. The sharply-defined crater just above the center of this Cassini image shows layers of alternating bright and dark material. Cassini was 8,314 miles (13,377 kilometers) from Phoebe when this image was taken. NASA / JPL / CICLOPS

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PLASMA PROCESSING REACTOR ON A BASE OF BEAM PLASMA DISCHARGE . ... At IRE RAS the effect of ion beam emission from the region of beam-plasma discharge (BPD) with energy best suited to the tasks of etching and deposition of materials for microelectronics has been discovered. ... Our studies [ 1 - 7 ] showed that the source of a flow of ions with controllable energy and geometry could be created on a base of beam-plasma discharge (BPD). ... Beam plasma reactor schematic . IRE RAS 1996-20 10 ...

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... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....

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... Epistemology is a part of the study of Philosophy dealing with how we use our senses to know something about the world. ... Yet we know that we can be deceived by our senses. ... If we cannot always trust our senses, how can we ever know anything for certain about the world? ... A branch of epistemology that has come into vogue in the last 10-15 years is the problem of consciousness. ... What relationship is there between our conscious experience and the true nature of the physical world? ...

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... A nasty dispute between the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) and the space-science community was narrowly averted early this year when SDI officials backed down on a planned launch of a satellite with a Russian-built nuclear reactor on board. ... Early Soviet space reactors orbited for two to three months, and two Soviet Topaz 1 experiments, one for six and one 12 months, created radiation belts that disrupted the operation of scientific satellites. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...