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CGI flyover Hawaiian Islands
/ CGI made by draping image data from the Advanced Spacebourne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft over new ASTER Version 2 digital elevation data / flyover passes over Honolulu,...
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Orbiting Astronomical Observatory satellite in production
/ NASA's Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO) satellite in production / animation of satellite in space / OAO will carry Ultraviolet and X-ray telescopes to study stars and nebulae in the universe. Orbiting Astronomical Observatory...
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SSS satellite construction
/ The mission of SSS, which stands for Small Scientific Satellite, will be to investigate in detail some of the phenomena discovered by the larger observatory satellites in the 1960s / SSS model in laboratory / scientists writing...
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Russians launch first space satellite rocket
/ drawing of a Sputnik space rocket in space / sketch of rocket on landing pad with three men standing at the base / animation of rocket blasting off into space / rocket splits in two / satellite comes off front of rocket / satellite...
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Time lapse of a wind turbine with the Milky Way. Satellites are visible momentarily before they disappear when entering the Earth's shadow located just above the horizon. Jupiter is the brightest star in the field
Time lapse of a wind turbine with the Milky Way. Satellites are visible momentarily before they disappear when entering the Earth's shadow located just above the horizon. Jupiter is the brightest star in the field
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The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission will provide the first detailed exploration of the Earths unique and elusive noctilucent or night shining clouds that are found literally on the edge of space.
Located near the top of the Earths mesosphere (the region just above the stratosphere), very little is known about how these polar mesospheric clouds form or why they vary
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Antenna broadcast TV signal on sky and moon at night background
Antenna broadcast TV signal on sky and moon at night