Syurveior poskol'znulsya
27.09.2003 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

"Bezopasno!" V sentyabre 1967 goda (vo vremya regulyarnyh sezonnyh igr po beisbolu), na Lunu blagopoluchno opustilsya kosmicheskii korabl' Syurveior-5. Posadka byla myagkoi i proizoshla v more Spokoistviya (Mare Tranquillitatis), no pered tem, kak okonchatel'no ostanovit'sya, Syurveior-5 "proehal" neskol'ko futov po lunnoi poverhnosti.

Zapusk kosmicheskogo IK-teleskopa
5.09.2003 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Rano utrom 25 avgusta v nebe nad mysom Kanaveral poyavilsya sled ot tyazheloi rakety-nositelya Del'ta-2 kompanii Boing, unosyashei vvys' Infrakrasnyi kosmicheskii teleskop (Space InfraRed Telescope Facility, SIRTF) agentstva NASA. Etot snimok poluchen s pirsa v parke Dzhetti, na severnoi okonechnosti Kakaovogo plyazha, shtat Florida. Nablyudateli nahodilis' v 2,5 milyah ot mysa Kanaveral.