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Satellite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia However, scientists may also use the term to refer to natural satellites, or moons. Weather satellites are satellites that primarily are used to monitor the weather and/or climate of the Earth. The general criterion for an object to be a satellite is that the center of mass of the two objects is inside the primary object. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Satellite   (1260 words)

Natural satellite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A natural satellite is a moon (not capitalized), that is, any natural object that orbits a planet. Diameters of the new Plutonian satellites are still very poorly known, but they are estimated to lie between 44 and 130 km. In addition to the moons of the various planets there are also over 80 known moons of the asteroids and other minor planets. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Natural_satellite   (598 words)

MSN Encarta - Natural Satellite The motion of most of the solar system's natural satellites about their planets is direct: west to east, in the same direction as the rotation of their planets. Saturn has more than 20 natural satellites, the largest of which is Titan. The Moon’s surface, like the surfaces of most of the natural satellites in the solar system, is heavily cratered and geologically inactive. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551602/Natural_Satellite.html   (452 words)

What Is a Satellite? Satellites in orbit can send messages to a special receiver carried by someone on a ship in the ocean or in a truck in the desert, telling that person exactly where he or she is. Satellites can't be allowed to jiggle or wander, because if a satellite is not exactly where it belongs, pointed at exactly the right place on the earth, the television program or the telephone call it transmits to you will be interrupted. When the satellite reaches its orbit, a motor points it in the right direction and its antennas and solar panels deploy—that is, they unfold from their traveling position and spread out so the satellite can start sending and receiving signals. www.boeing.com /defense-space/space/bss/sat101.html   (2905 words)

satellite, natural on Encyclopedia.com The most familiar natural satellite is the earth's moon ; thus, satellites of other planets are often referred to as moons. United Kingdom Television satellite Satellite Science and Technology Earth sciences Natural sciences Telecommunication Swiss scientists expect satellite to help predict natural disasters. www.encyclopedia.com /html/s1/satelnat.asp   (931 words)

TERRIERS Classroom: Lesson 2.1: What is a Satellite? Natural satellites are spherical too, but for a different physical reason - gravity will produce sphere shaped bodies in space - this is also a natural tendency. Natural satellite - A small or secondary planet which revolves around a larger one. Our moon is an example of a natural satellite as are all the moons of the other planets. www.bu.edu /satellite/classroom/lesson02-1.html   (557 words)

Hal Shelton Revisited - Satellite Images A satellite image distilled into a land cover classification of, for instance, a dozen categories is merely the raster equivalent of the polygons etched into zinc plates that guided Shelton’s painting. The lack of satellite images used as cartographic backdrops, in the same manner as shaded relief or hypsometric tints, has a simple explanation: they are not maps. Removing the embedded shadows that cause relief inversion on satellite images is technically difficult and yields poor results, especially in areas of high, sharp relief where shadows are entirely black. www.shadedrelief.com /shelton/b.html   (1758 words)

Geek.com Geek News - JAXA successfully launches natural disaster satellite The satellite's purpose is two-fold with its main use being the monitoring of natural disasters by capturing pictures of areas affected both in the day and at night. The launch of a natural disasters satellite will hopefully help us understand them better and ensure people can be evacuated before they occur, or helped much more quickly afterwards. The satellite, named Daichi, is the latest successful launch by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), with its last occurring early last year when a weather satellite was put into orbit in February. www.geek.com /news/geeknews/2006Jan/gee20060125034403.htm   (783 words)

Moon: Earth's Natural Satellite Even the orbit which geosynchronous communications satellites occupy is only a little more than a tenth of the way to the Moon. who has an excellent cite called earthview, you can use it to calculate the real-time location of a very long list of satellites, or, based on the orbital elements from current NASA NORAD empheris table entries, which we will discuss. The mean distance to the moon, 384401 km, is the semimajor axis of its elliptical orbit. aerial.evsc.virginia.edu /~jlm8h/class/moon.html   (716 words)

NGDC-Natural Hazards Databases at NGDC Natural hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes affect both coastal and inland areas. We also assist in the detection, location, and evaluation of the extent of certain hazards using satellite data. Long-term data from these events, including photographs, can be used to establish the past record of natural hazard event occurrences. www.ngdc.noaa.gov /seg/hazard/hazards.shtml   (187 words)

A Trip Into Space - Asteroid Ida's Moon Dactyl A Natural Satellite This image is the most detailed picture of the recently discovered natural satellite of asteroid 243 Ida taken by the Galileo Solid-State Imaging camera during its encounter with the asteroid on August 28, 1993. Dactyl is the first natural satellite of an asteroid ever discovered and photographed. Asteroid Ida's Moon Dactyl - A Natural Satellite www.vias.org /spacetrip/dactyl_ida.html   (640 words)

Confusius - The only natural satellite of the Earth The Moon is the only natural satellite of the Earth and a unique member of the solar system in several respects. Although the solar system contains both larger and more massive satellites than the Moon, none except Pluto's newly discovered moon differs so little from its planet in mass or size. With a radius of 1,738 km (1,080 mi), it is approximately one-quarter of the size of the Earth and 81.3 times less massive. home.eunet.no /~confusi/moon.htm   (2284 words)

Assorted natural satellite pseudo-MPECs The data for irregular satellites was mostly gleaned from Minor Planet Center data. Data for artificial satellites is from assorted sources, amateur and professional. What appears for inner satellites came almost entirely from USNO (FASTT) data, and from Table Mountain (JPL) data. home.gwi.net /~pluto/mpecs/pseudo.htm   (97 words)

