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molecule discovered in Venus’s atmosphere
15 May 2008. Venus
Express has detected the molecule hydroxyl on another planet for
the first time. This detection gives scientists an important new
tool to unlock the workings of Venus’s dense atmosphere.
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1st Workshop on
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY THROUGH LONG DURATION BALLOONS
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Anno Internazionale dell'Astronomia
L’Anno Internazionale dell’Astronomia (International
Year of Astronomy - IYA2009) è promosso dall’ Unione Astronomica
Internazionale (IAU) e dall’UNESCO con il tema “L’Universo, a
voi scoprirlo” e cade nel quattrocentesimo anniversario
della prima osservazione al telescopio di Galileo Galilei. Sarà
una celebrazione globale dell’astronomia e dei suoi contributi
alla società e alla cultura, con una forte enfasi
sull’educazione, la partecipazione del pubblico e il
coinvolgimento dei giovani, attraverso eventi che si svolgeranno
su scala locale, nazionale e internazionale, lungo tutto l’arco
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 The
puzzling 'eye of a hurricane' on Venus
13 March 2008.
Venus Express has constantly been observing the
south pole of Venus and has found it to be surprisingly fickle.
An enormous structure with a central part that looks like the
eye of a hurricane, morphs and changes shape within a matter of
days, leaving scientists puzzled.
© European Space
Agency.
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 Venus
Express seeks out gases below the clouds
4 February 2008.
ESA’s Venus Express has recently ‘peeled back’ the thick clouds
around Venus to provide the most accurate and wide-ranging map
of water vapour and other gases in the lower atmosphere to date.
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VIRTIS Observations of Venus' Lower
Atmosphere
4 February 2008. Tthe VIRTIS
instrument has gathered numerous high-resolution spectra of
Venus' atmosphere in the wavelength range 2-5 micron. Taking
advantage of a broad spectral window around 2.3 micron, the data
has allowed for mapping of minor constituents in the deep
atmosphere below the planet's thick cloud deck.
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VIMS is an imaging spectrometer that flies on board
the Cassini spacecraft (a NASA/ESA/ASI mission).
VIMS is an experiment by JPL (VIMS IR), ASI (VIMS
V), IASF/INAF and IAS-Orsay (for the main
electronics).
The scientific program is mainly focused on Saturn
and Titan atmospheres, observation of Titan surface
through narrow spectral window in the NIR, and
identification of surface composition of small
satellites, rings, and asteroids observed during the
cruise phase.
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INTEGRAL IBIS
ESA's
INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics
Laboratory is the most sensitive gamma-ray
observatory ever launched.
INTEGRAL is an ESA mission in
cooperation with Russia and the United States. |
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ROSETTA VIRTIS
VIRTIS is an imaging spectrometer onboard of the Rosetta
spacecraft. VIRTIS was being built by INAF,
Galileo Avionica, DLR
and Observatorie de Paris.
It combines three data channels in one compact
instrument. Two of them are devoted to spectral
mapping (Mapper optical subsystem: -M), the third
channel is devoted to spectroscopy (High resolution
optical subsystem:-H). |
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 Venus Express Virtis
VIRTIS
(Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging
Spectrometer) is a complex instrument initially
devoted to the remote sensing study of comet
Wirtanen on the Rosetta
mission, at wavelengths between 0.3 and 5 mm.
The focal
planes, with state of the art CCD and
infrared detectors achieve high sensitivity for low
emissivity sources. Due to
the high flexibility of operational modes of VIRTIS,
these performances are also ideally adapted for the
study of Venus atmosphere, both on night and day side.
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AGILE
AGILE is a space Scientific Mission devoted to gamma-ray
astrophysics supported by the Italian Space Agency
(ASI), with scientific participation of the Italian
Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) and the Italian
Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). |
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AMIE - SMART1
SMART-1 is the first of ESA's
Small Missions for
Advanced Research in Technology thought with
the purpouse of testing new technologies that will
eventually be used on bigger projects.
Among
SMART-1
on-board instruments there is the AMIE camera.
AMIE
(Advanced Moon
micro-Imager Experiment) is an ultracompact
electronic camera that will survey the terrain using
visible and near-infrared light. |
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Dawn Mission VIR Instrument
Dawn
is a NASA mission that will be launched in 2006.
The VIR Spectrometer (Visual and Infrared
Spectrometer) is an instrument by the
italian that will fly on it. Dawn will be launched
to study two asteroids, Vesta and Ceres. |
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GRI Gamma Ray Imager
The Gamma-Ray Imager is an initiative of the European
Gamma-Ray Community aiming in the definition of the next
European Gamma-Ray mission within ESA's Cosmic Vision
2015-2025 program. |
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 Edge
Estremo/WFXRT
Edge
is a space mission under study aimed to address
fundamental questions on the evolution of the Universe
from the dark era to the present age and its violent
manifestations of phenomena in extreme conditions. |
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English version 
Venus comes to life at wavelengths invisible to human eyes
Identificata
l’origine della emissione ad alte energie della Nebulosa del Granchioo