MARSES Project Information . MARSES is an integrated research experiment devoted to searching for water, water-ice or permafrost layers believed to exist at some depth under the visible surface of Mars. ... Secondary tasks are the measurement of the soil properties of the subsurface of Mars which include porosity, electrical resistance of the liquid phase, thermal conductivity, temperature dependence. ... Jean?s escape of water via the atmosphere is very slow (of the order of 3 m over 5 Gy). ...

... Basic Observables: Zero-differenced phase and code ionosphere-free combinations of global GNSS network stations, corrected by P1-C1 satellite code biases (cc2noncc), daily observations with 30 seconds sampling rate Sites coordinates : IGb08 reference frame coordinates and velocities Displacements: solid tides, ocean loading, pole tide loading (IERS 2010) Geometric model : Receivers antennas eccentricities, absolute receiver and ...

Optical Communication Experiment using Very Small Optical transmitter with SLR station National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Space Communications System Laboratory Hiroo Kunimori and VSOTA TEAM Sep 24, 2012 WPLTN Technical Workshop@St.Petersburg, Russia Table of Contents Backgound:HODOYOSHI Project JapaneseHODOYOHI= Reasonable Reliability Engineering to develop series of 50kg Satellite. ... How to share wavelength communication beam and ranging beams. ...

Next: Program use Up: Description of program searchdup Previous: Description of program searchdup . Parameter input is done with a graphic user interface. ... Input file: Name of the input catalog file. It has to be formatted, one record per source/observation, according to the format used in the Arcetri observations and source archives. ... Minimum number of observations per source Source with less than this number of independent observations are not included in the output file . ...

... JSC Oral History . NASA History . ... NASA Oral History Project: Earth System Science at 20 . This NASA Oral History Project features recollections from those who significantly contributed to the launch and evolution of Earth System Science. These interviews were gathered as part of the 20th anniversary of the Earth System Science Program. ... NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C. Program Manager , Stratospheric Theory and Data Analysis, Earth Science and Applications Division . ...

... Penn Manor High School, Millersville, Pennsylvania . ... Southridge High School, Beaverton, Oregon . ... Stuyvesant High School . New York, New York . ... John L. Miller Great Neck North High School, Great Neck, . New Yorkl . ... Oil City High School, Oil City, Pennsylvania . ... Troy High School, Troy, Michigan . ... Taipei First Girl High School . ... Mililani High School, Mililani, HI . ... New Milford High School, New Milford, Connecticut . ... Socorro High School, Socorro, New Mexico . ...

... The study of the Large-scale structure of the Universe and measurements of the Dark Energy equation of state; The exploration of the growth and cosmological evolution of supermassive Black holes in the Universe. ... In course of the all sky survey SRG will discover about 100 000 galaxy clusters and 3 million AGNs. Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bounded objects in the Universe and are best explored through the study of X-ray emission from the hot intergalactic gas. ... 2016 IKI RAN ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... Querying by Example Astronomical Archives F. Pasian and R. Smareglia Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, 34131 Trieste, Italy Email: pasian@ts.astro.it Abstract. ... The basic user query would simply be the submission of an input image, either 1­D or 2­D; the system should allow retrieval of archived images similar to an input one on the basis of some ``resemblance parameter''. ... the QUBE User Interface. ...

RUSSIAN-AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH SCHOOL MICRO-SATELLITE "KOLIBRI-2000": BASIC RULES of DEVELOPMENT . A characteristic feature of the project "Kolibri-2000" is the solution of the task of using micro-satellites in the interests of improving school education and involving schoolchildren in space technologies. ... A radioline in the radio amateur frequency range is employed on Kolibri-2000 to dump scientific payload data to the participants in the Project. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Sky this Week . Observing Podcasts . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Sky Events . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . Springtime observing for small telescopes . ... Seasonal Observing . ... Observing Basics . ... SKA South Africa Project Office, Johannesburg . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... ИСТОРИЯ ГАИШ - хроника, музей, персоналии, мемуары, периодика . Сайт "HERITAGE - астрономия, астрономическое образование с сохранением традиций" ориентирован на студентов 1 и 2-го курсов астрономического отделения физического факультета МГУ и отражает ранением традиций" ориентирован на студентов 1 и 2-го курсов астрономического отделения физического факультета МГУ и отражает работу, проводимую сотрудниками ГАИШ МГУ и физического факультета МГУ по расширению астрономического образования студентов. ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

... CYLINDRICAL PROJECTIONS: -Jc lon0 / lat0 / scale (Cassini) -Jj lon0 / scale (Miller) -Jm scale ( Mercator - Greenwich and Equator as origin) -Jm lon0 / lat0 / scale ( Mercator - Give meridian and standard parallel) -Joa lon0 / lat0 / azimuth / scale (Oblique Mercator - point and azimuth) -Job lon0 / lat0 / lon1 / lat1 / scale (Oblique Mercator - two points) -Joc lon0 / Je lon0 / lat0 / scale (Equidistant). Jf lon0 / lat0 / horizon / scale (Gnomonic). ...

... The projection direction (ie, the direction of the point at which the projection plane is tangent to the celestial sphere) is user-selectable from the following alternatives, chosen via the parameter tangdirstyle : . tangdirstyle =nom: task uses the current nominal pointing direction of the s/c, as defined in the RA_NOM etc keywords of the event list; . tangdirstyle =obj: task uses the pointing direction of the celestial object, as defined in the RA_OBJ etc keywords of the event list . ...

... Research . Projects . ... The name of the project APEX is a reduction from words " Active Plasma Experiments " . The core of the project are active experiments with injection of electron and (or) plasma beams from a board of the satellite with simultaneous registration of the phenomena, produced by interaction of injected beam with background plasma. ... Active experiments utilise modulated electron beam accelerator and source of modulated xenon plasma beam on the main spacecraft APEX. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

The purpose of the space-physics lab exercises is to introduce the students to the methods of the measurements, to the modern conception of near-Earth space structure and the physical processes and phenomena occured in it. ... At present the reasearches and the teachers of the University and of other institutes participating in the project continue development of the the special space-physics lab exercises, and they are interested in your ideas concerning the future exercises. ...

... Reference ID: WWV . Driver ID: WWV-PST . ... This driver supports the PSTI 1010 and Traconex 1020 WWV/WWVH Receivers. ... The DIPswitches should be set for 9600 bps line speed, 24-hour day- of-year format and UTC time zone. ... It is very important that the year be set correctly in the DIPswitches; otherwise, the day of year will be incorrect after 28 April of a normal or leap year. ... Specifies the driver reference identifier, an ASCII string from one to four characters, with default WWV . ...

... Thus all regions of the 0.94-2.50 micron wavelength range accessible from Mauna Kea can be recorded using five fixed angle gratings. ... Grating Angle . ... Efficiencies for the NIFS gratings are shown above. The NIFS spectrograph uses a Bouwers collimator and a refractive camera. ... With these assumptions, the NIFS system efficiency including the Gemini telescope optics but excluding the transmission of the adaptive optics system is about 0.17 e - /photon at J , and 0.22 e - /photon at H and K . ...

THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE BY MEANS OF DIGITAL MODELS. ... The surface brightness of Mercury was measured Danjon (1933, 1949, 1953) and Harris (1961) in phase angle 3o-123o. The analysis of the various data of the integral photometric gives the results of determination of the main photometric constants for Mercury. ... THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE: S.G. Pugacheva The surface brightness of the Mercurian images was established on the geologic map Mercury. ...