tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41486571631626672942012-02-17T23:04:35.733+02:00A Space and Astronomy Blog. Daily showcase of space games, videos, space pictures and news.makubexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896507090579991868noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148657163162667294.post-80096004924711415462012-02-17T22:56:00.003+02:002012-02-17T23:04:35.742+02:00

Using the GENIE (Guidance Embedded Navigator Integration Environment) system, Draper Laboratory autonomously raised Masten Space System's Xombie suborbital rocket 50 meters to a stable hover, sent it laterally down range 50 meters, and then had it land safely during a controlled 50 meter descent.The test flight was conducted at Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

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Vega has successfully launched its 9 payloads into orbit. The first Vega lifted off at 10:00 GMT (11:00 CET, 07:00 local time) from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, and conducted a flawless qualification flight.Image Credit: ESA, Full ImageWatch the Vega lift off video here, (@6:05)

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Check out this cool flash based interactive tool. It shows the scale of things from tiniest quantum foam of space to the size of the Universe itself.

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Update: Watch the Live Stream of the launch.On Feb 13, 2012 Vega will lift off from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Vega will release nine satellites into orbit. The payload consists of two Italian satellites ASI’s LARES laser relativity satellite and the University of Bologna’s ALMASat-1 and seven CubeSats provided by European universities from Italy, Romania, Hungary, Poland,

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On Feb 12, 2012 early morning around 2:00 AM look towards the South-East sky. You can find Moon, Spica and Saturn shining besides each other. Spica is the brightest star in the constellation Virgo.Check the sky map below,Image Credit: Stellarium (simulation)

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on Feb 9, 2012 the waning gibbous Moon and Mars shine beside each other.Picture taken in Tallinn, Estonia. Image Credit: Karthikeyan VJ, view Full ImagePicture taken in Tallinn, Estonia. Image Credit: Karthikeyan VJ, view Full ImagePicture taken in Tallinn, Estonia. Image Credit: Karthikeyan VJ, view Full ImageRelated Post:- Moon and Mars - Skywatch

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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft using the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera.In the below image you can see NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. Looks like the rover is covered with the Martian dust.Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona, Full ImageAnd in this image you can see the

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Tonight look towards the eastern sky, around 22:00. You can find waning gibbous Moon and Mars with the magnitude around -0.76. During March we will have close encounter with Mars (magnitude -1.21).Image Credit: Planetarium

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Today (Feb 7, 2012) we have beautiful Full Moon also known as Snow Moon.Snow moon or Full Snow moon is a traditional name for the full moon that occurs in February in North America. Usually this month is a time for snow and cold air temperatures, and this is the reason for the name snow moon. - as per wikiImage Credit: Karthikeyan VJ

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Kadri Tinn, photographed the Sun's halo on Feb 2, 2012.Halos are formed around Sun and Moon by tiny ice crystals in the atmosphere which refract and reflect the light.

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NASA's GRAIL mission has sent back its first video of Moon's far side. The imagery was taken on Jan. 19, 2012 by the MoonKAM aboard the mission's "Ebb" spacecraft. Video quality is brilliant!Source: NASA

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Watch the night sky on Feb 26, 2012. Jupiter, Venus and Waxing Crescent Moon will form triangle, less than 15o wide.Image Credit: Stellarium (simulation)

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Real time footage (no time lapse) of Northern Lights, filmed in Ravnastua in Finnmark, Norway. Video was shot by Alister Chapman using Sony PMW-F3 (2 frame slow shutter, S-Log and +18db gain ISO 6400)

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Sky was clear today. Beautiful view of the moon. Photo taken at Tallinn, EstoniaCamera: Canon EOS 1100DLens: Canon ef 55-250mm ISCamera: Canon EOS 1100DLens: Canon ef 18-55mm ISJupiter and the Waxing Crescent Moon, less than 10o apart.

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NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office is broadcasting live video of the Quadrantid meteor shower, watch the live stream here. The shower is expected to peak around 07:20 UT (02:20 am EST) on Jan 4.

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Shot by Kareem Brown, 2011.

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On Saturday Dec 10. 2011, a Total Lunar Eclipse will be visible in the early morning of western North America (Moon set), parts of Africa and Europe will see the eclipse during the Moon rise and the best place to observe the eclipse is in Eastern Asia and Australia. South America and some western parts of Africa will not be able to see the Eclipse.Check the map here, to see the visibility of the

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It was a great chance for Russia to prove, they were still in the space race. On Nov. 8, 2011 Russia's Phobos-Grunt lifted off with Zenit rocket, to collect samples from one of the moon's of the Mars called "Phobos". It is a $165 million mission. The main objective of the mission was to bring Phobos soil to Earth for scientific research.Image Credit: RoscosmosUnfortunately, there was a

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Phil Plait talk on TED about asteroid impact and how can it be prevented. Quite a houmous a speech. And you can follow him in his blog, here.

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Expedition 29 Commander Mike Fossum, Soyuz Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa landed their Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft in Kazakhstan at 9:26 p.m. EST.The landing and post-landing activities in Kazakhstan of the Soyuz spacecraft .Video of the station crew's Thanksgiving message.

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On Nov 25, 2011 partial solar eclipse will be visible from Antarctica, Tasmania, and parts of South Africa and New Zealand. Animated map can be seen here. Map shows, Antarctica getting the maximum coverage of the Solar Eclipse making the Sun appear as 9% crescent.I Google'd for Live camera in Antarctica ("links below"). I am not sure we can see the eclipse through these camera's. Better than

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The launch of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory has been delayed one day to replace a flight termination system battery. The launch is rescheduled for Saturday, Nov. 26 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida and the launch window opens at 10:02 a.m. EST.Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

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New Cassini images and mosaics chronicle the birth and evolution of the colossal storm that has ravaged northern Saturn for nearly a year. The people at Cassini has released series of images of the storm, here

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China's unmanned probe Shenzhou 8 returns to Earth on Nov 17, 2011. It is the first Chinese vehicle to conduct a space docking. The probe landed in the inner Mongolia after 18 days in space. Shenzhou 8 docked twice with the orbiting module "Tiangong 1" before returning to Earth.Below is the image of the "Shenzhou 8" capsule. more pictures hereImage Credits: Xinhua News Agency, Photo By Xinhua, Li

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