Astronomy
Envisat picks out a heart from the arid landscape of Africa's Sahara. This is a multi-temporal Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) image of the central coast of Mauritania in West Africa .
We are celebrating Valentine' day on our Earth today but we should not forget that love is found every where . Our Universe is after all such a loving place.
- The Square Kilometre Array Belongs In Africa
Africa is bidding to host the world's most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). When constructed, in 2025, it will have 50 times greater sensitivity than any other radio telescope on Earth. The SKA will probe the edges of our...
- Exploring The Darkest Craters Of The Moon
Among the six international payloads onboard Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to the Moon, was a NASA radar. Called the Mini-RF synthetic aperture radar (SAR), it has sent its first images back to Earth revealing some information about two of...
- Nasa Captures Earth Flyby Of 'space Peanut'
NASA scientists have captured a peanut-shaped asteroid that approached close to Earth last weekend. The asteroid named 1999 JD6 appears to be a contact binary [an asteroid with two lobes that are stuck together]. On July 25, the asteroid...
- Africa And Europe From Space.
A camera on NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory [DSCOVR] satellite captured this view of earth on july 6, 2015. The picture was taken some one million miles away from Earth and is one of the first to be taken by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging...
- Heart Of The Pluto.
This image was taken on July 13, 2015 when the New Horizons spacecraft was just under 476,000 miles[768,000 kilometers] away from Pluto's surface. The heart shaped bright area is some 1,600 kilometer large in size. . source:-...
Astronomy
Astronomy and Valentine's Day
Astronomy and Valentine's Day ..............??? Valentine's Day is associated with flowers and chocolates ....... but if you love someone who is interested in astronomy then here are few pics to win his/her heart.
This love from Mars is a heart shaped pit formed by collapse within a straight walled trough known as graben. The pic is send by Mars Orbiter Camera ( MOC).
Chandra image is of young star cluster NGC 346 which highlights a heart- shaped cloud of a 8 million-degree celsius gas in the central region.
Asteroid Eros mythical name is fitting of the holiday. It was imaged by Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Spacecraft.
Envisat picks out a heart from the arid landscape of Africa's Sahara. This is a multi-temporal Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) image of the central coast of Mauritania in West Africa .We are celebrating Valentine' day on our Earth today but we should not forget that love is found every where . Our Universe is after all such a loving place.
Have an Astronomical Valentine's Day !!!
- The Square Kilometre Array Belongs In Africa
Africa is bidding to host the world's most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). When constructed, in 2025, it will have 50 times greater sensitivity than any other radio telescope on Earth. The SKA will probe the edges of our...
- Exploring The Darkest Craters Of The Moon
Among the six international payloads onboard Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to the Moon, was a NASA radar. Called the Mini-RF synthetic aperture radar (SAR), it has sent its first images back to Earth revealing some information about two of...
- Nasa Captures Earth Flyby Of 'space Peanut'
NASA scientists have captured a peanut-shaped asteroid that approached close to Earth last weekend. The asteroid named 1999 JD6 appears to be a contact binary [an asteroid with two lobes that are stuck together]. On July 25, the asteroid...
- Africa And Europe From Space.
A camera on NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory [DSCOVR] satellite captured this view of earth on july 6, 2015. The picture was taken some one million miles away from Earth and is one of the first to be taken by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging...
- Heart Of The Pluto.
This image was taken on July 13, 2015 when the New Horizons spacecraft was just under 476,000 miles[768,000 kilometers] away from Pluto's surface. The heart shaped bright area is some 1,600 kilometer large in size. . source:-...