Posts Tagged ‘nasa’
satellite browser
NASA hopes we enjoy J-Track 3-D.
Clicking on the thumbnail below or here or there will activate JTrack3D and it will appear in its own window and begin loading a database of over 900 satellites.
What you will see (presuming the system you’re on supports Java) is a plot in 3-dimensions showing the position of these satellites. Choose them all from the pull-down menu.
If your system isn’t currently supporting Java, skip the conniption, there are also some satellites that can be viewed without it:
They sure didn’t walk very far…
Last weekend, I watched In the Shadow of the Moon, a documentary put together by Ron Howard about the Apollo missions to the Moon.
Like a lot of us, I’ve always been extremely curious about all of these things and in my searching for more and more details, I found the pic below [click on it to see it larger] – those fellas sure didn’t go wandering off into the Earthlight too far while they were there…
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