The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

Superconducting Integrated Submm Spectrometer for Laboratory Applications Specification: · Input frequency range : 200 ­ 700 GHz (covered by four exchangeable sensor modules each one covering range of about 100-150 GHz ); · Output frequency (IF) range : 1-2 GHz · Receiver noise temperature: below 500 K (direct ... The SIR chip is a superconducting integrated circuit comprising a quantum-noise-limited SIS mixer and a tunable Josephson local oscillator (LO). ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... Distributed Searching of Astronomical Databases with Pizazz K. Gamiel, R. McGrath and R. Plante National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 Abstract. ... In such a model, one would build a distributed searching gateway that would o#er a single user interface, but would map the user's query to each and every original data source in its native protocol and interaction style. ...

... Astronomy . ... Requires various plug-ins to your browser to work right. [m,h] (A simpler version of this activity, to be done with printed paper versions of the image, can be found at: www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo/educaton/europa/puzzle.html ) . ... Interesting activity, in which students use an inexpensive "stream tray" to simulate the flow of water on sandy terrain, compare their results to features seen in martian images, and then try to replicate some of the features seen on Mars. ...

... Please send the data required for registration to us by e-mail. ... Please make sure that you have received a confirmation of your registration by e-mail . Otherwise please send us an e-mail containing information indicated in the form. ... The conference budget is very limited, but we hope to provide a partial financial support for younger participants. ... Please notice that, due to the limited seating-capacity of the conference rooms, the number of participants is limited to 100 only. ...

Blackholes2 Forum Message . Forums: . ... I'm Bald . ... Posted by Richard Ruquist on October 2, 2003 13:10:48 UTC . The original string theory by Max Green and John Schwarz required 26 dimemsional spacetime, rather than the 4-d spacetime we seemingly exist in, in order for the equations of string theory to not have infinities. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 32a. Early Solar Warning . ... Artist's rendering of solar sail. One such method is the use of a solar sail , relying on the pressure of sunlight. ... When the sail faces the Sun squarely, the pressure of sunlight counteracts the Sun's pull and only enables the satellite to circle the Sun in a slightly larger orbit. ... The starship is propelled by a huge solar sail, pushed by tight beams of light from lasers which are powered by sunlight and orbit the Sun. ... The solar sail home page . ...

... 400mm f/2.8 Nikor lens: images the sky on the entrance slit. ... The optical system maintains image quality along the slit length so that each row of the image is a spectrum of that spatially selected region of the sky. 180mm f/2.8 Nikor lens: collimates the light from the slit. ... The auxiliary optical platform on WISPI now accomodates a short focal lens and a guiding/imaging video system that may use sub-pixel corrections to provide feedback to the tracking drive motors. ...

... Credit Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive , NASA , ESA - Processing: Jos Jim nez Priego Explanation: Dwarf galaxy NGC 5195 is best known as the smaller companion of spiral M51, the Whirlpool galaxy . Seen together they seem to trace the curve and dot of a cosmic question mark , recorded in Lord Rosse's 19th century drawings as one of the original spiral nebulae. Dwarfed by enormous M51 (aka NGC 5194), NGC 5195 spans about 20,000 light-years. ... NGC 2683: Edge On Spiral Galaxy . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Our Galaxy . ... Weird and Fun . ... It came from another galaxy: This artistтАЩs impression shows HIP 13044 b, an exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our galaxy from beyond. ... HIP 13044 is one of tens of millions of stars in the тАЬHelmi streamтАЭ, stars that belonged to a dwarf galaxy consumed by our own Milky Way galaxy, some six to nine billion years ago. ... Tweets that mention ESO finds weird doomed planet from another galaxy | ...

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The XV_VTDF is a viewer for TDF format files (extension to TIFF 6.0 format for storage of high-resolution satellite data). More information about TDF format and relevant topics, as well as satellite data in this format you may receive from Space Monitoring Information Support lab (Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia) . ... XV_VTDF <filename> - load TDF file at startup (default size) . ... The XV_VTDF operates with fixed-size satellite images in TDF format. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

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... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. ... The seasons, the seeing ( a clear sky is not always associated to calm , stable air ) and most important how dark your observation site is. ... Therefore a dark site for observing is at least as important for deep sky observation as the diameter of your scope. ...

In 1990, Duncan Steel, then of the Uni. of Adelaide, commenced the Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey. This project took advantage of the photographic work being undertaken at the 1.2-m U.K. Schmidt Telescope of the Anglo-Australian Observatory. Since the U.K. Schmidt had commenced its photographic sky surveys in 1973, many comets had been found, but few NEAs. ... The status of the AANEAS and other U. K. Schmidt NEA discoveries can be found here. ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

Загрузить программу (~10 MB). ... Программа izmccd предназначена для высокоточной астрометрической обработки числовых изображений небесных объектов. Программа позволяет получать как измеренные, так и экваториальные координаты малых планет, комет, спутников больших планет, визуально-двойных звезд и других объектов, а также идентифицировать уже известные малые планеты и найти на числовых изображениях движущиеся объекты. ... Программа является бесплатной. ... Автоматическая обработка, один объект. ...

THE NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL ALMANAC (in Russian-English) . NAA-2 provides an easy access to useful navigational publications aboard a ship. ... In conformity with the STCW95 Code provisions, every watch officer, chief mate and master should be able to use classic methods of nautical astronomy, so they will surely appreciate the new ?Nautical astronomical almanac? available. ... Ph.D. M.L. Sveshnikov (editor-in-chief), . ... Ph.D. N.I. Glebova , . ... THE NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL ALMANAC . ...

... SphereParams Struct Reference . ... SphereParams (const float radius) . ... Definition at line 50 of file StelGeometryBuilder.hpp . ... Definition at line 103 of file StelGeometryBuilder.hpp . ... Definition at line 120 of file StelGeometryBuilder.hpp . ... Definition at line 112 of file StelGeometryBuilder.hpp . ... Definition at line 118 of file StelGeometryBuilder.hpp . ... Definition at line 110 of file StelGeometryBuilder.hpp . ... Definition at line 114 of file StelGeometryBuilder.hpp . ...

... Remote Sensing of the Earth . IKI RAS - Main . ... The fragments of Envisat ASAR images presented below are obtained during summer 2008 and evidence the fact of resumed oil pollution. ... A fragment of Envisat ASAR Wide Swath image obtained 17 June, 2008 at 07:40:09 UTC. ... A fragment of Envisat ASAR Image Mode image obtained 18 July, 2008 at 19:25:09 UTC. ... A fragment of Envisat ASAR Image Mode image obtained 3 August, 2008 at 19:22:19 UTC. ... IKI RAS, 2008 - ASAR images interpretation. ...