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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/glast08pd1642_c800.jpg (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/glast08pd1642.jpg) At Last, GLAST
Image Credit (http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=36374): Jerry Cannon,Robert Murray,NASA (http://www.nasa.gov/)
Explanation: Rising through a billowing cloud of smoke,thisDelta II rocket (http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=36374)left Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's launch pad 17-BWednesday at 12:05 pm EDT.Snug (http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=36153)in the payload section was GLAST, theGamma-rayLarge Area Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/main/index.html), now in orbit around planet Earth.GLAST's (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/spacecraft/index.html)detector technology was developed for use in terrestrialparticle accelerators (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/).But from orbit,GLAST can (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060531.html) studygamma-rays from (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000722.html)extreme environments in our own Milky Way galaxy, as well assupermassive black holes at the centers of distantactive galaxies (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080110.html),and the sources of powerfulgamma-ray bursts (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080328.html).Those cosmic accelerators achieve energies not attainable in earthboundlaboratories.GLAST also has the sensitivity to searchfor signatures (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/science/dark_matter.html) of new physicsin the relativelyunexplored (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/science/index.html) high-energy gamma-ray regime.
Source (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080613.html)
Image Credit (http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=36374): Jerry Cannon,Robert Murray,NASA (http://www.nasa.gov/)
Explanation: Rising through a billowing cloud of smoke,thisDelta II rocket (http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=36374)left Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's launch pad 17-BWednesday at 12:05 pm EDT.Snug (http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=36153)in the payload section was GLAST, theGamma-rayLarge Area Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/main/index.html), now in orbit around planet Earth.GLAST's (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/spacecraft/index.html)detector technology was developed for use in terrestrialparticle accelerators (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/).But from orbit,GLAST can (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060531.html) studygamma-rays from (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000722.html)extreme environments in our own Milky Way galaxy, as well assupermassive black holes at the centers of distantactive galaxies (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080110.html),and the sources of powerfulgamma-ray bursts (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080328.html).Those cosmic accelerators achieve energies not attainable in earthboundlaboratories.GLAST also has the sensitivity to searchfor signatures (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/science/dark_matter.html) of new physicsin the relativelyunexplored (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/science/index.html) high-energy gamma-ray regime.
Source (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080613.html)