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
Image credit: NASA
Launch of the
.February
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
Image credit: User:MichaelMaggs[1]
A
time-lapse image of a bouncing ball, with each image appearing after a 1/25 second duration, illustrating projectile motion
.
April
Image credit: Joel Holdsworth
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
Image credit: NASA
A drawing of the
ESA. ESA reported that the earliest launch date is 2018
.
June
Image credit: NASA
An image by
25th of May
.
Image credit: NASA
A panoramic in which the martian landscape and probe are visible.
July
Image credit: United States Department of Energy
The Yucca Flat area of the Nevada Test Site evincing the underground nuclear tests made by the United States government.
August
Image credit: Soviet space program
Venera 13 and Venera 14 probes were identical probes launched by the Soviet Union in 1981 to study Venus.
September
Image credit: NASA, J.Warren & J.Hughes et al. , Rutgers
A false color image of Tycho's Supernova Remnant, of Tycho's Supernova of 1572.