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Thursday, November 1, 2012

The orbit of the ISS has been raised by about 1 kilometer



The rectification of the orbit of the International Space Station to avoid a impact with debris U.S. satellite saints held on November 1.

The experts at NASA and the Russian Mission Control Center said they used to contrive the engine docked cargo ship.

Earlier in the Mission Control Center said that the threat of a collision with debris ISS no American satellite. 

Ghost Nebula


This ghostly image was obtained in August 2009 with the vision of wide-field Mosaic Camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. This cloud of cosmic dust, called vdB 141, is a reflection nebula located in the constellation Cepheus, approximately 1,200 light-years away. 

Chasing clouds on Venus


Often spotted clouds blue sky of Earth, but Venus is never clear. This planet is permanently surrounded by a solid covering of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide, about 20 kilometers thick.

This image, taken by the European spacecraft Venus Express on December 8, 2011 when it was at about 30,000 miles from Earth, shows the top of the clouds of Venus in ultraviolet wavelengths.