Nereid Comparison Table Since 1957 the term has also been applied to man-made (artificial) satellites; many astronomers make the distinction by calling natural satellites moons (and the Earth's natural satellite the Moon). It has the most eccentric orbit of any natural satellite. Next natural satellite: Oberon Up: natural satellite Previous natural satellite: Moon www.site.uottawa.ca:4321 /astronomy/Nereid_table.html   (74 words)

Export Format for Natural Satellite Orbits This document describes the format used for orbits of natural satellites, as used in the Natural Satellites Observers Page. The column headed `F77' indicates the Fortran 77 format specifier that should be used to read the specified value. cfa-www.harvard.edu /iau/info/SatOrbitFormat.html   (38 words)

The Moon (The opposite effect happens to satellites with unusual orbits such as Phobos and Triton). The asymmetric nature of this gravitational interaction is also responsible for the fact that the Moon rotates synchronously, i.e. When the Moon's rotation rate was slowed to match its orbital period (such that the bulge always faced toward the Earth) there was no longer an off-center torque on the Moon and a stable situation was achieved. seds.lpl.arizona.edu /nineplanets/nineplanets/luna.html   (1695 words)

SPACE.com -- Unearthing the Moon: Sampling Our Natural Satellite Much of the area around the Moon's south pole is within the South Pole-Aitken Basin (shown at left in blue on a lunar topography image), a giant impact crater 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) in diameter and 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) deep at its lowest point. By scientists getting their hands on samples they also might get a handle on the nature of the Moon's upper mantle, as well as gain insight into early history of the Earth-Moon system. He is a former NASA lunar expert specializing in the geology of impact craters. www.space.com /missionlaunches/moon_sample_030508.html   (1516 words)

EarthSat NaturalVue - Global Natural Color Satellite Images EarthSat NaturalVue is the only natural color satellite image product at 15 meter resolution on the shelf ready for delivery. EarthSat NaturalVue - Global Natural Color Satellite Images This affordable global satellite imagery product is of unparalleled quality. www.earthsat.com /ArcIMS/naturalvue   (50 words)

Operational Significant Event Imagery Members of NOAA's Satellite Analysis Branch monitor significant environmental events and notify us of their current or potential occurrence and of their severity and scope. The Operational Significant Event Imagery team produces high-resolution, detailed imagery of significant environmental events which are visible in remotely-sensed data available at the NOAA Science Center in Suitland, Maryland. We cannot guarantee the availability or timely delivery of data and the server should not be used to support operational observation, forecasting, emergency or disaster mitigation operations - public or private. www.osei.noaa.gov /index.html   (264 words)

Kyodo World News Service: Another 'satellite' launch 'natural,' says diplomat@ HighBeam Research It would be natural if second and third satellites (Kwangmyongsong No. 2 and No. 3) were launched, he said. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Kyodo) -- A senior North Korean official said Wednesday it would be ''natural'' for Pyongyang to launch another satellite. Kyodo World News Service: Another 'satellite' launch 'natural,' says diplomat@ HighBeam Research www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:23369700&refid=holomed_1   (209 words)

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USGS Astrogeology: Earth's Moon The Moon is the satellite of the Earth. Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements of the Planets and Satellites - IAU Working Group: IAU CCRE Working Group, information, publications, and references, including tables of the accepted values for the size, shape, and rotations of the planets and satellites Maps and Globes Gallery: View and download digital maps and globes of Venus, the Moon, Mars, and Jovian satellites astrogeology.usgs.gov /SolarSystem/Earth/Moon   (432 words)

Jupiter Irregular Satellite Moon Page Saturn Uranus Neptune Click on the planet link under its current satellite count to learn more about each of the satellite systems. Additional new satellites of Jupiter announced in 2004, S/2003 J22 and S/2003 J23 Irregular satellites Regular satellites Trojans Jupiter family comets www.ifa.hawaii.edu /~sheppard/satellites   (205 words)

THE MOON IS THE EARTH'S ONLY NATURAL SATELLITE THE MOON IS THE EARTH'S ONLY NATURAL SATELLITE The scientific return from these missions was immensely important and included nearly complete high-resolution imaging of the lunar surface, lunar samples, topographic, seismic, and gravity data, and information on the lunar environment. The Moon, of course, has been known since prehistoric times. www.glenbrook.k12.il.us /gbssci/team/moonbooks/unknown/unknown.html   (372 words)

Find in a Library: The moon; Earth's natural satellite Find in a Library: The moon; Earth's natural satellite WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. To find this item in a library, enter a postal code, state, province, or country in the field above. www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/3cfc4aba51d5d47d.html   (44 words)

Research Paper “Natural satellites Physical Parameters” NASA 2 Aug. 2002 Satellites are designed to meet specific needs, for instance a weather satellite will have cameras for taking pictures of cloud formations, and a communication satellite will have an antenna array for receiving data from the earth. A satellite in the latter orbit is called a synchronous satellite; if such a satellite orbits in the equatorial plane, it is termed geostationary because it will remain at the same point above the Earth's surface. iris.nyit.edu /~mbruno/techwriting/new_page_5.htm   (834 words)

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Titan in Astronomy: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library Titan is the only natural satellite in the solar system with a significant atmosphere, although a much thinner one has been detected around Triton, a satellite of Neptune. Titan was thought to be the largest satellite in the solar system until recently, when it was recognized that estimates of its size had included its thick atmosphere. Aside from Titan, Dione is the densest of Saturns satellites... www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101274734   (1655 words)

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