Space Important events in 2014

Will 2014 be a golden year for fans of Astronomy. Start of adventures over the comets, eclipses of the sun and the moon and Mars will appear full of charm middle of next year.

Rides unmanned orbiter comet, Rosetta

New Year 2014 begins rowdy . European Space Agency scientists are preparing for the last phase of unmanned spacecraft mission , Rosetta , which will wake up from sleep dinginya season . Since almost ten years around the solar system Rosetta . Maneuver away from the sun in the last two and a half years to make Rosetta run out of fuel . The rides were launched in 2004
it was put to sleep in order to recharge the energy through solar cells .

January 20, Rosetta will be woken up by four hours ' Wecker ' as well . Shortly after the system is functioning and antenna re-directed to Earth , Rosetta will again contact the Space Control Center in Darmstadt , Germany . Middle of next year , the spacecraft will approach the target , Comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko .
During the year Rosetta will observe the comet that orbits the sun in a 6.5 -year period . November it will launch a spacecraft landing capsule carrying a mini laboratory to study the material composition of Churyumov - Gerasimenko .
Comets are believed to store cosmic dust and ice from the times of formation of the solar system four and a half billion years ago . Studying these materials could reveal how life could have arisen on Earth .

Mars orbiter made ​​by India

Mars Guest Arrival
In September, Mars will be visited by two spacecraft that orbit orbit . Maven -made vehicle for NASA tasked to study the red planet's atmosphere . The mission is expected to parse Maven composition of gases that form the atmosphere of Mars and how the process of its formation .
The second is the vehicle for the first space mission belongs to India . Together Mangalyaan , Indian Space Agency ( ISRO ) ambitious test space technology and related accumulated experience interplanetary missions .
In addition to the fields used experimental technology , Manglayaan also assigned to observe and map the surface composition of Mars . Currently the spacecraft is in the Earth's orbit and will do six maneuver to raise the orbit altitude before entering the heliocentric transfer orbit of Mars on November 30 , 2013.
China Exploring Space
After Chang'e 3 spacecraft successfully landed mid-December, China in the list of countries space explorers . This facility is planned complete his mission within one year and observe space with a small telescope .
While the rover Yutu brought to observe the area around the landing sites will work until next April .

What is being planned by the Chinese Space Agency has yet to be revealed . What is clear Beijing will send a number of astronauts to the space station Tiangong - 1 . China 's space program is still isolated because of the attitude of the United States who reject the Asian giant as a partner of the international space station .
Because the U.S. Congress is not going to change his tough stance next year , the international Conference on Space Missions can be certain to be full of polemics . The meeting will be held next January , this unique time in Washington and China will participate .
Mars Shines in March and April
The sky offers a number of exciting events next year . Especially those associated with the planet Mars . In April the red planet will be sparkling light , something that did not happen since the last few years .
In addition to the planet Venus will appear as a morning star throughout the year . This cosmic event could be clearly observed mainly in the southern sky .
While in the northern hemisphere , the new Venus will dominate the skies in 2015. In August the two brightest planets in the solar system will be met : Venus and Jupiter will be passing on the morning of August 18 , so that both the naked eye planets visible melt .

2014 will also be marked by two total lunar eclipses and two solar eclipses half. Rare events that can be clearly observed in the southern hemisphere. On 15 April, the Moon will be hidden in the shadows of the earth. The eclipse was visible in North and South America, the Pacific and Australia.

The sun will be covered in half two weeks ago in the southern Indian Ocean, Australia and the Antarctic continent. While the total lunar eclipse will take place October 8 and again can be seen clearly in East Asia, Australia, the Pacific and the Americas.

Instead half the solar eclipse on October 23 could only be observed in North America and the Pacific Northeast. The eclipse will be visible in Europe back in 2015.