Kogda-to rasplavlennaya poverhnost' Venery
26.03.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Esli by mozhno bylo glyanut' na Veneru glazami radara, to my by uvideli takuyu kartinu. Na kartinke pokazany nablyudeniya korablya Magellan poverhnosti Venery, obrabotannye komp'yuterom. Dlya sostavleniya kart Venery ispol'zovalis' radarnye ustanovki, kogda Magellan letal vokrug nashei sosedki v 1990-1994 godah.

NEAR - Shumeiker vidit Eros
16.03.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Apparat NEAR seichas obrashaetsya vokrug asteroida 433 Eros. Nahodyas' v 232 millionah km ot Zemli, apparat peredaet nam porazitel'nye snimki po mere realizacii godovogo plana issledovanii. Segodnyashnyaya mozaika sostavlena iz izobrazhenii, poluchennyh nedavno s rasstoyaniya 203 km ot asteroida. Otchetlivo vidno potryasayushie kontrasty, kotorye imeyut mesto byt' v predelah etogo miniatyurnogo mira.

Nebo i planety
10.03.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

10 fevralya astrofotograf Stiv Samner nahodilsya v gorode Roklin (Kaliforniya, SShA), gde on, voodushevlennyi porazitel'noi krasotoi neba, sdelal etot snimok s pyat'yu planetami i Lunoi. Na snimke v sgushayushihsya sumerkah horosho vidny sil'no perederzhannaya Luna v pervoi chetverti, Saturn, Yupiter, Mars, Merkurii i konechno zhe Zemlya (vidimyi gorizont).

Vse blizhe i blizhe k Erosu
8.03.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Po mere togo, kak avtomaticheskii korabl' NEAR sblizhaetsya s asteroidom 433 Eros, vse bol'she i bol'she detalei stanovitsya vidno na ego poverhnosti. Provedennye na proshloi nedele manevry pozvolili NEAR proletet' nad 204-mya kilometrami goristoi poverhnosti.

Padenie asteroida 65 millionov let nazad
26.02.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Pochemu vymerli dinozavry? Sovershenno vnezapno 65 millionov let nazad primerno 70 procentov vseh vidov zhivotnyh prekratili svoe sushestvovanie. V istorii eto izvestno pod nazvaniem "sobytie K-T" - massovoe vymiranie v melovoi-tretichnyi period. Geologi i paleontologi chasto predlagayut gipotezu, chto prichinoi bylo stolknovenie s Zemlei asteroida ili komety.

Komety SOHO
25.02.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Chetyre goda uspeshnyh nablyudenii za Solncem prinesli Kosmicheskoi solnechnoi observatorii SOHO takzhe status naibolee plodovitogo iskatelya komet za vsyu istoriyu chelovechestva - SOHO nashla 102 novye komety. Na segodnyashnei kartinke pokazany neskol'ko izobrazhenii poluchennye instrumentom LASCO, ustanovlennom na koronografe SOHO. LASCO byl razrabotan dlya slezheniya za solnechnoi koronoi na rasstoyaniyah okolo 20 millionov km ot Solnca.

StereoEros
24.02.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Naden'te svoi krasno-golubye ochki i unesites' k asteroidu 433 Eros, na 260 millionov km! Asteroid Eros obrashaetsya vokrug Solnca s periodom 1.8 zemnyh goda. Ego gabarity ravny 40 x 14 x 14 km, poverhnost' ego volnoobrazna i useyana kraterami, valunami i zhelobami.

Gigantskaya vyboina na Erose
21.02.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Asteroid Eros tait v sebe nekotorye zagadki. Avtomaticheskii apparat NEAR (apparat dlya izucheniya asteroidov, sblizhayushihsya s Zemlei) nachal kruiz okolo etogo 30-kilometrovogo kosmicheskogo bulyzhnika na proshloi nedele. Poetomu na Zemlyu stali nepreryvno peredavat'sya novye izobrazheniya.

Eros s orbity
16.02.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

14 fevralya korabl' NEAR stal pervym iskusstvennym sputnikom asteroida. NEAR byl uvlechen slaboi gravitaciei etogo 36-kilometrovogo bulyzhnika, obladayushego formoi tufli. Segodnya na kartinke pokazan pervyi snimok, kotoryi sdelali kamery korablya, kogda tot podletel k asteroidu 433 Eros na 360 km. Na snimke razlichimy detali razmerom 30 metrov.

Neozhidannaya valentinka. Ot asteroida
14.02.2000 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Mozhet byt', Luna zavlekaet nashi serdca, no eto ne ostanavlivaet asteroid ot togo, chtoby ne poslat' nam valentinki. V pyatnicu, na udivlenie vsem, korabl' NEAR, prednaznachennyi dlya sblizheniya s asteroidom 433 Eros, sfotografiroval vpadinu, imeyushuyu formu serdca.