A Cosmic Journey
Dr. Katherine Auld We are going on a cosmic journey
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Go!!! Launching from the library
Go!!! Launching from the library
Go!!! Launching from the library
Go!!! Launching from the library
Go!!! First Stop? Our Moon Luna USSR Successful Ranger USA Zond USSR Missions Surveyor USA Explorer USA Apollo USA Mariner USA Hiten Japan Clementine USA SMART-1 ESA ARTEMIS USA Kaguya Japan Chang’e China Moon Impact Probe India LRO USA LCROSS USA GRAIL USA LADEE USA 4M Luxembourg Earthrise from Apollo 8 First manned mission to moon. Orbits the moon. Entered orbit on Dec 24, 1969. Image Credit: https://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/apollo_8.html Apollo 16
First use of Moon as observatory. Collected ultraviolet light from Earth and other bodies.
Image Credit: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_16/photography/ Apollo 17
Image Credit: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_979.html Next stop… the Sun
Image credit: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/picturing-the-sun-s-magnetic-field Successful Missions
Pioneer USA Helios USA ISEE USSR Ulysses ESA/USA WIND USA SOHO ESA/USA ACE USA Genesis NASA STEREO USA DSCOVR USA
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/news/first_light.html Magnetic changes in space
Solar prominence
https://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2007/multimedia/gal_013.php Apollo 16 Aurora over Finland cause by CME
Coronal mass ejection
Image Credit: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/soho/images/index.html Next stop… Mars Mariner USA Successful Mars USSR Viking USA Missions Surveyor USA MGS USA Pathfinder USA Sojourner USA Mars Odyssey USA Mars Express ESA Spirit USA Opportunity USA Rosetta ESA MRO USA Phoenix USA Dawn USA Curiosity USA Mars Orbiter Mission India MAVEN USA ExoMars ESA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
HiRISE CRISM MARCI Spirit and Opportunity Launched 2003 Landed 2004 Planned mission = 90 sols Spirit moved until 2009 and functioned until 2010 Opportunity exceeded plan by 12 years, 270 days and remains Image Credit: http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/spacecraft_surface_rover.ht operational ml Spirit and Opportunity Next stop… Saturn
Image Credit: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/saturnfact.html Successful Missions
Pioneer USA Voyager USA Cassini/ USA Huygens
Image Credit: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/system/resources/detail_files/5868_IMG004868.jpg Cassini
NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's northern hemisphere and rings as viewed with four different spectral filters. Cassini
Final orbit paths of Cassini
Image Credit: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/cassini-makes-first-ring-grazing-plunge Cassini The wavemaker moon, Daphnis, is featured in this view, taken as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made one of its ring- grazing passes over the outer edges of Saturn's rings on Jan. 16, 2017. Cassini The wavemaker moon, Daphnis, is featured in this view, taken as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made one of its ring- grazing passes over the outer edges of Saturn's rings on Jan. 16, 2017. 88 constellations Constellations Cover the sky Used for navigation Questions?