27 August
1962: On 27 August 1962, the NASA Mariner 2 spacecraft was launched sending it on a three-and-a-half month flight to Venus. The first spacecraft to fly by another planet, Mariner ...
27 FEB. 2004
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1789: On 28 August 1789, Sir William Herschel discovered Saturn's moon Enceladus.
Enceladus is one of the innermost moons of Saturn. It reflects almost 100 percent of the sunlight that strikes it and has at least five different types of terrain. Parts of Enceladus have craters no larger than 35 kilmetres in diameter and other areas show regions with no craters, indicating major resurfacing events in the geologically recent past. This indicates that the interior of the moon may be liquid today, even though it should have frozen long ago. It is postulated that Enceladus is heated by a tidal mechanism.
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26 August
1822: On 26 August 1865, Johann Encke died.Encke was a German astronomer who found the period of Encke's Comet to be just over three years. This is the shortest period ...
25 August
1822: On 25 August 1822, Sir William Herschel died.Herschel, whose original name was Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, was a German-born English astronomer, the founder of sidereal astronomy, the systematic observation of ...
24 August
2002: On 24 August 2002, the Integral satellite arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome after a trip from the ESA test centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.The satellite, shipped in two separate ...
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