Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ... Sojourner" on Mars, its top . ...

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... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

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... ICND-96, Saratov, Russia. ... And though a number of efficient methods of digital sound compression is developed by far, there is still a need in new efficient methods. In this report we study a possibility of application of fractal methods to compression of speech signals. ... In this method, a speech frame is divided into larger pieces called domains, and smaller ones called regions, and an optimal set of affine transformations of domains into regions is calculated. ...

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... Yerga Expedition . ... Novaya Yerga Expedition . ... I n 1662 a meteorite shower fell near the village of Novaya Yerga. ... In 2002, the Meteoritics Laboratory of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry And Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GEOKHI) organized an expedition to search for the location and any traces of the Novaya Yerga meteorite shower. ... After visiting the town of Kirillov, the expedition returned to Novaya Yerga, i.e. to near the village of Nekrasovo. ...

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... Internal rules for dormitories . ... Samara State Aerospace University Students life Internal rules for student dormitories of Samara State Aerospace University . ... Residents of the dormitory and the University Administration, according to the Charter of SSAU and the Provisions for students' dormitories at SSAU, must sign the Mutual Responsibilities Agreement. ... Residents are informed about the Regulations by the Head of the Dormitory, and confirm their awareness of the rules in writing. ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). Solution of problems at identification of star field. ... 2) Scale is not correct. ... In this case algorithm of identification will revise all values of scale from twice smaller up to twice greater. ... There should be more than value of the field "Number of stars in frame". ... The star field is considered identified if number of the identified stars more or equally to this value. It is necessary to set value from 4 up to value of field "Number of stars in frame". ...

History of Seattle / New Year Predictions and Thoughts . ... Over six thousand people were unemployed, nearly half were service men returning from the First World War. ... One of the most exciting historical events in Seattle from 1930-1940 . ... This 3,387 ft. long bridge was the largest floating structure ever built by people. 40's The major breakthrough in Seattle's history between 1940-1950 was the Boeing Company. ... In the year 2000, I don't think too much will happen. ...

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? ...

... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Европейское космическое агентство объявило о начале второй стадии проектирования аппарата для отбора образцов марсианского грунта и их доставки на Землю - Mars Sample Return (MSR). В миссию MSR вовлечены ученые со всего мира, она является основной в программе ЕКА "Аврора", направленной на изучение Солнечной системы. ... Орбитальный аппарат миссии MSR (художественное представление) . ... ЕКА приступило ко второй стадии создания миссии Mars Sample Return . ...

ЕКА приступило ко второй стадии создания миссии Mars Sample Return . ... Европейское космическое агентство объявило о начале второй стадии проектирования аппарата для отбора образцов марсианского марсианского грунта и их доставки на Землю - Mars Sample Return (MSR). В миссию MSR вовлечены ученые со всего мира, она является основной в программе ЕКА "Аврора", направленной на изучение Солнечной системы. ... Затем, капсула отделится от основного аппарата, совершит посадку и отберет пробу. ...

... Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Professor Alan Guth . ... I will begin by explaining how inflation works, emphasizing how . ... universe. ... ALAN H. GUTH is the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics . ... Physics, the Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation, . ... inflation. ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

So what is "Code Blue" and what does it mean? It's no great secret that several years ago we had the mirror re-coated on the 31" Blue Beast at Warren Rupp Observatory, and within a few short weeks, portions of the coating began to fail. ... These are the fellows that showed up at the Observatory on February 20th to help with the gargantuan and nail-biting task of getting mirror out of the telescope safely, out of the cell safely, into the box safely, and put into the truck safely. ...

Teaching and Educational Complex No. 1838 for the Deaf Children. Short History . Ivan Arnold (1805 - 1891) . In 1860 Ivan Arnold opened up a school for the deaf in Moscow. ... After being educated in Germany he returned to Russia and opened up a school for the deaf in St. Petersburg and later in Moscow, where he moved together with five of his pupils. ... In 1918 the school became state institute and was renamed into the Moscow Institute for the Deaf. ...

... Space flight . ... Baikonur . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... On May 5, 1957 acceptance act of the first launch complex was signed, and as early as on May 6, 1957 the first "R-7" missile was erected on the site. The cosmodrome consists of nine launch complexes with fourteen launchers, thirty-four engineering complexes, three fuelling stations for space vehicles and two aerodromes. ... Services / Baikonur: General description Technical description Shedule of launches Photo gallery Price . ...

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