Barsoom . ... Credit Copyright: The Viking Project , NASA Explanation: "Yes, I have been to Barsoom again ..." begins John Carter in Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1913 science fiction classic "The Gods of Mars" . In Burroughs' novels describing Carter's adventures on Mars, "Barsoom" is the local name for the red planet. ... Soon it will again be invaded by spacecraft from Earth . This dramatic picture of a crescent Mars was taken by NASA's Viking 2 spacecraft in 1976. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. June 28, 1997 . Barsoom . Credit: The Viking Project , NASA . Explanation: "Yes, I have been to Barsoom again ..." begins John Carter in Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1913 science fiction classic "The Gods of Mars" . ... This dramatic picture of a crescent Mars was taken by NASA's Viking 2 spacecraft in 1976. ... About APOD > . ...

TIPS : 6/11/92 FOS Keyes Instrument Status Summary: · FOS continues to function well · Flat Field monitoring continues SV flats described by ISR CAL/ FOS -075 BLUEside stable to about 1% REDside flats show granularities on range 1800-2100 A, which have grown at about 10% per year · IVS described by interim ISR ... HST blind-pointing analysis continues --- better than 1 arc sec for 75% of all ACQs TIPS: 6/11/92 FOS Keyes Other Items: · 81 Cycle 2 Phase 2 proposals reviewed to date. ...

Next: Tables in Image Up: No Title Previous: Data Structures . This Chapter describes the structure and use of tables in the MIDAS system. ... The table structure is outlined in section . Different functional aspects of the tables are described in sections (Input/Output), (Management) and (Operations). A review of the commands is given in section , a more detailed explanation is included in appendix A. Section describes format files to control input/output operations. ...

... The damage to NIFS has freed up the RSAA instrumentation team to concentrate on the timely delivery of the Gemini South Adaptic Optics Imager (GSAOI). ... GSAOI is the second instrument that ANU is building for Gemini. ... GSAOI Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/gsaoi/ NIFS Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/nifs/ RSAA Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ Australian Gemini Project Office Website: http://www.ausgo.unsw.edu.au/ Gemini Public Information Website: http://www.gemini.anu.edu.au/public/ . ...

Arriving at Bow Lake! This part of Bow Lake is still frozen. ... By July, the whole lake will be like this. From the nearby Bow Ridge, we get a splendid view of Peyto Lake! ... We can see the Icefields Parkway and the Waterfowl Lakes in the distance (upper right). ... Hiking along the Waterfowl Lakes, one gets splendid views of the mountains in the distance. ... Waterfowl in the Waterfowl Lake. Back on Icefields Parkway, we get yet another view of the Waterfowl Lakes. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... space flight . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... NASA describes Hubble fix . NASA confirms new Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission details. ... Hubble fix a "go" . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Posts tagged ?distribution? ... No time for reading the whole article? ... Continue reading ?Guinness, Gosset, Fisher, and Small Samples? ... Category: arXiv , Fitting , Frequentist , Quotes , Stat | ... Continue reading ?chi-square distribution [Eqn]? ... 2008? Tags: bimodality , distribution , Fourier , GRB , K-S test , kurtosis , Nested Sampling , quantification , skewness , wavelet . ... Data-Driven Goodness-of-Fit Tests by L. Mikhail . ... ArXiv] Data-Driven Goodness-of-Fit Tests, Aug. ...

... Watchouts . ... The explanation below (under "FORMER EXPLANATION") was made obsolete by the release of the patch to SAS 6.5 - A new set of CCFs describing the MOS redistribution function (EMOS[1-2]_REDIST_00[65][74]) has been made public, to be used with a patched SAS 6.5, on December 1st, 2005. If you get the error "UnsupportedAlgoId" after this date it is due to the presence of those files in your CCF repository. ... FORMER EXPLANATION: . ... Pages maintained by SAS librarian . ...

Modules | ... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.2 . ... This document describes the terms that are used to describe each Apache module . ... This indicates how tightly bound into the Apache Web server the module is; in other words, you may need to recompile the server in order to gain access to the module and its functionality. ... Modules which are not included with the base Apache distribution ("third-party modules") may use the "External" status. ...

