Photographers, shuttle and ISS
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) April 5, 2010.
The US space shuttle Discovery blasted off at dawn Monday toward the International Space Station for a mission that will put more women in orbit than ever before.
Discovery lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6:21 am (1021 GMT) as scheduled.
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Composition of the Universe
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Shooting a million miles or more out into the hard, cold vacuum of space, this fiery halo is one of the wonders of the universe.
Whipped into gigantic swirls by the Sun’s ferocious magnetic fields, the shell of super-hot gas is as beautiful as it is dangerous.
It’s called a corona and can’t normally be seen because of the brightness of the Sun, a broiling sea of hydrogen gas at 10,000c. But during a solar eclipse, the Moon blocks out the Sun and the corona is spectacularly revealed.
Here are a couple videos to put you in perspective amongst the entire universe. If you thought your penis was small…it will only feel smaller after watching these vids.
More After the Jump
Mar 182010
Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. The planet is one of Earth’s “next-door neighbors” in space. Earth is the third planet from the sun, and Jupiter is the fifth. Like Earth, Jupiter, the sun, and the remainder of the solar system, Mars is about 4.6 billion years old.
Mars is named for the ancient Roman god of war. The Romans copied the Greeks in naming the planet for a war god; the Greeks called the planet Ares (AIR eez). The Romans and Greeks associated the planet with war because its color resembles the color of blood. Viewed from Earth, Mars is a bright reddish-orange. It owes its color to iron-rich minerals in its soil. This color is also similar to the color of rust, which is composed of iron and oxygen.
Mar 162010
The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by gravity, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago.
Here’s a funny picture of it
Mar 102010
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation’s civilian space program. NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958, replacing its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The agency became operational on October 1, 1958. NASA has led U.S. efforts for space exploration ever since, resulting in the Apollo missions to the Moon, the Skylab space station, and later the Space Shuttle. Currently NASA is supporting the International Space Station and developing new Ares I and V launch vehicles.
Down Below are Some of the Best Beautiful earth pictures by NASA….
Mar 092010
Aired Sunday 7th March 2010 Empire of the Sun. , episode 1 “Professor Brian Cox visits some of the most stunning locations on earth to describe how the laws of nature have carved natural wonders across the solar system. In this first episode, Brian explores the powerhouse of them all, the sun. In India, he witnesses a total solar eclipse, and in Norway he watches the battle between the sun’s wind and earth, as the night sky glows with the northern lights.”
Wonders of the Solar System (Episode 1 HD)(Part 1/6)
All Parts Below…enjoy↓
Lately, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has uploaded a set of breathtaking satellite images of the Earth to its Flickr account. This series of high-resolution photos called ‘Blue Marble’ has been produced using the Terra satellite, which is more than 435 miles (700km) above the Earth’s surface. The series includes satellite-based composite photographs taken from June to September 2001. NASA says that the ‘Blue Marble’ image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date.
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Hubble IMAX 3D
Earth viewed from Space
Mars - The red planet