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AstroAviator » Moon http://astroaviator.com From Aviation to Space Exploration, it's all in it... Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:17:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Juno Captures Earth and The Moon http://astroaviator.com/2011/08/31/juno-captures-earth-and-the-moon/ http://astroaviator.com/2011/08/31/juno-captures-earth-and-the-moon/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:19:02 +0000 Assad http://astroaviator.com/2011/08/31/juno-captures-earth-and-the-moon/ juno

After lift off on 5th August 2011, spacecraft Juno travelled almost 6 million miles when it took the image of Earth and the Moon while on its way to Jupiter. The image was captured by on board camera called JunoCam on 26th August 2011 and it was part of one of various tests conducted by Juno after it’s launch to see the spacecrafts progress. Related posts:

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NASA while undergoing progress to land man on the moon launched Apollo 8 to test the spacecraft’s capability to reach the moon. Apollo 8 crew Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were the first human beings to orbit the lunar surface and space object beyond Earth. Apollo 8 entered the lunar orbit on the [...] Related posts:

]]> http://astroaviator.com/2010/12/25/the-christmas-orbit/feed/ 1 Oxygen Rich Atmosphere Found On Rhea http://astroaviator.com/2010/11/28/oxygen-rich-atmosphere-found-on-rhea/ http://astroaviator.com/2010/11/28/oxygen-rich-atmosphere-found-on-rhea/#comments Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:45:16 +0000 Assad http://astroaviator.com/?p=1732

Gradually and slowly the cosmos is revealing it’s secrets, the secrets that we are anxious to know and that is the possibility of life in outer space. Life is only sustainable if the basic elements are present for example water, oxygen and air that we breathe. Since the launch of Hubble many extraterrestrial objects have [...] Related posts:

]]> http://astroaviator.com/2010/11/28/oxygen-rich-atmosphere-found-on-rhea/feed/ 0 3rd December 2009 Sky Watch http://astroaviator.com/2009/12/02/3rd-december-2009-sky-watch/ http://astroaviator.com/2009/12/02/3rd-december-2009-sky-watch/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:21:13 +0000 Assad http://astroaviator.com/?p=1282 moon ring

On the night of 3rd December 2009 a quite known phenomena was observed in the night sky revealing a breath taking view of the moon along with a dense cloud around the moon like a ring in the city of Islamabad and Rawalpindi and also across many cities of Pakistan. Some of the observers found [...] Related posts:

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The news of water being discovered on moon has pumped NASA to boost their Constellation Program. But this is not all; even scientists are now dying to study more about the moon secrets and for this they need somebody to go there and start digging for the secrets they are looking for. Three probes confirming [...] Related posts:

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Marshall Space Flight Centre is testing a new robotic lunar lander test bed that will aid in the development of a new generation of multi-use landers for robotic space exploration. The test article is equipped with thrusters that guide the lander, one set of which controls the vehicle’s attitude that directs the altitude and landing. [...] Related posts:

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Man has been searching far and wide across the universe for any signs of water when all along there it was on the body nearest to our planet. No, i am not talking about Mars but our very own, the Moon! Strange but amazing, when man first stepped on the moon and brought the soil [...] Related posts:

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Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), one of the new emerging space agencies in the world, on 23rd September 2009 launched seven satellites in a single rocket. Among these seven satellites, one was Indian, four German, one Turkish and one Swedish. India’s satellite, Oceansat-2, will enhance the ocean monitoring capabilities of the original Oceansat, which launched [...] Related posts:

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Moon could be the coldest place in our solar system according to the scientist. Recently NASA’s probe has discovered that there are some regions on the surface of the moon were the temperature drops to –390 degrees F. This is because the craters on the moon are so deep that the sunlight barely or never [...] Related posts:

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Does the word “Armadillo” ring a bell? No? Well think again! If you are a die hard fan of the Armageddon movie you will remember it as the high tech rover that saved the Earth. Now it’s out there for real but its not the kind that was in the movie ; It’s a Northrop [...] Related posts:

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