Explore Our Planet

This image was acquired by the Rosetta Orbiter Imaging System OSIRIS from a distance of 350 000 km at 22:28 UTC 12th November. The resolution is 6.5 km/pixel. The mission is named after the famous 'Rosetta Stone' and refers to an important discovery he ...>>

The good news is sea level will not rise if Arctic melts. Your soft drink full of ice cubes does not overflow for same reason. Instead of the Northwest and Northeast Passages will become navigable by regular ships for part of the year very soon and feed ...>>

Though the eleven year solor cycle as well as the Southern Oscillation hit their minimum 2007 is recorded as second warmth year in the period of instrumental data. More: Wikipedia: Solar Cycle Marshall Space Flight Center: NASA Satellites Capture St ...>>

The Rosetta mission is one of the most challenging ever attempted. Started 2nd March 2004 Rosetta will use fly-bys of Mars and Earth to accelerate and then rendezvous with comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It will land, take probes - some 4.6 billion years old - to ...>>

Solar-B is an international mission to study our nearest star, the sun. To accomplish this, the Solar-B mission includes a suite of three science instruments -- the Solar Optical Telescope, X-ray Telescope and Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer. ...>>

The Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS) was biggest ever realized with Hubble Space Telescope (HST). For 2 years the survey observed and photographed [SkyWalker] a small portion of the sky. Within 2 square degree over 2 million galaxies were detected. By co ...>>

From now (2007-01-08) the moon is metric and the radius measures 1,737.4 kilometers, the mass is 7.35E19 metric tons and the density is about 3.34 grams per cubic centimeter roughly 60 percent of Earth's density. NASA will return to Moon by 2020 and plans ...>>

Since March 10th, 2006, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) orbits planet Mars. On board are six instruments and one is the HiRISE camera. The HiRISE Operations Center (HiROC) at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory started to publi ...>>

Photographer Thierry Legault shot this spectacular image. It shows the transit of the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Atlantis 50 minutes after undocking from the ISS in front of the Sun on 17 September 2006 13:38:50 UTC. Picture was s ...>>

Not a picture from this planet, but impressive anyway. Hopefully Hubble telescope will take more pictures from our universum in future. This one has been composed and mosaiqued using 51 individual Hubble photos plus a few ground-based. Galaxy Messier 10 ...>>