Each Apache module is described using a common format that looks like this: . Status: status . ... This indicates how tightly bound into the Apache Web server the module is; in other words, you may need to recompile the server in order to gain access to the module and its functionality. ... A module with "Extension" status is not normally compiled and loaded into the server. ... Modules which are not included with the base Apache distribution ("third-party modules") may use the "External" status. ...

... To avoid extensive numerical calculations in the statistical simulations, we treat the continuous evolution of each binary component as a sequence of a finite number of basic evolutionary states (for example, main sequence, red (super)giant, helium (Wolf-Rayet) star,     hot WD), in which stellar parameters significantly differ from each other. ... Figure 2: Schematic representation of the typical evolutionary track of a massive binary system with normal and compact star stages indicated. ...

... In August Russian scientists will send radio message to one of the extraterrestrial planets. ... Additional information about SETI METI . SETI Institute - http://www.seti-inst.edu/ - Search for new life forms in space.. ... HUNT FOR LIGHT FLASHES FROM EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE" . ... Information for sure! ... SETI at home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). ...

FIRST SCREEN . Input files : image with wedges and image with spectrum (fits or tiff format). ... What to do : First of all you must fill in the region which the profiles should be taken from, by pressing "range for profiles" button. ... SECOND SCREEN . ... THIRD SCREEN . ... In the first screen you can change the size of the image by pressing "CHANGE SIZE" button. ... After pressing "Next profile" button, click to the same spectral lines in the same order as you did in the first profile. ...

Astronomical Data Center . ... You can access the files described here in three ways: . ... Use CDS' VizieR Service at ADC to explore the data files. ... Get the data files via anonymous FTP. ... 1981) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-per-byte Description of file : table1a Byte-per-byte Description of file : table1b -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations ...

... According to the big bang theory, huge amounts of energy were released, giving rise to matter, antimatter and dark matter. ... The Big Bang Theory has enabled scientists to make certain predictions. ... These particles are the building blocks of matter, antimatter and dark matter. ... This could theoretically happen if the hydrogen was shockheated to over 100000 C. The Big Bang Theory is only a theory and so there is no concrete evidence to suggest that it is entirely correct. ...

Next: Mission Element Points-of-Contact . Previous: Mission Operations Data Transfer . ... Each mission element should ensure that their contact information remains current and notify the RSOG of any changes. ... Non-RSOG mission elements will also use the "dit" list to notify the RSOG (and all other mission elements) of unexpected events that may impact operations elsewhere, e.g., if a tracking station discovers that the spacecraft is in an unexpected configuration. ...

... 1024 x 768 x 256 display mode is distorted. ... VESA LB Video card with S3 805 chip, 1MB RAM. ... The problem seems to be that SVGA.EXE shipped with Warp generates an SVGADATA.PMI file that does not properly "program" this particular type of S3 card. ... This generates the Warp version of \OS2\SVGADATA.PMI that you need as a base for later steps . ... Edit \OS2\SVGADATA.PMI and replace the 1024 x 768 x 256 mode configuration with the equivalent section from \OS2\PMI\OLD\SVGADATA.PMI . ...

... This paper describes recent improvements to the FITSIO subroutine library and the fv FITS file viewer and editor, both of which were initially described at previous ADASS conferences. ... Since the time of the last FITSIO update (Pence 1995) a new CFITSIO library has been developed, written entirely in C. CFITSIO is easier for C programmers to build and call than the previously available C wrapper routines built on top of the FORTRAN FITSIO library. ...

A full explanation of the motion of trapped particles would be too abstract and mathematical for this level, but some basic ideas may be described on an intuitive level. The magnetic force on a moving particle is always perpendicular to the motion, as well as to the magnetic field lines. That is why the basic pattern is motion in a circle, around a magnetic field line. ... The best-known periodic motion is the back-and-forth swing of a pendulum, say of a weight suspended by a string (drawing). ...