CFITSIO Interface Library CFITSIO is a library of ANSI C routines for reading and writing FITS format data files. ... The CFITSIO library is built on Unix systems by typing: > ./configure [--prefix=/target/installation/path] > make (or 'make shared') > make install (this step is optional) at the operating system prompt. The configure command customizes the Makefile for the particular system, then the `make' command compiles the source files and builds the library. ...

... APOD: 2008 April 1- New Space Station Robot Asks to be Called Dextre the Magnificent . ... 1.04.2008 . ... Credit Copyright: Expedition 16 Crew, NASA Explanation: In a surprising and potentially troubling request, the new space station robot known as Dextre demanded that astronauts refer to it in the future at "Dextre the Magnificent." ... Happy April Fools Day from the f o l k s at APOD . ... Dextre was deployed last month to help build and service the International Space Station . ... April 2008 ....

The pale rock in the upper center of this image, about the size of a human forearm, includes a target called "Esperance," which was inspected by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Data from the rover's alpha particle X-ray spectrometer (APXS) indicate that Esperance's composition is higher in aluminum and silica, and lower in calcium and iron, than other rocks Opportunity has examined in more than nine years on Mars. ... NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ. ...

For non-spherical isotropic particles, the classic variant of the RDG approximation does not include the anisotropy of the shape and hence does not give the correct Rayleigh limit, say, for small ellipsoids. ... We call this variant a modified RDG approximation (MRDG). ... First, the MRDG leads to the correct Rayleigh limit. ... The second approach to generalization of the RDG is connected with the use of the Born iterations for the scattering integral equation [ 95 , 124 , 132 , 264 ]. ...

Summary of the research statement "Geometry of hyp ercomplex manifolds" Andrey Soldatenkov The research pro ject is devoted to the study of the geometry of hypercomplex manifolds. A smooth manifold is called hypercomplex if it is equipped with a triple of integrable almost-complex structures satisfying quaternionic relations. There exist many examples of such manifolds including hyperkЁ ahler manifolds, nilmanifolds, Lie groups with hypercomplex structures and others. ...

... Direct data transmission rate (Mbps) . ... the density of electron fluexs with energies in four bands from 0.04 MeV to 1.7 MeV; . ... sensor (TV, IR) data and heliogeophisical information (HGI) transmission to data receiving and processing centers at a rate of up to 2.56 Mbps; . ... 1.76 GHz - TV- and heliogeophysical information and DCLI's data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . 7.5 GHz - TV- and heliogeophisical data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Could NASA research mean day trips to the Moon? Image credit: NASA) . ... The paper reports the EM drives were tested in a vacuum chamber which described in detail yet the authors fail clearly to spell out that the chamber was not operating during the tests (the experiment was NOT performed in a vacuum). ... These intriguing developments are reported in the Nasaspaceflight.com article Evaluating NASAтАЩs Futuristic EM Drive . ...

... Registration . Registration information . ... The Workshop will be held in the Institute of Solid State Physics RAS in a small town called Chernogolovka situated about 50 km from Moscow during 12-18 August 2002 . ... The Registration fee includes a book of abstracts, meeting at the airport and travel from the airport to Chernogolovka and back, a welcome reception, a workshop barbecue, and coffee breaks. ... The Registration fee should be paid at the Workshop registration desk in Chernogolovka. ...