Typically the end of the discussion, but……. In Newton’s time, there were 6 planets “Modern” Astronomy ModernAstronomy.ppt

James Bradley (1725) – observes stellar parallax. The end of the geocentric universe. William Herschel (1781) – discovers Uranus Messier (1781) - discovers galaxies, nebula and star clusters while looking for comets. He compiles a catalogue of these objects (Messier objects). Christian Doppler (1842) – Discovers the “Dopple Effect” Johann Galle (1846) – Discovers Neptune Sir William Huggins (1860) – Initiates spectral analysis of starts Shiaparelli (1877) – Catalogs canals on Mars The Wright Brothers (1903) – First Powered Flight Robert Goddard (1926) – Foundations of rocketry Clyde Tombaugh (1930) – Discovery of Pluto The Age of Sight

The Age of Touch

1957 – Sputnik placed in orbit by the USSR 1961 – Yuri Gargarin (USSR) first human in space

The Earth from Apollo 10

1969 – Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the Moon

The Solar System

Schiaparelli's map of Mars (1888)

Lowell’s map of Mars

Earth basedHubble

The Age of Touch Mars Photo Comparison HubbleVoyager

The Age of Touch Mars

The Age of Touch Mars

The Age of Touch 1976 – Viking Probes land on Mars

The Age of Touch Earth viewed from Mars You are here: Earth as seen from Mars Target Name: Mars Spacecraft: Spirit Instrument: Panoramic Camera; Navigation Camera Produced by: NASA/JPL/Cornell/Texa s A&M Copyright: Copyright Free Date Released: 11 March 2004

The Age of Touch Jupiter Earth based Voyager

The Age of Touch 1980’s – Voyager Probes

The Age of Touch 1990 – Hubble Space Telescope Is this a Lunar or a Solar Eclipse?

The Age of Touch 2005 – The Cassini Huygens Mission

Language

The Age of Touch Are we alone in the solar system?

The Age of Touch 1997 – The Mars Meteor Cosmic Ancestry Hypothesis

Stars

Birth

The Age of Touch 1990 – Hubble Space Telescope

Stars Life

Stars Death

The Age of Touch 1990 – Hubble Space Telescope

Deep Sky

Astronomers have used the Hubble space telescope to discover the faintest and most distant galaxies ever seen. A new camera fitted to the orbiting observatory in May by shuttle astronauts has captured dim red "star cities" that formed only million years after the Big Bang. 2009

Commercial Enterprise

On June 21, 2004, … the launch of SpaceShipOne, the first private-venture craft to attempt to leave the earth's atmosphere and enter space, defined as an altitude of 100 kilometers (62 miles).

The one space tourism venture that has garnered the most interest in recent months, however, has been Virgin Galactic. Days before the first Ansari X Prize flight, Virgin announced it was partnering with Scaled Composites and Mojave Aerospace Ventures—the joint venture of Scaled and financier Paul Allen—to create a suborbital space tourism business flying vehicles based upon SpaceShipOne. Since then the company has released few details about its plans: the news section of Virgin Galactic’s web site was last updated on October 4, when SpaceShipOne made its final, prize-winning flight. the news section of Virgin Galactic’s web site However, during Saturday’s sessions of the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference in Arlington, Virginia, Virgin Galactic executives offered a host of new details about their plans for suborbital spaceflights and beyond. The Virgin Galactic experience Even though the first commercial flights of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo are still nearly three years away—spring 2008 under current plans—the company has paid considerable attention to the experience its customers will have. “What we’re doing is giving you a two-hour experience of going into space that will only require a few days of training,” said Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic

December 8, 2009—Aspiring space tourists got a first look at their future ride late Monday, when Virgin Galactic unveiled the first of its long-awaited SpaceShipTwo planes (pictured with wings folded upward, suspended from the middle of its twin-fuselage launch vehicle). Projected fare = $200,000.00Virgin Galactic

Exoplanets

And, of course…..

The Face on Mars Photographed by NASA Viking 1 in 1976

Cydonia Region

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Newer Image of the Face on Mars

The Interactive Earth Google Earth