In Depth | Perseids – NASA Solar System Exploration
The pieces of space debris that interact with our atmosphere to create the Perseids originate from comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Swift-Tuttle takes 133 years to orbit the Sun once. It was Giovanni Schiaparelli who realized in 1865 that this comet was the source of the Perseids.
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2023年6月8日 · What Time is it in Space? NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 - NASA Solar System Exploration
On the night of March 24, 1993, Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy discovered a strange looking comet from a photograph taken from the 0.4 meter Schmidt telescope in Palomar Observatory in Califonia. The comet was named Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 after the discoverers, the ninth comet discovered by this team.
Comet Shoemaker-Levy Homepage (JPL) - NASA Solar System …
2014年7月16日 · Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter. July 16, 2014 Update: 20 years later. Twenty years ago, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) impacted Jupiter. I created this website in June 1994 on a voluntary basis, and it was my first public website.
How Astrophysics Division Assets Are Helping Planetary Science
2015年1月6日 · Using data from prior observations by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), Swift and ground-based telescopes, experts modeled the dust ejected from the comet that could pose a risk to our orbiting Mars spacecraft.
The Magellan Venus Explorer's Guide - NASA Solar System …
With the arrays deployed, Magellan spans 10 meters (32.8 feet) from tip to tip of the panels. The light-colored lines visible on them are solar reflectors that keep the temperature of the arrays below 115 degrees centigrade (239 degrees Fahrenheit), even in full sunlight at Venus.
New Horizons Successfully Explores Ultima Thule
2019年1月1日 · NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule in the early hours of New Year's Day, ushering in the era of exploration from the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of primordial objects that holds keys to understanding the origins of the solar system.
Stardust | JPL | NASA
The Leonid meteor display is associated with the Earth's passage through the Leonid stream. This stream consists of the debris of Tempel-Tuttle, a comet that orbits the Sun about every 33 years. When do the most intense outbursts occur?
4.1.1 Environmental Impacts of Preparing for Launch The Cassini Orbiter (i.e., the spacecraft without the Huygens Probe) would be assembled at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.