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World Webcams: Space
Voor spacepagina:
Cities around the World (Fourmilab) View from 15 kilometers high & more Live from the Pads Webcams at Cape Canaveral Edwards Base, Vandenberg, Baykonur and other Launching Places (with Calendar)
Images of the globe are taken routinely by Meteosat satellites from the geostationary orbit about 36000 km above the equator. The images are taken on a half-hourly basis. After processing at the control centre in Darmstadt, they are re-disseminated via the satellites to the user community. The satellites are explorated by the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). Currently EUMETSAT is operating Meteosat satellites at positions of 0° longitude and at 63°E. A Meteosat Second Generation
was launched September 27, 2002.
FIND YOUR BIRTHDAY STAR
< The birthday star of Dutch Courage was at April 12, 2004: Delta Geminorum in the constellation Gemini; 58.7 light years ago, but could have been changed now. (click to enlarge).
The stars are so far away from us that their light takes a long time to reach Earth. One light year is the distance light travels in a year: 5,878,499,812,499 miles (9.446.749.198.686 kilometers). The closest star apart from the Sun is 4.2 light years away, so its light takes 4.2 years to reach Earth. Tell the Birthday Stars computer when you were born, and it will look for a star that is your age in light years away from Earth. This means that the light we're seeing from that star today actually left the star around when you were born, and has taken your entire life to reach Earth. Come back in a month or two and your birthday star may have changed, as the light from more distant stars reaches Earth. (Joint Astronomy Center)
The Jodrell Bank Observatory is a part of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Manchester in Cheshire, United Kingdom. Three webcams show the giant Lovell Telescope with a diameter of 76 meters (250 ft), that has played a major role in astronomical research due to its large collecting area and great flexibility. Nowadays the telescope is 30 times more sensitive than when it was first built. Click the links for the history and more scientific information. The BBC provices a view at the Jodrell Bank in 360°.
THE END OF GALILEO: PLUNGED INTO JUPITER SEPTEMBER 21, 2003
September 21, 2003 the Galileo spacecraft has crashed into the planet of Jupiter. It ended its mission at a speed of nearly 108,000 mph. NASA planned the crash of the $1.5 billion Galileo to make sure it doesn't accidentally contaminate the planet's ice-covered moon Europa with bacteria from Earth. At the NASA Galileo website you find dozens of facts about the Galileo discoveries, impressing images and flyby animations during its journey since October 18, 1989. At the NASA website Countdown to Jupiter Impact you can download computer-generated animations of the last 19 hours of the Galileo spacecraft, showing its impact into Jupiter. The animations (MPEG & Quicktime) were created by Ron Baalke.
NASA has an interesting webpage about Satellite Tracking. They provide live the positions of most important satellites in Earth Space. The Earth is surrounded by over 8,000 objects. Impressing is the Live 3D Tracking Display, where you can zoom at the over 2,500 satellites. If yiou know the longitude and latitude of the place you are, you can find what satellites are passing your area and what 'stars' in reality are planets like Mars, Jupiter and Saturnus. Furthermore you can find the place of Space Station, Shuttle, Hubble, Chandra, NOAA 12, NOAA 14 and NOAA 15.
The American scientist Paul Carlisle produced the Moon Calendar, where you can set the calendar to any date from 3999 BC to 3999 AD (exclusive 0; the next year after 1 BC is 1 AD. The starting page gives the moon calendar of the current month. There you can set any other month. A click at the date shows the actual image of the Moon you can animate back into the past or forward into the future. 'Information' brings you to interesting links like about Lunar exploration, the Apollo program and detailed images of the Moon.
His Earth Viewer shows the planet as it should appear from space. The starting page gives the actual daylight/night view pointed at 30oE latitude/0o longitude (Africa/Europe/Western Asia). You can move the globe to any direction by changing latitude and/or longitude, clicking the globe, choose a city or special location (North Pole, South Pole), make daily or seasonal animations or transfor them to a world map.
World Webcams: Space
Astronomy Picture of the Day is a service of Laboratory of High Energy Astrophysics (LHEA) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Michigan Technological University.
They present an Astronomy Picture of the Day with an archive and calendar and explanation since June 16, 1995. At the index you find all kind of pictures about Cosmos, Solar system, Sky, Space technology and astrological Persons.
FIND YOUR BIRTHDAY STAR
The Earth has a ring, according NASA's 3-dimensional JTrack view from Space: >
The American scientist Paul Carlisle produced the Moon Calendar, where you can set the calendar to any date from 3999 BC to 3999 AD (exclusive 0; the next year after 1 BC is 1 AD. The starting page gives the moon calendar of the current month. There you can set any other month. A click at the date shows the actual image of the Moon you can animate back into the past or forward into the future. 'Information' brings you to interesting links like about Lunar exploration, the Apollo program and detailed images of the Moon. 
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