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English: June 30, 2015 - Venus and Jupiter come close together in a planetary conjunction; they came approximately 1/3 a degree apart. In this picture's foreground stands a Celestron Powerseeker 60AZ telescope. The conjunction had been nicknamed the "Star of Bethlehem." The picture was taken with a Pentax Optio RZ10 camera.
English: This remarkable photo shows the ESO La Silla observatory in the foreground with the planets Venus and Jupiter low in the sky and the Milky Way drifting behind them. Yet it took Zdenek Bardon, the photographer, three nights to capture this stunning image; astrophotographers are subject to the whims of the weather and this photo was no ...
Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. [1] They were purportedly taken in Japan by the French astronomer Jules Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's ' photographic revolver '.
This is a list of all spacecraft landings on other planets and bodies in the Solar System, including soft landings and both intended and unintended hard impacts.The list includes orbiters that were intentionally crashed, but not orbiters which later crashed in an unplanned manner due to orbital decay.
English: Detail of Jupiter's atmosphere, as imaged by Voyager 1. Suggested for English Wikipedia:alternative text for images: This view of Jupiter's clouds with the Great Red Spot at top right as brown oval to right of wavy white and brown clouds. Below the Great Red Spot are various bands of bluer wavy clouds at smaller scales with smaller ...
The second sphere explains the movement of the Sun and the Moon on the ecliptic plane. The third sphere was supposed to move on a “latitudinally inclined” circle and explain the latitudinal motion of the Sun and the Moon in the cosmos. Four spheres were assigned to Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, the only known planets at that time.
Global topographic map of Venus, with all probe landings marked (red: returned images; with additional black dot: analyzed samples). There have been 46 space missions to the planet Venus (including gravity-assist flybys). Missions to Venus constitute part of the exploration of Venus.
The Venera 9 lander transmitted the first images from the surface of Venus. [14] [15] Venera 10 orbiter and lander Venus 14 June 1975 23 October 1975 entered orbit 25 October 1975 landed: 132 days (4 mo, 10 d) Venera 10 successfully landed and sent back images from the surface of Venus. [16] [17] Viking 1 Orbiter and Lander: Mars 20 August 1975