This Photograph Of Neptune’s Southern Hemisphere Was Taken By The Narrow-angle Camera On NASA’s Voyager

Everything’s coming up roses. See a close-up view of a storm with bright cloud tops in this rose-colored view of Jupiter.

The view from here. This color-enhanced image of Jupiter’s swirling south polar region was captured during my latest flyby of the gas giant planet.

Falling Away from Jupiter. This image of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere was captured during my flyby of the gas giant planet on Dec. 16, 2017.

On that day in 1957 was launched the satellite Sputnik 1, the Earth’s first artificial satellite.

The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957, orbiting for three weeks before its batteries died, then silently for two more months before falling back into the atmosphere. It was a 58 cm (23 in) diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses. Its radio signal was easily detectable even by radio amateurs and the 65° inclination and duration of its orbit made its flight path cover virtually the entire inhabited Earth. This surprise success precipitated the American Sputnik crisis and triggered the Space Race, a part of the Cold War. The launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments.

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God that frees us, Mario will participate in the next EuroCup yes! by God’s will