... NASA SPACECRAFT FINDS NEW EVIDENCE FOR WATER ICE ON MERCURY . ... The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick," said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings. ... Water ice concentrations are derived from the hydrogen measurements. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision consists of the engineer support group: 4 senior engineers, 5 engineers and 14 staff members of service personnel. Head: Zavorin A. V. The main subdivision's instrument is the Incoherent Scatter Radar . The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision's main task is technical support of Irkutsk IS radar experiments. ...

... GSAOI Home . Instrument . ... The Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) is a near-infrared adaptive optics camera that will be used with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system on the Gemini South 8-m telescope . ... Gemini's major instrumentation goal is to develop its Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system for scientific use on Gemini South. ... Existing adaptive optics systems use a single natural guide star or artifical laser guide star to measure this image blur. ...

HIGH RESOLUTION IONOSPHERIC MASS SPECTROMETER P-11 . ... Onboard mass-spectrometric equipment for study of neutral and ionized components of Earth upper atmosphere. Mass-spectrometer P-11 is one of P-series modifications of the on board radio-frequency monopole spectrometers. ... The instruments of P-series have passed successful approbation in space experiments aboard geophysical rockets MP-12, launched for investigation of Earth upper atmosphere (Ref. ... Measured mass number range, AMU - 1.. ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Space Science . ... Earthquake Forecast From Space . The experience with Ionozond instrument obtained in the last years of Mir operations points to possibility of registering certain earthquake precursors from a low-orbit manned space station. ... Russian biomedical experiment Profilaktika aims at measuring actual energy workout during different types of physical exercise in space flight. ...

Главная Проекты Mars Exploration Rover . ... With far greater mobility than the 1997 Mars Pathfinder rover, these robotic explorers will be able to trek up to 100 meters (about 110 yards) across the surface in a Martian day. ... The rovers will be identical to each other, but will land at different regions of Mars. ... Where Pathfinder had scientific instruments on both the lander and the small Sojourner rover, these larger rovers will carry all their instruments with them. ...

thermal) IR instruments from Antarctica : what can be gained Ralf Siebenmorgen Why? pwv, T, aerosols IR projects : DomeC and elsewhere Science cases Conclusion: my favoured modes (thermal) Ralf Siebenmorgen IR := 2-24µm = K,L,M,N,Q IR instrument from Antarctica Atmospheric optical thickness spectrum Ralf Siebenmorgen IR instrument from Antarctica ...

... Both sets of objective transmission gratings consist of hundreds of co-aligned facets mounted to supporting structures on 4 annuli (one for each of the four co-aligned mirror pairs) to intercept the x rays exiting the HRMA. ... The two sets of transmission gratings, attached to the mounting structure are shown in Figure . ... An individual facet has 0.43-m-thick gold grating bars with 50% filling factor and 9920- period, resulting in 1.15-/mm dispersion. The HRC-S is the primary LETG readout. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

The Agile window provides complete control over the Agile high-speed photometer. ... All other parameters are specified as part of the command that starts an exposure sequence. ... To connect the filter wheel controller, issue this command in the command bar at the bottom of the Log window: agile connDev fw . ... To home the filter wheel controller, issue this command in the command bar at the bottom of the Log window: agile fwhome (there must be a filter wheel mounted in Agile for homing to succeed). ...

... Instruments are more complicated than star catalogs, but a MIDAS table file is still useful for holding the description of an instrument. ... The main sub-table contains information about the passbands used, and the second sub-table describes the detector(s). ... Basic data for an instrument file include the passbands used (and any coding that is used to represent them in the data); the detectors used, and their properties; and general information about temperature control and optical cleanliness. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Январь 1998 . ... Lunar Prospector Mission Status Report #15 January 26, 1998 - 07:00 p.m. EST (4:00 p.m. PST) The Lunar Prospector spacecraft continues to operate well according to Mission Control at NASA's Ames Research Center. ... Дата: 29 января 1998 (1998-01-29) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Space Pioneers Recall 1st US Satellite Launch Upon 40th Anniversary Привет всем! ...

... Bob Benoit Manager of the Optics Division L-3 IOS SSG . Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM . ... Bob will talk about the telescope, and also describe some of the results from the M3’s first few months in lunar orbit. ... Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM in Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ( 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA ). ... Apr . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

home - main - author - help english - russian . Soyuz TM . Original Soyuz . Soyuz-1 - Soyuz-9) . ... ASTP Soyuz . ... Progress . ... Interior of Soyuz-T trainer . Soyuz's MIK - montazhno-ispytatelniy korpus - assembly and testing building. Left to right: launch vehicle, 2 cosmonauts in spacesuits, Soyuz spacecraft (inside a yellow framework), . shroud (a big white object) . ... in Soyuz trainer . ... Soyuz-T after landing . Soyuz descent vehicle evacuation . ...

... The areas between the contours were measured automatically. The results of the measurement are represented on fig.1 The graphic shows the distribution of the height levels against their areas. ... USGS, USA Fig.1 The dependence of the distribution of the heights levels versus the area occupied Fig.2 The distribution of the areas of heights levels in the northern and southern hemispheres Fig.3 The distributions of the areas heights levels in eastern and western hemispheres of Mars ...

Interball-Tail Magnetic field measurements . Magnetic field measurements on-board the Interball Tail Probe are carried out by the FM-3I and MIF instruments. ... FM-3 M2 magnetometer failed in February 1996, FM-3 M1 and MIF are working until now. Data presented here are the combination of the data of all magnetometers. First of all FM-3 M1 data are used, if they are absent, MIF data used and if data of both magnetometer are absent, FM-3 M2 data presented. ...

... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

Variations of total ozone content and lower ozone stratosphere temperature in Antarctic Region during winter-spring period A.V. Grytsai National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv Astronomy and Space Physics Department assen@univ.kiev.ua Data, used in the work work Total ozone: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) measurements during 1979 - 2005 and Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) ones for 2006, for http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpdata.html. ... A long-term TOC decrease is significant. ...

... Practical 1 / 8 Ebony Violin Peg Instrument Accessory . Size: SIZE 1 / 8 . ... Type: Violin Peg . For: Violin . Material: Ebony . ... Product size (L x W x H): 6 x 1.8 x 0.7 cm / 2.36 x 0.71 x 0.28 inches . Package size (L x W x H) : 7 x 3 x 2 cm / 2.75 x 1.18 x 0.79 inches . Musical Instruments . ... Package Contents: 1 x Violin Peg . ... Повседневные (casual) платья . ...

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