... The Lost World of Lake Vida . ... Credit: Thomas Nylen Andrew Fountain ( PSU ), NASA , NSF Russell Croman Explanation: A lake hidden beneath 19 meters of ice and gravel has been found near the bottom of the world that might contain an ecosystem completely separate from our own. ... Lake Vida , buried under Antarctic ice for over 2,500 years, is liquid only because of a high salt content that results from salt being expelled from water above as it turns to ice. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Posts tagged ?test? ... Continue reading ?[ ... Category: arXiv , Astro , Cross-Cultural , Frequentist , Methods , News , Quotes , Stat , Uncertainty | ... Since I start reading arxiv/astro-ph abstracts and a few relevant papers about a month ago, so often I see chi-square something as an optimization or statistical inference tool. Chi-square function, chi-square statistics, chi-square goodness-of-fit test are the words that serve different data analysis purposes but under the same prefix. ...

Sagan Memorial Station (Pathfinder) . This page contains some of the best images taken by Mars Pathfinder. ... Sojourner Gets Her Rock This "movie" was generated from 23 separate frames taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) and lasts approximately 8 seconds. ... Sagan Memorial Station Images . ... Yogi Rock ( JPEG ) . Yogi, a rock taller than rover Sojourner, is the subject of this image, taken by the deployed Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) on Sol 3. ... Couch Rock ( JPEG ) . ...

Next: J.E. Chambers, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: Research Contents . ... Solar Variability and Climate . Other Activities . ... Applied to data of flares on Gliese866 he was able to estimate the area of hydrogen emitting flare regions as 1-13% of the stellar surface. ... As partners in the project, Armagh Observatory has been asked to contribute to the selection process in exchange for priority access to the data which will eventually flow from the satellite. ...

... All engineering models of scientific equipment were assembled in the configurations for tests in Pushchino. The SRT was attached to special supporting frame (weight compensator), and LNA cooling system (NSOTR) was installed on the Focal Container. ... EM Engineering Model . FC Focal Container - hermetic package with the scientific payload; . ... OHCFS-SRT Space Radio Telescope On-board Heterodyne . ... SRT Space Radio Telescope (all scientific payload including 10-m dish) . ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XII ASP Conference Series, Vol. 295, 2003 H. E. Payne, R. I. Jedrzejewski, and R. N. Hook, eds. AIPS++ Reduction and Analysis of GBT Single-Dish Sp ectral Data James Braatz, Joseph McMullin, Robert Garwood, Athol Kemball National Radio Astronomy Observatory Abstract. ... AIPS++ is in the public domain. ... DISH DISH is the AIPS++ tool for reducing spectral line single-dish radio astronomical data. ... AIPS++ for GBT Single-Dish Spectral Data 3. ...

... 3 ­ Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, :jeanna@sai.msu.ru The graphic method of the analysis of an arrangement of linear structural elements on geographical and geological maps of continents (A.V.Dolitsky, [1]) has allowed to find out global stress fields of the past and among them one which directions (the main normal and maximal tangents) describe more than 80 % of all linear elements of a relief. ... The found poles share program way on density of an arrangement on 3-4 groups. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... February . ... By admin February 16, 2012 Posted in: Moon . A roll?n?rock can be seen in this image from NASA?s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. ... This rolling stone gathered no moss but left its track in the regolith until the slope levelled off and it slowed to a halt. ... Then the Moon shone down on an Earth that€а looked superficially familiar to that of today but was oddly different. ...

... LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 18, 2004 . ... LWN.net FAQ . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . Completions are a simple synchronization mechanism that is preferable to sleeping and waking up in some situations. ... When your driver begins some process whose completion must be waited for, it's simply a matter of passing your completion event to wait_for_completion() : . ... void complete(struct completion *comp); void complete_all(struct completion *comp); . ...

... The statements break and continue are used for this. The break command terminates the execution of the innermost enclosing loop, causing execution to resume after the nearest done statement. ... The continue command causes execution to resume at the while , until or for statement which begins the loop containing the continue command. You can also specify an argument n|FR to continue which will cause execution to continue at the n|FR th enclosing loop up. ...

This file gives information for users who want to upgrade from an older version to XFree86-3.3.6 -------------------------------------------------------------- Please read the whole text completely, before taking any action. ... Remove them and completely install the recent version 3.3.6. ... If you want to upgrade from 3.2 to the version 3.3.6: It is not recommended to copy new files over old ones. 3.3.6 contains the new X11R6.3 code base which is in some aspects INCOMPATIBLE to 3.2. ...

The T-matrix or transition matrix is well known in the quantum theory of scattering [ 56 ] where one also uses the Heisenberg S-matrix connected with the T-matrix by the relation . In contrast to the coordinate representation in the integral equation method, where the scattered and incident fields are connected by the Green function, the T-matrix connects the coefficients of the expansions of the scattered and incident fields in terms of a complete system of the vector basis functions. ...

METAR Wishlist Following is a list of items that I'd like to add to METAR or that others have requested. ... It'd be nice to have a lot of METARs which encompass various weather condition which we can test against. ... Sites around the world use similar (but slightly different) formats for their METARs. There is always a METAR format the parser will fail on. Calculate Heat Index and/or Wind Chill Both would be fairly easy to do, provided you get the formulas correct. ...

... 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...

... Инновационная зубная щетка Splat "Complete" направленного действия для комплексного очищения зубов с мягкой щетиной: Утонченная щетина идеально очищает все труднодоступные места: межзубные промежутки, углубления жевательных поверхностей, придесневые участки, где наиболее часто образуется кариес. ... Текстильные коврики для автомобиля мягкие и приятные, а их основа из вспененного полиуретана не пропускает влагу.. ... Подкладка выполнена из мягкого, приятного на ощупь искусственного меха. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Январь 1998 . ... This monitoring will aid observation planners later in the Galileo Europa Mission, when the spacecraft approaches its close flyby of Io in late 1999. ... Дата: 27 января 1998 (1998-01-27) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: NEAR Completes Flawless Earth Swingby Привет всем! ... Дата: 27 января 1998 (1998-01-27) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: NASA Comet and Jupiter Missions Offer Educator Fellowships Привет всем! ...

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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. ...

Symbolic circuit-matrix processor and evaluator . ... This software is reliable over the range of benchmark circuit complexity (both *.CIR and *.MAT file). ... SYMBOL is a symbolic-algebra package which in contrast to REDUCE, MACSYMA, MAPLE, MATHEMATICA, MathLAB, MathCAD and other known multi-purpose systems is especially intended for analysis of any lumped, linear, time-invariant circuit. ... pure ASCII text . ... CIRSYM - SYMbolic CIRcuit processor used to format ASCII text file *.out for CALCSYM. ...