This graph shows the percentage abundance of five gases in the atmosphere of Mars, as measured by the Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer instrument of the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite on NASA's Mars rover October 2012. ... The graph uses a logarithmic scale for volume percentage of the atmosphere so that these gases with different concentrations can all be plotted. By far the predominant gas is carbon dioxide, making up 95.9 percent of the atmosphere's volume. ...

... This file table3 82 660 Observed wavelengths, laboratory values and identifications -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description ... Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 3 I3 --- SpOrd Spectrum order 5- 12 F8.3 0.1nm SolLam Wavelength determination of all solar and telluric lines measurable on the ... Note (6): J: Junkes et al., ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Build an operational model of neutron background environment on the station; . ... Correlation data on radiation environment parameters outside the Service Module of the ISS RS obtained through calculation with the results of measurements made by science hardware BTN-M1 and results of other Russian and international experiments; . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" ...

... NASA's newest Great Observatory, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) -- formally known as the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) -- launched on July 23, 1999 and represents such an advance. ... Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (HDOS), now Raytheon Optical Systems Incorporated, figured and polished the x-ray optics; Optical Coating Laboratory Incorporated (OCLI) coated the polished optics with iridium; and Eastman Kodak Company (EKC) mounted and aligned the optics and provided the optical...

Quasar VLBI network observatories as co-location sites A. Ipatov, I. Gayazov, S. Smolentsev Institute of Applied Astronomy, Saint Petersburg, Russia ... supposes: 1. installation of different observational techniques at sites (co-location) 2. combined processing of different types of observations (collocation) IAA activity in space geodesy · Quasar VLBI network : ­ VLBI observations ­ GPS /GLONASS observations ­ DORIS ( ...

... astro-ph . ... Aims: We aim for an understanding of the morphological and spectral properties of the supernova remnant RCW~86 and for insights into the production mechanism leading to the RCW~86 very high-energy gamma-ray emission. ... Studies of the morphological correlation between the 0.5-1~keV X-ray band, the 2-5~keV X-ray band, radio, and gamma-ray emissions have been performed as well as broadband modeling of the spectral energy distribution with two different emission models. ...

... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

... It is reasonable to expect that UV part of the irradiating spectrum is most influenced by the grain evolution (growth and sedimentation ) which marks the very initial stage of planet formation. 2 log J [erg s­1 cm­2] 1 0 -1 -2 -3 1000 BB 40 0 0 (A5 ) BB 20 0 00 (A5) Drai ne (A5 ) BP Ta u (A5) BB 40 0 0 (GS) BB 20 0 00 (GS) Drai ne (GS) BP Ta u (GS) Disk Model Density distribution is based on a 1+1D disk ... Green lines are used for a model with dust growth and sedimentation. ...

... Michael E. Fossum . NASA Astronaut . ... After completing his graduate work at the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1981, he was detailed to NASA-Johnson Space Center, where he supported Space Shuttle flight operations, beginning with STS-3. ... Later in 1993, Fossum was selected to represent the Flight Crew Operations Directorate in an extensive redesign of the International Space Station (ISS). ... Before leaving the station, Fossum handed over command to NASA Astronaut Dan Burbank. ...

... Remote Sensing of Fire Intensity and Burn Severity in Forests of Central Siberia . ... Increasingly sophisticated and comprehensive estimates of burned areas and of active fire areas are being produced using satellite imagery. However, accurate regional estimates of fire intensity, ecosystem fire effects, and fire emissions to the atmosphere require development of accurate remote-sensing based methods for estimating the intensity of active fires and the severity of fire impacts. ...

... The axial support is provided by 78 air pistons. ... The transverse support is provided by 38 air pistons, supported by cantilevers from the mirror cell, that act on the mirror local center of gravity surface. ... The locations where the transverse mirror support forces should be applied to the mirror are listed in Table 1 and illustrated in Figure 1. ... Figure 1: CAD drawing showing the 2.5-m primary mirror and the locations of the transverse support posts (black) and axial pneumatic pistons (blue...

. There are several different shells available for Unix; the most popular are described here. You can use any one of these shells if they are available on your system. And you can switch between the different shells once you have found out if they are available. Bourne shell (sh) . C shell (csh) . TC shell (tcsh) . Korn shell (ksh) . Bourne Again SHell (bash) .

... Dear teachers and guests of our site, if you are interested in the work of our teachers (foreign language teachers in particular) you may contact us through Internet. ... The teachers not only use computers for presentation of the new material, but also organize the system of checking students' knowledge. ... Every grade organizes a firm, chooses the activity, approves of the staff of the firm. ... The students also plan expenditure on scientific and research activities and advertisement. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... By admin January 7, 2016 Posted in: January . ... These meteors will radiate from the constellation of BoУЖtes, but they can appear anywhere in the night sky. ... On 1 January 2016, the comet was close to Arcturus in the constellation Bootes and was easily found and the comet will spend the first half of January moving between Arcturus and the tip of the Ploughт??s handle. ... Mars and Jupiter in the morning sky (about 6am) on 15 January 2016. ...

... 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 ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

... Многоапертурный детектор атмосферных мерцаний (MASS) разработан для продолжительного мониторинга параметров оптической турбулентности в свободной атмосфере на существующих обсерваториях и при выборе мест для новых обсерваторий. ... The Multi-Aperture Scintillation Sensor (MASS) is intended for continuous monitoring of free atmosphere parameters at different observatories and potential observational sites. ... Mainly, the site is designed for Sternberg Astronomical institute MASS group itself. ...

... Illya Ivanovich Zalyubovsky was born on June, 15, 1929 in Poltava Region. He entered the physical and mathematical faculty of the Kharkiv State (presently V. N. Karazin National University) in 1949. ... Since 1965 he is the head of the department of experimental nuclear physics, and since 1967 the Vise-rector for scientific work. ... Since I. I. Zalyubovsky headed the department of experimental nuclear physics, the range of his scientific interests has broadened sharply. ...

... Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... The system photometer + PC will ensure recording of the light flux from objects under study with a high time resolution down to 1 ms. To see a components of this New photometer as they looked recently, click on. ...