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- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f7.7.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - First generation Orbcomm small sat of the 1990s. (Graphic courtesy of Orbital ATK)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f7.6.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Planet’s 3 unit cubesat “Dove” depicted in low earth orbit. (Image courtesy of Planet)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f7.5.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - The OSCAR-1 Amateur Radio Small Sat was about the Size of a Breadbox. (Image courtesy of American Amateur Radio League (AARL))) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f7.4.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Thuraya Satellite with 18-meter antenna providing mobile satellite communications from GEO (Graphic courtesy of Thuraya).) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f7.3.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Early Bird Satellite (Intelsat-1) launched to GEO Orbit in 1965 had a mass under 150 kg. (Courtesy of COMARA Legacy Project)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f7.2.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Explorer 1 launched in 1958 had a mass of only 14.1 kg. (Image courtesy of NASA)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f7.10.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - The graphic depiction of the massive number of One Web satellites in LEO over Africa. (Graphic courtesy of One Web)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f7.1.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Sputnik 1 launched in 1957 had a mass of only 89 kilograms. (Image courtesy of NASA)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f6.9.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Eumetsat weather satellite image from GEO (Courtesy of Eutmetsat).) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f6.8.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - The first image from the Tiros Satellite in 1960 (Courtesy of the SSPI Space Timeline)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f6.7.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Aerial Kite photo of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (Courtesy of Centennial of Flight).) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f6.6.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - The Landsat 8 Earth resources satellite (Courtesy of US. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA))) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f6.5.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - The Jamesburg 30-meter multi-ton Earth station as used in the 1970s) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f6.4.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Mobile Satellite Service Transceiver Thuraya2520 characterized as one of the world’s smallest satellite phone (Courtesy of Thuraya)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f6.3.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - The Thuraya mobile satellite with giant 12-meter antenna (Courtesy of the Boeing Corporation).) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f6.2.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - A breakdown of Global Satellite Industry Revenues as of YE 2016 (reference: Satellite Industry Association)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f6.14.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - COSPAS-SARSAT rescues shown on a global map (Graphic Courtesy of SARSAT)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f6.13.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Graphic showing how the COSPAS-SARSAT system works (Courtesy of SARSAT)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f6.12.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Eumetsat image of a typhoon in the Indian Ocean region (Courtesy of Eumetsat).) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f6.11.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - An artist’s representation of a US GPS satellite in orbit (Courtesy of Boeing)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f6.10.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Integrated GEO systems of systems approach (Courtesy of Group of Earth Observations).) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f6.1.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - The many uses of our servants in the sky (Courtesy of the Satellite Industry Association)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.9.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - The spectrum of blackbody radiation at different absolute temperatures is shown as a function of wavelength. The spectral radiance of the Sun plotted at 5777 K peaks in the visible part of the spectrum, here shown) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.8.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Shown here, the electromagnetic spectrum stretches across more than fourteen decades of wavelength, from Gamma rays with a wavelength of 0.01 nm through the visible (400 to 700 nm) to very long wavelength (> 1 km)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.7.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - A full Moon as seen from the Earth. The dark areas are low land areas (basins or depressions, historically called mare), whereas the grey areas are elevated regions (highlands, historically called continents). Num) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.6.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - A Hubble Space telescope image of the comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, breaking up into smaller pieces as it approached the Sun, taken in April 2006 (Courtesy of NASA)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.5.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Image of the asteroid Ida, and its tiny moon Dactyl, as viewed from the Galileo spacecraft en route to Jupiter in 1991 (Courtesy of NASA).) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.4.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - A global view of Venus composed of numerous Magellan images obtained using the synthetic aperture radar (at centimeter wavelengths), which penetrates through the very thick atmosphere and clouds. The surface exhib) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.3.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - This is a global view of Mars. Many different geologic features can be distin¬guished on the planet’s surface of mostly red-orange color. Huge volcanoes up to 24 km in height above the mean surface level are se) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.2.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Diagram illustrating how the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago. The number 1 shows the protoplanetary nebula collapse; 2 shows gas-dust disk formation around the proto Sun; 3 and 4 show the following stage) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.18.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - An artist’s impression of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in orbit above the Earth (Courtesy of NASA).) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.17.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - This diagram depicts the opaqueness of the Earth’s atmosphere to transmis¬sion of electromagnetic radiation as a function of wavelength. The atmosphere is trans¬parent to visible light, most radio waves, and p) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.16.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Space Weather Effects and Impacts on the Earth’s Environment (Based on original figure by L. J. Lanzerotti, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies).) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.15.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Observed from the Space Shuttle are the southern lights (the aurora austra¬lis), in a band stretching from East to West, against a background of stars. These are caused by energetic electrons coming down the Eart) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.14.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - This diagram shows the solar wind compressing the Earth’s magnetic field, and confining it within the magnetosphere. Here the arrows indicate the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field. The outer boundary of ) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.13.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Maunder butterfly diagram. (Courtesy of NASA)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.12.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - The structure of the Sun (Courtesy NASA).) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.11.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Diagram illustrating the process of magnetic annihilation, or reconnection. (Courtesy of NASA)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.10.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Panel A shows the motion of an electron having only a perpendicular velocity in a constant magnetic field. Panel B shows charged particle motion when it has both a parallel and perpendicular velocity. Panel C illu) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f5.1.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Diagram illustrating the position of our Sun in the Milky Way galaxy.) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f4.2.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - A visualization of a space elevator from space) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f4.1.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Image of Genesis I in low Earth orbit (Courtesy of Bigelow Aerospace).) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f3.9.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Panorama of the Phoenix landing site at Vastitas Borealis, Mars. (Courtesy of NASA/JPL)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f3.8b.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - The Phoenix atmospheric pressure sensor (Courtesy of the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI))) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f3.8a.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Jouni Polkko) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f3.7.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Rob Grover with a Mars Exploration Rover engineering model) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f3.6.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Post-launch exhaust plume, resembling the mythical phoenix. (Courtesy of Sébastien Gauthier/CSA)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f3.5b.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - The Phoenix mission logo (Courtesy of CSA/NASA/University of Arizona).) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f3.5a.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - Isabelle Tremblay (SSP 1998)) (top)
- 17:44, 28 May 2018 (hist) (diff) N Image:FS2018f3.4.jpg (The Farthest Shore (electronic edition) - The Phoenix Mars Lander (Courtesy of NASA/JPL).) (top)
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