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NASA / JPL / MSSS
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Touchdown on the Red Planet Curiosity's spectacular landing paves the way for new discoveries about Mars's ability to support life. By Emily Lakdawalla From Handel to Hydra: Naming Planets, Moons & Craters "Naming a thing is man's nearest approach to creating it." -- Percival Lowell By Rosaly Lopes The Evolving Eclipse Map Nearly 400 years of fine-tuning have turned today's eclipse maps into works of art that predict cosmic alignments with exquisite precision. By Michael Zeiler Tips for Shooting Great Nightscapes Capturing the Earth and sky in one great composition is surprisingly easy. By Babak A. Tafreshi |
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Beyond the Printed Page |
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Newest Images from Curiosity The Curiosity rover's 17 cameras capture its surroundings — a fascinating mix of the alien and the familiar. read more > By Kelly Beatty Mapping Eclipses View maps of eclipses coming up over the next five years. read more > By Robert Naeye From Handel to Hydra: Naming Planets, Moons, & Craters Find out the names and protocols for features and bodies throughout the solar system. read more > By Monica Young Find Neptune's Big Moon Neptune's big moon, Triton, is nearly as dim as Pluto. Use our Triton Tracker tool to meet the challenge of finding this faint satellite. read more > By David Tytell & Adrian Ashford Lunar Librations Librations and other lunar data for Nov. 2012 read more > By The Editors of Sky & Telescope |
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Michael Zeiler
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Also in This Issue |
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The Marriage of Earth and Sky Mundane and celestial objects enrich each other where they mingle. By Fred Schaaf Turmoil on Jupiter The King of the Planets reappears with chaos in its northern hemisphere. By John H. Rogers S&T Test Report: Orion's StarShoot G3 Cameras Beginning astrophotographers have two new astronomical CCD cameras to consider. By Johnny Horne Table of Contents See what else November's issue has to offer. read more > |
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S&T Photo Gallery: Mohammadreza Ghorbanzade
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