Philips Atlas of the Universe

EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE Type of radiation Gamma rays 0.00010.001 X-Rays Ultra- violet Infra-red Visible Radio waves Wavelength Ra ...

Rockets into Space ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE T he idea of travelling to other worlds is far from new. As long ago as the second cent ...

EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE a few tens of metres at a top speed of below 100 kilome- tres per hour (60 miles per hour), but it was th ...

Satellites and Space Probes ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE I f an artificial satellite is to be put into a closed path round the Earth, i ...

EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE and Mariner 10 made the first rendezvous with the inner planet Mercury. Next came the missions to the out ...

Man in Space ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE M anned spaceflight began on 12 April 1961, when Major Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Air Force w ...

EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE Gagarin entered space 54 years later, and only 12 years elapsed between Gagarin’s flight and Neil Armstro ...

Space Stations S pace stations date back a long way – in fiction, but only in modern times have they become fact. One early post ...

EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE
The International Space Station in December 2001. The robot manipulator arm is clearly visible in this p ...

The HST mirror. The mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope was perfectly made – but to the wrong curve! Human error resulted in ...

The repaired HST, 1994. During the repair mission, the faulty solar panels were replaced. This picture was taken just after th ...

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Saturn from Cassini, in a spectacularly detailed mosaic of 126 images obtained over two hours on 6 October 2004. The spacecraf ...

The Sun’s Family ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE T he Solar System is the only part of the universe which we can explore with spacecraft o ...

THE SOLAR SYSTEM Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Distance from max. 69.7 109 152 249 816 1507 3004 ...

The Earth in the Solar System ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE W hy do we live on the Earth? The answer must be: ‘Because we are suited to ...

THE SOLAR SYSTEM Began Ended (million years ago) PRE-CAMBRIAN ERA Archæan 3800 2500 Start of life Proterozoic 2500 590 Life in t ...

The Earth as a Planet ▲The Earth’s crust is divided into six large tectonic plates and a number of minor ones. They are separate ...

THE SOLAR SYSTEM ▲An earthquake occurs along a fault line when the crust on either side is being forced to move in different dir ...

The Earth’s Atmosphere and Magnetosphere ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE A s seen from space the Earth is truly magnificent, as we have be ...