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Title	Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released
General Information	What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ]

Title	Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released
General Information	What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ]

Title	Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released
General Information	What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ]

Title	Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released
General Information	What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ]

Title	Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released
General Information	What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ]

Title	Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released
General Information	What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ]

Title	Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released
General Information	What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ]

Title	Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released
General Information	What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ]

Title	Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released
General Information	What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ]

Title	Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released
General Information	What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ]

Title	Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released
General Information	What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ]

Title	Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released
General Information	What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ]

Title	Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released
General Information	What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ]

Title	Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released
General Information	What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ]

Title	The E Nebula in Aquila
Explanation	Several unusual strands of darkness [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020526.html ] are prominent toward the constellation of Aquila [ http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/constellations/aquila.html ]. This particular dark nebula [ http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/dark_nebula.html ] is known as the E Nebula, for its evocative shape, or B142 and B143, for its position(s) on a list of such nebula compiled by Barnard [ http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/virtualmuseum/Barnard.html ]. The E Nebula [ http://www.eastbayastro.org/articles/lore/aquila.htm ] spans roughly the angle of a full Moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030810.html ] and lies about 2000 light years [ http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question19.html ] distant. The nebula [ http://www.abmedia.com/astro/current/b142-b143-fs102.html ] can be seen with binoculars and is particularly visible during the summer months in Earth's northern hemisphere. Other names for dark nebula [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/dark_nebulae.html ] include absorption nebula [ http://www.glyphweb.com/esky/concepts/absorptionnebula.html ], as they efficiently absorb visible light emitted behind them, and molecular clouds [ http://etacha.as.arizona.edu/~eem/ttau/gmc.html ], as they frequently attain temperatures low enough so that several different types of stable molecules [ http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/mom/ ] can exist. The low temperatures of these interstellar clouds [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020210.html ] facilitate the formation of dense knots [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap011125.html ] of gas that may then collapse into bright stars.

Title	Masursky
Original Caption Released with Image	A series of wide angle and narrow angle images, through a variety of spectral and polarizing filters, was taken of the asteroid between 7 and 5.5 hours before closest approach, from a distance of 1.6 million km, in the hopes of determining the body's size, reflectivity, asteroid type and possibly its rotation period. The face of Masursky seen by the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) [ http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/ciclops/iss.html ] at a Sun-asteroid-spacecraft angle of 90 degrees has been measured to be roughly 15 - 20 km in diameter, assuming a spherical shape. Preliminary determination of its reflectivity indicates that it may not, in fact, be an S-type asteroid like Gaspra, Ida and Eros, a puzzling result given its dynamical association with the Eunomia family of S-type asteroids. Examination and analysis of the remaining images may settle this matter as well as place limits on the body's rotation period. The asteroid is named for renowned planetary geologist Harold Masursky(1923-1990), a major participant in the historic Mercury and Apollo planetary programs, the Viking mission to Mars and the Voyager mission to outer solar system. The image above is the first wide angle (WA) image taken of Masursky on January 23,2000 at 3:01 UTC (full resolution version). In this 32 second exposure, the cameras were continuously pointed to Masursky which was traveling roughly right to left at 0.2 WA pixels/sec (about 12 microradians/sec) across the constellation of Aquila. The stars in this 3.5 degree field of view are streaked due to this target-motion compensation. Some of the streaks and point-like sources in this frame are in fact the images left by cosmic rays which hit the CCD of the camera during the exposure. This narrow angle 1.2 second exposure was shuttered simultaneously with the wide angle image above, and is a factor of ten higher in resolution(full resolution version) . It is from images like this that the size of Masursky was determined. Some of the streaks and point-like sources in this 0.35 degree frame are infect the images left by cosmic rays which hit the camera's CCD. The imaging data were processed and released by the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Cassini, launched in 1997, is a joint mission of NASA, the European Space Agency and Italian Space Agency. The mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington DC. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

