Remote Sensing Applications in Astronomy

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Remote Sensing

collection of information about a surface without direct contact

→ lots of information→ no contact

Astronomy

science involving the observation and explanation of events occurring beyond the Earth and its atmosphere

→exploring→geology applied to the

universe??

Evolution of Astronomy

• Explore:

- samples of planets and smaller solid bodies that fall to Earth as meteorites

- telescope observations and selected properties measurements using accessible parts of the EM spectrum (Moon)

Evolution of Remote Sensing & Astronomy

• 1610 – Galileo (telescope)• 1912 – Balloon flight

(discovered cosmic rays)

• 169 space flights• Some missions failed

• Latest mission: Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter

Space Technology

• Rockets/Launch Vechicles Apollo 11, Columbia

• Orbiting ObservatoriesHubble, CGRO,

Chandra

• Space StationsMIR, Atlantis, Skylab

• Earth ObservatoriesTelescopes

Rockets/Launch Vechicles

Orbiting Observatories

Space Stations

Earth Observatories

Communication in Space

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