Messendzher nad Merkuriem
31.03.2011 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

17 marta kosmicheskii apparat Messendzher (angl. MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging — MESSENGER) stal pervym v mire sputnikom Merkuriya — samoi blizkoi k Solncu planety Solnechnoi sistemy. Vy vidite pervuyu obrabotannuyu cvetnuyu fotografiyu planety, poluchennuyu apparatom pri vyhode na ee orbitu.

Na Titane dozhdlivo
1.04.2011 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Na Titane idut dozhdi. Na samom dele s neba Titana l'etsya metan, i eto ne pervoaprel'skaya shutka. Hudozhnik izobrazil svoe predstavlenie obychnogo peizazha na samoi bol'shoi lune Saturna: my vidim razrushayushuyusya pochvu i grozovoe nebo. Takoi scenarii sootvetstvuet sezonnym livnevym shtormam, vremenno zatemnyayushim poverhnost' Titana vdol' ekvatorial'nyh oblastei.