Space November (review of events of the month)

So, fall behind. Therefore, it is time to share with you what is remarkable and important has occurred in the last month of autumn in the range of our home planet, as well as potential prospects within the human space exploration.

Let's start with the things over the earth. In North America, the anniversary, hundredth of the account, flying drone Boeing X-48. In NASA, Boeing and are confident that the future for mixed wing. At least for economic reasons. Fuel consumption in such devices by a third less.





British Antarctic Survey beginning of a large-scale study of the causes of increasing ice cover on the coldest continent of the planet. On the photo - view of the glacier and the mountain Sheldon Barr. Picture taken from Adelaide Island, off the coast of Antarctica that.



World map of aerosols, which creates supercomputer Discover, able to detail the weather up to 3, 5 kilometers. In this image, accuracy is limited to ten kilometers. Each color represents a specific origin spots aerosols: White - sulfate particles from volcanoes and the burning of fossil resources, green - the smoke of fires, blue - sea salt, red - dust.



Photos from the past. Here is the process of developing the first prototype of "Centaur" - the upper stage using as a fuel of liquid oxygen and hydrogen. The first launch of the carrier rocket with these developments took place November 27, 1963.



Testing of a new liquid-jet engine J-2X Fire at the space center «Stennis», Mississippi.



Australians could successfully November 14 to observe the solar eclipse. Picture taken in Ellis Beach, Queensland.



Peeking over the edge of the moon sunlight, creating the so-called "diamond ring effect."



Rocket «Ariane 5" starts from the cosmodrome at Kourou, French Guiana. The rocket will deliver into orbit two new telecommunications satellites.



Photo made with the ISS, demonstrates the process of entry into the atmosphere of the Earth module of the Soyuz TMA-05.



The landing took place, as usual, on the territory of Kazakhstan, before dawn.



November 19, 2012, after a four-month absence, returned to Earth Sunni Williams, Akihiko Hoshide and Yuri Malenchenko.



Meanwhile, at the Star City space suits are waiting for their new owners: Thomas Mashberna, Roman Romanenko and Chris Hadfield.



The results of the devastation in the amusement park of the town Seaside Hayes, New Jersey. View from above.



Snapshot cluster Cygnus OB2, with an impressive number of blue giants.



Smiley Crater on Mercury captures «Messenger».



The remains of a supernova explosion W44, scattered over a distance of about a hundred light-years.



Planetary nebula Abell 30 at the time of re-emission energy to "death." The emission of gaseous shell - this last intense action, before the final decay and turn into a red dwarf.



Just two powerful flares occurred on the Sun on November 16 for four hours. Scientists admit the possibility that one flash, trigger a second, as both occurred quite close to each other.



The gas bridge connecting the Abell 399 galaxy (bottom) and the galaxy Abell 401 (top), stretched over a distance of about 10 million light-years. From the Earth to the galaxies, about one billion light-years.



In the photo, to make a "Hubble" spiral galaxy ESO 499-G37.



Astronaut Scott Kelly to the ISS in October 2010. He stayed at the station of the year for the study of the effect of adverse environmental conditions. The project became the basis for the planning of flights around the Moon, to asteroids and, in the distant future to Mars.



The image of St. Helena satellite Terra. High cloudiness still allowed to capture the island in the South Atlantic Ocean.



Saturn's moon Tethys appears tiny dot (in the upper left corner), though is 1062 km in diameter.



Polaris storm on Saturn.



The rover «Curiosity». Self :)



The image of the planetary nebula Fleming 1 in the constellation Centaurus. Glowing gas clouds envelop the dying star.



That's all. See you next year!