Title	Masursky
Original Caption Released with Image	A series of wide angle and narrow angle images, through a variety of spectral and polarizing filters, was taken of the asteroid between 7 and 5.5 hours before closest approach, from a distance of 1.6 million km, in the hopes of determining the body's size, reflectivity, asteroid type and possibly its rotation period. The face of Masursky seen by the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) [ http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/ciclops/iss.html ] at a Sun-asteroid-spacecraft angle of 90 degrees has been measured to be roughly 15 - 20 km in diameter, assuming a spherical shape. Preliminary determination of its reflectivity indicates that it may not, in fact, be an S-type asteroid like Gaspra, Ida and Eros, a puzzling result given its dynamical association with the Eunomia family of S-type asteroids. Examination and analysis of the remaining images may settle this matter as well as place limits on the body's rotation period. The asteroid is named for renowned planetary geologist Harold Masursky(1923-1990), a major participant in the historic Mercury and Apollo planetary programs, the Viking mission to Mars and the Voyager mission to outer solar system. The image above is the first wide angle (WA) image taken of Masursky on January 23,2000 at 3:01 UTC (full resolution version). In this 32 second exposure, the cameras were continuously pointed to Masursky which was traveling roughly right to left at 0.2 WA pixels/sec (about 12 microradians/sec) across the constellation of Aquila. The stars in this 3.5 degree field of view are streaked due to this target-motion compensation. Some of the streaks and point-like sources in this frame are in fact the images left by cosmic rays which hit the CCD of the camera during the exposure. This narrow angle 1.2 second exposure was shuttered simultaneously with the wide angle image above, and is a factor of ten higher in resolution(full resolution version) . It is from images like this that the size of Masursky was determined. Some of the streaks and point-like sources in this 0.35 degree frame are infect the images left by cosmic rays which hit the camera's CCD. The imaging data were processed and released by the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Cassini, launched in 1997, is a joint mission of NASA, the European Space Agency and Italian Space Agency. The mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington DC. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

Title	Masursky
Original Caption Released with Image	A series of wide angle and narrow angle images, through a variety of spectral and polarizing filters, was taken of the asteroid between 7 and 5.5 hours before closest approach, from a distance of 1.6 million km, in the hopes of determining the body's size, reflectivity, asteroid type and possibly its rotation period. The face of Masursky seen by the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) [ http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/ciclops/iss.html ] at a Sun-asteroid-spacecraft angle of 90 degrees has been measured to be roughly 15 - 20 km in diameter, assuming a spherical shape. Preliminary determination of its reflectivity indicates that it may not, in fact, be an S-type asteroid like Gaspra, Ida and Eros, a puzzling result given its dynamical association with the Eunomia family of S-type asteroids. Examination and analysis of the remaining images may settle this matter as well as place limits on the body's rotation period. The asteroid is named for renowned planetary geologist Harold Masursky(1923-1990), a major participant in the historic Mercury and Apollo planetary programs, the Viking mission to Mars and the Voyager mission to outer solar system. The image above is the first wide angle (WA) image taken of Masursky on January 23,2000 at 3:01 UTC (full resolution version). In this 32 second exposure, the cameras were continuously pointed to Masursky which was traveling roughly right to left at 0.2 WA pixels/sec (about 12 microradians/sec) across the constellation of Aquila. The stars in this 3.5 degree field of view are streaked due to this target-motion compensation. Some of the streaks and point-like sources in this frame are in fact the images left by cosmic rays which hit the CCD of the camera during the exposure. This narrow angle 1.2 second exposure was shuttered simultaneously with the wide angle image above, and is a factor of ten higher in resolution(full resolution version) . It is from images like this that the size of Masursky was determined. Some of the streaks and point-like sources in this 0.35 degree frame are infect the images left by cosmic rays which hit the camera's CCD. The imaging data were processed and released by the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Cassini, launched in 1997, is a joint mission of NASA, the European Space Agency and Italian Space Agency. The mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington DC. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

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