... Apollo 16: Diving on the Moon . ... Credit Copyright: NASA Explanation: What would it be like to drive on the Moon? ... No matter which direction it headed, the Lunar Rover traveled a path literally covered with rocks and craters. ... The Lunar Rover was deployed on the later Apollo missions as a way for astronauts to reach and explore terrain further from the Lunar Module basecamp than was possible by walking in cumbersome spacesuits. ... Publications with keywords: Apollo 16 - Moon . ...

... 2013 January 29 . Apollo 16: Driving on the Moon . Video Credit: NASA . Explanation: What would it be like to drive on the Moon? ... No matter which direction it headed, the Lunar Rover traveled a path literally covered with rocks and craters. ... The Lunar Rover was deployed on the later Apollo missions as a way for astronauts to reach and explore terrain further from the Lunar Module basecamp than was possible by walking in cumbersome spacesuits. ... About APOD | ...

... Data . ... DD Time . ... The normal data-taking commanding of the FOS did not require FOS exposures to start at precise pre-selected start times, and there was no direct record in any telemetry of when an exposure actually started. The engineering telemetry did record the so-called LINESTART time; that is, the precise time when the SDF told the FOS to commence sending data from the FOS memory to the SDF. ... Absolute timings from engineering telemetry are late by 0.001-0.255 sec. ...

Russian page . The 6th International Astronomy Olympiad will be organized on September 26 - October 3, 2001 in the scientific town of Nauchnyj, Republic of Crimea. ... Weather in Crimea . ... Those who were interested to get further information about the VI International Astronomy Olympiad (including official invitations for teams and observers: Ukrainian visa and visa support was necessary for citizens of some countries!) were welcome to contact Coordinating Council in English or Russian . ...

... The PROS system provides the capability to keep track of the uncertainties in image files through error arrays. ... There is a task, errcreate , that will estimate the errors in an image and produce an error array. ... Some tasks that transform images, such as imsmooth, imcompress , and imreplicate have the option to produce a resultant error array, derived from the original image's error array. Note, however, that the imcalc task does not produce an error array. ...

Next: The Newton--Raphson Method. Up: Fitting of Data Previous: Fitting of Data . ... In a linear problem, if the errors on the observations have a gaussian distribution, the ``Maximum Likelihood Principle'' gives you the ``best estimate'' of the parameters as the solution of the so-called ``Least Squares Minimization'' that follows: . ... A certain number of numerical methods have been developed to solve the non--linear least squares problem, four have so far been implemented in MIDAS. ...

Next: Pilot Survey Up: Minutes of the 1st Previous: GALFA Surveys . ... The minimum integration time required to achieve a given mass sensitivity scales as distance to 4th power so the depth of survey increases only as t int to the 1/4. ... To predict what ALFA might see for several surveys, I have performed a set of simulations governed by the following: . ... ZOA survey: Assuming integration time of 300 sec, covering 10 (more than pulsar survey suggested), within the AO limits . ...

Actually, two observations of Z Cnc are available in our archive. ... The data show a well resolved stellar surface (diameter 0.00487?0.00018 arcseconds) and the possible presence of circumstellar emission at the level of few percent of the total flux. ... You can download a MPEG movie of the event, consisting of 500 frames of 64X64 pixels each (1pixel=0.5arcsec). ... Most of the flux seems to come from a well resolved envelope of about 0.05 arcseconds (see below) . ...

ACE Real Time Solar Wind (RTSW) data, Kp index, solar and geophysical forecasts are contributed by the U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center and are available to broad community at http://www.sec.noaa.gov/index.html . ... The Kp planetary index is prepared by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Laboratory. from preliminary data provided by the contributing stations and the U.S. Geological Survey. ... Instrument Web site is at URL: http://swepam.lanl.gov ...

... 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. ...

... The ESO ADS mirror site is currently unavailable. ... Please use one of the ADS sites listed below. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA . ... European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany . National Astronomical Observatory, Tokyo, Japan . ... Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Beijing, China . Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India . ... Korea Astronomy Observatory . Send comments to <webmaster@eso.org> . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...

... Copyright of Images . I would like to thank each one of you who has taken the time to browse through this tour of the solar system. ... Here are some general conditions for use of this information. The Views of the Solar System web site along with many of the images and information are copyrighted by Calvin J. Hamilton . Many of the images come from NASA or other government sources and are in the public domain. ... Any NASA or JPL image can be freely used, but please give them credit. ...

... Previous: Ground Tracking Station (GTS) Products . ... GRT Log File . ... GRT Gain Curves . ... What: Co-observing GRTs will each generate a log file identical to those for ground-based VLBI experiments. ... Where: Files are placed by GRTs on their regional server ( Regional Servers for GRT logs etc ) in the sub-directory named for the month and year (e.g. may97 ) below the sub-directory named gps . ... Where: Files are placed by GRTs on their regional server ( Regional Servers for GRT logs etc ). ...

... Primordial theory review : Dick Bond . Defects and the CMB review : Andy Albrecht . ... Gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies : V.B. Lukash and E.V. Mikheeva . C_l from cosmic strings : Lloyd Knox . Some aspects of CMB anisotropies induced from topological defects : Mairi Sakellariadou . ... CMB anisotropies from scaling sources : Ruth Durrer . ... SZ observations I : Sarah Church . ... Holes in the microwave sky? ... Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB : James Robinson . ...

... Earth Satellites . ... Image Dan Burbank and Anton Shkaplero making music onboard the ISS (Image credit: NASA) . The first occurrence of music being made in space was during the Gemini 6 mission in 1965. ... Since then many astronauts have brought instruments into space with them, including many crews onboard the International Space Station. ... The Gemini astronauts were treated to some musical interludes during their times in space but not specifically to wake them in the morning. ...

Next: Dynamic Scheduling Up: Scan Times Previous: Dealing with Formatter Reconfigurations Contents . The nominal scan start time, if set using DWELL , is the time good data is expected to be available. ... The more modern systems, especially the Mark5C recorders and the software correlators, approach this ideal and the recordings are started at the time specified in the VEX file for the start of good data. ... A recording scan is the time between stops of the recording media. ...

... Smoke sighted . ... B. Call USFS at 437-2286, provide fire info as well as local weather data. ... B. 3.5m telescope: Face enclosure into smoke direction and turn on PF1. 2.5m telescope: Turn on HVAC system or set system for 1.0 pressurization. ... If time permits and immediate evacuation is not ordered: . a. make sure everyone on site is awake and aware of . ... Echelle: Top off LN2, (if time does not permit, turn Ion Pump off, turn off camera power) . DIS: Turn off camera electronics . ...

Magnetic field experiment on Vega - 1 and 2 spacecraft. ... Two spacecrafts, Vega-1 and Vega-2 have been launched aboard Proton rockets from Baykonour on 15 and 21 December 1984, respectively. ... During the cruise phase from Earth to Venus both Vega-1 and Vega-2 spacecrafts had one-axis orientation i.e. Bx of magnetometer was directed to the Sun, By and Bz axes were rotated around Bx-axis. ... Spacecraft position data are presented in HGI and SE systems. ... Vega-1 magnetic data for 1984 . ...

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