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Images of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from February 1, 2006
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Robert Mitchell and Students
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Robert Mitchell and Students |
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Students from Shirley Avenue Elementary School in Reseda, Calif., visited NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to see the image they selected. Robert T. Mitchell, Cassini program manager, presented them with a poster of the image. The students participated in the pilot edition of "Cassini Scientist for a Day," a program designed to expose students to the kind of decisions scientists make routinely. They where given three equally valid choices and had to decide which observation would bring the most science. After a lively debate, they choose to image the rings. For a high resolution image, click here. + View Feature |
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February 1, 2006 |
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Robert Mitchell and Students
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Robert Mitchell and Students |
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Students from Shirley Avenue Elementary School in Reseda, Calif., visited NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to see the image they selected. Robert T. Mitchell, Cassini program manager, presented them with a poster of the image. The students participated in the pilot edition of "Cassini Scientist for a Day," a program designed to expose students to the kind of decisions scientists make routinely. They where given three equally valid choices and had to decide which observation would bring the most science. After a lively debate, they choose to image the rings. For a high resolution image, click here. + View Feature |
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February 1, 2006 |
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Kelly Perry and Chris Roumel
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Kelly Perry and Chris Roumeliotis With Students |
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Two members of the Cassini Science Planning team, Kelly Perry and Chris Roumeliotis, visited Shirley Avenue Elementary School in Reseda, California, to speak about the Cassini mission and answer students' questions. The students participated in the pilot edition of "Cassini Scientist for a Day," a program designed to expose students to the kind of decisions scientists make routinely. They were given three equally valid choices and had to decide which observation would bring the most science. After a lively debate, they choose to image the rings. For a high resolution image, click here. + View Feature |
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February 1, 2006 |
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Kelly Perry and Chris Roumel
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Kelly Perry and Chris Roumeliotis With Students |
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Two members of the Cassini Science Planning team, Kelly Perry and Chris Roumeliotis, visited Shirley Avenue Elementary School in Reseda, California, to speak about the Cassini mission and answer students' questions. The students participated in the pilot edition of "Cassini Scientist for a Day," a program designed to expose students to the kind of decisions scientists make routinely. They were given three equally valid choices and had to decide which observation would bring the most science. After a lively debate, they choose to image the rings. For a high resolution image, click here. + View Feature |
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February 1, 2006 |
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Cassini and Students
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Cassini and Students |
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Accompanied by their teacher, Kathy Cooper, a group of students from Shirley Avenue Elementary School in Reseda, California, pose in front of a half-scale model of the Cassini spacecraft at JPL. The students participated in the pilot edition of "Cassini Scientist for a Day," a program designed to expose students to the kind of decisions scientists make routinely. They were given three equally valid choices and had to decide which observation would bring the most science. After a lively debate, they choose to image the rings. For a high resolution image, click here. + View Feature |
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February 1, 2006 |
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Cassini and Students
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Cassini and Students |
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Accompanied by their teacher, Kathy Cooper, a group of students from Shirley Avenue Elementary School in Reseda, California, pose in front of a half-scale model of the Cassini spacecraft at JPL. The students participated in the pilot edition of "Cassini Scientist for a Day," a program designed to expose students to the kind of decisions scientists make routinely. They were given three equally valid choices and had to decide which observation would bring the most science. After a lively debate, they choose to image the rings. For a high resolution image, click here. + View Feature |
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February 1, 2006 |
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Dione: Magnified View
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This close-up of Dione's icy surface shows deeply shadowed craters near the terminator, as well as a group of roughly linear faults above center. |
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This close-up of Dione's icy surface shows deeply shadowed craters near the terminator, as well as a group of roughly linear faults above center. The terrain shown here is on the moon's leading hemisphere. North on Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across) is up and tilted 21 degrees to the right. The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Dec. 24, 2005 at a distance of approximately 152,000 kilometers (94,000 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 109 degrees. Resolution in the original image was 904 meters (2,965 feet) per pixel. The image has been magnified by a factor of two and contrast-enhanced to aid visibility. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org . *Credit:* NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute |
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February 1, 2006 |
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Eruption on Augustine Island
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Eruption on Augustine Island, Alaska |
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Hot pyroclastic flows (avalanches of hot ash, pumice, rock and volcanic gas) poured down the side of the Augustine Volcano in the early hours of February 1, 2006, when the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) [ http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ ] took this image. This nighttime view of the volcano shows the eruption in terms of heat from the thermal infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The hot flows glow white in contrast to the cold, snow-covered land surrounding them. Ash and steam rise from the volcano, the ash tinting the plume grey-blue. Around Augustine Island, the ocean is warmer than the land surface and so appears white, while clouds are a dingy white and grey. Sitting in Cook Inlet of southern Alaska, the Augustine volcano is the most active volcano in the Eastern Aleutian arc. According to the Global Volcanism Program [ http://www.volcano.si.edu ], explosive activity at the volcano began on January 11, 2006. Hourly updates on the eruption are available from the Alaska Volcano Observatory [ http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/Augustine.php ]. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team |
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