Portal:Physics/2008 Selected pictures
This is an archive of entries that have appeared or will appear on Portal:Physics's Selected picture section in 2008.
January
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Launch of the Titan IVB/Centaur space booster carrying the Cassini Orbiter and Huygens probe. Cassini is currently orbiting Saturn.
February
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The asteroid 243 Ida and its 0.7 km moon Dactyl of the Asteroid belt as seen by the Galileo spacecraft before its approach. The slight color variations of the asteroid's surface are due to differences in surface composition (and differences in lighting).
March
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A time-lapse image of a bouncing ball, with each image appearing after a 1/25 second duration, illustrating projectile motion.
April
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A Feynman diagram showing the annihilation of an electron and positron and production of two quarks. The green spiral to the right of the diagram represents the radiation of a gluon.
May
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A drawing of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), the gravitational wave detector being considered by NASA and ESA. ESA reported that the earliest launch date is 2018.
June
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An image by NASA's Phoenix probe of its own footpad. Phoenix landed on Mars on the 25th of May.
A panoramic in which the martian landscape and probe are visible.
July
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The Yucca Flat area of the Nevada Test Site evincing the underground nuclear tests made by the United States government.
August
[edit]Venera 13 and Venera 14 probes were identical probes launched by the Soviet Union in 1981 to study Venus.
September
[edit]A false color image of Tycho's Supernova Remnant, of Tycho's Supernova of 1572.