions Will Explore at Many Levels |
| Oct 18, 2005 - Researchers at the University of Arizona think that future robotic explorers should have the ability to survey their targets at many different levels: from orbit, in the air, and on the ground. These next generation missions would be able to arrive in orbit and then deploy a blimp or balloon that could create a more detailed map of a planet or moon's surface. The balloon could help coordinate ground rovers to analyze the most interesting targets. The rovers and balloons would relay their data up to the orbiter which could then give new targets to explore. (Full Story) |
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| Cassini's Closeup View of Dione |
Oct 18, 2005 - On October 11, 2005, Cassini flew within 500 km (310 miles) of the surface of Dione; one of Saturn's moons. Like many of Saturn's moons, Dione shows a heavily cratered surface, and unusual streaks in the terrain that dominates one whole hemisphere of the moon. Cassini found evidence that Dione's surface is covered by fractures, which run in roughly parallel lines; these are interrupted by larger bright features. Scientists are working with the data to compositional maps of Dione's surface.
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