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London at Night
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London at Night |
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Do you recognize [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951119.html ] this intriguing globular [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020416.html ] cluster of stars? It's actually the constellation of city lights surrounding London, England [ http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/map1859.html ], planet Earth, as recorded with a digital camera [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS006 &roll=E&frame=22939&QueryResultsFile=1048138731408.tsv ] from the International Space Station [ http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/ 29may_lookingglass.htm ]. Taken in February 2003, north is toward the top and slightly left in this nighttime view. The encircling "London Orbital" highway by-pass, the M25 (... but not Messier 25 [ http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m025.html ]), is easiest to pick out [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/EO/lowres/ISS006/ ISS006-E-22939.JPG ] south of the city. Even farther south are the lights of Gatwick airport and just inside the western (left hand) stretch of the Orbital is Heathrow. The darkened Thames river estuary fans out to the city's east. In particular, two small "dark nebulae [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020108.html ]" - Hyde Park and Regents Park - stand out slightly west of the densely packed lights at the city's core. |
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Comparison of Martian Radiat
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Comparison of Martian Radiation Environment with International Space Station |
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This graphic shows the radiation dose equivalent as measured by Odyssey's Martian radiation environment experiment at Mars and by instruments aboard the International Space Station, for the 11-month period from April 2002 through February 2003. The accumulated total in Mars orbit is about two and a half times larger than that aboard the Space Station. Averaged over this time period, about 10 percent of the dose equivalent at Mars is due to solar particles, although a 30 percent contribution from solar particles was seen in July 2002, when the sun was particularly active. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The radiation experiment was provided by the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Tex. Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, Colo., is the prime contractor for the project, and developed and built the orbiter. Mission operations are conducted jointly from Lockheed Martin and from JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Credit: NASA/JPL/JSC |
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Comparison of Martian Radiat
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Sol (our sun)
Mars Radiation Experiment
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Comparison of Martian Radiation Environment with International Space Station |
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This graphic shows the radiation dose equivalent as measured by Odyssey's Martian radiation environment experiment at Mars and by instruments aboard the International Space Station, for the 11-month period from April 2002 through February 2003. The accumulated total in Mars orbit is about two and a half times larger than that aboard the Space Station. Averaged over this time period, about 10 percent of the dose equivalent at Mars is due to solar particles, although a 30 percent contribution from solar particles was seen in July 2002, when the sun was particularly active. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The radiation experiment was provided by the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Tex. Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, Colo., is the prime contractor for the project, and developed and built the orbiter. Mission operations are conducted jointly from Lockheed Martin and from JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. |
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International Space Station Imagery |
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JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, TX - S
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JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, TX - STS115-S-001 (February 2003) -- This is the STS-115 insignia. This mission continues the assembly of the International Space Station with the installation of the truss segments P3 and P4. Following the installation of the segments utilizing both the shuttle and the station robotic arms, a series of four space walks will complete the final connections and prepare for the deployment of the station's second set of solar arrays. To reflect the primary mission of the flight, the patch depicts a solar panel as the main element. As the Space Shuttle Atlantis launches towards the ISS, its trail depicts the symbol of the Astronaut Office. The starburst, representing the power of the sun, rises over the Earth and shines on the solar panel. The shuttle flight number 115 is shown at the bottom of the patch, along with the ISS assembly designation 12A (the 12th American assembly mission). The blue Earth in the background reminds us of the importance of space exploration and research to all of Earth's inhabitants. The NASA insignia design for shuttle flights is reserved for use by the astronauts and for other official use as the NASA Administrator may authorize. Public availability has been approved only in the forms of illustrations by the various news media. When and if there is any change in this policy, which is not anticipated, the change will be publicly announced. |
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04/14/2006 |
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